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Show ment-hcre are not worried over tlr? anti-Jar anese demonstration of th? legislature. They flo not fear any complications com-plications with Japan, and have re celved with satisfaction the speech of Foreign Minister Koraura In the Japanese Jap-anese diet today. There 13, of course, always the possibility that the antt-Japancsc antt-Japancsc feeling on the Pacific coast may stir up race riots or persecution of Japanese, and such events might create some awkwardness lor our national na-tional diplomacy to dispose of. Thus Is what is more feared here than any formal acts of the legislatures of western west-ern states, notwithstanding that Nevada, Ne-vada, in a hoodlum sort of fashion has now entered the came of mischief- making and there are rumors that Idaho is about to do the same thin;. On account of these rumors, the President Pres-ident thought it wise today to confer with a number of prominent men from Idaho, and it is understood senators from that state are trying to use their lnlluences with their friends at home to avert the threatened outbreak or , anti-Japanese legislation iu the legislature legis-lature at Boise. SOUNDLY SPANKS . NEVADA , Roosevelt Characterizes Nevada's Act as Bold Effrontery Chicago, Feb. 3. The Record-Her-Ud today prints the following special dispatch from Washington, under date of February 2nd on the reception at the White house of the antl-Japaneso resolutions In the Nevada legislature); PreBldent Roosevelt today administered adminis-tered a sound spanking to one of the Bmalle&t members of the family ot states. Nevada was the victim. She was given a good trouncing f6r her temerity In attempting to reprove the president of the United States for hla efforts to induce the California legislature to go alow wltn legislation idverne to Japanese residents. Mr. Roosevelt, did not mince words In expressing ex-pressing his opinion of the effrontery of little Nevada on thus assuming to paB Judgment upon the acts of tho head of the nation. To a number ot Ms visitors this afternoon, the presl-ient presl-ient recalled that only h year ago law lnd order went to smash In Nevadi Jirough the unwillingness or the Ina-illty-of the authorities to enforce tho JW8. and thaCthe federal government ound It necespary to send troops Into Iho state to protect life and property President Roosevelt said such a resolution resolu-tion as that Introduced In the Nevada loglalature yesterday.-condemning the president and trying to btlr up trouble! between this nation and a foreign power, pow-er, came with very poor grace from u Mate which had so recently and 50 signally. hown Ita incapacity to maintain main-tain public order la ltB depeiilonco and called upon the nation at Iar'o for police protection. . President Roosevc-U and thtgovern- |