The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-03
EVENING SESSION.

Assembly Bill-An Act to incorporate the
town Of ulm!.ton.
Passed.
Assembly Bill-An Act to incorporate the
town of Treasure City.
Passed.
The spccia, .yorder coming up. the same
being the CONGRESSIONAL amendment to the
Constitution OF the United States, so az I"
al 'ow manhood suffrage. Mr.. Corbett move!
tn make its cnnsidcra ion the special o-de.
ior tomorrow at I o'clock T. II.
Lost.
Mr.. Andersen understood the proposition
to DELEGATE to the General Governmt Mt tn"
20 ser of cnnfrrriug upon negroes and
Asiatics the right t. vote. There was but
two bArricrs ag inst comforting the right to
vote to the AsiatIcs. one OF them WAS the
treaty. the other was the naturalization
laws-both of which could be abrogated or
amended. Informal ION had been received
that Kansas had already ratified the amend :
ment; that no reason why this State
should ratifv it. They had no Chinese IN
K .nsas. and this State had. He thought that
comforting the right of suffrage on
Chinese would Be an additional induce
nent to that race - enisrate TO this State
He claimed that he was good publican
and was in favor Of negroes voting but was
opposed to granting that privilege to Chi
nese. lie alluded to the Chicago platform
and regarded it as the true exponent OF the
principles of the Rrpublican parry.
Mr. Wri.h' said that me argument that
Chinese void become citizens was perfectly
fu,ilr. There had been a large Chinese pop
uIation Oh the Pacific Coast, and there had
never vet br.a d single Chinaman natu!a-
- { = d they Coz Id not becni. ESQ.
Nr Welcu said he understood that Mr..
Id,
Baldwin who had given Ii as his opinion
that Chinau.,n c.uid not get na,uralzed.
Mr. Mayhc.h held up the opinion, and
said that he did not 50 any more on Judge
BadAin's opinion than he would on MS
word. or Governor Nye's. Both had gone
back on their words. and he would not 50 anS
more az. his word than he would ON the word
OF any member OF the Assembly.
The letter was read.
Mr.. Bowman veutured the opinion that il
the Chicago Convention had not incorp"r-
a,ed the plank i'll its platform that the several
States had the Tisnt TO regulate suffrage
therein, that the Republican party would
never have ,riumphed at the las, election.
He thought that the action Of Congress was
premature He had never voted the Demo-
cratic ticke. and never Should, but as the
true repress uta,iye of his con >titaency he
C Jul.l not and would no. vote for the PROPOSE
;ian, if he Was the only one of the party WIN
should do so. Ii ne was to be ruled out OF
the party because uf hi, vote Il was all right.
Mr.. We.ch was in favor Of the Amendment.
LIST That it wa, conceded fact that Con-
.ress had the power u regulate Eaturaliza-
ton. He argued that the probationary state
OF an alien before naturalization should be
general and uniform Throughout the United
States. Some of the States could under the
present condition OF affairs act arbitrarily,
and proven, persons uko were CITIZENS o: the
United States il one State and moi in an
other. He referred to the action Of MAssa-
chusctts in 1855 under the Know Nothing
regime. lie, az a representative of Republi-
csuisn,, favored .hc proposition, As u correc-
tian of giarinV cvi! in a country claiming
as mu,h liher.iity as this one does. He
favored The amendment because II "as Alb
eral AID tad .cdiiy js.s:.
Mr.. Hiliyer coinpiincnted Mr.. WEIGH on
the broad, literal and statesmau!ike ,icv
that he had taken, and that AL he had to
say would be simply to endorse his remarks.
He regarded it as cssen,ia. that We should be
one people and governed BY uniform
il VIZ throughout the Nation. and Par,;c-
si.rly 30, NJ related to suffrage.
He said that the Republican party was
u duty Bound to :aYe. ;l;' oropcs:::o1 and