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Show M .NIXON f AVIS ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION BELIEVES IN EXCLUDING JAPANESE JAPAN-ESE FROM COMMONWEALTH. Agrees Perfectly With California in Regard to the Question of Segregated Schools. i Reno, Kev., Feb. 10. Declaring that he agrees with California's anti-Japanese sentiment on the question of segregation In schools and that that state had the right to enact legislation enabling the trustees to provide for tho segregation, Senator Nixon has sent the following Interview to the Reno Garetto from Washington: "Complying with your telegram, thero is no doubt that the sentiment of Novada is almost unanimous in excluding ex-cluding the Japanese from our commonwealth com-monwealth because, as Is well known, they have in no manner assisted In developing de-veloping our industries, but on tho other hand, every dollar earned by tbem finds Its way to the coffers of the land of their nativity. "Even the purchase of supplies Tor their maintenance in our section is mado through industrial corporations wholly Japanese, and no benellcial results are obtained through their entrance en-trance Into tho state." "Is it a fact, senator," asked the correspondent, "that the Pacific coast must have this coollo labor in ord'?r to harvest the crops?" "Emphatically, no," was the reply "Such is not the case, and the cheapness of their service only make it impossible for the white raco to compete "I agree," said the senator, "with the citizens of the. Pacific coast upon the entire subject and particularly with the people of California upon the question of segregated schools. No one familiar with the actual conditions con-ditions in the weeteru states and our experience with the Chinese and Japanese, Jap-anese, and who Is able to appreciate the fact that it Is utterly impossible for tho white and yellow races to assimilate, as-similate, will admit that It is proper or advisable for a Japanese adult to be housed In the same schoolroom with girls and boyt of our own raco; and the state In my opinion has tho power to enact legislation enabling the school trustees to provide for seg-gregation." seg-gregation." The senator further stated that the president had informed him that certain cer-tain matters were under eonfdderatUm' by tho department of Btate and himself him-self and the Japanese government at the present time, which. If brought to a successful conclusion, would eliminate elim-inate the cause for complaint, and that radical action at this time by the several slates would hamper and render more difficult the attainment of the desired result, and added that such possibility of embarrassing the federal government in theso negotiations negotia-tions prompted his telegram to tho legislature a few days ago. |