Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-21
WASHINGTON.
Chief Justice Fuller Con.
firmed.
A LIST OF OTHER CONFlRMEES.
Debate on the Chinese Bill-H0ust
PrOceedings-YellOw Fever
Scare in Florida,
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.

closed its doors at half past twelve to-day
and proceeded in secret session to the
formal consideration of Melville w.
Fuller's nomination as Chief Justice.
At l o'clock the upper lobbies and
committee rooms were cleared and the
occupants driven down stairs, SO that the
doors and windows of the Senate cham
ber might be opened without risking
betrayal Of the proceedings.
The speaking on the case was by
Senators Edmunds, Evarts and Stewart
in opposition, and by Senators Farwell
and Cullom in defense of Fuller. The
Democrats did not speak
THE VOTE IN DETAIL.
The vote remains under injunction of
secrecy but it is understood to be as fol.
lows, in detail:
Yeas-Bate, Beck, Berry, Blackburn
| Blodgett, Brown, Butler, Cameron, Cock
rell, Coke, Cullom. Daniel, Davy, Far
WE'LL. Faulkner, Fry, George, Gibson,
German, Gray, Hale, Ham mpton, Hearst
Jones, (of Arkansas), Jones, (of Nevada),
Mcpherson, Mitchell, Morgan, Pascoe,
PAYNE, pugh, Quay, Ransom, Regan,
Riddleberger, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voor-
hees, Walthall, Wilson, (of Mary
land d)-41.
Nays-Blair, Bowen, Chandler, Dawes,
| Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Hawley, Hoar,
Ingalls,, Manderson, Palmer, Platt,
| Sabin, Sawyer, Sherman, Stewart, Stock
bridge, Teller, Wilson, (of Iowa)-20.
Paired in Affirmative: Call, Colquitt,
Eustis, Harris, Kenna, Plumb, Salisbury
-. Paired in negative: Aldrich, ALI
son, Chace, Hiscock, Morrill,, Paddock,
Stanford-7. Absent and not paired !:
Spooner.
OTHER COMBINATIONS.
Hugh w. Weir, Pennsylvania, Chief
Justice of Idaho; Roderick Rose, Asso-
ciate Justice of Dakota; G.. HI. Berry,
Minnesota, Associate Justice of Idaho; j.
w. Judd, Tennessee, Associate Justice
of Utah; J. H. Keatly, Iowa. United
States Judge for Alabama; Edward E.
Elb, Indian Agent, Puyallup Agency,
Washington Territory; Henry George.
Kentucky, Indian Agent, Colorado River
Agency Edward Mallet, New York, to be
Indian Inspector; Thos. L. Casey, to be
Chief Engineer, with the rank of
Brigadier General.
Postmasters: H. A. Clark, San
Jacinto, CAL. j. FIfend, Cloverdale,
Cal. Margaret A. Finn, Santa Monica,
Cal. Jos. B. Moore, Ontario, Cal. R. J .
Paul, Sonoma, Cal. w. L. Smith, Selma,
Cal.
BUNCOMBE RESOLUTION.
After the doors were opened, Sherman
gave notice that he would ask the Senate
to resume consideration of the Fisheries
treaty tomorrow. Chandler thereupon
offered the following resolution, which
was laid over:
Resolved, That the power to make
treaties and to appoint all the high pub
lie officers of the United States, being
vested in the President aud Senate
jointly, the President has no right under
his implied power of making the pre-
liminary negotiations OF treaties, to ap-
point, without the concurrence of the
Senate, private citizens as plenipoten-
tiaries; and to make and sign the pro-
posed fishery treaty with Great Britain,
dated February 10, 1888, was unwar-
ranted by his constituents.
EVILS OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
Dolph called up the bill to prohibit
the coming of Chinese laborers into the
United States. He said this bill was in
tended to carry into effect the provisions
OF the pending treaty, and prevent the
abuse of privileges granted to one class OF
Chinese to pass through the United States
and to prevent the evasion of the treaty
by the class of Chinese not permitted to
come into the country. The unrestricted
coming of Chinese laborers to our States
was an unmixed evil which should be at
once prohibited. All the Chinese labor
ha Int LII
of the Six Chinese Companies. They
were virtually slaves. They did not re.
gard our laws. They maintained their
own government and enforced their own
laws. The introduction of the Chinese
into this country was the bringing to-
gether OF extremes of civilization which
could not blend. 1t was calculated to
arouse the violent passions of the labor
ing masses, and tended to disorder which
could neither be prevented nor properly
punished.
STRADDLER MITCHELL.
Mitchell said the object of the bill was
to enforce the provisions of the pending
treaty. AS an act of legislation to enforce
those provisions he regarded it as the
best possible bill that could be presented.
He lad no faith in the treaty itself He
never had had any faith in it. He be-
lieved it would be failure in So
far as it was to be considered
as means of prohibiting Chi
nese immigration. AS amended by the
Senate the treaty was at least no worse
than the existing treaty, but he was un-
able to bring himself to the conclusion
that it was any bet .er. The truth was.
it was a sham, fraud, and deception,
and it would not meet the expectation OF
the President, Secretary of State, or of
the members Of the Senate who gave it |
their approval. This was the opinion of
the leading journals of the Pacific. Coast,
and he sent to the Clerks desk and had
read editorials from California papers
denouncing the treaty and criticising the
administration which negotiated it. He |
had no faith in the treaty, but as he re-
garded the bill as the best which could
be presented to carry out its provisions,
he would vote for it.
INCONSISTENCy POINTED our