COAST CONGRESSMEN UNITE ON EXCLUSION

Committee Is Appointed to Keep Tab on Situation in Reference to Orientals on Pacific.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, Dec. 18. -- The Pacific Coast congressmen have formed a combination to watch all attempts to secure legislation letting down the bars to immigrants from the Orient.

The House delegations from California, Utah, Wyoming and Washington met in the House lobby today and talked over Japanese and Chinese immigration and appointed a committee composed of Representatives Kahn, Hayes and McKinley of California to keep tab on the situation and call another meeting if anything presents itself that requires action.

The sentiment was emphatically opposed to any change in existing Chinese exclusion laws. Representative Humphrey of Washington was one of the speakers on this phase of the case and he advocated no letting down of bars for Chinese. There was discussion of the question of forbidding Japanese coolies from entering the country, but no decision was reached on that point.

It was the sense of the meeting that the President's recommendation to naturalize Japanese should not be adopted.