Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-11

The bill to establish three additional
land offices in Colorado was reported and
placed on the calandar.
Discussion on the Vest resolution was
then resumed. Plumb withdrew his
motion to lay it on the table, and the
| resolution was adopted.
Morgan introduced bill appropriating
| 1916 ,6l9, to be paid t. the Chinese Minis
ter at Washington as full indemnity for
all losses and injuries sustained by Chi
nese subjects who have been. "in remote
and unsettled regions of the United
States the victims of injuries in their
persons and property, at the hands of
lawless men," and proceeded to address
| the Senate in explanation and advocacy
of it, and on the subject of the pending
bill-for the absolute prohibition of Chi
nese immigration.
Morgan said he had reached the con-
clusion that the will of the American
people, as to the total exclusion of the
Chinese laborers, was an irrevocable de-
cree and that exclusion must be effected
through the operation of a law, not
through that of treaty.
WILLING TO DISCUSS POLITICS..
A question that was put to Morgan by
Mitchell was treated by the former as an
attempt to draw him into political dis
cussion, and he said he had no objection.
81 believe" said he, ''that after you
nominated Harrison for the Presidency,
the Chinese Government, with knowledge
of his record, believed that by delaying
the question until after the November
election it might get an administration
that would be favorable to Chinese i'm
migration"
81 do not believe" Mitchell replied,
"that there is single, solitary mind in
the United States of America that hon
estly believes any such thing"
"The Senator" said Mr.. Morgan, sis
very fppant in the use of the word
honesty 1 have just stated that be-
lieved it, and does the Senator undertake
to say that do not believe it?"
81 do not believe that the Senator
does believe it," said Mitchell.
''I will not be interrupted by man of
your character in Impeachment of my
honesty" Morgan Indignantly ex-
claimed.
$50 far as my character is concerned"
was Mr.. Mitchell's response, 81 am will
ing to parallel with that of the Senator
from Alabama, either here or elsewhere.
81 expected some interference of this
kind when stating this question:" said
Morgan.
He then went on to discuss the Chi
nese exclusion bill and declared his in
tention to vote for q reconsideration of
the vote passing it, in order to have the
bill which he had just offered added to
it as an amendment, and also to have it
amended in other particulars, so as to
m q m ,nrfn oS,.1
would be in it's present shape. There
was 10 risk in doing this, because nine
Senators out of ten we're in favor of the
pending bill and amendment.
At the close of Morgan's speech his
Foreign Relations.
Appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to.
MITCHELL vITUPERATIvE.
Mitchell took the floor to reply to the
remarks of Morgan. He was surprised,
he said, in view of the inconsistent and
contradictory record of the Senator from
Alabama on the Chinese question, that,
when interrupted by perfectly proper
question, he should lose his temper and
fly off into rage.
The presiding officer interrupting-The
chair thinks the Senator from Oregon is
going too far. He must proceed in order.
Mitchell-The Senator from Oregon
will endeavor tc proceed in order, and
certainly will proceed in as much order
as did the Senator from Alabama, who
was not called to order when he violated
the parliamentary rules OF this body in
direct and explicit terms. The Senator
from Alabama has been for years past,
and until the last seven days, the
devoted champion of treaty rights.
He has denounced in the Sem
a'e and before the Committee on For
eign Relations, the various propositions
looking to the exclusion of the Chinese
from this country. He has insisted that
this was a question to be settled by
diplomacy. He has referred to measures
like the pending bill as the Colorado
notion" the Colorado idea," the
"Oregon idea," or the Pacific coast
idea," or as being brought forward and
pressed by demagogues for demagogical
and party purposes; but when the
Democratic House of Representatives
passes a Chinese exclusion bill, even
without reference to committee, the
Senator from Alabama fops over the
fence and declares himself IN favor OF
that bill, going back on his whole record
on that question. This morning he in
sists that the bill for which he voted
last Friday should be amended. That
is the record of the Senator
from Alabama, and it does not
lie in his mouth to be questioning the
sincerity of the Senator from Oregon,
and the sincerity of the Representatives
and people OF the Pacific Coast. The
Senator with this kind of record has
resorted to personalities and violated the
rules of this Senate, by referring to nv
character. Mr.. President, whatever I
may have done heretofore, can say to
the Senator from Alabama, thst 1 never
have come into the Senate chamber full
OF whisky, disgracing myself and disgrace
ing the Senate.
Morgan occupied his seat quietly,