Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-15
THE CHINESE BILL.


. THE SENATE YESTERDAY.
Senators Jones and Vest Have the Floor
Races which Do Not Seem to Assimi-
/ late Do Not Get Along Good Together
Avote ON the BIZ to be Taken To-Day.
i W4sHNeToN, September 13.-In the Sen.
ate to-day Spooner's resolution as to the
fpolitical murders i'm Texas, was referred to
| the committee on contingent expenses.
Il TIE CHINESE ExoLUsIoN BILL
was then taken up. Jones OF Nevada adj
dressed the Senate in support OF the bill.
Jones said the discussion now was re-
duced to the point of whether immediate
action should be taken to prevent the in
fux Of that vile stream Of MongoIian bar
barism into the pure stream Of American
civilization, or whether the people would
have to pait until the Chinese government
shoula conclude TO furnish rRlief He
ought to Say that when the Democratic
party. after 1866, took Oh the gray uni
form and put on the garb OF the working
man,,it was at q loss for platform.
Jones alluded to the advance OF the
Chinesa IN California, and the evil conse-
quence flowing from their presence there,
said the Democrats had not shown much
zeal hi respect to Chinese exclusion.
| The positions of
THE rwo PARTIES THE AFTER WAR
had been entirely different. The Rspnbli-
can party believed the Declaration OF In.
dependence was intended for all men, with
out regard to color. After the war, in
which the shaekles had been struck from the
limbs of four million Of people, they were
in no humor to listen to the proposition to
exclude any race. The Democrats, on the
other hand. believed that the Declaration
Of Independence meant that all white men
were equal. They had long experience with
the non-assimilating OF races, and had no
they we're ready to vote to exclude it.
So iistless had the Democrats been in
support Of their anti. Chinese propositions
that
me PEOPLE OF TEE PACIFIC COAST
did not believe much in their sincerity.
The people Of the Pacific coast knew that
if they once could get majority OF the
Republicans on their side, they would
see that justice was done to them.
Vest said he had never been able to un-
derstand whether there was difference OF
opinion between the Republican party at
large and the Republicans of the Pacific
slopeas to the meaning of the Declaration
OF Independence. Did the Senator from
Nevada mean to say that the difference ex-
listed, or did the Senator agree with the
Democratic party that this was white
mans government?
Jones replied that, as boy, he had heard
on every occasion speeches declaring the
United States to be
THE HoNE OF THE OPPRESSED
of all nations. But when he went to the
Pacific coast, and saw how impossible it
was for Chinese to assimilate with the
Americans, he became convinced thatit was
impossible for two distinct and dissimilar
races to prosper side by side in the same
country. The barbarous economy OF the
Chinese would take possession of every
avenue OF industry to the exclusion OF
Americans, and he tJones) was in favor OF
defending his own people and defending
them quickly.
The evil of Chinese immigration, he said,
Pacific Coast demanded that there should
be no more delay. They said the subject
was one over which the United States was
sovereign, and that it was derogatory to |
the dignity OF the American people that
they should
ASK THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT
to join with them before they could decide |
who should be domieiled in this country.
Those Senators who would vote for further |
delay might find great reward in the fact |
that they had maintained gilt-edged dip |
lomatic condition undisturbed, but they |
who would vote for the immediate passage |
OF the bill, would have their names held in |
reverence, not only by the present popula- |
tion of the Pacific Coast, but by many mil |
lions who are to inhabit it in the future.
Vest said he had seen enough OF the |
Cinnamon in California to make him feel
that there were yellow fever, cholera and |
smallpox. politically. in the country in the |
Chinese. He had asked the Senator from |
Nevada question as to the Declaration of |
Independence, but had got only an indis- !
tinct answer. He wanted to know if those |
Republican Senators from the Pacific coast |
who urged the Senate to relieve them from |
the curse OF the Chinese, were willing to |
turn round and vote for the most extreme |
measure, to hX on the white men OF the |
South the curse of the negro domination. |
II the right to vote were attempted to be |
given to the Chinese OF the Pacific coast,
CALIFORNIA WOULD FIGHT
the country till the last man fell in defense |
OF his hone and fileside. Even little Ne |
vada. with her 5000 people, would take
up arms against such thing. But when |
the negroes of the South, under the leader |
ship of corrupt politicians and reckless |
demagogues, are given the right to strike |
down the civilization Of the Southern peo- |
pie, the reply was heard from these same |
Senators, that that was different ques-
tion.
The Senator from Nevada had just said |
he did not believe that two races 80 dis |
similar can live in the same country, but |
when it came to the negro domination in |
the South, how was it? The whites in the |
South had to submit to every outrage, |
and if negro was killed in an affray, q |
committee of inquiry" had to be ap-
pointed, and violent declarations were |
heard.
1t was agreed that vote on Blair's |
motion to reconsider shall be taken at 2 |
tomorrow. Adjourned.
The House. |
WAsHINGToN, September ia joint |
resolution was passod aytandino until |