Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-05-07 | Page 1 | Japanese Question Taboo, Says Bryan to Newspaper Men

I JAPANESE QUESTION TABOO SA SAYS YS BRYAN TO NEWSPAPERMEN Really Situation Is Not Serious Serious Seri Seri- ous Secretary Tells Interviewer Interviewer Interviewer Inter Inter- viewer at at- Kansas City Kansas City May a 6 William William J. J Dryan Bryan Dry Bry an m. m secretary of ot state spent spen l twenty minutes s in iii Kansas City tonight He Ire talked about the weather and the thc ideal California climate but on the tho J Japanese question he ho remained silent In fact he cautioned tho the or or r newspaper friends who gathered to greet him that tho the Japanese question was taboo But really ho said as the train pulled out time the situation is not serious serious seri seri- ous In Iii the wa way you ou n newspaper folk always s 's look on all the tho word I think and arid the train was gone before the thc sent sentence sen son t tence nce was finished oI Test Tet In Couri Washington May IIa C. C G.-A G. A test of ot the thc constitutionality of the thc California Ian lan Ian bill in the thc courts is proposed in a 11 resolution introduced Introduce in In the House to today today tolay to- to day lay b by Representative Britton of Illi 1111 nois Thc rho resolution provides pro that the tIme ju judiciary icia committee draw a resolution directing the department of O state and the attorney gen general ral to take such puch stops steps as are necessary toward a a. Judicial judicial Judi judi- cial test of or the time California la law with a aview aview aview view to its annulment In a a. accompanying ills His resolution Representative Britten at attacked attacked nt- nt tacked the Democratic administration for Ol its attitude toward tho tIme British government gov gov- ov- ov in th time the Panama canal tolls toUs controversy nn and toward Japan Jalan In the tho California embro lio Xe on I oot San in Francisco May a G. G The G.-The The Tokio roko correspondent of oC the Japanese New World 1 oi of this city cabled th the paper tO today R that tha t the protest of ot the Japanese Japan Japan- eS ese OS government so t against the alien land laUd law in California would woul be based on the time contention that b by its Ils terms the Japanese were placed in a 3 position in inferior In- In to granted g to citizens of I an nations in In California an ant and amid t that at the time spirit of or the most ore favored nation nation nation na na- na- na tion clause cla of th the Japanese treat treaty with the United States was therefore violated vio via kited even en though no stipulation of oC the time treaty specifically covered tho tIme point at issue The message c ad adds add s that th there re is still stilla a n Strong feeling c Hns In Japan that the dif dif- can be solved b by negotiations between the time two governments 0 Baron ma mayor or of or Tokio la Is q quoted otc 1 as having said In fn an int interview r lew The right light of or naturalization and a anc anew new nc tl treaty al with the United 11 States specifically specifically t relating to land ownership will HI the whole hole question Tollo a advices ices to the Japanese American American Ameri meri merican can toni tonight ht report that the Japanese government has announced anno that nn an avenue enu toward a a. satisfactory solution of thc the California problem still re remained re- re and argued that tha t tl tile the e people await time the Issue of oC negotiations with calmness