Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-08
WASHINGTON.
The Senate Votes to Exclude
the Chinese.
MOTION TO RECONSIDER.
The Treaty Not Rejected By China,
But Ratification Deferred.
House Proceedings.
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AS sociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, September I'm the
Senate to-day the resolution heretofore
offered by Senator Vest for an inquiry
into the case of a Senate official (Mr.
Mckee, for publishing a campaign book,
was taken up and at the suggestion of
Senator Mitchell was informally laid
aside.
Senator Hoar's resolution, offered yes
terday, calling the attention OF the Presi-
dent to the previous request of the SEN
ate to be furnished with copies of the
communications to the British Govern
ment, in regard to the Fisheries, was
taken up, and at the suggestion of Vest
was laid aside informally, Vest stating
that his understanding was that mes
sage would be received in about half an
hour on this subject.
AS TO NATURALIzING CHINESE.
The Chinese Exclusion bill was taken
up, and Vest, referring to Mr.. Dolph's
denial OF his statement that seven China
men had been naturalized in Indianapo-
lis in 1875 (uuder the superintendence OF
Mr.. Miller, the law partner of Harrison,
and had voted the Republican ticket,
read letter showing that the only mis-.
take make was in giving the date as
1876 instead of 1880. He also sent to the
Clerk desk and had read corroborative
affidavits. He added that instead of it
being fact that no Cinnamon had been
naturalized in the United States, twenty
of them had been naturalized in the
State courts in Connecticut, Massachu-
setts and Indiana and allowed to vote.
Dolph made the point that the records
and documents were not evidence of the
naturalizing of Cinnamon, but only of
declaration of intention. The act of nat
court, while a declaration of intention
might be made before a clerk or notary.
Vest admitted as lawyer that the acts
ton in the legal sense, but he said in In
ferred the right of suffrage.
anything in the afiidavits to sustain the
statement that Harrison's law partner
had anything to do with the naturaliza-
llOu vi Ouludul6u III 1uuIdudpOllS.
Vest admitted that there was not; on
the contrary he learned that neither OF
the law partners of Harrison had any,
thing to do with it.
MESSAGES FROM CHINA.
At this point message was received
from the President and laid before the
Senate, inclosing Gas the only official in
formation at hand in regard to the Chi
nese treaty. copies of two kilograms, the
first dated September 5th, in these
words: 81 believe the treaty has been
rejected. l demanded from the Foreign
Office positive information some days
since. No information has yet been re-
ceived." The second was dated Septem-
ber 9th, in these words: "Treaty post
poned for further deliberation."
After the reading of the message, the
discussion OF the bill proceeded, Mitchell
taking the floor and insisting upon the
propriety of passing the bill, even if it
was an Administration measure. The
only criticism he would make upon it
was that it did not 60 far enough. If he
had his will he would make exclusion
apply not only to the four hundred mil
lion Cinnamon in China, but to those
now in the United States.
THE BILL PASSED.
German moved that the Chinese bill
be referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations. The motion was lost yeas
II, nays Is; no quorum.
A vote was then taken ON the bill and
it passed; yeas 81, nays 3-Brown, Hoar
and Wilson, OF Iowa.
Blair moved to reconsider the bill, so
as to have it amended by inserting
provision that its operation be suspended
for sixty days.
GoRMAN FAyORs RECONSIDERATION,
German got the floor in the discussion
of the question, and, referring to his
motin to commit the bill, said he had
made that motion in consideration of the
fact that the bill had come before the
Senate under misapprehension. He con-
tinued: While this measure was
under consideration, here and elsewhere
there was the belief that the treaty re.
Gently negotiated had been rejected by
China. Now that the Senate is informed
officially that that belief has no founda-
ton, such action as we have just taken
ought not to have been taken, and if it
was proposed to take such action in re.
gard to any other great nation, the bill
would not receive half dozen votes.
We all understand the pressure on both
sides in the face of the great contest be-
tween the two political parties. l concur
with the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sher-
NAM. l am on his side that this matter
is above politics; that it is above
the present election, and that it ought
not to be passed in this indecent haste.
am delighted that the Senator of New
Hampshire has made motion to recon-
slider, and has given notice of an amend
ment which he proposes to present. l
hope the motion will prevail. 1 give
notice that if the motion to reconsider be
carried, shall again move to commit
the bill to the Committee on Foreign
Relations, with the message from the
President. That Committee can come
here next week and present measure
that will not put us in position in which
the Chinese Government will have
the moral right to exclude all
OH our people from that Empire.
do not believe the other party can
gain any advantage by this unseemly
and hasty motion on this measure, which
is above all politics. We are all united
in restricting Chinese immigration, and l
do not believe that in this contest there
is any advantage on either side. If we
90 on in the face of the message which
we have received tO-day we will destroy