St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
HARRISON'S PROTEGES.
John Chinaman's Emigration to
America and an Eminent Hoo
sier's Record on the Question
Discussed by Congress.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-DiScusSion
of the senate bill to restrict Chinese
emigration took up most all of the time
of the house to-day, but without taking
action on the bill the house adjourned.
Mr.. McCieary, of Kentucky. from the
committee Oh foreign affairs, reported,
and asked Immediate consideration Of
the senate bill to prevent the coming of
Chinese laborerS into the United States,
with an amendment repeating the
acts Of May, 1882, and July 5, 1884, the
repeals to take effect on the ratification
of the pending treaty. Mr.. McCreary
gave brief history of the Chinese
treaty and said if the senate had rati-
fled the treaty as sent to them by the
president, instead of amending it,
Chinese immigration would now be.
stopped. He said the president and sec
retary of state deserved great credit for
negotiating the new treaty, which would
give the people of the Pacific coast the
relief long asked for and it was the duty
of the house to act at once on this i'm.
portant matter and give to the people
of the Pacific coast the relief
THEY WE'RE CLAMoRING FOR.
Mr.. Morrow, of California. Hooker, of
Mississippi, Chapman, of Michigan,
spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Bynum,
of Indiana, in advocating the passage
of the bill criticised the Republican
party for its failure in years past to stop
the importation of contract labor. That
party had favored the opening of the
doors to cheap labor but wanted them
closed on cheap goods. More than this
the Republican candidate for the presi-
deney had voted against bills to restrict
or suspend Chinese immigration. 1t
was true that Gen. Harrison had de-
bills because he had considered them in
violation of the treaty stipulations, but,
with due regard for Gen. Harrison, he
would say that such eXpOSt facto state
mentS made when there were visions of
white houses, however dim and remote,
flying around, mnst be taken cum grano
sails. 1t is not because Gen. Harrison
and his associates believed the bill tG be
violation of the existing treaty that
they opposed it, but because they be-
lieved that the Chinese laborer should
have the right to come to this country
not only to labor, but to vote, to hold
Office and to govern as well as be gov
erned. Gen. Harrison now said as
further excuse, that he did not under
stand the question at the time, but that
he had since learned all about it and
was all right now. Of all subterfuges
THIS WAS THE SHALLOWEST.
During the campaign Gen. Harrison
might declare from the stump that the
standard of labor must be manned, but
| nobody could find that during the
! Chinese debate in the senate he had
ever spoken word of sympathy for the
wage-worker of America.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, said that the
npOnfIatpd wv
Evarts as secretary of state, was con-
| firmed in the fall of 1880, when a Dem
Ocratic congress was in existence. Fhe
| evasion of the treaty arose from the
| fact that from the date of the ratifica-
tion of the treaty in 1880 until March,
1852, there had been no legislation to
carry out the provisions. The
Democratic congress had never at
tempted to write any legislation
on the statute books to enforce the
treaty. Mr.. Bynum said that he was
not here to respond to what had not
been done by the Democrats, but what
had been done by the Republicans. Mr..
FELTON,, of California, said that the facts
would not admit of the Chinese queS-
tiOns being made a party question. The
people of the Pacific coast, regardless
of party, opposed the incoming of Chi
| neSe.
Mr.. Owen, of Indiana, replied to what
he characterized as a special address to
the voters of Indiana made by his col
league. In reply to one of Mr.. Bynum's
charges, to the effect that several China
men had been naturaliZed in Indianap-
| oils, and had
| VOTED THE REPUBLICAN TICKET ~
presumably with the knowledge of
Gen. Harrison he read telegram Just
! received from Gen. HarriSOn'S law
partner denying that he had ever heard
of such thing. In regard to another
charge, that Gen. Harrison had read be-
fore literary society a paper in which
he advocated the free and unrestricted
immigration of the Chinese, he said that
Gen. Harrison, over his own signature,
had denied having done any such thing.
His colleague, in closing his speech
| with flourish of tongue and q waving
of hand peculiar to Hoosier ora.
tor, had said that every Demo
crat could cast his vote for
this bill without swallowing his words
| or.Stultifying his record. In repIy ia
that he would call attention to Mr..
Dingley'S statement that during tfa
FOrty-siXth congress, which was Demo-
cratic in both branches, the Democratic
party had taken no action upon the
Chinese question. The gentleman had
charged that Gen. Harrison had voted
against every bill to restrict or control
Chinese immigration. He denied that
charge. Gen. Harrison had said that he
stood for the honor of his government,
and that the treaty should be enforced