The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-07

immigrants did-because they loved
liberty and hated oppression.
Tully supported the bill and'said if
! the gentleman from Massachusetts,
(Rice) would reside for while in
California he would change his views
on the subject. He stated his per-
sonal experience with the Chinese to
} show they cared nothing for Amer
lea.
Rice replied he had not known more
than half that before. He did kno "
there were many bad places in the
world some in China, some in San
Francisco, some in New York, some
In q very slight degree in Washing
ton. Returning to the confederation
of the bill he said that its heart and
kernal were contained in the fifteenth
amendment, which applied the pro-
visions of the law the Chinese. That
was all that was in the bill that was
not puerile and frivolous. The till
was intended to exclude English Chi
nese from the United Stat. q. Where
was the treaty that had a right
to do that? How long would
England keep her iron clads
from bombarding our cities it the
United States should refuse her SUBJ
jects, Chinese though they were, the
right to set foot on our shores. DID
the gentleman think the English
governor Of Hong Kong woud SIT
down and grant Chinese sailors on
English vessels the ridiculous certif-
icate which the bill required. Were
the gentlemen ready now to enact q
law when it's only provision would
either be ignored as q foolish bonn
bast by England or lead to q War
with that country" The bill was
petty in its details, presumptuous in
its attempts and impossible in its
action. The country ought to culti-
vate friendly relati0nes with China
in order to cultivate the advantages
of trade and commerce..
Keene and Lyman opposed the bill.
Pollard spoke against the bill. and
Brown, Indiana, was Opposed to the
bill because it follows the same line
of legislation as the original act and
viol Ates everv idea he had of humane
rights. The cause of this Internal
legislation was that the men were not
white. He recalls the speech made
by distinguished member referring
to Cox, n. Y, in which he has re-
ferred to the negro as being low, ig-
n0lant. debased and degraded. Since
negroes had been made voters their
character had undergone change in
the opinion of that gentleman and
now in hall and church and lecture
room that gentleman sought to eslab-
lish the fact that the negro was the
MIST clever person in the world.
(Laughter.)
Cox, of New York, having left the
chair, replied to the last remark He
admitted he'd had some prejud'ces
against the negroes. The great SEN
ator Morton, of Indiana, had had
them; the ATTEST of all representatives
which Indiana ever sent, Gen. Will
son, in the 43d Congress, had brought
in q bill and passed 1t to break upthe
hire of negroes in the sable colored
District of Columbia. They
had got to stealing. They stole even
spittOons from the legislative assem-.
bly,. A Republican majority had
taken away from them the right OF
voting. The negro was better than
he used to think him. He was q
kind affectionate gentlememen and
he liked the Democratic party better
than he used to. Laughter. He
knew who stood by him when the
Wards rascalities we're discovered;
when the schemers connected with
the Freedmen's bank were discovered
and when Republican rogues were
after his money. Therefore he (Cox)
said "all hail! Ethiopia is stretching
out her hands to the democracy and
the democracy was saying, come on,
come on. poor children of Ham;
come at last to your refuge" Laugh.
ter.)
Cox having resumed the chair,
Brown asked leave to extend his re-
marks. He wanted TO supplement
them by q speech made by the gem
tleman (Cox) in 1864 on the negro
question. (Laughter)
Brents and Eaton favored the bill.
Skinner said he had opposed the
original act because it was the most
coWardly law any nation ever placed
on it's statute books. He opposed this
bill as he had opposed its father; be-
cause it was small and narrow states
manship, because it was meanness
because it approached political perse->
cution, because it was violation of
existing treaties.
Kipg favored the bill.
Lamb said he was proud to say not
q single Demo crat on the floor had
lifted his voice to-day in behalf OF the
pauper labor of China and against the
interest of free labor in America. He
was glad the opposition came from
that side of the House which pre-
tended always to protect American
laborers. He was in favor of the pro.
lection of American labOrers where
ever and under whatever circum-
stances he could do 80. If it could pro-
tect him by keeping out pauper labor,
either of China or Europe, without
levying tariff which took money
cut of the pocket of somebody else so
much better for the people of Amer
ica. He was not free trader under
any circumstances. He was not in
favor of placing the lab0rers of this
on level with the laborers
Of Europe. Neither was he afraid Ut
the red flag which the gentleman
from Massachusetts had waved.
Guenther expressed willingness
to welcome TO these shores everybody
who came tn escape oppression but
those whose presence tended to 0e-
grade American labor.
The bill was then read by sections
for amendments.
Rice offered several amendments,
which were voted down.
Brumm offered an amendment ap-
plying the provisions of the bill as
far as practicable to persons from
whatever nation imported to the
country under any system of con-
tract. Ruled out on point of order.
On motion of Hammond an adj
ditional section was agreed to provid-
ing nothing herein contained shall be
construed as affecting prosecution or
other proceedings civil or criminal
Oegun under the act to which this is
Rice moved to amend the bill so as
O read''An Act to Violate our Treaty
IN Wirn Chino 0nA 0fhar