The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-04
LATEST TELEGRAMS
FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS-
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.


long memorial from citizens of
South Carolina for national aid fer
the education of the youth of that
state Referred.
Anthony reported adversely the
resolution for printing 10000 copies
of the medical and surgical history
Of the war of the rebellion.
Hoar reported adversely upon pc
tltlons for congressional committee
to attend the celebration of the dis
covery of the mouth of the Missis-
sippi.
An order for adjournment from
to-day until Monday was adopted.
A bill authol iZing the compilation
and refnishing of the naval history
of the war passed.
The bill reducing the charge for
license Of engineers. pilots, ETC., of
steam vessels, passed.
The bill making Denver a port of
delivery, passed.
The Chinese bill was taken up,
and Farley continued his speech.
He having said that Chinese, al
though remarkably initiative, are
not inventive, Hoar interrupted him
by inquiring who invented gunpow-
der and the mariners compass?
Jones, of Nevada, promptly re-
piled that according to the best au-
thOritieS the Chinese did not invent
them, but on the contrary, got the
ideas FROM people of Aryan stock
who had gone to China, and he fur
Their informed Hoar that it is well
known by investigators that China
has actually retrOgressed in the arts
and manufactures during the past
500 years, instead Of advancing.
MaXey, of Texas, briefly adyo-
Gated the bill, king the ground
that our Constitution never cOntem-
plated admitting all races to our
country and the free admission of
all men to citizenship.
Salisbury, Of Delaware, also ex-
pressed himself in favor of the bill,
and among other things, gave the
Senate the benefit of his personal
observations and study of the Chi
neSe question while in San Fran
cisco.
Farley read testimony given be-
fore the Chinese Commission, show
inG the similarity of Chinese labor
TO slave labor, and the lmpossibility
of white competition with it. He
related how thoroughly the Chinese
have permeated all parts Of the Pa
citic Coast,and how universally they
mon0pOliZe certain kinds of employ
ment. After further remarks, in
the course of which he reviewed the
faliacy of the humanitarian argu-
ment, he showed the special neces-
sity for the prompt passage of the
bill in order to put stop to the
present rapid Importation Of thou
sands of Chinese coolies in antici-
patton of its passage.
Garland favored the bill, and
made an argument in reply to Mr..
Hoar'S constitutional objections to
the bill, maintaining that as the
state legislation on the question
having been declared uncOnstitu-
tiolai, Congress alone was compe-
tent to settle the question by suit
able legislation.
ingalls, offered several amend
mentS TO the bill, the first to amend
section l, limiting the time Of pro-
hibiting from twenty to ten years.
Miller opposed the amendment.
He thought twenty years under the
circumstances not unreasonable and
not too long time to continue the
prohibition. If people of the Pacific
Coast found within shorter period
that the prohibition should be re-
moved, then Congress could act and
repeal the suspension. Were the
people of the Pacific Coast or he
himself consulted in the matter, he
would make the prohibition more
stringent.
Bayard opposed tie an sndment
and said those who are confronted
by the danger and who feel it, are
those who should instruct senators
in this matter. The history of the
world did not afford another illus
tration of such unanimity of feeling
as is shown by the people of the
Pacific on this question. He read
from the Call, of recent date, eX-
tracts from an address issued by the
Trades and Labor Union ASsOcia-
ton, Of the Pacific Coast, in which
alluSiOn was made to the language
ascribed to Senator Morgan, in 1871,
when he said the Pacific Coast must
become either American or Mon
golian. This expression, Bayard
said. he would adopt as his own.
You are to choose, said he, sooner or
later and think sooner, rather than
later, between our civilization and
that of the Chinese, and he could
not Lelieve there would be
any hesitation OF the part
of the Senate in the choice.
Bayard continued by citing stats
tics tending to show that if Chinese
immigration was not checked there
was great danger that in the course
of time the American form Of gov
eminent in the Pacific states would
be changed to the Monaghan by the
rapid influx Of Chinese. He closed
by expressing the hope that the
Senate would speedily pass this
measure and r1..eve the apprehen'
SONS Of the p )p.e of the whole
country.
At the conclusion of Bayard'5 re
marks, Harris moved for An exe"rI
tive session. saying 1t was evident
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