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Show ASIATIC EXCLUSION LEAGUE OFFERS COMMUNICATION Sacramento, Jan. 25. The Asiatic Exclusion league, following a letter ad-dressed ad-dressed to members of the assembly, urging them to vote for the Drew and Johnson bills, prohibiting aliens being members of corporations holding lands and segregating them in schools and residential districts, has circulated circulat-ed at the capitol another communlcn-iton. communlcn-iton. ' In part it Is as follows. "In the president's despatches of the twentieth Instant, there arc sev cral assertions purporting to emanate from the president, which. If permitted permit-ted to pass unchallenged, may lay the people of California open to the Indictment of being unfair and unreasonable. un-reasonable. "California is accused by Inuendo of breaking faith. With whom? With the president, or Japan? "The assertion that the new members mem-bers of Japan In tho United States are decreasing Is not warranted by facts presented by the report of the commissioner com-missioner general of Immigration lor 1008. "It is worthy of note that the secretary secre-tary of commerce and labor has failed fail-ed up to the present date, to explain the discrepancy in his annual report as to tho addition of the Japanese I population In the United States and I the statements contained In hla monthly report." |