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Rev. U.G. Murphy Clashed With Representative Raker at Immigration Hearing.

OPPOSES DISCRIMINATION

By M.M. Mattison.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 14. -- Representative John E. Raker of the Second California District and Rev. U.G. Murphy clashed today during the hearing before the House immigration committee on Oriental immigration.

The Seattle minister, who is engaged in missionary work among the Japanese, had indorsed the proposal to permit a restricted number of Orientals to enter this country and advocated conferring citizenship upon them, under restrictions later to be determined. He insisted that immigration from all countries should be restricted, but he urged there should be no discrimination against the Orientals.

Then Judge Raker attempted to show how far Rev. Mr. Murphy would go. He asked him whether he would permit intermarriage between whites and Japanese, and, as a general proposition, Mr. Murphy said he would not.

Discusses Marriage Question.

He added that marriages between Japanese men and white women had worked out better. Mr. Murphy conceded that there could be no discrimination which would permit Japanese women to marry whites while barring Japanese males from intermarriages. Judge Raker attempted to follow up this point by declaring Mr. Murphy proposed to admit Japanese to citizenship and then immediately begin discriminating against them, and to show that the two races would not assimilate. However, other members of the committee headed off such a line of examination.

Rev. Mr. Murphy urged the deportation of alien gamblers and bootleggers. Chairman Albert Johnson of the immigration committee says if convicted they can be deported as felons.