FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FIGHTS FOR JAPANESE
United States Files Two Suits in San Francisco to Gain Admission for Mikado's Subjects Into Schools.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 18. The United States has begun two suits in San Francisco for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the treaty with Japan, giving to the Japanese equal school advantages. One of the actions is brought in the supreme court of the State of California, in the name of a Japanese child, for the purpose of obtaining a writ of mandamus to compel his admission to one of the public schools from which he is excluded by the action of the board of education.

The proceeding in the second suit is a comprehensive bill in equity filed by the United States in the federal circuit court, in which the members of the board of education, the superintendent of schools and all the principals of the various primary and grammar schools of San Francisco are made defendants.