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wis HD 11/17/23. | . Page 6, GENERAL JAPANESE SITUATION, tween the state act andthe treaty. Each state, inthe absence of any treaty provision, conferring the right, may enact laws prohibiting alien from owning lands within its borderm. Uniess the right to own or lease | land is given by the treaty, no question of conflict can ariee, i Attorney General U, 3. Nerd, Nov. lith, made the following statemer regarding the decision: | The decision which finally determines the constitutionality of the California alien land Law, prohibiting the ownership of leasing of lands in this state by aliens ineligible to citizenship is most gratifying end is a great victory for California, Two cases are yet pending, one involving the right of such a iens| to own stock in land corporations and the other the right of euch aliene to enter into so-called cropping contracts. The decision in these two : eases will be awaited with interest. Similar eentinent s Were expressed by Y.&. ucLatoby, former pub- Lisher of the Sacramento Bee, and one of the foremost proponents of the: anti-alien land law, and secretary of the Japanese Erotasicn League of California, He said: The decision of the United States Supreme Court declar- img valid the alien land lews of Californie and Washington forbidding ownership or lease ef agricultural land by aliens inaligible te oitize ship hasbwen confidently expected by those instrumental in promoting @uch iegiglation, as not only legal but feir to all parties interested and absolutely demanded by a national ssfefuard. re