The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-28


of order. The motion to engross and
pass to a third reading was agreed to,
and it was read third time. On its
passage, under call for the yeas and
nays General Garfield lodged. 1t was
passed, however, by 155 yeas to 72 nays
Record Forty-ffth Congress, third ses-
sion, page SOL The Senate considered
and passed the bill on the 10th of Febru-
ary, and it came back to the House with
amendments.
Mr.. Willis moved to take it from the
Speakers table and concur in the Senate
amendments. This was agreed to.
Mr.. Garfield reserve the right to de-
mand separate votes on the amend
ments.
The previous question was seconded
and the main question ordered.
Mr.. Willis moved to reconsider the
vote by which the main question was or
dered, and also moved that the motion
to reconsider be laid on the table.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr.. Garfield call for separate votes
on each amendment of the Senate.
A motion was made to lay the bill and
amendments on the table. The motion
was lost by 50 yeas and l40 nays. Mr..
GARFIELD VOTED YRA-ReCord, Forty
fifth Congress, third session, page l, ,796.
The Senate amendments were then
concurred in
THE BILL VETOED.
"The bill then went to the President,
who, on the 1st day of March, returned
it to the House unapproved and accom-
panied by veto message, After the
message was read the question was, will
the House, on reconsideration, pass the
bill, Notwithstanding the objection of
the President?' The yeas and nays were
ordered, and the result was yeas ITO,
nays SO. Two-thirds not voting in the
affirmative, under the Constitutional
provision the bill stood rejected. GEN
ERAL GARFIELD VOTED NAY Record, For
ty.ffth Congress, third session, page q
227) thus clenching his opposition to
the passage of the bill, and Illustrating
his disrespect for the dignity and hui
manity of American labor, his contempt
for the working man of his own race,
and his willingness to force American
free laborers into competition for their
daily bread with a race that knows no
God, no morality and no obligations of
social decency."
Garfeld's record on the Chinese ques-
ton is strictly in keeping with his letter
to Mr.. Morey, and leaves no reason to
believe that it is forgery.
The following article is taken from the
San Francisco Daily Examiner, of Mon
day last 1t was written and published
before Garfelds infamous letter was
made public to the country, 1t shows
up another chapter in the record of Gar
field and the Republican party on the
Chinese question;
CHINESE COMPANIES.
THEY CONTRIBUTE $50,000 TO THE REPUBLI-
CAN CAMPAIGN FUND IN CALIFORNIA -
THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM -
THE REPUBLICAN CHINESE RECORD CON-
TRAsTED WITH THAT OF THE DEMOCRATS
HARD FACTS WORTH THE CoNsIDERA-
TIoN OF EVERY DwELLER ON THE COAST,
ETC.
The Six Chinese Companies have con-
tributed $4,000 for Republican cam
paign purposes in California. This is not
surprising, but, indeed, to be expected,
when we reflect upon the positions the
Democratic and Republican parties re-
spectively occupy on the Chinese ques-
ton. The Chinese understand this and
can afford to contribute this sum to the
plethoric sack which the Republican
party possesses in California.
Mr.. Frank NJ Pixley, writing to his
paper, the ArgOnaut, in relation to the
Chicago Convention, to which he was
delegate from this State, said:
"In this letter l send the details of the
fight over the Chinese resolution.
Some of the New England delegates had
made their contests against Blaine be-
cause he was with our people upon this
matter, and they came prepared to fight
the insertion of plank against the Chi
nese exclusion policy. X |
went before the committee, and, to my
utter surprise and indignation, found not
only milk-and-water resolve, but in
another resolution clause authorizing
the Chinese to become citizens and vote.
l agreed to what now stands as
the Chinese resolution. 1t was the best
we could get. 1t was all we could get"
"REsTRICT AND LIMIT"
Further on, in the same lette, we are
told that the whole Pacific CoatS delega-
ton threatened to withdraw from the
Convention in body and disrupt the
party, and only under that alarming con-
dition of things was any allusion what
ever made to the transcendently import
ant subject Of Coolie importation. And
what were the words that were got in
under such high pressure? Only to ire
strict and limit" such immigration, the
limit of restriction not being stated, but
was left open to be interpreted by the
great majority of delegates, who were not
in favor of its being limited at all, but
who would, accepting the New England
as a man and brother, and make him
citizen and voter. That we are not un-
fair in our Interpretation of the Republi-
can platform, we reprint the Chinese
plank in it, which reads as follows
"Since the authority to regulate immi-
grafton and intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations rests
with the Congress of the United States
and its treaty making power, that the
Republican party, regarding the unre-
Stricted immigration of the Chinese as an
evil of great magnitude, invokes the ex-
ercise of the power to restrain and limit
that immigration by the enactment of
such just, humane and reasonable provi-
sions as will produce the result"
Contrast this milk-sop for babes with |
the following pabulum for strong men
We append the
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
al. Amendment of the Burlingame |
treaty no more Chinese immigration,
except for travel, education and foreign |
commerce, and that even carefully guard
ed"
The difference in the language of the
two documents is clear cut and decisive.