Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-09
DOINGS IN CONGRESS-. /
THE SENATE PASSES THE Cl%I-
 NESE EXCLUSION BILL.
A Partial Provision of the Mea.ure-CopIes Of the Tariff mud the Mills Bitl-3onator
 Evarts on tho Fisheries Question.

A Partial Provision of the Measure-Copies
 Of the Tariff mud the Mills Biil-senator
 Evarts tho Fisheries Question.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9-In the Senate Mr. Stewart (Rep., Nev.) moved that the regular business (blls on the calendar) be laid aside and the Chinese Prohibition Bill be taken up Agreed to. Yeas, 4o; nays (Senators Berry, Coke, and Jones of Arkansas.) The bill was then passed with out division.
 The bill provides that from and after the date of the exchange of ratihcaticns or the pending treaty between the United States of America and his imperial majesty the Emperor of China, signed on the 18th day of March, 1888, 1t shall be unlawful for any Chinese person, whetner a subject Of China or of any other Power to enter tho United States except as is this bill pro vided. Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchants or travellers for pleasure or curiosity shalI be permitted to enter the United states, but in order te entitle themselves to do so they shall first obtain the permission of the Chinese Government, or other Gov ernment of which they may at the time be citizens or subjects. Such permission, and also their personal identity, shall In such case be evidenced by a certificate
 
 t-tive of the United States ill the country, or of the consular representative of the United States in the country, or of the consular representative of the United States at the port or place from which the person named therein comes. The certi- tcate shall contain full description of such person, of his age, heiSht and gen. eral physical features, and shall state his former and present occupation NroFoSSiOn un6 of and shall be made out in duplicate. One copy shall be delivered by the diplomatic or consular officer to the captain of the vessel on which the person named in the certificate sets sail for the United States, together with the sealed certificate, which shall be addressed to the Collector of Gus toms at the port where such person shall land. There shall be delivered to the cap tain letter from the consular officer addressed to the Collector of Customs, and stating that such consular officer has on certain day delivered to such captain certificate of the right of the person named therein to enter the United States as Chinese official or other exemrNed person, as the case may Oe. And any cap tain who lands or attempts to land & Ghin- ese person iu tho United States, without having in his possession such scaled cer- titicate, shall be liable to certain penalties.
 AhS PLOSlSlOuS OL Lu6 ACb hTo LO dpp1S GO all persons of the Chinese race whether subjects of China or other foreign power, excepting Chinese diplomatic or consular officers and their attendants, and the words "Chinese laborers" whenever used in this act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.
 MT. Sherman (Rep., O., from the Com mittee on Finance reported back the con- current resolution to print 100000 extra copies of the Tariff Law of 1888 and the Mills bill as recently passed by the House, with comparative statement to be pre- pared by the Committee of Ways and Means; adopted.
 The Senate then proceeded to the con alteration of the Fisheries Treaty in open executive session and was addressed by Mir. Evarts (Rep., N. Y. in opposition to It's ratification. In his opening remarks he spoke of the treaty as being wholly in- congruous with the just position of the two 1 countries and with the attitude to be main 1 tained between them.
 In the House Mr. Shaw Dem., Md ), from the Committee on Accounts, reported the resolution appro priatlng | $5,o00 to meet the expenses of the Com mlttee on Manufactures in inves tigating the subject of trusts.
 In response 10 a question, Mr. Breckin- 1 ridge (Dem., Ark stated that the investi- 1 gation had not proceeded far enough to enable the Committee on Manufactures to report 6 measure of relief.