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Show CONSIDERING ALIEN BILL President Wilson Will Confer With Secretary Bryan Before Tomorrow's Tomor-row's Cabinet Meeting Will Deliver Note to the Japanese Ambassador Ambas-sador Washington. May 15 President Wilson has arranged to confer with Secretary Bryan early tomorrow before be-fore the cabinet meeting to draft a reuly to the formal protest by .lapan against the California nntlalien laud bill which Governor Johnson has an nounc-ed he will sign. The note will be submitted to the cabinet and then delivered to the Japanese Ja-panese ambassador Indications are thai the attitude of the federal go -ernment toward the legislation Itself, as well as questions of discrimination raised by Japan, will be fully defined. Holds Off Signing Bill. Washington May 15 Governor Johnsons decision to s'gn the California Cali-fornia antl-allen land bill despite Ja-pan'l Ja-pan'l protests was unofficially communicated com-municated today to Viscount (hinda. the Japanese ambassador, as a matter mat-ter of information, with the understanding under-standing that Secretary Bryan may later present Governor Johnson's answer an-swer officially with such comment as he may wish to make In behalf of the federal government Mr Bryan Is In New York and in his absence tbe subject will be considered con-sidered bv Counsellor Moore to lne it readv for tbe secretary to lay before be-fore ihe cabinet at tomorrow s session ses-sion when an effort may be made to reach a final determination on the line of pollcv for the negotiations with i Japan I When the ambassador has received Secretary Bryan's formal communication communica-tion it will be necessary for him to ! communicate It to the foreign office 1 at Toklo and receive Instructions for preparing s rejoinder so that prob-abl prob-abl a week will elapse before the I negotiations can move another step I Interest has been excited by Gov-! Gov-! emor Johnson s quotation of that part of the California law which appears to limit his action so far as It recognizes rec-ognizes Japanese rights to 'he axlet-lng axlet-lng treatv of 191 1 and there Is some speculation as to whether that was Intended to foreshadow a refusa oa the part of the California authorities to be bound bv the stipulations of any treatv that may hereafter be negotiated nego-tiated between the United States and Japan that would appear to be in conflict con-flict with the provisions of the new '"officials here fall to discover any point not suggested to Secretary-Bryan Secretary-Bryan when he was in Sacramento, with the prohable exception of reference ref-erence to ihe fact that the present Btate constitution In erms sanclons and even requires the enactment of I such legislation as the Webb act. The fact that though announcing his intention to sign the act. Governor Johnson has not actually affixed his signature Is regarded here as an act of courtesy. Intended to hold the door open to a last word from the administration admin-istration if it should desire to communicate com-municate further with him before the final act of approval. Japan Is Waiting. Tokio. a) 16. The foreign office Is optimistic as to the onicome of the controversy oer the California alien land ownership legislation. In reply to an Inquiry today, a high official of-ficial said T ti negotiations between Japan and the United States are progressing progress-ing satisfactorily We expect to reach a friendly and permanent solution solu-tion of the difficulty." oo |