Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-13
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WAsHrNeroN, Jan. 12

support. He charged the 'syoung men o 7 Jackson" with suppressing the negro vote b, , l means of their ''ultimatumn manifesto whicl
 declared that if negroes ran for off 6 theJ
 would do SO at their peril, and warned al
 negroes against attempting to force on tht , ! city the black and damnable machinery called government. He charged that engaged
 in this business of suppressing the coloTsd vote were District Attorney Harris, Deputy
 Collector of Internal Revenue Wilson and
 Deputy United States Marshal Livingstone
 He submitted that the question, although 1t
 affected only for the time being municipal
 election in the city of Jackson, twas of nation | al importance. The country this year was to enter on a presidential election-an election | which was to decide the presidency and also
 to decide the complexion of the national
 House of Representatives. In that election at
 least 12, 900, 900 votes, representing 60,000,-
 900 of American people, would participate. ' Among those voters were probably one and
 half millions of black men, representing | six or seven millions of their own race, ,and it
 was an important question whether those one
 and half million of black men were or were
 not to be allowed to vote.
 ! MT. Riddleberger made the point that the
 resolution was intended as a covert attack
 upon MT. Lamar, and that the purpose was
 to assume that the alleged state of facts
 exists, and that being so it is not proper to
 appoint to the Supreme court a man from 8 I State where such 8 condition of society eX-
 
 confirmation of MT. Lamar should be public, ! so that justice may be done. The plain in-
 ference from his speech is that he will favor | the confirmation of Mir. Lamar.
 The Mississippi senators disclaimed any intention to resist the proposed investiga- tion, although they denied that the facts ! were stated and questioned the constitu- | tionality of such an investigation.
 ! MT. Chandler called the attention of the
 senators from Mississippi to the fifteenth | constitutional amendment, which declares \ that the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged | on account of race, color or previous condi- I tion of servitude. He conceived that when | ever in any election within any State the ! right of any man to vote was denied because he was black that was a proper matter for | investigation by the Senate.
 The resolution was adopted; yeas 29, nays ! 24, party vote except that MT. Riddleberger voted with the Democrats, while the two Mississippi senators were excused from vot- X ing.
 MT. Mitchell called up the bill introduced by him on the 18th of December abrogating all treaties heretofore made and now oper- \ ative between the United States government and the Chinese empire pertaining to Chi nese immigration to the United States. Mir. Mitchell addressed the Senate in support of | the bill. He described the Chinese as me- nacing the occupation of this country as the | locusts occupied Egypt. He spoke of them as having established within the United States, in violation of the fundamental
 law, in defiance of municipal regula- | tions, in direct antagonism to
 right and justice and order and ! decency, system of human bondage more detestable, more degrading, more polluting and destructive {moralIy, socially. political ly and physically than had ever been that of African slavery in it's palmiest days.s The Chinese, he said, were gradually possessing themselves of this country, bringing with them their system of laws, their imperial customs. their peculiar views, their own pa gan institutions. They had already estab. lished in this country an imp erium in im- perio. With them perjury was crowning virtue, while hypocrisy, deception and fraud were instruments of com mon employ ment. And yet the people were told from year to year in Congress and elsewhere that they were powerless to put an end to that prodigious evil because it would be neeessa- ry to modify the treaty stipulations with the Chinese empire. He de- such an oriental pestilence it would be better that every line of treaty stipulation with the Chinese empire which obstructed it's proven tion should be swept away. He said that in the city of New York there were 2, 175 Chi nese laundries, to say nothing of the innum- erable joints, gambling hells and other sinks of vice and iniquity in that modern bedlam, that there were nearly as many in the city of Brooklyn and that the Chinese took from those two cities at least million dollars an- nually. There were between 250, ,0e0 and 300, 900 Chinese in the United States, proba- bly 200, 900 of them being in the State of Cali fornia, and hundreds of thousands more would come by way of Canada on the Cana dian Pacific line of steamers and railroad. They would flow in like water through sieve. Against such an invasion what would the restriction of exciting acts of Congress as con hU ha vote of the people of the Pacific coast, ire spective of party, creed or sex, was unani-
 nously in favor of the absolute exclusion of Chinese i'm migration.
 Mr. Stewart addressed the Senate on the same side of the question. He had first met the Chinese on the Pacific slope forty years ago. He had no feeling of resentment against the Chinese and had always been in favor of protecting those who were here; he had gen orally met the opposition of his own people in dividing the Chinese from violence. He had long since seen that the American people could not live with the Chinese. If the doors were open to Chinese immigration the Chinese would supplant the people of this country. He had asked General Grant on his return from lis tour around the world what was the most remarkable thing he had seen in his travels and General Grants answer had been that the most remarka ble thing he had seen was that wherever the Chinaman had come in contact with the Jew in trading the CnlQam2n QaQ Qr1V0n out the Jew. ne QaQ offered a resolution requesting the President to negotiate treaty with the Chinese includ- ing Chinamen altogether except diplomatic agents and those engaged in foreign trade, but it would be- necessary to have treaties with Great Britain and Mexico to prevent these powers from opening their doors and allow ing Chinese to come into the United States. If such treaties could not be negotiated he would be in favor of Mr. Mitchell's bill He moved the reference of the bill and of his
 resolution to the committee on foreign rela- rions. They were so referred.
 The message of the President regarding the invitation of the French government to par- ticipate in the exposition at Paris in 1889 was presented and referred. The Senate then went into executive session and at 4:45 ad- journed.
 HOUSE. The House went into committee of the whole, for the consideration of the Senate bill fixing the salary of the coMmis
 sioner of fish and fisheries at $5, 1000 per an- nun. After MT. Cox of New York had briefly spoken in favor of the bill the committee rose and the bill was passed.
 Mr. Blount of Georgia, from the committee on postoffices and post roads, reported bill relating to permissible marks, printing or writing upon second third and fourth class matter; House calendar. On matter of the second class besides the name and address of the person to whom the matter is to be sent the following marks or writing or printing are permitted: Index figures of subscription | book; the title of the publication and the place of publication; the name and address of the publisher or sender; words 1 indicating the date of the ter | imitation of the subscription; corrections of typographical errors ana marks to call at- ! tention to special passages. It is also previd- | ed that publishers or news agents may en- | close in their publications bills, receipts and orders for subscription thereto, but the same shall be in such form as to convey no infor- | nation other than the name, place of publi- cation, subscription price of the publication
 to which they refer and the subscription due thereon Upon matter of the third class or | upon the wrapper enclosing the same the sender may write his own name, occupation | and residence or business address preceded by | the word "from" and make marks other than by written or printed words to call attention l to any word or passage in the text and may correct any typographical errors. There may be placed upon the blank leaves or cover of any book or printed matter of the third class | d ingorintiOn