Discriminatory Bills in State Legislatures Tokyo, Feb. 16.
'Mr. H. Saito, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, has called. the attention of Mr. Cordell Hull, US, Secretary of State, to the' anile Japanese bills now before the State Legislatures of California, Arizona and Washington, them Mre-grottable" in that they "unnecessarily tend to impair the amicable rela ons existing between the United States and japan."
This demarche was made on Thursday after Mr. Saito had conveyed the Japanese Government's sympathy over the loss of the U.S, dirigible Macon and two members of her crew, according to a report fled by. the envoy with the Foreign Omce here to-day, Mr, "Hull, Mr, Saito reported, said that he had not yet received ofelal information on the bills, but said. would make efforts to' prevent the "turning of anti-Japanese sentiment into law" because that would Impalr the yood relations existing between the two countries,
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