Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1920 — BAR JAP IMMIGRATION [ARTICLE]

BAR JAP IMMIGRATION

California Democrats and & 0, K Favor Stringent Laws. Democratic Platform Indorsee League of Nations and Indorses Bill to lx> elude Orientals From U. a Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 28. —Resolutions looking toward more stringent restrictions upon oriental immigration to the United States were outstanding features of the Republican and Democratic state conventions, both of wMch adjourned here. A resolution adopted by the Republican convention placed the gathering on record as favoring “cancellation of the ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with -Japan; exclusion of ‘picture brides;’ rigorous exclusion of Japanese immigrants and confirmation and legalization of the policy that Asiatics shall of a race eligible to American citizenship; an amendment to the federal Constitution providing that no child born In the United States of alien parents shall be considered an American citizen unless both parents are. of a rave eligible to American citizenship.” . . The Democratic platform included a plank seeking a federal amendment to prevent Japanese children born in this country from acquiring citizenship ; indorsed the League of Nations; sent greetings to President Wilson and indorsed Senator James D. Phelan’s measure in congress to exclude Japanese from this country.