The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-05
THE CAMPAIGN IN CONGRESS
The Chinese Bill Furnishes the Senate
with Abundance of Ammunition,
wbils the Retaliation Question Supplies House
Orators with a Theme-Strong Speech
by Congressman Hit, of Illinois.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4-Mr. Coke called at
tention to the resolution adopted at a recent con-
vention in Denver, Col, in favor OF q deep
water harbor on the northwest coast OF the Gulf
of Mexico, and suggested that no Senator hep
resentativs, or delegate be elected who 10 NOT
known to be honestly in favor of an appropria-
ton for that purpose, aud viii not work Tor IL
earnestly ana faithfully. He also presented a
memorial on the same subject from the deep
water harbor IN Of the G. OF Calves
ton. and asked that it be printed in the record.
So ordered.
Mr.. Cullom offered q resolution (which was
sdou,ed) calling ON the Secretary Of War for in.
formation as to the chanpel ordinarily used for
navigation Of the Detroit river and St Clair
~atsAwhether its waters are within the iuris-
diction of the United States or Canada, etc.
MIR. Cullom also introduced q bill to declare
trusts unlawful and had 1t referred to the COM
mittee on finance
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr.. Vest
IS TO the book published by the assistant libra
rian of The Senate was taken up, and Mr.. Plumb
proceeded to discuss IT, He alluded sarcastically
TO Mr.. Clevelands remarks on being informed
OF his nomination a. 81. Louis, Wherein he said
the feeling of awe with which he had heard OF
his first nomination had now been intensified.
49," So"N
remark, in view OF the pulling and hauling or
the dirty-sock Democracy which had been hum
CRY for twenty years. He also brought up the
circumstances connected with the removal or
District Attorney Benton, of Missouri, and Dis
trict Attorney Stone. OF Pennsylvania, for
neelecting their official duties in order to make
partisan speeches, the former having been rein
stated through the efforts of Dir. Vest, although
Benton had nalienei the administration, while
the latter. who had not m~aligned the admins
~trstisn, had not been reInstated. He merely
wanted to show that the comparison broughs
forward yesterday By Mr. Vest to show the
impartiallty Of Mr.. Cleveland did not com
pare"
Mr.. Vest, in reply TO Mr. Plumb. treated the
Benton and Stone matter as "threshing out OF
old straw and incidentally The politics OF the
Sc. Louis newspapers, from which Mr. Plumb
had quoted extracts, were brought In. Mr..
Vest then referred to the Foster circular con-
tanning the remarks OF a Republican Senator as
TO frying the fat out OF the protected manu-
facturers, and said that If Senators were to in
dulge in crimination and recrimination 1t would
be interesting TO know what Senator had made
use of that language. The two Senators from
Vermont had denied emphatically that they had
made such q statement. and the question now
was, who had made it, When that question was
answered he lMr. Vest would 60 further into
the details OF the pending campaign.
Mr.. Reagan resented the phrase 'dirty-sock
Democracy" as used by MIR. Plumb, but the lat
ter said he bad merely quoted the phrase from
District Attorney Benton, a good Democratic
authority. Mr.. Reagan went on to denounce
The Republican. party for Its legislation on the
greenback question and silver coinage question,
and Was followed in the same direction by Mr..
Stewart, WAC expressed his sympathy with the
views expressed by the Texas Senator.
Mr.. Stewart, IN that connection, deplored the
possibility Of Mr.. Cleveland's election, which
would, he said. prevent relief on the silver dues-
ton IN the next four years, because Mr.. Glove
land was in favor OF the single gold standard
and of the payment Of the bonds in gold. Why,
1919 %Aa C.-ofo- FrDpn TAw.o
ing such an administration as that-an admins
tratiop in favor of a single gold standard and
free trade-twin sisters of Instruction.
Mr.. Reagan retorted on Mr.. Stewart and sx-
pressed surprise that the Nevada Senator should
act with the Republican party, which had caused
the very condition Of things which he lamented
and Geplored.
Mr.. Stewart replied that two things reconciled
him with his party. Hc knew that Cleveland
would veto any bill for the free coinage of sill
yer, and that Harrison would not veto such .
bill.
Mr.. Reagan questioned the latter part Of the
remark, because, he said, Mr.. Harrison was q
representative of class interests at the expense of
the people.
The resolution went over without action, and
the Senate resumed consideration of the House
addressed by Mr.. Teller in support OF the bill
He replied to the argument made yesterday by
Dir. George, throwing the responsibility for the
presence Of Chinese on the Republican party.
he QlscldlmeQ 8QcQ reSpoQSlOlllLy, dUu QolouOeo
the course OF Mr.. Harrison in his votes in the
Senate on Aati-Chinese legislation. The Repub-
lican candidate for the presidency had occupied
the same position on the Chinese question az he
sound IS any man in the world on the question
of protection to American labor. whether
against the pauper labor of Europe or the
pauper labor of China. Referring to the Morsy
said It did not succeed, and that the attack on
the present Republican candidate would not
succeed, either. Ii the people bad believed that
letter to be genuine, Mr.. Garfield would not,
and ought not, have carried one State in the
Union. 1t was through forgery in 1880 and
through SANDER in 1888 that the Democrats
hoped to obtain power. Mr.. Teller proceeded
to compare the course OF the two parties on thu
Chinese question in California, the only State
where that question had crystallized into public
opinion. and claimed that the Republican party
there had always been opposed to Chinese i'm
migration, while the Democratic party had not
been. Governor Stanford's message to the
Legislature in 1862 had been the first official
declaration against it.
Mr.. Payne inquired whether the Central Pa
eifc Railroad Company, of which cir. Stanford
was president, had not imported Mongolians to
build that road.
Mr.. Teller-No. nor any other railroad som.
pany. They came to California of their own ac-
cord. As 10 the pending bill, he mentioned the
remarkable fact that it had been passed by the
House without reference to a committee, and
that it had been introduced, not by . mem Der oil
the committee on foreign affairs, but by q mar
who IN no sense, and under no circumstances
had the right to speak for American labor. AS
the Senator from South Carolina lMr. Butler]
had said yesterday. with great frankness, ito
bill was G political movement. He did not find
&c stated in the record that the bill had been
drawn n the Office Of the Solicltor-geEeral, but
be heard II so stated outside, and that it was
sent down from the executive department In
hot haste to be passed. 1t did not take much to
make a man believe there was something in the
quick passage of the bill through the House more
than a desire TO protect American labor against
ineursioDs Of Asiatic labor. If he were to look
over the House TO select Q man vino would most
fifty represent the American people who toll, he
would hardly select the man who had succeeded
II getting that bill through the House In hot
haste. He had only succeeded because he was a
high priest in the Democratic church, and be-
cause he represented the President more than
any other man in the Democratic party. 1t was
said of him [Mr. Scott that he had given ten
times as much money to the Democrats cam
paign fund as the President had given. He
mir. Teller did not know how true this was
but he knew that il that gentleman choose C
give 800. 600 to the Democratic campaign
fund, he had a right to do it He wal
able to do it, as he was said to have
made millions out OF the ~laboring men of the
country. In this connection Mr.. Teller sent e
the Clerks desk and had read Mr.. Scott
photographed sketch in the Congressional
Directory. wherein il il stated that he was borr
in the District of ~olumbia was q page in the
House Of representatives from 1S40 to 1S46;
was employed as clerk in the shipping bushes,
ia Erie, Pa, in 1s4S; was In the coal and ship
ping business in 1850; was Interested in TIT