Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-10-26

Space does net permit a full re
port Of Stewards magnificent e!for
at Virginia City, bat vs make
few extracts which every man il
Carson who has been misle,
by His malisnsrs ought to read. /,
speaking Of the
CHINESE QUESTION
he said:
The most cruel thing which Fai
has required from his recently pur
chased coyotes is the aiscordan
howl tha: am in favor Of Chinese
The fact remains that everyone Of
Fairs tools is willing to swear and
pledge dis honor that I am pro.
| Chinese. and that | advocated the
naturalization Of Chinese pagans.
| pity the abject meanness Of the
attempt to distort my record on the
Chinese question.
HISTORY OF TUE DEBATE ON CHI
NEsE NATURALIZATION.
On the 2nd day ct July, 1870, at
o'clock in the afternoon, the Sen
ate, by uaan:muus consent. agreed
TO vote for bill to regulate the
naturalization Of tr.tite men. Such
Ga agreement in The Senate is re-
garded as sacred, and has never
bsen violated since the formation
OF TIE Government. Charles Sum
ner. Senator from Massachusetts,
about ten minutes before tho time
agreed upon to luke 4 vote upon
the bill uuGer consideration, CT
fc~ed A. al additional section the
following:
That eli Acts Of Congress relat-
::ag 20 pss..-ra' za,icn be and tie
sane are hereby .m4bdrd by strik
ins o.. tie word white wherever
it occurs. SO that in naturalization
there shall be no distinction of race
or color
The vote was taken, and Mr..
Summers amendment extending
the naturalization laws to tho Chi
ne.e was adopted by vote of q to
90. Mr.. Ednunds and all those be
could influence, voted in the mega
tive. If they had voted IN the af
f;rnative, according TO their con-
victIans on the merits cf the propO-
si.ion, the vote for Chinese euf.
frage would have been nearly unan-
imous.
SENATOR STEWART DEFEATS CHI
NESE CITIZENSHIP.
l opened the debate and
continued it until III O'Clock on
the night, Of the 4th Of July. when
. vote was taken on the reconsider
alton Of the veto adopting Mr..
Summers amendment. The motion
to reconsider was carried by vote
Of q to "a -ninetecn Republicans
and eight Democrats voting ia the
Affirmative, and fourteen Senators,
most of them Hugwumps, whs sub |
sequently followed Greeley, voting |
in the negative. THIS result was |
achieved by legitimate argument
The most difficult task We had to
perform in order to secure the
grand result; was to disabuse the
minds Of Eastern Senators Of the
created by the violent
aarangues Of brutal demagosues on
he Pacific Coast advocating mob
aw and inhumapity to the helpless
Chinese coolies. told the Senate
frankly that | was the friend Of the
Chinese, and had done all could
o protect them from the vislense
# the mob and the cruelty of the
and that the good peo-
lie Of tbs Pacific Coast were ss
nach opposed to brutality to the
'hinese IS the people Of the East.
hey then referred me- to the Bur
ingame treaty, which stipulated
or Chinese inmigration. / told
hem that We were not opposed to
,hinese Immigration, but NO were
opposed to the importation Of Chi
ese coolies, and l explained to the
'enato that all Chinese came a.
oolis laborers and rot a. immi
rants, and should DO excluded. l
urther explained that the Chinese
D this country we're eoslie slaves.
nd if paturalized their votes
'euld BE- at tho disposal of their