AGAINST ORIENTALS
AN AMERICAN PROBLEM. OPPOSITION TO THE JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, February 16. (Received February 17, at 5.5 p.m.) The controversy between Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State) and Representative Johnston (Chairman of the House Immigration Committee) has been precipitated over the provisions of the impending Immigration Bill excluding Orientals. Business organisations, private individuals and groups of various kinds on the Pacific Coast are bombarding Congressmen with telegrams protesting against Mr Hughes’s stand that the exclusion of Orientals would be a contravention of treaty obligations. Mr Johnston declared that Congress would not be swayed by foreign blood, declaring that immigration was a domestic policy whereon treaty obligations could have no effect. Mr Hughes holds that Japanese immigration must be treated in the same manner as immigration from any European country and has written in such a strain to the committee...
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Southland Times, Issue 19173, 18 February 1924, Page 5
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