The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-20
'ELEGRAPHlC NEWS
THE CHINESE.
Senator Logan Takes Up the
CuGgeI.

/ OF Illinois, introduced a bill, this
morning, IN the Senate, to construC
section 2 of the act restraining Chi
nese immigration. 1t is as follows
Be 1t enacted, etc., that section
OF the act entitled IAN act to exc
cute certain treaty stipulations re-
latiDg to Chinese" approved May
9Th, 1882, shall not be so construed as
to apply to Chinese On board of YES.
sells III transit between foreign ports
touching at ports within the United
States, when such landing is for the
purpose Of allowing them to pass
through this country to their own
with 10 int ntion Of violating said
law.
Logan moved the reference of the
bill u the judiciary committee, and
Explained his reasons for introduce
ing it. He said there was nothing
in the bill as whole thai should
give section Z such a construction
That Chinese labOTers wishing to
pass through the country on the
way TO their homes, could not land
at our ports. There were, he said,
$4,000 Chinese in the West Indies
who desired to travel through the
United States ID their homes, with
no desire to stop except to eat.
Logan said he had made application
TO the secretary Of tn treasury on
behalf Of the Chicago and Rock Is
land road, one of the numerous
roads that had made arrangements
20 transport these Chinese through
the country, if the law would per
NIT it, and the subject has been re-
ferred to the encouragement for
his opinion. Logan declared the in
depreciation put on the section of
the bill was disgrace to civil
cation. The act imposed a
fine of $500 for each per-
son landed, no matter whether
in storm, by the act of God, or the
Kings enemies. If a man had a
cage Of tigers and wanted to pass
through this country, such law as
was enacted against the Chinese
would not apply to the beasts if
they did not want to stop on the
way. Logan said railroad companies
would carry Chinese through the
country in bands of 800 to 1,0vG at a
time, and give bonds that they
should not stop in transit. They
would 60 direct from the West In
dies to their homes 0iG San Fran
cisco. No harm could result to the
government or the people Of Cali
fornia by the passage Of the bill, land
it would be profitable to the country,
as about 81, 600, 900 would be required
to pay fares and pay for food. | say
to my friends, exclaimed Logan,
that with the feeling which has
been aroused throughout the cOun-
try outside Of the Pacific Coast, the
fact that it will stick to the law and
permit no construction to be given
to it to allow Chinese to pass
through this country depriving the
transportation companies and per-
sons along the route, of the amounts
of money which would be ex-
lpended by them for that pur-
pose, will still increase the prejudice
and opposition TO the law to such an
extent that before twelve months
pass around you may have very
different sentiment all over the
country, outside of the Pacific Coast,
from what you had at the time the
law was passed.
Miller moved that the bill be re-
ferred to the foreign relations.
Logan objected.
Farley seconded Miller's motion.
He regretted that Logan believed
the senators had been governed by
prejudice in the passage of the bill.
The protection given by law was
not only demanded by the Pacific
Coast, but by the people Of the en-
tire United States. There was no
change in the sentimentOn this sub
ject, except by few people. Resi-
dents on the Atlantic Coast were
just as much interested in the en-
forcement of the law as the people
on the Pacific Coast. If Logan's bill
became a law the door would be
opened to scatter Chinese through
the country from Boston and New
Z ork to San Francisco.
Logan replied that the secretary
of the treasury would make regu-
lation that would prevent Chinese
from stopping on the road. He
thought the prejudice against the
Chinese was carried entirely too far,
Africans, elephants, tigers, wild
beats of all kinds could be trans
ported to this country, but only the
Cinnamon could not go. He did not
object to the exclusion of these PEG
pie as residents to protect our labor
ing classes, but the sentiment OF the
country would revolt at the idea that
Cinnamon could not land on our
shores to pass directly to their
homes.
Plumb, of Kansas, made Logan's
parallel about the tiger and China
men ridiculous, and said that he IN
derstood the owner of the beast had
a right to take it through the coun-
try. He asked Logan if he de-
manded the privilege for the owner
of the Chinaman to take him across
the country?
Logan pettishly answered in the
negative.
"Then," said Plumb, 81 fail to see
how the comparison can be made
Plumb declared this was no ques.
ton of humanity or onYtking of that
sort. 1t was simply a question OF
expediency.
= Logan, after great difficulty, made
plain the point he was trying te
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