New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-06
THE PRESIDENTS VETO SUSTAINED.
ANEW CHINESE IMMIGRATION BILL INTRODUCED
THE SENATE.
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u.suSGrov. April 5.-When the Senate adj
,ou,ned last night il was the intention of majority
of the Republcan Senators TO support notion 10
he offered to-day by Senator Sherman TO refer the
chinese bill with the Presidents veto message and
ACCOMPANYING papers to the Committee on Foreign
Relations and there let it rest until modified Dill
sbould be prepared, reported and passed by the
Senate. The object was wholly political the Sena-
tors who conceived il expecting by tins means TO
avoid vote on the question OF sustaining tue veto
Of the President.
When the matter was talked over informally this
morning il was found that the Pacific Coast Sen
atOrs aud others from the West were not in accord
with their fellow Republicans in what might appear
10 be an evasion of the square issue; and without
their help it was manifest that the project could not
he carried out 1t was still within the power. how
ever, even of few Republicans to accomplish the
same result by different method but upon further
consideration il was thought that the object was
not worth the effort.
Early in the session to-day Senator Miller. of Cal
iforria. who originated and managed the vetoed
bill in the Senate offered another bill the same i'll
every respect except that ii restricted immigration
to ten instead Of twenty years. and this was referred
to the Committee on Foreign Relations. special
meeting of this committee has been called for to-
morrow morning; and, had the Republicans desired
it, the discussion upon the vetoed bill might have
been continued until tomorrow, giving the com
mttee an opportunity to report the modified bill to-
morrow morning, when IL doubtless might have
been passed during the morning hour, and would
thus have rendered vote upon sustaining the veto
unnecessary. That this not done
proves that the abandonment of the
plan entertained by majority of
I ~
consultation was had, and each Republican Senator
voted in accordance with his Individual predilec
tiOns The Democrats on the contrary voted solidly
upon every proposition, giving by their action the
most convincing proof that the merits of the
Chinese immigration question had no weight with
them and that future political advantage was the
paramount motive in their every action.
At the close of the morning hour Senator Farley
moved to postpone the pending question and take
mp the veto message. Some opposition made
by the Republicans the ground that the pending
question-the bill to regulate the Presidential count
was an important one, and that Senator Hoar,
who has IL in charge must absent himself from to-
morrow night for week. The motion was carried
by vote of 90 TO %. Mr.. Shennan's motion to re-
fer to the committee was then lost by vote of IS
to 81. The question then recurring upon the pas
sage of the bill over the Presidents veto, Senator
Sherman took the floor ard made q speech of
considerable length upon the merits of the We toed
bill, reviewing the objections urged by the Presi-
dent and reinforcing them by mary of his own.
The remainder of the day was consumed by the
Democrats who spoke in favor of the measure.
Senator Morgan and Senator Bayard were the prn-
opal speakers and managed to present in briefor
form all the Arguments which were urged in support
OF the olli when II was first considered and passed
oy the Senate The following is the vote upon the
guesu9n OF passage "the Presidents objections
@nOtwthsstandIng @ Republicans in Roman, Demo-