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Show JOHNSON WANTS REPORT ON JAP TREATY PUBLIC West Entitled to Know Now What Document Contains, He Says CALIFORNIA SENATOR THINKS COLBY WRONG Future of Agricultural Land At: L Stake, Lawmaker Declares in Statement I WASHINGTON. Jan. 31 People of I 'western states are "entitled to know! land know now," what disposition of the Japanese settlement problem is made in the tentative. Shldehorn-Mor-jris treaty. Senator Johnson. Republic- I an. California, declared today 111 a I formal statement. lie reiterated that the troatv In effect repealed the C.ili-ifomla C.ili-ifomla alien l?nd laws. 1 Referring to his oWn statement of! Ilnsl week and Secretary Colby's com-nient com-nient upon It Senator Johnson said: SOM1 i'.' tDI 1. W K i "Tho secretary of state says that j my comment upon the tentative .ii. I Intents made by Ambassadors Shlde-jharn Shlde-jharn and Morris is based upon in erroneous assumption.' and that the dangers which 1 suggest do not pre-;sc-nt themselves to these agreements. My comment was induced by prc r. -porta purporting t" emunale from authentic au-thentic sources. From these i stated 'a treaty had lxon tentatively agreed I upon which In effect repealed the I California alien land laws The s.-. - rotary of state says in substance this lis not so Either th$ press report.-, lare erroneous or Mr - Colby Is misinformed- I am constrained to beKevo that Mr. Colby IS In error- CONTROVERS1 BESIDE MARX j "But a controversy between the 'secretary of state and myself as to j what Is contained In the report of I Ambassador Morris is of no consequence. conse-quence. The contents of the report !iro all important. Mr. Colby has the report. The people of the west to whom this subject is of paramount Importance, are entitled to know what 'that report contains Yesterday It was discussed at length in Japan. Our people should not have to await its detail through Japanese nows channel-. I "It is not sufficient that the representatives repre-sentatives from California or the for-, for-, oign relations' committee, under a promise of secrecy. should finally IknOw what disposition lu Intended to bo made of the agricultural lands of California and other western states The people of these western states are entitled to know it now EST SHOULD BE T M "The grave question here is not jwhether I am right in saying that a treaty has been presented which In effect repeals our alien land Jaws or I whether Mr. Colby Is right in saying that no such draft of a treaty has I boon presented. Tho matter Is far be-lyOnd be-lyOnd personal controversy. The question ques-tion is what has been done on the sub-jeet sub-jeet In which the west Is most interested inter-ested and w hich, most Intimately concerns con-cerns Dip west's future. And the west should be told forthwith." |