Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — CONFER ON JAPAN TREATY [ARTICLE]

CONFER ON JAPAN TREATY

California Members in Congress Consider Proposed Compromise With Tokyo. Washington, Dec. 30. —Rights of Japanese ia the United States and other subjects involved in the negotiations now in progress between the -United States and Japan were up for discussion when California members of the house met in a conference called by Representative Kahn. Chief among the matters that it was understood were to come up was the proposal recently advanced in some quarters that the California members urge the legislature of their state to enact as a substitute for the present ante-bellum land law a statute whieh would prohibit any alien from acquiring title to real estate. The Japanese government has contended that the present law discriminates against Japanese, and the suggestion has been made unoflicially, it is understood, that the proposed substitute would eliminate the source Of much of the existing friction.