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subsequently, withdrew his appeal, and Kenna
rising to question Of privilege, offered the

| ReSOiped, That the rights ana cures OF III
speaker of this house are defined by the rule
of the house, aud by general parliamentar
law not in conflict Herewith, and by the rule
and under said laws the speaker enjoys n
privilege to reprimand and censure member
except by action Of the house.
= Resolued, That any attempt to exercise sucl
, power is breach of privilege Of the house
, and is hereby expressly condemned, aud VII
be promptly resisted and otherwise dealt witt
as the rights, dignities, and duties OF TIL
house may require. -,
Mr.. Kenna Ia offering the resolution said
az am prompted by no feeling other than
disposition to assert the prerogative OF this
house and its membership, in my Judgment
as in the judgement of the house, the propo
sition asserted by the speaker yesterday is al
untenable one, and this side Of the house
least is desirous of going on record in repudi
alton of it. That is all desire to say
The speaker then stated that it is his opin
ion the gentleman from West Virginia Is mis-
taken in regard to all that look pace yes'er
day as to this matter.
| Mr.. Kenna-I trust the whole mouse Is II
precisely the same attitude.
The Speaker after all that has been sai(
there should be no misunderstanding because
the chair never has proposed to assume tnt
power of the house in Furnishing member
for past disorderly conduct, but ne only as
serts his right as presiding officer TO preserve
order and to do all necessary WITHIN pariia-
mentary law to that end, that duty is settieo
not only by long parliamentary usage out py
the positive terms of our rules. The chair
used the word reprimand in its ordinary and
proper sense. Its meaning is we'll defined and
we'll Endorsed. To reprimand is to cheek
and TO repress a member who is out OF Order
Beyond this the presiding officer should not
go in administering reprimand. Less tnan
this the chair cannot do, and discharge MS
duty to the house. The chair never assumes
to reprimand members for what ne mas done;
That is for the house. The chair snoulo
check, repress or reprimand any member who
PERSISTS IN proceeding out of order. The chair
desires to repeat that In all that took place
Yesterday, in all that was said, ne never repfl-
man6ed member for any past act, put II 10
call to order is to reprimand, the chair did
what the rules required him to do. The high
est parliamentary reprimand known 10 Inc
parliament Of England is TO mention mem
bers name. which puts them in parliamentary
disgrace. This was not done yesterday, nor
| was any person reprimanded beyond calling
| them to order.
The speaker further stated, the record this
morning did him an injustice in not showing
| that the gentleman from Mississippi, was out
of order when called to order by the chair.
| Continuing, he said, there is nothing IN thls
proposed resolution that the chair would not
| himself subscribe to on the floor and vote for,
| if auy body assumed the duties and powers Of
| the house in the manner of administering a
| reprimand.
| Kenna-~If had SO understood the speaker
Yesterday, and if this side had so understood
him, the resolution sent up would not have
been presented, and ask permission to with
draw IT,
Leave was granted amid applause and the
matter dropped. ;.
| The house then resumed consideration of
| the Chinese question and was addressed by
Mr.. Willis, kentucky, who congratulated
the people of California an ! the people OF the
whole country, that they were at least to re-
ceive substantial, if not entire relief, from the
evils of Chinese immigration.
Page, California, stated if he could call the
bill up Tomorrow he would demand the pre-
vious question at o'clock. If he could not
obtain the floor tomorrow, he would call Tor
| the preyiOus question at o'clock Saturday.
Taylor, Ohio, said his objections were many.
| The first was that the bill was brought upon
congress and forced upon congress by the pas
sions and prejudices of portion OF the people,
aud that kind of prejudite was mostly dlmcult
| to remove, and more dangerous in character
| than any other kind that ever had or ever
could take possession Of the human heart
race prejudice He opposed tie bill because
it was unnecessary, and beng unnecessary
| dangerous, unspeakably dangerous.
| Gentlemen were opposed TO the Chinese
| because they were diseased, and it was better
| to keep disease out Of the country. Ii was
said they did not have the same religion as
ours. In California ministers of the gospel
and followers of Jesus Christ asked that the
heather be sent away from their churches.
There was time when the religion OF the
cross broke the hammer of Northern Thor
| 4 holt f.nn
| Olympian Jove, but to-day 1t covered and
shrank and begged to be helped from the
power of the Chinese Joss house, surrounded
] by lepers such as the Savior cured. 1t was
said they were foul, and loathsome. and filthy.
He did not know about that, but
he knew this, that in San Fran
cisco they lived in Chinatown bud
died together; they lived where there were lew
or no sewers or water privileges; they were
taxed for policing aud cleaning streets which
were never policed or cleaned. Under other
circumstances he believed they were more
Clearly in their personal habits than any other
laboring people in the country. 1t was ad-
mitted that they were industrious as no other
are. They were frugal as no other people.
They worked early and late, they worked al
ways II men in vice and degradation pre-
sented that aspect of civilization, then God had
dealt differently with that people than with
|
Chinese in California had the ballot in their
hands, know some men who would not vote
| as they do now.
Morse Mass That is all there is TO 1t.
TAYLOR continued: In this very city men had
gone to the auction block and been sold under
the hammer, and the offense was that they
belonged to an inferior race. The old slogan
was heard now, and he met it as he met 1t then.
He met it as people in his little corner of Ohio
| Il ri, fhat tpon nf
no excuse for inequality of law. The gentle
man from California page had appealed to the
Republicans to throw aside sentiment Others
might throw sentiment aside, but the Repub-
lican party was founded upon sentiment, and
could not throw it aside. The party which
could find it equally easy to vote for Tilden and
Greeley might possibly cast sentiment aside,
but the party born out of anti-slayery,
born out of the principles of liberty, could
not disregard liberty. In order TO vote for this
bill sentiments of justice, of mercy and OF
patriotism must be thrown aside, and that he
| would not do. He knew of men in this house
who would vote for the bill because they
wanted further restriction on the eastern side
of the. country and he sounded the alarm to
| forcign-born citizens that this bill, whether
meant for it or not, struck at them and their
security. 1t was the first break In the levee,
| and the levee must give way. PUT none but
Americans on guard tonight" was the cry
that went up in '54, and war had almost COM
menced between the races. Now congress
was sowing the wind and would reap the
whirlwind and men were changeable and moi
interchangeable as we had been led to suppose
(Applause.)
Converse, (Ohio,) introduced bill to pro-
hibit the consolidation of railroad companies
Belmont, IN. W offered the following res
olutiop, which was agreed to:
ReSolred, That the committee on foreign
affairs be directed to demand from Jacob Ship
herd, Esq, of New York, copies OF all cor
respondence between himself and any person
or persons whatsoever, and all other evidence
in his possession, tending 10 show what SAIL
Shipherd did or attempted to do to enforc
CLAIMS of the Peruvian company or to indie
the United States to enforce these claim
| against Peru.