St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-07
They Refuse to Vote For or
Against the Chinese
Bill.
Next Wednesday the New
Tariff Bill Will Be Re-
ported.
Representatives Discuss Re-
taliation and Engage in
Mudslinging.
SPECIAL to the Globe.

| tO-ttd1 ~ pass btlG SHtilCSS tACIu-
sion bill. Mr.. Hoar offered a resolution
calling the attention of the president to
the resolution adopted by the senate on
| the 2Sth of August, asking the presi-
| dent for the correspondence with Great
! Britain relating 10 the fisheries ques-
| ton, and requesting him to furnish such
| Information as soon as possible in order
! that it might be considered in acting on
| pending legislation. AT the suggestion
| of Mr.. Vest, who thought the secretary
of state could give good reasons for not
| furnishing the information, the reSOlu-
| ton went over.
Mr.. Dawes called attention to a mis-
| take made yesterday by Mr.. PascO, in
| quoting from an article from the Spring
| field Mass Republican and desigRat-
| ing that journal as Republican paper.
! On account of its name, he said, where
| its exact position is not known, it is re-
garded as a Republican paper; but it
| was one of the most jealous adherentS
of President Cleveland.
Mr.. Pasco said he had cut the editorial
| in question ont of newspaper which
described the Springfield Republican as
a Republican paper, and whatever its
! politics were the sentiments expressed
| in the article were fair, manly and just
| toward the Southern people. At 2
! o'clock the
CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL
was taken up. Mr.. Sherman said he
favored the passage of the bill if the
| Chinese government had refused to ac-
cede to the new treaty or to negotiate
further upon it. 1t was an unusual
thing for the senate to pass upon a bill
| OF such Importance without reference to
committee, without consideration,
and without any of the forms required
! in ordinary legislation. He had assumed
| that the bill came from the executive
! department of the government, and he
had been willing to modify the rules of
! the senate SO as to meet the eXigency OF
! the occasion. No answer has been re-
ceiyed to the resolution adopted yester-
day asking the president whether
| definite and positive information about
| the rejection OF the treaty had been re-
eeived by our government, and if it
should appear, as he believed it would,
/ that no such information had been re-
ceived; and if the senate, without re-
gard to the ordinary usages of the SEN
ate, should hurrledly pass this bill it
would be a surprise to the country and
to the whole civilized world. Mr.. Sher-
man said he had information from I'M
doubted sources, mot from the preSi-
dent or secretary of state" he added,
that the probability was that no such
action mad been taken by the Chinese
government. When the bill came over
from the house he had assumed as
matter of course that the house had
| passed ii on information that came from
the executive; but the senate had no IN
formation and should not wildly rush
like
FLOCK OF FRIGHTENED PARTRIDGES
into the passage of the bill. If it should
turn out, as he believed it would, that
! the Chinese government had not reject
ed the treaty, the haSty passage of the
bill would be unbecOming to the Amer
lean senate, and SO he thought it bound
by the common courtesy due between
nations, as between individuals, to
await the action of the Chinese govern
ment. If the bill was passed and the
treaty was ratified, the senate would
have placed itself in the ridiculous atti-
tude of assuming fact which did not
exist; but il on the contrary the treaty
was rejected. there was still ample time
to pass the bill. Mr.. Sherman, there
fore, asked the senate to let the bill 90
over for day or two until the facts
were ascertained; but Mr.. Stewart OBJ
| jected, and discussion of the bill was
| reopened. Mr. Plat said that if the
! bill was pressed to q vote he would vote
for it under protest, He did not like
the untmely way in which the bill had
come before congress. Mr.. Platt want
ed to know why such hot haste to pass
the bill, if there had been no notice,
official or unofficial, received by the eX-
ecutive, that the treaty had been reject
ed. To pass the bill under such cir
cumstanees would be direct insult to
/ i tl.n TV.tl CAnAn
desired to continue friendly commercial
relations. He would vote for the bill if
vote was forced upon the senate now,
because he was not going TO act on the
assumption that the pending bill was
an electioneering dodge. Mr.. Plumb,
criticiSing the course of the adminiStra-
ton in this matter, said the president
had apparently sent to the bill to the
| house in the shape of a message to that
body. The house received it from the
hands of the
PRESIDENTS TRUSTED COUNSELOR,
and it had been passed upon as an ad-
ministratiOn measure.
MIR. Brown asked Mr.. Sherman
whether he as chairman of the commit
! tee on foreign relations had any infor-
nation of the rejection of the treaty.
Mr.. Sherman-Certainly not. A gen.
tleman who has had business with the
Chinese legation told me that he does
not believe that the legation has infOr-
| nation of the rejection of the treaty;
that there has been no objection $50 far
as KNOWN to the amendments of the
| treaty. On the contrary, the minister
| himself assented to them at the time
they were offered, and it was presumed
as a matter of course that the treaty
| would be ratified. | feel free to say
that no communication of any kind has
come to the president in regard to the
treaty, | believe that is fact. and the
whole of our action on the bill is based
upon the assumption that because dis
distinguished member of the house of
| representatives brought it in and hur-
| ried it through the house it was done
with the sanction of the administration.
Certainly we ought not to be satisfied
with that. Suppose the president
| should veto the act which he has now
| before him on the ground that we had
passed this bill abrogating the treaty,
| we would be sin Il hole'-in a very en-
barrassing position.
Mr.. Brown moved to amend it by adj
hitting such Cinnamon as having left
! this country with certificates emitting
them to return were now on their way
TO the United States. To pass the bill
without such provision would be, he
said, not only great hardship but
| A CRUELTY AND AN OUTRAGE
which no eXigency or political eXigency
could Justify. If this bill were passed
who would deny the right of the Chi
nese government to expel from China
every American merchant and mission
airy within the limits of that vast en-
pire? Mr.. Teller objected to the pro-
posed amendment as not being offered
ia time, and the objection was sus-
tanned. Mr.. Morgan questioned the sim
cerity Of the Pacific slope senator's ar
gument rs to the exclusion Of Cinnamon,
and remarked that the sentiment for
their exclusion was far from universal.
The statement was challenged by Mr..
Mitchell. who said. somewhat excited