Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
1t PASSES the Senate, but a Motion sS Re-
consider is Made,

consider is Made,
WAsHIHSToE, September 7th.-The Tsso-
luton heretofore offered by Mr. Vest for an
inquiry into'the case of the Senate official
| (Mr. Mckee, for publishing a campaign
book, was taken up, and 1t the suggestion
of Mr. Mitchell was informally lad aside.
Mr. Hoars resolution, offered yesterday,
calling the attention of the President to the
previous request of the Serate to be fur
nlshed with copies of compunicatioas to
the British Government in regard to the
fisheries was taken up, and, at the sugges-
ton of Mr.. Vest, was laid aside informally,
Mr.. Vest stating that it was his understand
ing that the message would be received IN
about half an hour.
German moved thas the bill be referred
to the Committee or Foreign Relations.
bat his motion was loss. Ayes L, noes 10.
No qpoEam.
Blair moved to reconcider, so as 10 have
the bill amended, suspenIing the operation
OF the bill for sixty days. vote was taken
and the bill passed. kyes 81, noes g.
Brown, Hoar and Wilson of Iowa.
Blair moved to recOnsideE the vote.
German referred to his motion to commit
the bill ). and said he had made that melton
in consideration of the fact that the bill
had come before the Senate under q misap-
prehension. While the measure was an
der consideration there was a belief that
the treaty recently negotiated had been re-
ieeted by China. Now the Senate is in
formed officially that that belief has no
foundation. Such action as we have Just
taken ought not TO have been taken, and if
ii was proposed to take such action in re-
gard to q great nation the bill would not
have received half a dozen votes We all
understand the pressure on both sides in
the face of the great contest between the
two political parties. / concur with the
Senator from Ohio (Mr Sherman), the
leader on mis- side, that this mat
ter is above politics = that it is
above the present elections, and that it
ought not be passed in this indecent haste. |
l am delighted that the Senator from
New Hampshire has made q motion to
reconsider, ard has given notice of an
amendment which he proposes to present.
| hope the motion will prevail l give no.
tice that if the motion to reconsider be car
ried, shall again move to commit the bill
to the Committse on Foreign Relations,
with the message of the President. That
committee can come here next week and
present measure that will not put
us in that position in which the Chinese
Government will have moral right to ex-
clude all of our people from that Empire.
| do not believe that either party can gain
any advantage by this unseemly and hasty
action on great measure which is above
all politics. We are all united in restrict |
ing Chinese immigration, and l do not be-
heye that in this contest there is any ad- |
vantage on either side. If we go on in the !
face of information which we have received
to-day, we will destroy our own trade with |
the Chinese and make it impossible for this |
great nation of S0,000,000 of people to have
an outlet in China for its products, and
close the door which, during years past, we
have tried by fleets and special ministers to
keep open.
Stewart opposed the motion to recon-
slider, and said that the more he read Den
bys dispatches the more he felt that the
bill was proper.
Blair advocated this motion. He argued
that the treaty wo1ld, if ratified by China,
afford all the remedy which the bill was
designed TO give. Unless the real purpose
of the bill was to destroy the treaty. delay
of sixty days ought TO be satisfactory to
everybody. He was opposed to Germans
proposition TO commit the bill, and would
regard that as juggling with the matter
Dolph took up the question of the natu-
raliZstion of a Chinaman in Indianapolis,
and showed that naturalization had gone
no farther than nele declaration of
is sufiicient under The Indiana Law
to entitle men to vote He declared hat
the Democratic Senators had changed front
and voted at last solidly for the bill The
situation was precisely IS il was last Mon
day, when the bill was in The House. The
bill was wrong and wss violation of the
treaty. If it was immature, the respousi-
bility was with those who sent 1t 10 the
House, and he would leave il 10 them to
deal with.
At the cl,-e of The discussion Teller
moved u lay on the table Blairs motion
to reconsider
a vote was taken and resulted: \ eas -.
nays IL. No quorum.
a call OF The Srnae having shown the
presence of il Senators, Jones of Arkansas
moved to adjourn.
Blair-"As the vote just taken is plainly
indicative of the will of the Senate, l do
not want TO delay action. and | therefore
ask leave TO withdraw the motion to re-
consider
Sherman-'I object
The vote was taken on the motion TO ad-
ionrn, and it was defeated-yeas 10, nays
%
The vote was taken a second and third
time on the motion 10 lay on the table the
motion to reconsider, but each time there
was lack of quorum, several Senators
taking advantage of their being paired to.
refrain from voting Finally the friends.
of the bill realized the uselessness Of further
attempts to end the matter, and the Senate
adjourned till Monday, leaving the bill
passed, but with a motion TO reconsider
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