Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-16

Icu tuC lUIiOWlbS dS SUBSTITUTE
for the Matthews amendment
That the President of the United
States is hereby requested to give
notice< Immediately to the Empe
ror OF China that 50 much of the
existing treaty as permits immi
grafton of subjects of the Chimes
Empire to the United States is ir
its judgment pernicious, and tC
! propose such notifications of said
treaty as will correct the evils com
plaid of, said notifications to bt
made i'm new and supplem entail
treaty to be submitted to the Sen
ate of the United States on or be
fore the first day of January, 1880
Should the Government of Chins
refuse or omit to agree to a change
of the existing treaty to such mod
ification, then the President of the
United States is further requested
and he is authorized to inform the
Emperor of China that the United
States will proceed by laws of its
own to regulate or prevent the i'm.
migration TO its shores of the sub.
ljects of China, and, after the first
of January, 1880, to treat the OBJ.
noXious stip ulation as at an end.
Matthews Withdrew his amend
ment and that CT Conkling was in
order.
Sargent hoped the amendment OF
tue Senator from New York would
be voted down. 1t was simply a
promise TO do something here
after.
Conkling said he was sorry to
hear his friend from California ap.
peal to the friends of the bill to vote
down this amendment; sorry to
hear him call it a mere promise
effecting nothing. The immigra-
ton of Chinese to our shores did
not begin with the treaty; it began
before the treaty and would pro.
ceed after the abrogation of the
treaty.
Copx xressiSBnI.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-SENATE.
Most of the morning hour was oc.
cupled in discussing u bill to au.
thOrize the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia to adjust and
fix water rates within said District,
which was finally passed. Hamlin
spoke in opposition to the bill.
The Senate resumed considera.
tion of the Chinese Immigration
bill at 12:45, and Hamlin pro.
ceeded to speak against it. He
said our treaties with Chana had
been procured by coercion, ex-
erted by the United States and
other foreign powers, and that the
Pacific Coast was even more de-
sirous that the Burlingame treaty
should be ratified than other sec.
tions of our country. He said he
would not stop to consider whether
it is desirable to limit Chinese i'm
migration, but conceding the de-
STABILITY OF modifying it, he would
discuss the question as to the prop
er method of doing so. He would
procure the desired mobilization by
ordinary methods-by negotiation.
He would treat the Empire of
China as he would any other ma
ton. Senators would not be will.
ing to treat warlike power as this
bill proposed to treat China. He
was opposed to legislating upon
treaties until every other appro-
pirate method was exhausted, ex-
cept in extreme cases, and this was
not one of them.
Eaton enquired if Hamlin was
not aware that Congress last year
passed a resolution requesting ne.
gotiations; that nothing had been
accomplished.
Hamlin replied that we should
have a little patience and he be-
lieved that reasonable solution
would be reached, satisfactory to
the Pacific Coast and the people of
the whole Union. Hamlin pro-
ceeded to show that we denied the
right Of Great Britain to alter the
conditions of eXtraditioD by an
Act of Parliament, and that we are
attempting TO alter the treaty of
Washington by negotiation and
not by Congressional legislation.
These he claimed to be precedents
which we should follow. He
denied that China has vio-
lated the Burlingame treaty
by failing to pass laws to prevent
involuntary emigration; on the
contrary, lie asserted that the EN-
peror of China had issued stringent
edicts on that subject. He argued
that the summary action proposed
by this bill will probably lead to
reprisals by China and result in
grave injury TO our growing COM
merce with that empire, in which
California grain raisers and
New England manufacturers
are alike interested. He ad-
mitted that we cannot main
tain in our midst any considerable
population not entitled to the right
of suffrage, but argued that the
proper way to remedy the difficulty
in this case would be to admit Chi
namen TO naturalization. He
believed that if the Chinese were
treated with common humanity on
the Pacific Coast they would, in
time, asstmilate with us. He
denied that Chinese cheap labor is
any more injurious to white labor
ers than labor-saving machines
are, and claimed that it had added
countless millions to the wealth of
California and advanced her con.
dition one hundred years by sup
plying labor otherwise not attain
able for building railroads and re-
claiming tule lands. He said that,
at least, very respectable minori-
| ty of the most intelligent
people of California tell us
that Chinese are obedieut to law,
cleanly in habits and desirable
class of laborers. He read extracts
from speech delivered by Stewart
in the California Convention.
He announced himself in favor of
Conkling's substitute fot the bill
and closed with an appeal for the
preservation Of national good faith
and the maintenance of the under
lying humanitarian principles of
our republican government. Ham,
Inns peroration called forth consid-