The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-02
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.


government officers or members of
Congress with claims or grants in
connection with the governments
of Chilli aud Peru was taken up
Bayard moved to amend by
adding as a specific subject of in
quiry, the following: Whether any
promise or stipulation, by which the
intervention of the United States
into the controversies existing be-
tween Chill and Peru, or Chin and
Bolivia, has been expressly or i'm
plicitly given by person OF persons
officially connected with the govern
ment of the United States, or
whether its influence has been in
any way exerted, promised or init
mated Ill connection with or in re-
lation to said contracts, by
any one officially connected with
the government of the United
States. Bayard's amendment pre-
vailed without objection, and the
resolution, as amended, was adopted.
After the morning hour unfn-
ished business, the Chinese bill was
temporarily laid aside for speech
by Voorhees, upon the urgency of
better accommodations for the
library of Congress.
McDill presented resolutions by
the Iowa legislature praying that
the patent laws be so amended as to
prevent unjust executions.
The Senate, at 2.45, resumed con-
sideration of the Chinese bill. and
Hoar, of Massachusetts, took the
floor with a set speech in opposition
to its passage. His first proposition
was that our people, 100 years ago,
founded this nation upon the moral
law, affirming that all men were
equally derived from their creator.
the right to the pursuit of happi-
ness, and that equality in that light
is the fundamental rule of divine
justice in it's application to man
kind. He set forth how the nation
had grown, and said the existence
of the principle just stated
lad attracted immigration from
all countries to our own shores,
rather than to South America OF
Mexico, that every new state at
frmed it in its constitution, and
that California herself, in her orig
inal constitution, declared that ii
was meant to include the right OF
expauiation. This was declared Ill
1868 by act of Congress, ard upon
the persistent efforts in Congress oil
California senator of Irish BIRTH
it was urged upon the country that
the right of expatriati0n was indis
pensabIe to the enjoyment of life
and the pursuit of happiness. The
doctrine was solemnly reiterated III
the BUrlingame treaty. Mr.. Web
ster declared that equality of rights,
especially of those of iaborets, Is
the principal benefit which
America had conferred on mankind
We have made treaty and now We
propose this legislation which un-
dertakes to deny and overthrow
that declaration, and to strike a
blow at men by reason OF
their race and Occupatl n.
China offers to modify the
Burlingame treaty so as to per-
NIT the exclusion of prostitutes.
criminals, diseased persons and I'M
ported coolie labOrers. This offer
was rejected by our government,
and treaty substituted which does
not permit the exclusion of the
three first named classes, but only
permit their exclusion of labOrerS.
The purpose of the trainers of the
treaty, and of the bill, is to strike
their blow at labor without regard
to character. 1t was impossible to
overstate the consequences to man
kind from asserting such doctrine
as the demand Of the United
States in the worlds public
law. For myself and for
Massachusetts, Hoar continued, l
refused to consent to denial by
the United States Of the right OF
every man desiring to improve his
condition by honest labor, his labor
being no mans property but his
own, to go anywhere on the face OF
the earth that he pleases; but the
bill violates the provisions OF the
treaty, which it proposes to execute.
The treaty permits only a reason
able suspension of immigration.
The bill totally prohibits it for
twenty years, and cOnfeTs on every
petty officer of customs the right to
seize and forcibly remove from
the country persons without trial
What has happened within thirteen
years that the great republic should
strike its flag. Only $4,000 Chinese
have been added to our population
in that time; there are but 10000
of them here all told. The 500th
part of the whole population. They
are the most easily governed race 10
the world. Hoar continued, citing
statistics to show a rapid decrease
of the immigration for the last halt
of the decade and this diminutiOn
became greater when compared
with the rapidly increasing
numbers from other coun
tries Mr. Hoar said thai
in 1880, in total immigration OF
| 553, 00o, there we're but So Chinese
and in 1881 there We're Z0,UO0 IN
total Of 720,969 INN. grants: :. --It
in the same year l9e9J ChlnesS
went back. The pur- 3l0Uded gyp
! sizes roaming through this country