Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-09
FORTIETH CONGRESS,
This Afternoons Proceedings,
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TUESDAY. June o
SENATE.-Mr. Morgan presented resolutions
OF Louisville Board of Trade asking reduction
OF tax on whisky 10 fifty cents per gallon Re.
ferred TO Finance Committee.
Mr. wilson, from Committee on Military Al.
ialrs, reported House Joint resolution 10 an.
thorize the enlargement Of the HygerIa Hotel
al Fortress Monroe.
Mr.. Wilson introdHced bill TO establish
rules and articles for the goyernment>of III.
army of the United States Referred TO I,orn
mIttee on Military Affairs.
The bill for the admission OF North Carolina
ana other States 10 representation in Congress
was taken up, and Mr.. Wiley addressed the
Senate. ~
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE accord.
ance with the resolution adopted on SATURDAY.
last the House met to-day at lI O'Clock, for the
purpose of receiving the Chinese Embassy
Long before that hour the galleries were fiIlsd
with spectators, the gallery TO the left of that
occupied by the reporters being reserved for
the families OF mem bers Of the House. Every
seat IN he galleries was occupied. while many
ladies and gentlemen Were compelled to occu-
py seats on the steps in the aIsles. The door.
Ways and corridors Were as literally packed
as upon the days when the trial of Imnrach. .
ment was commenced.
At o'clock precisely Speaker Colfax raped
tIe House 10 order, and named Mr.. Brooks of
New fork, as member of the committee on
reception, instead of Mr. Wood, who was de-
taIned at home by illness.
The Speaker said that as soon as the En-
bassy was announced by the doorkeeper tn.
Clerk would suspend the reading of the iour.
nal When midway of the hall the mem brrs
would rise IN their places, and one rap OF the
gaNel would indicate when they should he
aeain seated The Embassy would then take
position In mont OF the Speakers desk, and
would be presented by the committee seyerally
TO the members of the House.
Ire Clerk had progressed in the reading of
the journal out few moments when the En-
oassy was announced, and the reading was
suspended. The Embassy entered nm the fol-
lowing order Hon. Anson Burliugame es-
corted by MI. Schenck; one of the Mandarins
oy MI. Brooks, and the other Mandarin by
Mr. Banks, and followed by the Chinese Secre-
taTles and Interpreters.
The order indicated by the Speaker was
carried out, and upon arriving AT the semi
circle IN front OF the Speakers desk, Mr.
Schenck, OF the Reception COMMITTEE ad :
dressed the Speaker and presented the dis
iinguished guests.
Speaker Colfax, addressing the Embassy.
salu:
Your ENcellenciss: The House of Repre-
sehtauNes lntermIts Its ordinary labers to-day
TO receive in this Hall the Embassy which the
Oldest naiion OF The world has commiss ioned
TO America and Europe, and, IN the name of
the people of the United States. We bid Won
welcome spanning continent lila our area.
from the bay OF Fundy 10 the granite portals
OF The golden States, we turn our faces from
the fatheriand Of Europe 10 clasp hands, in
closer relations than ever before, with those
Who come to us from that continent which
lessen our pleas ure that the chief OF this En-
bassy. transported. as he was, from member
snip here TO diplomatic duties abroad, so won
the confidence OF has Imperial Nalesty 10
whom he was accredited, that he returns TO
our midst honored, with his distinguished as
sociates, as the custodiaHs of the most Remark
aoie trust ever committed by an Emperor 10
his envoys.
The Embassy Of the Chinese Empire, which
has attracted such universal attention, has
been nailed throughout our land, not only
marking an onward step IN the Worlds history
out as bring OF peculiar interest TO this Repub.
lie. With our Western States fronting the
same Pacific 81 a on which the millions of
China have looked ages before our country
was born into the family Of nations-wlth our
Pacific railroad rapidly approaching compile
ton and destined with lines OF steamers ply
Ing from Its terminii east and west, 10 become
the highway Of commeroe between Asia and
Europe-wiIh our posses sions on the Pacific
slope, nearest of all the great nations of the
country from which you came we haul your
appearance al this Capitol As the auguring Of
closer commercial and international inter.
course wishing you as cordial a greeting,
Wherever You may 60, on the Thames and the
Seine, the Danube and the Rhine, the Baltic
ana me Aariaiie, l give you again an earnest
MI Burlingame responded TO the Speakers
address Of welcome as follows:
MI Speaker, er behalf OF my associates and
myself thank you for this warm and unus ual
reception. II transcends ell personal compli-
ment II is the greeting OF one great people by
another Ii ls the Occldent and the Orient for
the first time in that electric contact whose
touch 'makes the " hole world kim, IL is the
meeting Of two civilizations which have hith
eIto reSoived in separate spheres. II in a
mighty revolution. Let us hope sir, thar in
VIII go on without those con WILSON'S which
are TOO apt to mark great changes in human AZ.
fairs. Let us hope that II will he achievsd
without the shedding Of one drop of human
blood. We are for peace. We come not with
beat OF drum nor martial tread Thou3h rep.
resennbg the latent power Of eighty millions
OF nghting men, we are the heralds Of eoOd will.
We seek for China that eq uality without which
nations and men are Degraded We seek not
only the good OF China, bat we seek your good
and the good Of all mankind. We do this in NO
sentime ntal sense. We would be practical as
the toiling Millions whom we represent We
invite you to q broader trade. We invite You
TO a more intimate examination Of the structure
u Chinese civilization. We ia vite you to a
better appreciation Of the manners Of that peo.
pie, their Temperance. their patience, their
habits Of scholarship, their competitive ex.
smiHations, their high culture Of tea and silk:
and we shall ask for them, from YOU modern
science which has taken fits great development
within the memory Of man, and the holy doe.
trines OF our Christian faith. II 10 for the West
to say whethef or not Il was sincere when i[
couttn ned, q long time, to nyits China 10 more
Intimate relafions with II. II IL for the West to
say hether II 10 for . fair and open policy, or
for one founded on preiudiee and on that as
sumption Of superiority which is iust,fied
neither By physical ability nor by moral eIeya-
ton.
The people of the United States have re-