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Show JAP COMPANY IS WINNERJF CASE IIAMII.MOIO INIi:iti:sr MAY AS. SICV l,MI IIOI.IIINCS. Hlntc IjiiicI llounl Coiniiil-floiicr (il-ltlllUC, (il-ltlllUC, In OpiMtjug Hit MiiihI of lll I'cllow McnitH'ns Sii)n the ()iutloii I Hy I'nr the HIkuiI ()m No" Ik'-ifoivTIiln Ik'-ifoivTIiln Wilcru Coiinlr). " 1 ly n ot of three to two the utate land hoard lut WImIiiwkIb)- gai the i:. I) lluxlilmtito comiHtny ermtMlon to mwlgn It iipplli-ritloii for forty thot wind acre of Mate land In Millard county to Prank II HtephriM. Thl action wa taken on rvcoiHrneiidallon of W P. fa ml In ml. preeldent of the hoard, who declared he believed that Miuh dlpoltlnn of Hm elntr,tvr would deflriltel) arttle the problem rained h) the uppirnitlou of a irir-nllon. irir-nllon. compowd entirely of alien, to purchase ninti land. Arnold (I. Olamiue and W J. Umh, member of the lumrd, emphatltAlly opponed the recommendation on Hit ground that to allow llahlmoto to tratufer hi npptleatlon wax tantamount tanta-mount tn recognlxlng hi landlug a u legitimate and pomlhte purchuxer. and would net a iniwt dangerou precedent. pre-cedent. They declared there wa no aamirnnre that by III la method the Japancne Interem would not eentu-ully eentu-ully become the owner of the lain! ltcllcic It IHg gmllon. "1 believe the liuiue here In the biggest big-gest question thl Wrftern c(untr ban before It toda." dwlared Com-mlmloner Com-mlmloner Olaunue. "I. for one din-agree din-agree with the attorne general when he a that uu alien cortHiratlon I entitled to pun twine utate land, when the law of the Pulled Plat expre-ly expre-ly forbid ullen from aoiulrlng ate laud. To admit the right of the lliinhlmoto lompany to traiwfer It application I to admit II right to purehave Mtate land." Comitilutlnneni Olatuiue and Umli favored a flat denUI of the Hashimoto application for permU-hui to trnfr the appllcntlun with a Uew to halng tho cone carried Into court fr final acttleinent All member of the lM.rd were ngreetl that the appllmtlon Rhould nt be gratited. but Pn-ideiit Cnndland nnd Cftmmle-loner J ChldftHter and T. II. Merrill lllel that the right to ait-lgn hould be granted the Japaneee comimny UUagrcv Willi Opinion. When the llnhlmoto application wa received It wa referred to the attorney at-torney general for an opinion Timi iphilon wa to the effeit that the corporation, cor-poration, een though eompoed entirely en-tirely or alien, hud become. In a ene. n tltUen of tho tute when It charter a a corporation wa granted and hence wa entitled to pun hoe tate land. Member of the land board dhwgrecd with thl opinion on tho ground that the granting of a charter to the companj In Plah did not muke the oompan clllxen of the United Statu. . , CommlMloner Cllaiuiiio nrguwt that to grant the application or to allow tho company ai tandlng whatever before the board b permitting It to transfer the a leutlon would open tho wa for a general evasion of he purpose of the federal law prohibiting prohibit-ing the ule of land to alien. |