The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-08
The Senate Passes the Chi
neS9 Bill.
THE TREATY is NOT REJECTED,
According to Dispatches From Min
lister Denby-The House on the
Retaliation 8ilI-Etc.
SENATE.

a campaign book was taken up, and at
the suggestion of Mr.. Mitchell was in
formally laid aside.
Mr.. Hoar's resolution offered yester-
day calling the attention of the Pres
jdent to the previous request of the
Senate to be furnished with copies of
communications TO the British govern
ment II regard to the fisheries, was
taken mp and at the suggestion of Vest
was laid aside informally, Mr.. Vest
stating his understanding that mes
sage would be received in ABOUT half an
hour on this subject.
The Chinese exclusion bill was taken
up ana Vest, referring to Mr.. Dolph's
denial of his statement that seven
Cinnamon had been naturalized in In
dianapolis in 1876 (under the superin-
tendence of Mr.. Miller. the law partner
of Harrison, and had voted the Repub-
1ican ticket). read letter showing that
the only mistake was in giving the date
as 1876 instead of 1880. He also sent to
the clerks desk and had read corrobor-
ated affidavjts. He added that instead
of it being fact that no Cinnamon had
besn naturalized in the United States,
twenty of them had been naturalized in
the State courts in Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts and Indiana, and had been al
lowed to vote.
Dolph made the point that the records
and documents were not evidence of the
naturaljZing of Cinnamon, but only of
the declaration Of the intention. The
act of naturalization is one to be per-
formed by court, while the declara-
ton ofiutention might be made before
a clerk or notary.
Vest admitted, as lawyer, that the
acts referred to did not constitute
naturalization in the legal sense, but
he said IN Indiana declaration OF in
tention conferred the right of suffrage.
Dolph asked Vest whether there was
anything in the affidaYits to sustain the
statement that Harrison's law partner
had anything to do with the nGturali-
cation of Cinnamon in Indianapolis.
Vest admitted that there was not, on
the contrary, he had learned that
neither OF the law partners of Harrison
had any thing to do with it.
At this point
MESSAGE
was received from the President an i
laid before the Senate enclosing, as the
only official information at hand in re-
gard to the Chinese treaty copies of two
kilograms.
The first, dated September 9Th is in
these words:
Believe treaty has been rejected.
Have demanded from foreign Office
positive information some days since.
No information has yet been received. Z"
And the second, dated September 9th,
in these words:
Treaty postponed for further de-
liberation"
After the reading of the message the
discussion of the bill was proceeded
with, Mitchell taking the floor and
insisting upon the propriety of passing
the bill, even if it were an administrs-
ton measure. The only criticism he
would make upon it was that it did not
go far enough. If he had his way, he
only the 400 600 600 Cinnamon in China,
but to those now in the United States.
THE BILL PASSED.
The Chinese bill psssed-yeas 81, nays
3. Brown, Hoar and Wilson, of Iowa. }
Mr.. Blair moved to reconsider so as
to have the bill amended, suspending
the operation of the bill for sixty days
GoRMAN's TALK.
German referred to his motion to
commit the bill and said he
had made that motion in consider
alton of the fact that the bill
had come before the Senate under
Misrepresentation. While this mea-
sure was under consideration here and
elsewhere, there was be ief that the
treaty recently negotiated had been re-
jected by China. Now, the Senate is
informed officially that that belief has
no foundation. Such action as we have
just taken ought not to have been
taken, and if it was proposed to take
such action in regard to a great nation,
the bill would not have received half
dozen votes. We al understand the
pressure on both sides in the face Of the
great contest between the two political
parties. l concur with the Senator
from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) the leader on
bis side, that this matter will be above
politics, that it is above the present
elections and that it ought not TO be
passed IN this indecent haste. | am de-
lighted that the Senator from New
Hampshire has made motion to re-
consider and has given notice of an
amendment, which he proposes to pre-
sent. hope the motion will prevail.
l give notice that if the motion to re-
consider be carried, 1 shall again move
70 commit the bill to the committee on
foreign relations, with the mes
sage from the President. That
committee can come here next week
and present a measure that will
rot put US in that position in which the
Chinese Government will have a moral
right to exclude all of our peopIe from
that Empire. l do not believe either
party eau gain any advantage by this
unseemly and hasty action on a great
measure which is above all politics. We
are all united in restricting China i'm
migration, and do not believe that in
this contest there is any advantage on
either side. II NC go on in the face of