JAPANESE EXCLUSION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 184, 30 April 1924, Page 7

JAPANESE EXCLUSION

COMPROMISE SOUGHT PRESIDENT COOLIDGE’S PROPOSAL (Rec. April 29, 7.45 p.m.) Washington, April 28. A move for a compromise betwqpn the Executive and the legislative branches of the Government on the question of Japanese exclusion was continued at a conference between President Coolidge and Mr. Johnson, the chairman of the House of Representatives Immigration Committee. The impression prevails that President Coolidge advanced a proposal believed to satisfy the exclusionists and avoid an affront to Japan. It is understood it involves the postponement of tho effective date of exclusion, with assurances that the Government will negotiate with Japan, with fair prospects of success, to achieve, through diplomacy, the ends sought in the Immigration. Bill. —Reuter.

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

Tokio, April 27. The president of the America-Japan Society, Air. Kaneko, has written to Mr. Hughes, Secretary oc State, a letter for the consideration of the President, and appealing to Air. Coolidge against the discriminative immigration law. “While we understand the necessity for restriction oi the number of alien immigrants to America, for the nation’s welfare, and are willing to submit to any restrictions if, they are equally applied, we ask for consideration of the discriminatory clause, which is an important question from the point of view of Japanese hcncur.” The letter asks for a temporary postponement of the passage of the law, pending a reasonable solution of the problem, satisfactory to both countries.—Beu ter.