JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S INTERVENTION. Received November 15, 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, November 14._ There is a widespread impression in New York that President Roosevelt's intervention on behalf of Japan has succeeded in California, which was a Republican but has now become a Democratic State. Mr V. H. Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce, considers that Japanese children under the treaty are entitled'to equal school facilities with Americans. The Japanese, be says, are not Mongolians; therefore the State law is unconstitutional. (It was announced in a cablegram from Tolao, published on November Ist, that President Roosevelt would, if necessary, invoke Article V.L of the Constitution to compel California to observe Treaty provisions. The article referred to establishes the supremacy of the Federal Constitution and laws over those of the separate States. It reads : " This Constitution, and tho laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the lanij, and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,")
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8288, 16 November 1906, Page 5
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195JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8288, 16 November 1906, Page 5
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