Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-18
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONGRESSMAN MORROW AND HIS
CHINESE BILL.
Crook and the Observation-Disclosures
Park-CleveIand and Field
Minor Notes.
SPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE REccaD-uNIoN.

SPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE REccaD-uNIoN.
The Chinese Question Representative
Morrow Interviewed.
WASHINGTON, March 17th.-Your GORE
spondent interviewed Morrow to-nip.bt ON
The action Of the House Committee on For
sign A1falrs yesterday, in reference to his
9lll Mr.. Morrow said he believed the
general understanding OF the results of .he
action OF the committee was erroneous He
has talked with several members of the
committee today, and they had assured
MN that his bill was not killed, but that il
Woaid come up i'll connection with the in
dennlty question al the next meeting
that no vote taken yesterday indicated an
abandonment OF consideration of his hill
de understood that the President and the
Secretary of State were anxious that
a Dill IN accordance with the sur
gestons contained in the recant message
should be formulated without DELAY. and
that the committee desired to consider
both subjects-that of additional restrictive
legislation and after that of indemnify
together. Mr.. MOrrow's attention was
called to a published statement to the effect
that the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Ai.AS' Sttll lHibIInetl DN the
President and Secretary of State that the
Morrow bill was in violation of the exist
ing treaty stlpulations in at least four mar
uculars, and that if the bill was passed bv
Congress the President would be constrained
TO veto II. Il can hardly believe that"
said Mr.. Morrow. Il have talked
with the President, Secretary Bayard
and Assistant Secretary Porter about
my bill, and explained all its
provisions. They all listened attentiyelv
seemed to comprehend the full object of the
measure, and there was no intimation from
either that any of its provisions were in
any way violative of the treaty obligations
" hlie neither indicated that he fully in
dorsed the bill. l felt encouraged by nv
conversations with them to believe that
they were not unfavorably disposed. AS
TO the four points referred to." continued
Mr.. Morrow, suppose them to he the
two-year certificate limitation, the number
OF Chinese to be brought on ships. the re-
qulrement OF photograph on the certif-
cafe Tor ldenuhcauon, and the extension of
the RESTRICTION Act for twenty years-all
these propositions | am prepared to sustain
by argument. The two years Limitation
OF the life of certificate was decided upon
alter very careful study on the subject. and
II Is the oplnon OF many eminent iurists
that 1t does not conflict with the treaties.
If you go to China and want to travel in
the interior. you receive a passport which
lasts you for year, and at the end of that
time you can be arrested by any Chinese
oii1clal and turned over to the nearest
American Consul. You travel abroad. and
you are given passport which lasts for one
year, but may be vised for another wear. In
our treaties with the German Confederation,
with Ecuador. Peru, Norway and several
other States, there is limit fixed at which
persons going from one country to the
other, and not returning, are considered to
have forfeited their citizenship That limit
is two years, and the limitation as TO the
life OF certificate is analogous to that. As
to the number of passengers. the bill pro-
vides that ship shall bring one Chinaman
to every two tons of registered burden.
This certainly can violate no treaty stipula
ton. 1t is regulation which is perfectly
proper to be made, just as quarantine
regulations are made for sanitary
purposes. As to requiring a photo
graph on the certificate for idep
tIficatlon, this is simply following
out the plan adopted by the Chinese them
selves. When the restriction law was first
passed, and the Chinese thought they could
issue certificates, everyone of those issued
III Hongkong bore the photograph of the
person to whom the certificate was issued.
The adoption Of this method of identified
ton by the United States cannot violate
any treaty stipulation. As to the extern
sion of the life of the Restriction Act to
twenty years, l hold that if we can pass an
Act tor live years, we can pass one for ten.
hfteen or twenty years-any period which
is reasonable. Now, twenty years is a long
time III the life of an individual, but not an
unreasonable period in the life of a nation
cannot see that these provisions are in
violation OF any existing treaty stipula-
tions, and do not comprehend the sudden
hostility to the BILL which at first was cor
daily received by the committee. accept
the statement of members of the COM
mittee tnat the bill will yet be all right.
and be iavorably reported
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 17th.-The Chair
laid before the Senate a letter fl ON the Sec
retary of the Treasury, transmitting the re-
port Of Special Agent Spaulding, in rela-
ton to the fraudulent importation of Chi
nese. Referred.
Van Wicke offered the following resolu-
ton:
Res0lred, That the Committee on Public Lands
be directed to examine the nature and extent of
the alleged use and destruction of timber ON the
public lands adjoining the line of the Northern
Pacific, particua!l ly by the Montana Improve
ment Company, and what if any additional
legislation is necessary to protect timber on the
public domain, with power to send for persons
and papers.
The resolution was agreed TO.
The Chair laid before the Senate the new
electoral count bill.
Hoar addressed the Senate on the bill.
and at the conclusion of his remarks the
bill was passed without division
Unfinished business, being the Edmunds
resolution, was then laid before the Senate,
and Dolph resumed and continued his re-
marks in favor of the majority report.
After a long debate, in which Edmunds
Beck and others took part. the resolution
was referred to the Committee on judi
ciary.
a motion was entered to reconsider the
vote by which r. S. Dement, was confirmed
as Surveyor-General of Utah, and the SEN
ate adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, March 18th. - Burns of
Missouri, from the Committee on Appro-
priations, reported back the urgent defici-
ency appropriation bill with The Senate
amendments.
Burns explained the report of the COM
mittee, that concurrence was recommended
in some amendments and non concurrence
in others.
The report of the committee was agreed
to, and the House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Indian appropriation
bill.
The bill was read by paragraphs for
amendments. and shortly afterwards the
committee rose and the House adjourned.
Pension Commissioner Blacks Charges.
WASHINGTON, March f7th.-The Senate
Committee on Expenditure of Public
Moneys continued its Investigation of the
charge,made by Commissioner Black with
regard TO the official acts of his predeces-
sors. Black again occupied the witness
chair, and in reply TO requests from Senator
Harrison whether he could produce the
names and numbers in any claim which
had been allowed or rejected by his prede-
cessors ON account of the politics of the
claimant the Commissioner replied in sub
stance that he would like to give the COM
mittee abundance of evidence in reference
to the allegations made in his reports, but
he was unable to do it from the files of the
office.
The Yellowstone Park boundary.
WASHINGTON March 1zth.-The Holman
Committee of the House, appointed to in