Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-02
OUR LEGISLATORS.
Sherman's Resolution Re
garding China Adopted.
A TREATY TO BE NEGOTIATED
Another Animated Debate Over
the Pension Bill-NO Action
Taken Yet.
Associated Press Dispatch es to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, March LIN the Sen
ate to-day the resolution reported yes
terday by Sherman from the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, requesting
the President to negotiate a treaty
with the Emperor of China, contain
ing provision that no Chinese labor
shall enter the United States, was
taken up for consideration.
Morgan favored the resolution.
Sherman said that whatever differ
ences of opinion there had been in the
Senate or the country in regard to the
restitution of Chinese immigration the
time had come when Che believed)
the general sentiment of the people
was that the law on the subject should
be fairly enforced, and that the Chin.
ese laborer should be excluded from
this country, because he would not
adapt himself to its civilization.
That feeling had been most strongly
expressed before the committee on
foreign affairs, by the senators and
representatives from the Pacific coast,
and every member of the committee
was Of the opinion that the exclusion
of Chinese. laborers should be effect
ually carried out. The resolution
was calculated to fortify the admins
tration in it's effort to obtain the de-
sired treaty.
s ewart expressed his qualification
at hearing from the Senator from Ala
bama, (Morgan). that the state de-
partment was already engaged in
negotiating a treaty with China. He
had no doubt that the expression of
the opinion OF the Senate in the ad-
option of the resolution would give the
Chinese government to understand
the determination of this coun-
try to exclude Chinese lab
orers altogether. He was also
exceedingly gratifed to find that the
country now understood the Chinese
question, and that opposition to the
Chinese was not matter of passion
or prejudice on the part OF the people
of the Pacific coast.
Mitchell regarded the resolution as
a step i'll the right direction, but as a
very full step he said that there should
be treaties to the same effect with
Great Britain, France and Mexico.
The resolution was adopted.
THE PENSION BILL
Was taken up, the pending question
being on the amendment offered yes
terday by Wilson of Iowa to add
the words "from infrmities of age."
Beck said that $500, ,000, 600 would not
half cover the amount OF the expen-
diture if the amendment were adopted.
The bill would settle the surplus for
all time to come.
The debate then drifted into q dis
cussion of the tariff, during which
Beck referred to the demonetization
of silver and attacked Sherman for
it. He suggested (reverting to the
pension question: that as the wealth
of the country was protected by the
exertion of the soldiers, the Senators,
on the other side, many of whom
were millionaires, shonld meet the
expenditure for pensions by an in
come tax.
Plumb said that the Senator from
Kentucky was not free-trader, ex-
cept for revenue; neither was any
other Senator on the Democratic side
who had anything to make by being
protectionist. The Senators on the
other side, he said, i'll concealed their
feelings of regret that it was not the
soldiers of the Confederate army that
were to be pensioned.
Without vote on the amendment
the Senate adjourned till Monday.