PRESIDENT'S PROTEST
ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION. TWO POLICIES. VIOLATION OP TREATY OBLIGATIONS. |BX TE&EURANI—press ASSOCIATION—CorrttIOaT.I (Rec. Fobruary 0, 10.25 p.m.) ' New York, February 9. President Roosevelt in a Message to Mr. Gillott, Governor of California, says:—■ "The polioy of my administration is to combine the maximum of efficiency with tho minimum of friction and trouble; while the misguided advocates of tho action against which I protest follow the policy of minimum efficiency and maximum insult and harm. ,, Tho President adds:—"Tho Bill is clearly a violation of treaty obligations. > Moreover, if in a year or two tho immigration policy between tho United States and Japan fails to achieve what it is now achieving, then, through the President and Congress, it can be made efficient." LABOUR UNIONS RESOLUTE. (Rec. February 9,10.15 p.m.) Now York, February 9. Opinion in the Eastern States of America is against the Californian anti-Japanese legislation, and in favour of giving Japan an opportunity of fulfilling her agreement. Tlio newspapers on the Pacific ' Coast are nearly unanimous against tho Bill, but tho labour unions are resolute.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 7
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175PRESIDENT'S PROTEST Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 7
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