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Show was received with some consternnt ln by the local school board which has already al-ready had Its share of trouble' from tho question of separate schools for Japanese. Jap-anese. If the bill cannot be beaten today to-day It Is expected that a move will be' made to postpone reconsideration for n week, or nt least ' until the op-punents op-punents of the measure have time to recover their breath. K. Kaneho. tho Japanese Rtndent. who was tho victim of an assault alleged alleg-ed to hae been made by University of California students as he was passing throuph the campus last week, has written the following letter to President Presi-dent Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the university: uni-versity: "Hearing of your being In some zeal-ful zeal-ful investigation on the assaulters, 1 w isb to write to you that my profound thanks are due to you. But 1 hope you will quickly give up such useless attempt, because I am sure that your students are not in charge of. Wishing to add that I want not to exaggerate such small trouble, nor to lead it into some International question, and especially es-pecially desiring that tho Callfornians are not bo sensitive about Japanese problem. Yours very trulv. "K. KANEKO." CALIFORNIA JAPS ARE DEEPLY GRiEVED PASSAGE OF SEGREGATION BILL WAS NOT EXPECTED. Japanese Consul Says He Does Not Believe That Governor Gillett Will Sign the Measure. Sari Francisco, Feb 5. The passage of the Johnson bill for the segregation of Japanese In the public schools was entirely unexpected here, for it was generally. believed that after the defeat de-feat of the Drew measure all of the so-called so-called untl-Japanese bills would be burled under an adverse vote. At the local Japanese consulate, the . news was received as soon as the bill passed, and on behalf of Vice Consul Tak&-hashi, Tak&-hashi, Secretary K. Oyama.made the following statement: -'. - "Speaking for, the Japanese consul and residents, we are very much grieved griev-ed that the assembly passed this bill. We did not expect that such action would be taken even by the assembly. We ar confident, however, that the bill will not pa6s In the senate because be-cause of the attitude of a majority of , the members of that house. Moreover, j we feel certain that. Governor Gillett, onsen Ing the desires of , of .President Roobevelt, will not sign the bill, even though it pass in both houses. President Presi-dent Roosevelt and Governor Gillett, we believe, are acting justly and wibe-ly wibe-ly in this matter." The news of the passage of the bill ... |