The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-21
IN THEU. s CONGRESS.
Dolph Calls Up the Anti
Chinese Bill,
AND THE SENATORS DEBATE IT.
Ia the House the Bill to Aid State
Homes for Disabled Volunteers
is Dsbsted-Etc.
SENATE,


doors were opened, Sherman gave
notice that he would ask thu Senate to
resume consideration of the fisheries
treaty tomorrow.
Chandler thereupon offered the fol-
lowing resolution which was laid over:
Resolved. That the power to make treaties
and to appoint all high public officers in
the United States be invested in the
President and senate Iintly. The Presi-
dent has no right uader his implied power
of working preliminary negotiations of
treaties to appoint without q concurrence
of the Sen2te. private citizens as plenipO-
tentiaries 10 make and sign such treaty, on
behalf of the United States, and that recent
appointment by the President without the
consent OF the Senate, of James B. Angel
and William ). Putnam as special pleni-
potentiares TO make and sign the proposed
fisheries IeaJy with Great Britain, dated
February 155h. 1888, was unWarranted by the
Constitution.
Dolph called up the bill to prohibit
the coming of Chinese labor into the
United States. Dolph said this bill was
intended to carry into effect the pro-
visions of the pending treaty and to
prevent abuse of the privileges granted
to one class of Chinese to pass through
the United States and to prevent eva
sion OF the treaty by the class of Chi
nese not permitted to come into the
country unrestricted. The coming of
Chinese laborers to our shores was an
UnmiXed evil which should at once be
prohibited. All the Chinese laborers in
the United States belong to one Of
the six Chinese companies-they were
oirtually slaves. They did not regard
CUR laws. They maintained their own
VOvernment and enforced their own
laws. The introduction of Chi
nese into this country was
the bringing toge her of diverse
civilizations which couli not blend. It
was calculated to arouse violent pas
sioDs in the labering masses and led to
disorder, which could neither be pre-
vented nor properly punished.
Mitchell SAID the object of the bill was
to force the provisions of the pending
treaty as all act for legislation to enforce
those provisions. He regarded il the
best possible bill tn coul be presented.
He had no faith in the treaty itself. he
never had had any faith in it. He be-
Z 1ieved it would be a failure in as far ss
il was &c b. considered means of pro-
hibiting Chinese immigration. AS to
the amendment by the Senate, the
treaty was at least no worse than the
existing treaty, but he was unable to
bring himself to the conclusion that it
was any better. The truth itself is that
it was shame and fraud and decep.
ton, and it would not meet the expec-
tation of the President and Sec
rotary of State nor of the mem
bers 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 an editorial
from the California papers denOuDCing
the treaty and criticiZing tie admins
tration which negotiated it. He had no
faith in the treaty. but as he regarded
the bill As the best which could be pre-
sen ted to carry out its provisions, he
would vote for it.
Morgan could not understand why
the gentleman would vote for a bill to
carry into effect treaty which he said
was a sham and fraud. If he Nor
GAM believed the treaty was sham
and fraud he would never give
q vote to carry it into effect.
he would vots to abrOgate such
astreaty. He deprecated very much
the constant disposition which ap-
peared here to di parege in the presence
of mankind and the whole world, the
honor, wisdom and integrity of the ex-
ecutive. He has been here in an era
when jingoism prevailed in the admin
istration of this country to a very
alarming extent, (the moral effect Of
which we had not yet escaped from)
and yet due faith has been given to the
honest intention OF the Republican ad
ministration in negotiating treaties. He
thought it best to return to that
sense of feeling, to that sense
of respect which the gentlemen
! owed their country, which would inform
the world that we had negotiators to
manage cur foreign affairs, and states
men who at least loved their own
country. He did not think the gentle
man had right to cast slurs upon the
Secretary of State.
Mitchell said he had said this treaty
was in his judgment a sham and
fraud in so far as it was the means of
accomplishing what was intended by
the parties who made it. Would it be
proper for him to ask the Senator
whether he had favored the Senate
amendments2
Morgan replied that he had voted for
them.
Mitchell suggested that the Senator
would admit that the effect OF the first
amendment would be to exclude from
this county at least SO 800 Chinese who
would be permitted to come in under
the treaty as sent here by the Presi-
dent.
Morgan replied he thought the treaty
as originally sent to the Senate excluded
these Chinese, but that there had been
some difference between grRmmarians
about the meaning Of words.
BE therefore voted for the amendment,
but In the vote he gave he did not admit
there were any imperfections IL the
text of the treaty. He regarded the
pending bill as a meager bill. He said
Ii was the first time to his knowledge
that the bill had been brought into the
{ legislative body for the purpose of
carrying out treaty which had not
been ratified.
\ Pending further debate the Senate adj
fOuPned