UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

■JAPANESE IMMIGRATION. EXCLUSION ADVOCATED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.- Copyright. (Received Sept. 26, 3.50 p.m. Washington, Sept. 25. With reference to the admission of Japanese, the Representatives of Washington State and California urged the House Immigration Committee to adopt the Australian policy of complete exclusion, as, if further admissions are allowed, the Pacific coast will become a Japanese province. The question was purely economical, not racial.—Ails. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received Sept. 2(5, 3 p.m. Washington, Sept. 25. The anti-Japanese delegation produced figures showing that, at the present rate of immigration, the United States by the end of the century would have a Japanese population in excess of ten million.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THIJ LEAGUE CAMPAIGN. MUST NOT FORFEIT WORLD'S | CONFIDENCE, Washington, Sept. 25. At Denver President Wilson said that the heart of the discussion wa9 now Article 10. The adoption by the Senate of any reservation in connection with this article would be equivalent to the rejection of the treaty. The Shantung difficulty was now cleared away, as well as the bitter objections to the British voting power, which had been exploded. The only persons trying to effect reservations were those desirous of defeating the American purposes on entering the war. "Hyphens are the knives being stuck into this document." > The Labor section of the treaty gave the United States an opportunity of raising Labor standards throughout the world. It is forfeited the world's confidence the United States would find itself industrially and morally outside world Bociety. The next world war would be more terrible than the last. If -the United States remained outside the league it would require the greatest army they could raise and impose conscription and the heaviest taxation. The league constituted a wholesale moral clearing house for world disputes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received Sept. -20, 8.30 p.m. Washington, Sept. 25. President Wilson, in a speech at Pueblo,, said: "We can use the United States' vote on the Council of the League to "prevent her being drawn into any conflict abroad." Senator Johnson resumed his trip in President Wilson's trail, after receiving assurances that the Senate would not consider his amendment during his absence.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. SENATORS CHANGE THEIR MINDS PRESIDENT WILSON'S, PRESENTS Received Sept. 27, 12.10 a.m. Washington, Sept. 26. President Wilson, iir his Pueblo speech, said: "Is not Canada more likely to agree with the United States in League matters than Britain?" Senator Ashurst aud other Democratic Senators, telegraphed to President Wilson stating that, after careful consideration of the treaty controversy, they had changed their minds, and would vote for the ratification of the treaty unaltered. , A resolution has been introduced into the House of Representatives authorising the Judiciary Committee to conduct an inquiry into whether President Wilson had accepted a large number of presents from European Governments and Kings, according to reports.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONFER-. , ENCE. Received Sept. 20, 8.30 p.m. Washington, Sept. 25. Official': The International Labor Conference will assemble at Washington on October 29. It will not be delayed on any account. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.