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Show mm DELAYED For One Week, Further Data From President Required by Legislators. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 20. Consideration Consid-eration of bills denying Japanese tho i right to own land or to be directors of corporations, was delayed for one week by the assembly this morning at the request of President Roosevelt and Governor Glllett. When these measures meas-ures came up on a special order, Preston Pres-ton of Mendocino county offered a resolution requiring the president to furnish the legislature with all documents docu-ments and data in possession of the federal authorities bearing upon the Japanese situation. This was declared to be out of order. Then Mr. Drew moved that, his bill denying Japanese the right to own land be made a special spe-cial order for a week from today. Grove- Johnson, as father of the directors' di-rectors' bill, opposed Its postponement postpone-ment in an impassioned speech, declaring de-claring that the request of the president presi-dent for delay meant nothing to the j legislature as the governor had not , seen rfit to transmit to the assembly a special message and no such request was before the house. He said that the Japanese were increasing in numbers num-bers instead of decreasing, as stated by President Roosevelt, and there was urgent demand all over the state for action at once. Drew, who Introduced the land bill, said that he was as anxious as any one to hae action on the bill, but he favored a delay of one week. On roll caU' the motion was carried. 43 to 34. Johnson's bill was then put over, wlth-I wlth-I -out roll call to the same date. 1 "!7The assembly disposed of the con-' con-' Yroversy over the anti-race track bills, re-referring them to a committee by voting down a motion to reconsider the vote of yesterday. Butler offered an amendment to the Walker-Otis measure incorporating in it Mantinello's pool room bill already introduced in both houses. He expressed ex-pressed his belief that under the Otis bill prosecutions would be impossible, because pools are sold frequently on races run in foreign countries or other states and it would be difficult to get witnesses as to the actual running of races. I Washington, Jan. 20 Wliile such assurance as have come from representative repre-sentative Pacific coast men regarding the. improbability of any legislation in aClifornia adverse to the Japanese have undoubtedly done much to relievo re-lievo the apprehension that exists in administration circles, it is a fact that deepest concern exists as to tho future. Nothing that has happened recently re-cently in congress or elsewhere has bo absorbed the attention of the Prcsi- dent and Secretary Root as the threatened threat-ened Japanese legislation In California. Califor-nia. It was impossible for the President in his letter to Governor Glllettt to tell all of the reasons" that influenced him iu making his unprecedented protest against such action by the California legislature. He did develop the fact that under the agreement reached two years ago between America and Ja-pm Ja-pm not only had Japanese immigration immigra-tion into America largely decreased, but also that there had been an actual reduction In the number of Japanese residents in this country. He could net nay that tho projected California legislation would cause the Japanese government to relax the efforts which It now Is making to restrict coolio immigration im-migration to America, yet that thought was in the mind of the administration. administra-tion. There are other factors, which, for j diplomatic reasons, could not be men-tlon men-tlon In a letter which was Bure to bo published, but which are well known to the members of the senate and I house committee on foreign afTalrs, and which doubtless Influenced conservative con-servative Pacific coat men in congress con-gress in deprecating such action as was proposed. |