New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-09
CHINESE AND FISHERIES.
THE PROHIBITION BILL PASSED WITHOUT
DIVISION.
Mr. EvARTs IN OPPOSITION TO THE TREATY
WITH CANADA-DEMOCRATI BACKING
AND FILLING-THE DOMINION'S
TEASING PROCESS.

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on the calendar be laid aside and the Chinese
| Prohibition bill be taken up Agreed to-Yeas,
40; nays 3 Senators Berry, Coke and Jones OF
Arkansasl The bill was then passed without
division. It provides that from and after the
| date of the exchange OF notifications Of the pend
| ing treaty between the United States of America
| and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China
signed the twelfth day of March, 1888, 1t shall
be unlawful for any Chinese person, whether
subject of China or any other power, to enter the
| United States, except as in this bill provided.
Chinese officials teachers, students, merchants or
travellers for pleasure curiosity shall be per-
mitted to enter the United States, but, in order to
cntite themselves to do So they shall first obtain
the permission Of the Chinese Government or other
| Government 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 certificate TO be made out by the
| diplomatic representative of the United States in
the country, or Of the consular representative Of
the United States in the country, or Of the con-
sular representative at the port place from which
the person named therein comes
! The words Chinese laborers,7 whenever used
! in this act, shall be construed TO both
skilled and unsktlled labOrers and Chinese en-
| ployed in mining From and after the passa &c Of
the act, no Chinese labOFer in the United States
shall be permitted, after having left, to return
thereto unless he has lawful wife, child or
parent in the United States, or property therein
Of the value of thousand dollars, or debts Of
like amount due him and pending settlement The
Chinese laborer possessing the requisite certificate
shall be admitted to the United States only at
the port from which he departed therefrom, and
no Chinese person, except Chinese diplomatic or
consular officers and their attendants, shall be
permitted to enter the United States except at
the ports of San Francisco, Portland, Oregon,
Boston, New-Ytrk New-Orleans. Port Townsend.
or such other ports may be designated by the
Secretary Of the Treasury.
Any Chinese person. or person Of Chinese
descent, found unawfully in the United States,
or its territories, may be arrested upon a
rant issued upon a complaint under OATH filed by
any party on behalf of the United States. and
when convicted upon a hearing and found to
be one not lawfully entitled to remain in the
United States, such person shall be removed from
the United States to the country whence he
came
TIE TARIFF LAW AND THE MILLS BILL.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance,
reported back the concurrent resolution TO print
! 1000 600 extra copies Of the tariff law OF 1883
and the Mills bill recently passed by the House,
with a comparative statement TO be prepared by
the Committee of Ways and Means Adopted.
MR. EvARTs ON THE FISHERIES TREATY.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of the Fisheries Treaty in open executive session
and was addressed by Mr.. Evarts in opposition
to its ratification. In his opening remarks Mr..
Evarts spoke Of the treaty as being wholly
homogeneous with the just position OF the two
countries and with the attitude to be maintained
between them. Discussing the points to
whether it the duty Of the Senate to give
it's aid in lettering in modifying in amending
so-caled faulty treaty, he admitted that it was
undoubtedly true that 10 had come to be a habit
Of the Senate to do so; but said that the amend
ments to this treaty would go, so speak, back
ward. They would not be change of this or
that purpose, of this or that clause AS to the
rejection of the treaty leading to umbrage or
collisions, retaliations war; he said he
had not heard a breath above a whisper from
the United Kingdom, or any Of its departments
in power and authority, that rejection of the
treaty would be cause for umbrage. And the near
est of anything in the shape of definite state
ment on the side Of this country that point
was the reported reply Of the Secretary of
State to a question as TO what would follow
the rejection of the treaty-that then chaos would
come again
ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Referring TO the debate on the treaty, he said
that on the Democratic side it had been redolent
with the odor of de-natiOnality, not of nationality
and he asked is it true that enemies are in
our own household? Is it true that arguments
and illustrations which would not be whispered
above the breath in an English Parliament are
here easily slipped from the tongue and rolled.
a pleasant nOrsel under the tongue? The most
noticeable circumstance in the debate was, he
said, the position Of the Democratic party 1t
showed q geographical division rs well as a
political division. 1t was that noticeable fact
which most attracted the attention OF the Amer- /
can people, and that would most attract the at
tention Of the people of Great Britain But 1t
would not brighten the people OF this country, and
would not deceive the people OF Great Britain. !
The people of Great Britain knew perfectly well
that when the patriotism of the American people |
was touched. there but one response from the |
hearts Of the people at large. Whatever obscura- |
ton whatever perturbation might be effected by !
political adhesion or by party necessity the people
in their plenary capacity would judge for the |
United States and not argue for England.
CANADNs WORRYING PROCESS.
Mr. Evarts went on to discuss, at great length |
and with much particularly, the details of the |
treaty and the whole history of the fisheries con-
troversy. lie declared that the system of worry |
ing was always brought into play by Canada |
whenever the United States asserted its fishing |
rights and Canada asserted its contravention, in |
order to bring the United States TO a departure |
from the fishing interests to the trading and COM
mercal interests; and that the United States had |
thus been worried into the reciprocity arrange |
ment in 1854. He said that at every stage when !
the Dominion of Canada had undertaken TO en-
force the bay-or headlands doctrine the British !
Government had declined TO sustain it.
Canada he said, had proceeded on the phiOsO-
phy of Fudibra. " Not by force Of carnal reason. |
but Of indefatigabe teasing What Canada had |
always been after was reciprocity and free |
market lie ridiculed the idea of reciprocity be- |
tween the limitable market of the United States |
and the stinted consumption Of Canada: and was |
reminded By Mr. Gray that under the reciprocity |
treaty Of S54 the balance OF trade had been on |
the side OF the United States-that is. that the |
United States rad sold more to Canada than it !
had bought from Canada.
lie was asked by Mr. Morgan whether he also !
thought that the United States had been worried |