Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-08
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WAsHrxeros, Sept.

SENATE.-Shortly after the debate on tn, Chinese exclusion bill began in the Senat, this morning the President in complianc. with the resolution requesting him to inform the Senate whether any official notice of the rejection of the treaty had been received sent copies of two dispatches from the American I minister at Pekin-one dated September 5, I saying: Relieve treaty has been rejected. ! Demanded from the foreign office positive in- formation some days since. No Information has yet been received;" and the other dated September 6, saying: "Treaty postponed for further deliberation."
 Mir. German then moved that the bill and the President message be referred to the committee on foreign relations. The motion was lost-yeas IT, nays 19; no quorum, and bill was passed, 37 to 3, Brown, Hoar and Wilson of Iowa voting in the negative.
 MT. Blair moved to reconsider so as to have
 the bill amended suspending operation of the
 bill for sixty days.
 Mr. German urged the Senate to exercise
 patience and discretion in the matter. He
 believed the amendment was we'll considered
 by MT. Blair and favored it.
 Mir. Stewart opposed the motion to recon slider and said that the more he read MT. Denby's dispatches the more he felt that the
 bill was justifable and proper
 MT. Blair advocated his motion. He ar gued that the treaty would, if ratified by China, afford all the remedy which the bill was designed to give. Unless the real pur- pose of the bill was to destroy the treaty a delay of sixty days ought to be satisfactory to everybody. So far as was known the Chinese government was acting in good faith. The United States Senate had taken more time in considering the treaty than the Chi- nese government had taken. He was op- posed, however, to MT. Gorman's proposition to commit the bill, and would regard that as juggling with the matter. But he believed fha%& 0I,r fakio foe led might delay the operation of the bill two months for the sake of saving it's reputation.
 At the close of the discussion MT. Teller moved to lay on the table MT. Blair's motion to reconsider. The vote was taken and re- suited, yeas 2e nays Il (no quorum.)
 After several intellectual attempts to secure a quorum, several senators taking advantage of thus being paired to refrain from voting, the last vote was taken and was as follows:
 Yeas-Aldrich, Bate, Berry, Cameron, Coke, Cullom, Davis, Dolph, Gray, Harris, Hiseock, Jones of Nevada, Mitchell, Morgan, Paddock, Payne, Sawyer, Spooner, Stewart, stockbridge, Teller, Turpie, Vest, vorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Mary1and-27.
 Nays-Blair, Brown, Colquitt, Hoar, Rea- gan, Sherman, Wilson of Iowa-7.
 Finally the friends of the bill realized the uselessness of further attempts to end the matter and the Senate adjourned, leaving the bill passed, but the motion to reconsider it's passage p0uO1u2s
 THE RETALIATION BILL.
 HeusE.-The House resumed the consider ation of the retaliation bill and was ad- dressed by MT. Nutting Rep., N. Y.) He said that the Canadian authorities had dis criminated against American commerce pass ing through the Welland and other Canadian canals, and the effect of this unfair treat- ment was that the commerce on Lake Onta- rio was almost entirely confined to Canadian and English vessels In addition to this, Congress had year and half ago given the President express authority to retaliate. Why was it that he, during the four years of his administration and especially during the past eighteen months, had made no attempt to stop the infraction of the rights of the American people2 The American govern ment was to blame for the president difficult ties. It had relied upon English honor, when the history of nations would show that it was not safe to place reliance on English promises. If the Mills bill should become 8 law England would have accomplished by her diplomacy and her influence in this country what she had been unable to accom- plish by the sword.
 Mir. Hooker, of Mississippi, said in reply that when the act was passed the United States was negotiating with Great Britain to settle the questions in dispute, and it would have been bad taste for the President to enforce the act of 1887. MT. Cannon, of Illinois, said the question was whether American fish, ermen had rights in common with Canadian fishermen. When American fishermen prof ited by their work, it was important that they should be enabled to go into Canadian port and ship their fish through Canada to American markets. That was what they wanted. That was what they had, if arti- cle 2o of the treaty of 1871 was still in force, as he eontended it was. MT. Cannon then read an order order signed by Francisco as a port of entry for goods in bond to show that at that time (after the passage of the retaliation bilD the presi- dent did not think the 29th article abro- gated. Now the president said that it had been dead since 1885. The people woald not be again fooled. The president sent his message of December last in which he discarded everything except free trade. The Mills bill was passed by the House, and there came the muttering thunders of dis appreciation from every workshop and farm house in the country. Thank God, this and gentlemen might as well undertake to dip the Atlantic dry with & tablespoon as to fool the loyal masses of the country by any such captrap. (Applause on Republican side.)
 MT. Nelson of Minnesota, while contend ing that the President had already ample power to retaliate, said he would vote for the proposed bill because at this juncture it might be thought unpatriotic not to do so and because it did not contain such thun- ! fer bolt of love as some gentlemen at first ! nad supposed.
 Mir. Seymour of Michigan favored some ! method of retaliation which would not jeop- 1izs the interests of the Northwest.
 MT. White of Indiana regarded the 6sher- les message as a campaign document to dO- stroy the effect which campaign document No. had on the people.
 Mir. Kerr of Iowa said he would vote for the bill, though he doubted the wisdom of ,onferring additional power upon an execu. l tive who had declined to exercise what he al- l ready possessed. MT. Porter of Illinois criti- 1 ,ised the President because with both hands 1 full of weapons he asked for more.
 It was agreed that vote should be taken at o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and, pend Ing further debate, the House at o'clock ! took recess until s.
 The House in evening session passed thir- | ty-two private pension bills and at late l hour adjourned.