Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-21
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
A Bill to Further Prohibit the
immigration Of Chinese
| Starts a Political
Discussion.
The Appointment Of Fishery Com
missioners by the Presi-
dent, Alone Receives
a Rebuke.
Rivers and HafbOrS Receive their Allow
anee- Conference Report Agreed to.
A Noble Afternoons Work in the
House and What it Amounted To.
Rivers and HafbOrS Receive their Allow.
anee--- Conference Report Agreed to.
A Noble Afternoons Work In the
House and What it Amounted To.
WAsHISGroS, July 20.
Senate.

After the doors opened Sherman gave no
tice that he would ask the Senate to resume
consideration of the fisheries treaty tomOr-
row.
Chandler thereupon offered the following
resolution which was laid over.
Resolved That the power to make treaties
and appoint all high public officers OF the
United States being vested In the President
and the Senate jointly, the President has no
right, under his implied power of making
preliminary negotiations of treaties or TO ap-
point without the concurrence of the Senate
private citizens as plenipotentiaries to make
and sign treaties in behalf of the United
States and that the recent appointment by
the President without the consent of the Sen
ate of Jas. B. Angel and VIM. l.. Putnam
as special plenpotentiaries 10 make and sign
the proposed fishery treaty with great Brit
ain dated February Is, 1888, was unwarrant-
ed by the constitution.
Doph called up the bill to prohibit the
coming of Chinese laborers into the United
States. Dolph said that controversy had
arisen between the collector of the port of
San Francisco and the courts, as to the right
of the Chinese, who departed from the Uni
ted States after the date of the treaty and
be fore the act of 1882 took effect, to return
to this eauntry without certificates. The
colectss lsad decided that they couldn't but
the cdurts nd decided differently The
courts heIffhat every Chinese labOrer re-.
turning without certificate had a right to
try his right to land, and consequently the
business Of the courts was much Obstructed
by habeas corpus cases.
! A bill was passed in the 49th Congress to
cure the defects in the existing law but had
not been by the House. Atthe present ses-
sion similar bill had been'f reported but not
considered because treaty had been nego-
tiated between the United States and China.
| The bill was intended to carry into effect the
provisions of the pending treaty.
Mitchell said the object of the bill was to
enforce the provisions of the pending treaty.
| He regarded it as the best possible bill that
could be presented. He had no faith IN the
treaty itself as as q means of prohibiting
Chinese immigration. As amended by the
Senate the treaty was no worse than the e1-
| istng treaty. 1t was a sham, fraud, and a
deception 1t wouldn't meet the expectation
of the President, Secretary of the State or
members of the Senate. He read editorials
from California papers denouncing the trea-
! ty.
| Morgan said that if he believed the treaty
to be a sham and fraud he would vote to
abrogate it. He deprecated very much the
constant disposition to disparage the honor,
wisdom and integrity of the executive. The
members of his party had not so treated the
republican administrations. No matter how
much they differed from them in foreign
policy. lie defended the treaty as originally
transmitted to the Senate, and declared that
the amendments had been isconsequentlal. He
thought that Mitchell had no right to slur
the secretary of state.
Mitchell denied any intention to siur the
secretary of state, for whom he had the
highest respect. The treaty had been made
in entire good faith, he had no doubt but
in his Judgment it was a sham and fraud in
so far as the means of accomplishing what
was intended by the parties who made it.
! Pending further debate the Senate ad-
journed.