Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-16
WASHINGTON.
HarrisOn's Chinese Record
Ventilated.
ID SHOWING FOR All BEN.
The Remarks of Senator Vest and
Others on the Fisheries.
Capital Cuttings.
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WASHINGTON, August 15.-The resolu'
ton offered yesterday by Sherman, call
ing on the Secretary of the Treasury for
a statement of the amounts deposited in
the National banks on August 1, 1888,
and of tho amount and description Of the
United States bonds and other securi-
ties pledged for the repayment of such
deposits, passed the Senate to-day.
Dawes presented the conference re-
port on the bill to accept and ratify the
agreement with the Shoshone and Ban
mock Indians as to the position of the
Fort Hall reservation in Idaho, and it
was agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to the bills
on the calendar, and passed the Senate
bill for the relief of certain parties who
have paid $3.50 per acre for United States
Government lands, reduced in price to
$1.25 per acre by an act of Congress ap-
proved June Is, 1880.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the Fisheries treaty. Nor
gan resumed his argument in favor of the
resolution to postpone it till December
next.
MORGAN REVIEWS HISTORY.
In the course OF colloquy and after
some illusions to the Yankees on one
side and ex-slave holders on the other
(between Morgan, Frye, Dawes and
Hawley), Morgan said: You have not
hesitated to sneer at us and to say we
are rebels and traitors; men not to be
trusted; men who violated our oaths and
attacked the National flag men whose
consciences are blinded with political
sin; that we all deserved to be hanged
and that we are living now by your
mercy and grace, and have said you did
not dare to hang any of us. You had
jefferson Davis under arrest and the
United States Government did not dare
bring him to trial because it would have
turned out lin the opinion of the great
jurists who would have had to try him)
that he had not committed treason.
TELLER TELLS A wHoPPER.
Teller replied to some statements in
Morgan's speech to the effect that during
Arthur's administration many outrages
vessels and had not been resented by that
dQIulDlSlIdtlOIs Liz ucCldE0Q lucIO WAS
not . word of truth in such statement
During that administration there never
had been seizure of single American
1913, but since the present administra-
ton came into power there had been
more than 400 American vessels seized
and more than 1900 boarded by the
Canadian and British authorities. The
a. l. 1oI i
apology had ever been made for it. AS
to the suggestion that the Government
had not dared to have Jefferson Davis
tried because the court would not have
found him guilty of high treason, Teller
characterizes it as "bosh."
VEST LAYS BARE HARRIsoN's RECORD.
Vest said that his judgment had been,
ever since open sessions on the treaty
began, that it had been decreed that no
treaty which could be negotiated by
Cleveland's Administration with the
British Government could be ratified by
tie Senate. Party exigeRcies and the
necessity of party warfare demanded
that the tail of the British lion should
be publicly twisted until that royal
animal howled again, and the loyal song
about "John Browns body mouldering
i'll the grave" had given place to the
dulcet tones of "Erin-go- Bragh." Re-
ferring to the recent speech of Senator
Stewart on the Chinese question, Vest
proceeded to argue that the opposition TO
the anti-Chinese bill in the Senate in
1881 and 1882 had come, not from Dem
ocratic but from Republican Senators,
and
PARTICULARLY FROM MR.. HARRISON,
The Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency. In this connection he declared
that in 1876 seven Cinnamon in Indian
apolis Gall that were there) were ad-
mitted to naturalization and Immediately
voted the Republican ticket, when Harri-
son was defeated sor the Governorshp
of Indiana by "Blue Jeans' Williams.
After stating the votes in the Senate on
the Chinese bill and the various amend
ments, he said this proved that the pre-.
siding officer of the Senate was right in
saying that the records of Sherman,
didates were awkward on the Tariff,
Vest also quoted from the letter of Harri-
son to Rev. j. I. Brant, of st. Louis,
February 25, 1888, saying, in connection
WILL LID dCIiOu Ou tuo Ulll IOStTlClluR
Chinese immigration, "It was little
hard for me to let 60 the old idea that
there was free home for all comers."
STEWART AND BECK.
Stewart said Harrison had not during
the discussion of the anti-C Chinese meas
ures, uttered word in favor of Chinese
immigration, and his votes simply had
been conformable to the treaty; but
afterwards, when the treaty was being
evaded, Harrison voted for bill that
was acceptable to the people of the Pacific
Coast. His record was as satisfactory to
the people on the Pacific coast as if he
abused the Chinese for forty years.
Beck called attention to the speech
recently made by Senator Voorhees, in
Terra Haute, asserting that Harrison had
voted fifteen times against the bill to re-
strict Chinese immigration, and said the
statements had not been contradicted.
He denounced the Republicans for keep
ing the cheapest labor they could find in
order to pocket the profits, and said ma
chine1y was, had been, and is intended
to be, the protected American laborer.
OREGON SENATORS PLEAD FOR BEN.
Dolph denied that Harrison's record in
Congress would show that he had ever
been in favor of the admission of Chinese
labor in the United States. The people
of the Pacific Coast were not to be de-
luded in this matter. They understood
the policy which lay back of the Mills
bill and which had inspired the Presi-