AMERICA & JAPAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 10 February 1909, Page 3

AMERICA & JAPAN.

[Pbess Association. — Copsbight.] THE TROUBLE IN CALIFORNIA. NEW FORK, Tuesday. Opinion in the Eastern States of the anti-Japanese legislation is in fafour of giving japan the opportunity of fulfilling the agreement The nc-wspapers'on tbe Pacific Coast are nearly unanimous against the Bill, but the labour unions are resolute. President Roosevelt, in a letter to Mr Gillett, Governor of California, cays : — "The policy of my administra; tion is to coptinte the maximum of effi'-isnty v-.i'h ths minimum cf friction an-.! t:c>ib!--, v;'iil_ misguided advocates of the a -tion against which I protest follow the policy of the minimum of efficiency and the .maximum of insult and h^rro." He adds that the Bill is clearly a violation of treaty obligations, and, morcovjv. if in a year or two the imm'gr;:tic.n polity between the United Statts iwi Japan Luis to -achieve what it is vo'v achieving, theu through the Presidm' and Congress it can be made efficient. LEGISLATION IN NEBRASKA. SEGREGATION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE. (received' February 10, 3.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Tuesday. A Bill has. been, introduced -in the State Assembly '-of .-Nobraska, 'separate Ijog Japanefo. rh'd ..Chinese 'workmen from .American: lii. ""order to prevent a ic.-urrence of conditions prevailing in the South- .Omaha, Packing Houses. j