JAPAN DISSATISFIED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5

JAPAN DISSATISFIED.

CAUFOHNIAN ALIEN BILL. FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS TO BE MADE. By Telesraph—Press Association—Copyright Tokio, May 23. Tho American reply (o Urn Japanese representations concerning f.lio Cnlifornian anti-alien loaisbil.ion is considered unfavourable. Tho Japiineso Ambntsndni- at Washington lias biieii intruded lo prnsc for thn recognition uf the .Inpnnof/i interpretation of thn Amcrieiin-.Tnpnnefio Treaty. JAPANESE PROFESSOR'S APPEAL. (Hoc. May 25, 5.! i p.m.) New York, May 25. Professor Twenngn, of Chicago University, in speaking at the banquet given to Mr. Guthrie, tho new United States Ambassador lo Japan, said he was of opinion that tho Japanese people's heart lin/l been deeply stirred ns the result of California's action in excluding Japanese, from the ordinary rights of citizenship. All Japan asked for was justice, and ho liopcd that the President, Dr. Wilson, would see that Japan received it.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSED. Washington, May 23. Mr. Bartlott, a Democratic representative from Georgia, has introduced in the House of Representatives a constitutional amendment, vesting Ln Congress tho right to legislate on all questions affecting tho citizenship, of foreigners within tho United States, !ho right which i? nowheld by the States thereby being cauccllcd.

Mr. Sisson, a Mississippi Democrat, despito a request from tho President that he should abstain from anti-Japanese speeches, attacked the treaty-making powers of Federal Government, assorting that tho sovereign rights of tho States must bo protected.