Title: "To Bar Japanese," Seattle Times, 10/11/1919, (ddr-densho-56-338)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-338

TO BAR JAPANESE

Senator Phelan Introduces Bill to Exclude All Nipponese Laborers.

Universal Service, Special by Leased Wire.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 11. -- A Japanese exclusion bill was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Phelan of California, as an amendment to the existing immigration law.

The bill would bar from the United States all Japanese laborers by extending the zone longitudinally and latitudinally to include the Japanese Empire.

The bill was introduced after the Senate committee on immigration had listened to testimony by Commissioner of Immigration Caminetti and Victor S. McClatchy, publisher of a Sacramento, Cal., newspaper, both of whom told of the heavy increase in the immigration of Japanese into the United States.

Senator Phelan said in introducing the bill that the so-called "gentlemen's agreement" is being violated in letter and spirit and that the Japanese population is growing to an alarming extent.

There are at present 100,000 Japanese in California, 50,000 more in other parts of the United States, and 100,000 in the Hawaiian Islands.