The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-05

THE CHINESE
The Debate in the Senate an d
Other Views.

ne DeDate 1n The senate HE 6!
Other Views.
New York, 4.-Ti6une editorial: Il
is to be feared that the senators who
voted for An adjournment yesterday
when the Chinese immigration bill
seemed likely to be passed will be so re-
freshed by Monday that they can talk on
for the greater part of the week. The
dizziness Of most of the speeches thus far
makes this outlook dre2ry. 1t is great
pity that the CelestiaIs " no are So neat,
frugal, industrious, obedient and quiet
are moi nice in other ways. Perhaps be-
fore twenty years are gone the Pacific
Slope will want those people back.
TTibune'S Washington on the Chinese
debate: The speeches of to-day were in
favor Ct the measure, although the
Objectionable features were pointed, and
we're uniformly dull. Farley, democratic
senator from California, was especially
prosy, but this perhaps is 10 be expected,
for Miller's speech of Tuesday exhausted
the affirmative side of the question, and
left noIhiUg for his colleague except to
reassert the stock arguments which were
first heard from the lips of Kesrney
against the slsnt-eyed celestisls. Msxey
asserted at unnecessary length his own
belief that the trainers of the Corstitu-
ton never contemplated opening up the
way of life, liberty aud the pur-
suit of happiness, to Asiatics.
Senstor Salisbury who once ex-
plored the Chinese quarter ofSan Fran
cisco, gave some hints Of his conviction,
formed by that experience, that the Mon.
golian Caucasian would never assimilate
and that Mopgolisns were not desirable
argument, defining the right OF govern
ment under the treaty to legislate for the
prevention OF Chinese immigration. In
gals did not make q speech, but pointed
out some defects in the bill and proposed
some amendments, the principal one
providing that the suspension of immi-
grafton should be for ten instead of
twenty years, rs in the original bill. In
8 brief explanation OF his position, he
said he won d as soon think of destroying
all the mules and horses, or all the labor
saving engines and machinery of the
country as Of repelliDg or expelliDg 9
class Of deserving, patient, ebedient, fru-
gal and industrious laborers but he con-
eeded te California the same right which
he woHld claim for his own people, of
judging for themselves in regard to mat
tiers which were chiefly Of local
importance. It WAS apparent to his
miEd that legislasion was. invoked, under
the influence of overmAstering passions.
The suspension Of immigration for ten
years weuld give the passions time to
cool of. Bayard made q half hours
speech, closing the debate for the day.
His private view was that the obedience,
and D, acefullness of the Celestial was the
result of the influence of the external re-
pressing force under which the Chinese
had lived and which rendered them
quiet, incapable Of mastering and appre.
cisting repu blican ideas and principles.
Times editorial: For the past few
days the Senate has been engaged in the
consideration of sn important measure.
the bill to restrict Chinese immigration.
This matter is important because it in
wolves radical change in tho theory oil
CUR government, AID the welfare of Q
large fraction of the American popula-
ton, as we'll as the future prospects of
innumersble Chinese. The Dill proposes
to restrict the immigration Of Chinese la
borers during the next twenty years.
The original proposition was to make
this term of Suspension depend
upon the will OF Congress, leaving
the rightt) terminate it with the law
making power. The committee on for
eign affairs considering that the indefn-
iteness of the clause would make re-
striction q virtual prohibition, reported
the bill to the Senate with the term Of
suspension fixed at twenty yeari. In the
Senate, yesterday, there was msnifestly
q disposition to reduce this to ten years,
Ingalls,, among others, arguing that thi.
would give tsme enough to try the expert
ment OF restricting the Chinese, and that
by the time snoter decennial censusshall
have been taken. the statistics Of labor
and commerce would shed new light
upon the problem as viewed By the light
ofexperience under the restrictive policy
The only historical statements of The
progress of diplomatic negotiations anC
legislative action relative TO this subjec
was made by Miller, Of California, whose
speech was admirable in temper and
judicial in fairness. The senator showed
that the measure was not q surprise Il
the Senate as it had been before Con
Sress before, and would now be the Law
of the land but for the iDterpo=ltlon o.
the executive veto.
President Hayes, it will be remem
bered, disapproved the bill solely on th'
ground that it virtually sought to amend
an existing treaty. Hayes afterWsrd Ap
poia,ed commission to go to China FOL
the purpose Of negotiating treaty I'M
der whose provisions restrictive negotia
tions could be applied to Chinese emf
grafton. This treaty was secured, the
concessions granted, and the Introduction
agreed upvn. The Senate ratified tina
treaty with scarcely dissenting voice
/ The bill now before Congress Is intended
10 enforce the treaty stipulstIons. Mil
Ter very fofeibly argued that great ma
| ton like ours cannot afford lnconslst
ency in action or betray vsccll atlng
Staggering, inconsistent policy In Its In
tercourse with other nations. We cenno'
through q parade OF an e1traordinar
! embassy secure diplomatic agreement
exchange rattle atoms, and then With
a half year cast aside the concession q
worthless, unless We with 10 make con
fes.ion OF \ merican In becllIiy 20 Orlen
tai powers The question Is already az
| thoTitauve'y settled by the pr5ylou
sction of the Presi cent aad Of bot
houses Of Congress. Il will be seen tbs
this il strong statement OF tee case, S
/ far as the consistency of the law maxim
poEer and the treaty making power
concerned. The bill that fslied oecaus
| of the veto was debsted long and earn
estlv, and II met with executive dI:sp
proVal only on account of reasons lyln
/ outside of the bill itself. As for The pc