The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-26

The Chinese bill which passed the House
of Representatives on Thursday passed the
United States Senate on the l4th instant.
and was entitled 4 bill "to enforce treaty
stipulations relating IL Chinese" Briefly
stated, the bill prohibits the coming OF
Chinese laborcrs, skilled or unskllled, TO
this country for twenty years, and forbids
any court, State or Federal, 10 admit any
Chinaman 10 naturalization within that
time.
Mr.. John Randolph Tuckcr'a speech In
I favor of the bill has been highly compli-
meHted. He said the treaty-making power
could not diyest Congress OF any OF the
powers delegated 10 IL by the Constitution
( This treaty was therefore subject to the
sanction or disannulment OF Congress. II
/ Congress might prohibit immigration for
six months, why not for six years; II for
! six years, why not for ten-for twenty I!
I The limitation was that il should be
reasonable. immigration should only
/ be suspended long enough to make
/ it assured that the threat OF danger
should have passed, and that was qies-
, ton FOR Congress to determine. The dar-
ger was that the immigration OF thinc'c
threw 10 large an allen population on
the Pacific coast as 10 cndaDger its peace
and growth and civilization. Until the
Garger ceased il was reasonable to con-
tinuc the suspension. Replying TO Che ar
gument against the bill that the number OF
Chinese i'm this country was insignificant,
hc showed that, confined as they were al
most entirely 10 California. they composed
81 per cent. OF the adult male population
Of that State. How would the gentlemen
who were opposed to this bill like one
- i'm. -
communities TO be Chlncscf The Opp0-
nents OF the bill cOntcndcd that there
was already one antagonistic civilization
i'm the country. ''lcs," continued MIR.
Tucker, land & is as many rs we can
carry. Gentlemen will not understand me
rs desiring 10 rake UP the embcrs OF the
old struggle. Far from 1t. But mean To-
say that there is not 4 philosOphic states
man in this land to-day who Will not say
either that the problem of the citizenship
and the strong power Of The African race
in the South is o failure on that il is IN I'M
solved problem Of the future. We have got
that one disease in the body polite. which
God grant we may recover from. but for
Gods sake do not let us inoculate the
body polite with another disease Oi the
same KIND with the idea that we can get
over that one TOO. believe that the Airi-
can Is q good deal better form Of disease
than the Chinamn." Abiding t. the
statement that in the event OF the passage
OF the bill the Chinese Minister would
leave the United States and 70 TO Spain.
MIR. Tucker conlcndcd that such threat
should hive no influence upon cOnorcssiOn-
al action. A. to the effect the bill would
have upon commercial relations with China,
nc asserted that before any treaty was enter
ed into with the "Fig-tail dynasty" three
per cent. OF all our trade wa. carried on
with China. and since The treaty it bad
fallen OF 70 per cent. In conclusion he
SAID g Ct us remember that If we would
pcrpctuate IN peace and harmony to the
generations which are to come this great
American Union that is growing In strength
and power. il Will be by that magnanimity
Of spirit which, bearing malice to none.
will breed wisdom in our council, and
make us 90 forward to one common dcsGi-
ny--the liberty OF our people under the
constitutional Union established by the
fathers" [Applause.l