JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS WARNS CALIFORNIANS

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 19. -- Discussing the conference report on the immigration bill before agreement yesterday, Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, said he desired to warn the people of California of something which they already knew and that is that the views of the President were not their views.

"This man to whom you have left the discretion in the mater of Japanese immigration is one who already has recommended the naturalization of the Japanese," said Williams. "I am with the people of California on the question of schools, and I am with them on another question. I want this country kept a white man's country and I want this country as far as it can to be a white man's country, not merely because I believe the Caucasian is superior to other races but because this is our land, the land of our traditions and our ideals, and I know that the influx of another race means another race problem for another portion of this republic and another social warfare.

"I want to say that every woe which this country has suffered has resulted from the landing of the first slave ship at Jamestown."

Garrett, of Tennessee, said:

"I am opposed to placing power in the hand of a man who, on the vital question involved, which made the conspicuous issue favorable, has already sided against his own country and his own countrymen as has the President with reference to California."

Hayes, of California, frankly stated that the Japanese exclusion section was not just what the people of California wanted, but said it would go very far toward ameliorating present conditions. He said it was a temporary expedient which he believes would be followed by a much more satisfactory arrangement. He also believed that when the people of California became familiar with the section they too will be satisfied as were the members of the California delegation, realizing that it is the very best they can get at this time.

Michaelk, of Illinois, declared the powers of the "big stick" had been whittled to the dimensions of a toothpick in the light of recent events. "Regarding the Rooseveltian proposition," said Michaelk, "by what law of human reasoning is the United States the greatest nation of the West, compelled to kowtow to the little pampered bully of the East?"

Kahn, of California, confirmed what Hayes had said in relation to the exclusion feature of the immigration bill, and expressed the opinion that it would go very far toward relieving the situation in California.