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Show liLiwiG 113 READ. It Urges Reconsideration of Japanese School Segregation Bill ooooooooooo o o O Sacramento, Feb. 5. On mo- O O tion of Johnson of Sacramento, O O after an appeal from Speaker O O Stanton for delay, the assembly O O unanimously voted at 12:15 to O O postpone further action on the O O Japanese school segregation O O bill until next Wednesday. O O O ooooooooooo Sacramento, Feb. 5. Governor Gll-lett Gll-lett sent to the assembly this morning morn-ing a special message appealing to the body to rescind its action by which the Japanese fcchool segregation bill was passed. The government calls attention to tho contention of Japan, which is noi refuted by the United States government, govern-ment, that the bill, as passed, violates vio-lates the treaty rights of the empire. He does not enter Into a discussion of the merits of this position, stating that It Is a debatable question, but reiterates re-iterates that Japan would consider It an unfriendly act to exclude from tho public schools the children o its. sub-" sub-" - ". Sects. Following is Governor Qlllett'e special spe-cial message, bearing on Japanese legislation, leg-islation, read 'before the senate anfl assembly today: "Gentlemen: Believing that there should be a further and more careful consideration of assembly bill No. 14, which provides that boards of school trustees shall have the poer to establish estab-lish separate schools for children or Japan and that thereafter they shall not be admitted into any other public pub-lic school, and further believing that the enactment, of provisions of said I bill will at this time affect the Inter- I estB of the entire nation, and perhaps 1 seriously, I most respectfully request you to reconsider the vote by which tald bill was passed and take the matter mat-ter up for further and moat careful consideration "Within a few hours after the passage pass-age of said bill, the President of the United States, alarmed at the possible consequences of the enactment of such a law, sent to me a telegram containing contain-ing the following language: " This i6 the most offensive bill of all and in my Judgment Is clearly unconstitutional, un-constitutional, and we shall at once have to test It in the courts.- Can it not be Btopped in the legislature or by veto?' "A telegram so forcible as this coni- vlolatlon of the treaty existing between be-tween the two governments. Without With-out expressing any opinion, this sub-jpet sub-jpet calls attention to the views of , Japan, conceded so far by our govern-j govern-j rnent to be correct, and quotes the ! treaty provisions guaranteeing to Japan Ja-pan the rights and privileges of the most favored nations." "He poIntB out that the children of nil European nations are granted the privilege of attending the public schools of California, and that a state law makes compulsory the attendance of all resident children, whether of aliens or citizens. "If the state grants certain privileges priv-ileges to the citizens of one of the foreign countries," the governor says, i "it cannot deny them to the citizen j of another, having the same rights by treaty." j The opinion of Secretary of State 1 Roof in the San Francisco case is I quoted by the governor in support of his contention. In conclusion, ho fays: "1 trust that no action will be taken tak-en which will violate any treaty mado by our country or In any manner queb-Ucn queb-Ucn Its good faith. I moat respectfully respectful-ly submit this message to you. witn the full hope and belief that when final fin-al action shall be taken, nothing will be done which can be the subject of criticism by the people of this nation, and that no law will be enacted which will be in contravention of the constitution con-stitution or any treaty of the United States." Shortly before- 11 o'clock this morn-lug, morn-lug, Walter Leeds of Los Angeles, who gave notice yesterday that he would have to reconsider the ote by which the Japanese school segregation bill vas passed, askd that consideration of the whole matter be put over until uext Wednesday. This request was made immediately immediate-ly after the reading of the governor's message for the purpose of discussing the treaty question involved and w'th which the chief executive dealt fit length. Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento, author of the bill, spoke against postponement,'" post-ponement,'" He -suggested, ' however, that if the matter were delayed, it be nubmltted to the Judiciary committed aiid the attorney general for an opm ion as to the constitutionality of the Mil. Charles A. Nelson, Union Labor assemblyman as-semblyman from San Francisco, spoke against reconsideration and delay. Richard Melrose, of Anaheim, favored fav-ored submitting the bill to the attorney attor-ney general. He said there was grave f'oubt as to its constitutionality, and he .lelieved that the point raised by Pren-ident Pren-ident Roosevelt in vhls telegram to Governor Glllett yesterday should be thoroughly discussed before the assembly as-sembly finally put Its stamp of approval approv-al upon the measure. Mr. Leeds then announced that ho was willing to have the legal questions threshed out before the committee. Mr. Johnson expressed the belief that a movement was on fobt to kill the -bill by motions for delay and ho asked Leeds and Melrose if they would vot for it if the Judiciary' committee ap jiroved it Neither would promise. John W. Preson of Uklah, said tho jrovernor had been placed. In a serloua predicament by the action of the as-tembly. as-tembly. He believed the bill would be vetoed If passed, and so long as trie lowor house already had committed it-tclf, it-tclf, he was in favor of "letting it go at that" mg from the President of the United States, is entitled to full consideration, and demands that no hasty or Ill-con- Bldered action be taken by thU state which may Involve the whole country. "It seems to me it Is time to lay sentiment and porsonal opinion and considerations aside and take a broad nnd unprejudiced view of tho Important Import-ant question Involved In the proposed legislation, and in a calm and dispassionate dispas-sionate manner, pass upon them, keeping keep-ing In mind not only the interests of our state, but of v the nation as well, and tho duty we owe to it In observing observ-ing the treaties entered into by it with a friendly power. "Two years ago the question how under un-der consideration ongaged the attention atten-tion of our government and Japan, because f a resolution adopted by the board of education of San Francisco i directing that all Chinese, Japanese and Korean children be sent to the Oriental public schools. Japan at once called the attention of ouf government ! to this resolution, which It claimed I discriminated against Its subjects, and ' was in violation of its treaty rights. ' Our government acquiesced in these views expressed by Japan, and to enforce en-force that nation's rights ' under Its treaty, commenced an action In the circuit court of tho United States to .' enjoin the Bchool board of San Francisco Fran-cisco from carrying out the provisions provis-ions of said resolution. . . "This action was never tried, but wau dismissed on the withdrawal by the school board of San Francisco of the resolution complained of, Everyone supposed that this vexed que&tlon was E6Uled. In fact, the people of the t.tatc had about forgotten it, and were no longer paying much attention to it i until the- bill under discussion was In- I troduced in the senate. There has been no general demand for such leg- V Islatlon, . there la no immediate; or 1 present danger to, our Bchools, and no bad Influence exists therein by jea3en I of the attendance of any Japanese pup-l pup-l Us, so far as is known. , In fact there i are but very few Japanese pupils ot-l ot-l tending our public schools, and there V U no occasion, at present, at least,- for I anj unnecessary alarm. It is claimed I by Japan, and admitted by the authorl-I authorl-I Us that the bill, if passed, will be in V ' ' " |