, 1882-03-18
The Chinese Bill.

At lao senate resumed consideration
Of the Chinese bill, md Hawley took the
door in opposition, and finished speaking
at 2:l5. He Was followed by Jones of
Nevada, who spoke extemporaneously and
proceeded to review and criticise the ar
guments advanced by opponents Of the
bill, especially the two senators from
Massachusetts
Jones drew graphic word picture OF
the differences between the personal snd
social cha. acteristics, the needs and the
conditions Of Caucasian and Chinese
laboren in Nevada and elsewhere on the
Pacific Coast. He showed that the eau
cssian cannot successfully compete with
Cinnamon in most fields of labor without
lowering himself to Chinese conditions Of
life. He exposed the unhtness of Hoar's
argument that Chinese form only the
5OOth of the total population Of the coun-
try, by showing thst they are massed in
one center and in9uiring whether Hoar
would make the same sort OF comparison
if los 900 people were killed or stricken
with Chinese in the Same foction and say
they formed only a small portion of our
people. He denounced the fallscy that
cheap labor brings wealth and is bless
ing to country. If cheap labor brings
wealth, says he, why is not China the
richest instead of the poorest nation in
the world He severely criticised New
England senators for framing tariff to
protect eastern capitalists and manufac-
turers while AT the same time they advo-
cate policy Of free trade, for importa-
ton of the cheapest labor is only COM
modify in the most open market, and
eastern capitalists nov wished to bring IN
"the little brown man, as Dawes had
described the Chinese, asa acounterbalance
TO the trades unions. Jones made many
other strong points, and enlivened his
argument with much irony and sarcasm
at the expense of those senators whose
speeches he dlssected He closed at $50
with an eloquent appeal for the passage
of the bill as measure imperatively de-
manded by people Of American institu-
tons, free labor and civilization.
Miller defended the people of Califor-
MIA from charges of passionate excitement
on the Chinese question, and explained
the purpose and meaning of recent de-
monstrations on the subject as being in
the nature of petitions.
Morrill, admitted the power Of the
United States to discriminate against
Chinese, but would vote against the bill
because he did not think there was pre-
sent necessity for it.
Farley briefly advocated his amend
ment prohibiting state and federal courts
from admitting Chinese to citizenship.
Edmunds said this amendmentwas in
coneruous with other provisions of the
bill, had nothing to do with the treaty
and would be likely to load the bill down.
Growers amendment declaring that the
term laborer wherever it occurred in the
bill shall constitute skilled laborers and
Chinese engaged III mining was also ad
opted-25 against 90
An amendment was adopted striking
ont the requirement that passports shall
be produced whenever lawfully demand
ed, this provision being considered super
fuous. The bill was then reported from
the committee of the whole to the senate
and a vote was then taken On Ingalls,
amendment, renewed by him, to reduce
the period Of suspension from 20 years to
10 years.
Jones and Miller briefly spoke against
the amendment, showing thst its adop-
ton would leave the Chinese question
still open for agitation, and that business
interests could not be safely adjusted dur
ing so short period.
Ingalls, amendment reducing suspen-
sion to 10 years was rejected by a vote of
q nays and q ayes.
Senate at $50 P. NJ, passed the Chi
nese bill-29 yeas against 10 nays. Fol-
lowing is the vote:
Yeas Bayard, Beck, Cameron, of
Wisconsin, Cockrell, Coke, Fair, Farley,
Garland, George, German, Hale, Harris,
Hill Of Colorado, Jackson, Jones of Flor
ida, Jones of Nevada, Miller Of California,
Miller of New York, Morgan, Pugh, Ran
som. Stanton, Slater, Teller, Vance, Vest,
Voorhees, and Walker To;a', 30.
Nays-Aldrich, Aston. Blair. Brown,
Conger, Davis, of Illinois, Dawes, Ed
munds, Frye, Hoar, ingalls,, Lapham
McDiIl, Mcmillan and Morrill,. Total 10.