Why does the headline in the japan times and mail call the senate vote a "declaration of war"?

Believed the Senate's decision was an attack on the Japanese people.

The headline is referring to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 which placed quotas on immigration and ended immigration from Asian countries. 

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b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.