, 1888-09-05
ON H FISHERIES.
Belmont Opens the Debate on
the Retaliation Bill.
Creary Defends the Presidents
Message.
Interesting News Notes From
the Capital.
In the Senate.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Coke called
attention to the resolution adopted at the
recent convention in Denver in favor of a
deep water harbor on the northwest coast
of the Gulf of Mexico and suggesting that
no senator, representative or delegate be
elected who was not known to be honestly
in favor of an appropriation for that u
pose and will not work for it earnestly and
faithfully. He also presented a memorial
on the same subject from the deep water
harbor committee of Galveston and asked
that it be printed in the records. So or
dered.
At 2:45 the senate resumed conside a.
ton of the house bill to prohibit Chinese
immigration and was addressed by Teller
in its support. He replied to the argu-
ment made yesterday by George throwing
the responsibility for the presence of Chi
nese on the Republican party. He dis
claimed such responsibility and defended
the course of Harrison in his votes in the
senate on the anti Chinese legislation.
The Republican candidate for the presl-
dency had occupied the same position on
the Chinese question as he (Teller) had
always occupied and was as sound as any
man in the world on the question of pro-
bSSblOh " 1AluCllSdh idDOl, WuCbuCl dRdlIbU
the pauper labor Of Europe or the pauper
labor of china.
Teller proceeded to compare the course
ton in California, the only state where
lie opinion, and claimed that the Repub-
lcan party there had always been OPP
posed to Chinese immigration, while the
| IlapnnOrofTo bod NOT h4A- GN-o--
Stanford's message to the legislature in
1862 had been the first official declaration
against it.
Payne inquired whether the Central
Pacific Railroad company, of which Stan
Mongolians to build that road.
Teller-No, sir; nor any other railroad
company. They came to California of
bill, he mentioned the remarkable fact
that it had passed the house without ref
erence to the committee and
not by a member of the committee on
foreign affairs, but by a man who in no
sense and under no circumstances had
AS the senator from South Carolina (But-
lSlI q oahu JCoGSludJ WILL SICdJ lIdIh-
ness, the bill was a political movement.
He did not find it stated in the Record
that the bill had been drawn in the office
of the solicitor general, but he heard it
so stated outside, and that it was sent
down from the executive department to
be passed. If he were to look over the
house to select a man who most fifty rep
resented the American people who toll he
rynIrld hapAlu onIaat n MAN uuhA Aal 49,
ceeded in getting that bill through the
house. He had only succeeded because
he represented the president more than
1t was said of him (Mr. Scott that he
had given ten times as much money to
the Democratic campaign funds as the
SO, as he was said to have made millions
out of the laboring men of the coun-
try. In this connection Mr.. Teller sent
photographed sketch in the congress
sional directory.
The presiding officer, Mr.. Ingalls,
while it is undoubtedly in order to refer
to the acts of the other house of con-
gress generally, it is a violation of privi-
iCSC W lClCl " lullNluudl CudIdClGT OF
to acts or conduct of members of that
body. 1t interferes with absolute indie
pendence which ought to exist between
the two houses. and the chair thinks
perhaps this debate has already gone
farther than It should have gone. The
general parliamentary law on this sub
iect is so well defined that the chair
thinks it unnecessary to allude to it
further.
Mr.. Teller-I will not address myself
any farther to any member of congress,
but to a person acting in another capacity
as a member of the national Democratic
committee. Rumor says that this bill
was prepared for the purpose of affecting
the election on the Pacific slope. | do
not care whether this legislation gets on
the statute book because the chairman of
the Democratic committee or any member
of it is anxious to make political capital
| am for legislation, and therefore | wei
come it.
At the close of Teller's speech the Chi
nese bill went over. and after an executive
session the senate adjourned.