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Show JOHNSON RAPS . REPORTED PACT 1 WITH JAPANESE1 I Senator Charges Agreement Means Repeal of California Land Law . WON'T STOP ORIENTALS COMING, HE DECLARES Statement Asserts Under-1 standing Contains Much That Is Diplomatic Camouflage I WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Senator; I Johnson, California, today issued a j I statement criticizing the reported 'agreement between Japanese Ambassa-j dor Shidehara and American Ambas-j ' sador Morris dealing with the status: of Japanese In America "When Stripped Of diplomatic com-; onflase." Senator Johnson said that reliable Information he had regarding, the agreement was that It provided for i repeal of California's anti-allen land, I laws. ; A new 'gentlemen's agreement. for exclusion of Japanese which 'does j ! not exclude" also Is proposed Senator! Johnson declared. Hi STATEMENT Senator Johnson's statement follows: j From authoritative sources It Is itated that the agreement between I Ambassadors Shidehara and Morris I embraces 1 an exchange of dlploma-I dlploma-I tlo rrotes defining passport reguiu- i i Hons. etc.. which would "tighten up I the present gentlemen's agreement relating re-lating to exclusion of Japanese from this country; and (2) a treaty defining defin-ing the rights of the nationals of each country and which will, in effect, ab-rogkte ab-rogkte and destroy the alien land laws of the state of California. MEANS LAW'S REPEAL. "Stripped of diplomatic camouflage, this means that our representative and Japan's hae agreed upon the repeal of tho land laws passed by the 'state Of California, and prohibit the passage pass-age of those contemplated by many other western states. Japan has ever insisted upon the control of her own people, and therefore will not agree to ' tin exclusion treaty, but will enter Into a so-called gentlemen's ogreenicnt which does not'exclude. The now gentlemen's gen-tlemen's agreement, notwithstanding its additional phases, can be Just as loosely administered as the present one, and Just as In the caso of the I present gentlemen's agreement, it will be honored more In tho breach than In tho observance; The result will be. under the suggested arrangement, if adopted, a continuance of Japanese Immigration and Increase In tho -Japanese population in the west. RIGHTS OP STATE, "Upon the meagre facts now before us, the situation appears to be this: Japan does not like an American law and Japan protests that law. Resort was had not to American courts, but to American diplomats The protest s deemed of sufficient gravity for American Amer-ican diplomats to aKree to a treaty exactly ex-actly as desired .by Japan. This, by a short cut without participation 'by those most interested, repeals laws passed after due deliberation laws admittedly wlthi:i the Jurisdiction of the state ptfSBlng them which cannot justly vr offense, and upon a subject of paramount interest to the present well-being and future existence of the state, uf course, a situation of t h is sort is Intolerable and T think I voice tho sentiments of California when 1 say that In every legitimate and legal fashion the consummation of such a plan will be resisted." |