ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 35, 10 February 1909, Page 5

ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S "VIOLATION OF TREATY OBLIV/..;-:: ■■-cfc*TloHe."'"-:-^ , P "' NEW YORK, February 9. Opinion in «the Eastern . States of America is against the Californian antiJ a P. a nese legislation and in favour of giving Japan an opportunity of fulfilling her agreement with regard to the restriction of emigration. The newspapers on the Pacific Coast ire nearly unanimous against the bills, but the Labour Union is resolute. President Roosevelt, in a message to Mr. J. N. Gillett, Governor of California, says: "The policy of my administration is to combine the maximum of efficiency with the minimum of friction and trouble, while the misguided advocates of the action against which I protest follow the policy 6f the minimum of efficiency and the maximum of insult and harm." ■ . .... ■ •■ ■■, : . ■■*

The President adds-.'"The bill is clearly a violation of treaty obligations. Moreover, *if in a year or two the immigration policy between the United States and Japan fails to achieve what it is now achieving, then, through the President and Congress, it can be made efficient."

A NEBBASKAN MEASURE

i {Received 8.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 9. A bill has been introduced into the State Assembly of Nebraska, providing for the separation .of Japanese,and-Chin-ese workmen from Americans, in order to prevent a • recurrence of the conditions prevailing in the South Omaha packing houses. "..