THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN DISPUTE.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
INTERVENTION.
JAPANESE NOT MONGOLIANS.
By Telegraph -Press Association.—Opyris&t.
New York, November 11. , There is a widespread impression in New York that the intervention of President Roosevelt, on behalf of Japan has been successful, but California, which was Republican, has now become a Democratic Stale.
Mr. Metcalf, who is President) Roosevelt's envoy to San Francisco, says that Japanese children under the treaties are entitled to equal school facilities with Americans. The Japanese are not Mongolians ; therefore the State, law is unconstitutional.
This is the first indication that the dispute between Japan and America, regarding the action of the Sun Francisco School Board in segregating Asiatic children, is likely to be settled by diplomacy rather than in the law courts. A previous report said the School Board would give way only on it being decided by the Supreme Court that its action was unconstitutional. Mr. Metcalf, the Minister for Agriculture, is, at San Francisco endeavouring to induce the Board to withdraw its segregating order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13336, 16 November 1906, Page 5
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