JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 5

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

♦ NEW LAW PROPOSED IN CANADA. By Telegraph.—Press Association— Copyright Ottawa, April 8. In the Canadian House of Commons, tho Bill , restricting Japanese immigration passed its second and third reading stages. Power is reserved to the Dominion Government to restrict immigration according to the ordinary regulations, and not to depend, as hitherto, on Japan's own regulations. On becoming 'a party to a recent treaty "between England aiid Japao Canada agreed to let Japarieso enter and leave Canadian territory as they might see fit; ,but the leaders of white labour in British Columbia and tho Eastern provinces objected,, and by a! special arrangement with tho Government of Japan, only a limited number como every year. Tho fact that Japan is England's ally counts for something in the attitude of tho Dominion Parliament towards the immigrant from Japan; but there is no disguising the fact, said a recent writer, that when friction arose between tho tTnited States ' and Japan over the exclusion of Japanese children from elementary schools in California, sentiment in British Columbia and in the main throughout tho rest of Canada was altogether on tho side of tho Americans. . , ~ Canada began legislating against tho entry of Chinese coolies a good many years ago. At first the capitation tax was .£lO, then .£2O; now it'is .CIOO. Further, they have to register and pay a fee of a dollar ner head if they desire to depart from the" country and return within a year without being subject to a fresh capitation tax. In tho United Stales tho ontry of 'Chinese coolies is absolutely prohibited. Yet in Canada's cast tho legislation is perhaps more remarkable, for (ho head-tax is levied oil every Chinese labourer without exception, crcn on tlioso who have been born British sub- ! iecls in Ilong-kong or (ho British West r Indies. _________