CLERGYMEN OPPOSE ANTI-JAPANESE BILLS

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, Feb. 9. -- The Methodist and Baptist ministers of Southern California, at a meeting yesterday in Los Angeles, adopted resolutions protesting against the anti-Japanese legislation now pending at Sacramento. The position in the matter of President Roosevelt and Gov. J.N. Gillett and Speaker Philip Stanton is indorsed and it is hoped "that the entire matter will be voted down."

The resolutions adopted by the Baptist churchmen say the exclusion of the Japanese from the public schools of California is an unjust discrimination "against this worthy class of people sojourning among us," and urgently requests the Legislature to "set us right before Japan and the world on this great question."