St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
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REsrR1cT1NG cHINEsE IMMIGRATION.

RESTRICTING CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
The majority of the house foreign AFFAIRS
committee have reported in favor OF the Dill
to farther restrict Chinese Immigration,
which was agreed upon by the Pacific coast
delegation, but Mr. Hit to-day submitted a
minority report in which Messrs. Phelps
of New Jersey, Ketcham, of New YORK anu
Rice, of Massachusetts concurred. MT.
Wait, of Connecticut has not committed
himself, but is likely to join the minority.
The Pacific coast bill reinforces the existing
law in two directions. It increases the re-
strictions in regard to certificates, etc.,
which the former imposed upon Chinese I'M
migration and it extends the promoltion
from Chinese ports to all ports. Mr.. Hits
report objects on two prominent grounos'
In the first place this existing law
relative to Chinese coming from. any
port is an infringement upon our treaty reia-
tons with England, whose subjects the Hong
Kong Chinese are, and also our treaty rela-
tons with France and Portugal, both OF
which powers have Chinese subjects. In the
second place, the existing law was passed
when Chinese immigration was large and
there was crisis justifying extreme meas
ures. But the law is totally at varience with
our national traditions and principles and
was justified only by the
emergency. No such emergency now
exists. Even the illicit immigration only
equals thirty-three month, number which
certainly does not threaten the peace, order
and comfort of nation of 55,000,000. Mr..
| Hit had just received and he incorporated
into his report part of an opinion by Judge
Hoffman, of California, in which the state
mentwas made that during period in which
three thousand Chinese came to this country,
seventeen thousand left it and any further
| depletion Of the Chinese in this
| country would threaten the industrial inter
| ests of the Pacific coast,
| no PAUPERs WANTED.
Mr.. Caldwell, of Tennessee, yesterday in
troduced bin prohibiting the importation OF
paupers, begsars, lazzaroni, etc, the purpose
being 10 stow the immigration of Italian Ia
| borers.
! TO SUCCEED JUDGE DRUMIoND.
A petition signed by the leading member:
|
| of Postmaster General Gresham as the sue
cessor Of Judge Drummond as circuit judge
was presented to the president to-day. II
is possible that the appointment will be
offered Judge Gresham. If it is, it is proba
| BILE that he will accept. When the question
was moved two months ago, Judge Gresham
said pointedly that he did not desire the
! Ha hoe
determination and would probably accept i
Willingly.
| MODIFIED TARIFF BILL.
Chairman Morrison to-day submitted hi:
modified tariff bill to the ways and means
committee. The bill is more neatly framed,
but in substance is the same as the origina
| bill except as regards the free list. In the
bill submitted to-day the following article:
are placed on the free list: Salt in bags,
sacks, barrels, packages, or in bulk; coal,
| slack, bituminous or shale; timber, hewn and
sawed and timber used for spars and in
| building wharves; timber, squared or sided
not specially enumerated or provided for il
this act; sawed boards, planks, deals ant
! other lumber of hemlock white wood, syca-
more and Eastwood, and all other articles O.
sawed timbers; hubs for wheels, posts, las
blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, heading
blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough
hewn or sawed only; stores of wooC
Of all kinds; pickets and palings
laths, shingles, pine clapboards and spruce
clapboards. Woods manufactured and
not specially enumerated are provided for in
this act. After the bill had been read Mr.
| Russell, of Massachusetts, moved to strike
out the paragraph which cuts down the duty
on cotton and cotton goods 20 per cent. His
motion was defeated by party vote. Moth
| ing was said about the second paragraph
which cuts down the duty on hemp, jute an(
fax 20 per cent. Mckinley of Ohio moved
to strike out the third paragraph cuttin!
down the duty on wool and woolens, and t.
substitute therefor the rates Of duty in fore
prior to March 3. 1888. This motion wa
defeated by party vote. Then the commit
tee after hearing Reed of Maine in opposition
to placing lumber on the free list, adiournet
until Thursday, when the Republicans vii
move amendments to the bill, section b
section, as it is read. Tomorrow the bi
luminous coal men will be heard in oppo
sition to putting coal on the free list.
| CoNvALEsCENT.
Mr.. Nathan Myrick of st. Paul, who was il
with pneumonia, is convalescent and was a
the capital to-day. Mrs. Myrick who ha
been afflicted with paralysis for several year
is being rapidly cured by Prof. Dexter, tn
physician who cured Mrs. Speaker Carlisle o
chronic rheumatism.