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Show JAPS COME I , Considerable Time Spent in Senate on Exclusion of Orientals sir i jA k k, reb is. Pinal aetlftn was taken on nine measures In the i bah senate yesterday, and the stringent string-ent automobile theft bill was passed down tO 'be tlOUSs with but Utile debate. de-bate. The senator? panted on second reading and without the slightest discussion dis-cussion the bill for the reorganization of the state board of sqiialunttlon. whloh Ohanges the theory on which that board has been framed, and permits per-mits also the removal Of any members of the present board who are not personally per-sonally satisfactory to the governor or the party In power. BARB! R HI i.l I Tl n -The total gTlst of the afternoon session ses-sion shows itnal action taken b the senate on nine measures, one of which wiui In the senate chamber but a few minutes, while, the other had been passed Wednesday, but was held on no-, no-, tice of motion to reconsider. This was 1 1 he bill to place the In i tiering trade I In tho slate under the now d. partment lot registration, and tho ann ndnn ot-gpectfy ot-gpectfy some of the requirements which barbers st meet In the pi"- tectlon of the health and sanlt.il i ucll-tclng ucll-tclng of their patrons. In addition to the nine bills sent (down lo ths house, the senate paased six bills on second reading, sent aii- other back to committee, killed anj eighth on adoption of an adverse Comnuttes report, and held another adverse committee report over until today for further consideration. Replacing the eight bills taken off th. Second reading calendar. Mlly seven sev-en of Which will not reappear there again, the senate added six to that list by reports of committee. Petitions with hundreds of signatures, signa-tures, and telegrams by the dozen are beginning to be poured in on the senate, sen-ate, having to do with the Quluhey bill, which would render It possible i'.r women to work more than eight hours by "mutual agreement" between employer em-ployer and employee Telegram. Wl n received from inoayslarge Ogd n firms, in favor of the meusure, while a heavily heav-ily signed petition from women workers work-ers In Salt hake contended that the effect of the Quinney menmire Is simply sim-ply to ''nullify the eight-hour law." n the other hand, still other communications com-munications were received from om-ploers, om-ploers, pointing to Welfare .sork among employees eiffeady accomplished, accom-plished, and protesting that this sub- Ject Is best left in the hands of the employers. Some of the employers also pledged themselves to fight any i tendency on the part of unscrupulous mploscis of telilale labor to u.-e Hit- 1 Quinney mnfsure as a method ..f evading evad-ing the sight-hour law The communications at least Indlcat-j ed that the senate calendar Is being iratched closely, for the bill in question ques-tion is now practically at the head of I the second reading calendar In the senate. Inirlng Ihe past few days Ihei-. j has been considerable aligning of forces for and against the measute In the senate, and opponents of the' Quinney bill ure confidently predicting' that ;t will not leavo the senate, and i certainly not In Its present form. i I llSOM Ml MORI i The Ivorson memorial asking congress con-gress tO pass legislation enabling states to protect themselves from orb-ntai lo-vaslon. lo-vaslon. aroused keen discussion, and for a time it looked a? if t he measure hud no friends In the senate at all. The bill, in the first place, uas reported re-ported out of committee without re - OmmendntlQU. Senator H. Tehbs, was not in favor of tht. bin. Relational with Japan, he said, are already "trained, Utah is not directly facing the problem, und he considered this an In-1 opportune time to pass such a resolu-l tlen. Senator William H. Smart said the matter Is already squarely before con-1 grcas. In connection with California, 1 anrl the longer the state of L'tah put) off such nuestlons the better. . ! Senator irlando Piadley ochoed these sentiments, and Senator Jenkins.' criticised iho language In 'in pronoeed I memorial as rather extravagant. Senator Henry N. S'andish came to I lo- reM ijc of t in measure. He i ould see, he sild, no reason why tin senators should not express their j: views on this question, und lie Was absolutely ab-solutely m favor of the resolution as' It stood. He said there' Is a colony of I orientals in f&fngham, and Hint they! are taking Jobs that should be filled by mpricnns. They are brought here under contract." con-tract." ho asserted, "and are placed on '.hat hill by the t'tab ,o'l"'' company i If we can In any way cxprega our dis-'appToval dis-'appToval of the influx of i irlentals we should do so. I stind for the American workman." Senator SinaH thought that if Americans Amer-icans are crowded out by the survival of the fittest they might go to Japan. Senator Southwick said that, while conditions at the homos of some of tbr senators might not be bad, there were places In Utah where, if the senators were aciiialntcd with conditions, they IWOUld not be pleased. The Orient ih he said, are already driving American farmers to sell their property in this state. The resolution, if it did nothing else, would tend lo serve notice on congress con-gress that the western states, and not California alone, are alive to the sltu-latlon. sltu-latlon. Utah should endeavor to cope! , with thp situation before such condl-' tlons became serious all over the slate 1 . Ist OKJKXTAUS Senator W. T. Lamph -said that the i feeling In hlx part of the stat was ; against these Orientals, and h would vote for tho resolution. Sonator Peters then took up the' I CUdgel for the resolution, which was I .Introduced by the house member from Ihls home countv He verified th D ditions reported by Senator South Wick, aylng that the Orientals were wining to pa any price for the richest lands 'in his county, some of the most fertile in th state, and that tho farmer often found himself compelled to lived in a place where his children were mingling with the children of the foreigners He was advised that when the latter grew up they would become American citizens, citi-zens, and he testified that there was a "good crop of youngsters." While he could not say as to the use of such laborers, knowing; that sometimes some-times the labor problem in some Indus-, tries was a difficult one, ho did have misgivings about allowing these Orientals Orien-tals to get title to the lands. The mat-! ter ought to be called emphatically to the aUenion of congress by some such rcsoluion as this The Orientals, he. thought, will always be ft proh,-m in the -United States, "Just as the nog roe;. Lr i problem." |