EXCLUSION LAW POSTPONED.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1924, Page 3

EXCLUSION LAW POSTPONED.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

TIME FOR DILOMACY. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WASHINGTON, May 7. At the repeated request of President Coolidge the House and Senate Conference on the Immigration Bill have reconsidered their decision tin the .Japanese exclusion provisions ami will report a provision to make exclusion effective on .March Ist. I!)27. with the understanding that, in the meantime, the formal abrogation of the ‘'gentlemen's agreement” will lie negotiated.

A BUSINESS VIEW. NEW YORK. May ~ According to a despatch from Cleveland, the Eoreign Commerce Section of the Convention of the Chambers of Commerce of the United State's, numbering l(l:> delegates unauimouslv resolved that- friendly negotiation, instead of Congrt —ioual enactment, olfered the best solution of tlm .Jaoane.se immigration problem. Half a dozen speaker.-, four from ihe we-tern seaboard States, urged tliis action as an expression in harmony with the traditional ideals of America’s foreign policy. .Major Griggs (Tacoma) said: “We tin the Pacific Coa.-t. do not feel that 77 years of close, friendly relations with .lapan .should he swept aside in a moment of irritation.”

THOUSANDS WAITING. SAN FRANCISCO. May 7. The “Xiehil-oi.” a .Japanese newspaper published here, asserts that (idOO Japanese are waiting in Japan for transportation to San Francisco, ineluding relatives sent for by the present Japanese of California under the terms of the “gentlemen’s agreement,” and brides who would be unable to enter the United States after .Inly Ist. if the exclusion feature of the Immigration Bill should become effective at I bat date. The liewspaner gives the names of thirteen ships arriving from Japan before July Ist. and declares that they cannot accommodate the number desiring to come. Il declare- that 2Ko'> Japanese bachelors left Sail Fra in isc-i for .lapan dining February. March and April to obtain brides.