Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-01
THE HEATHEN HORDE.
Stewards Bill to Restrict
their Coming Here.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE LIMITED.
Animated Debate Over the Pro.
posed Additional Pension
Payments.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, February 29.-In the
Senate to-day bill to amend the
Chinese Restriction Act was reported
favorably by Sherman from the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. The bill
provides that the words "Chinest
laborers" and "Chinese passengers
shall be held to include and mean any
persons of the Chinese race without
regard to the government to which
the Chinese may owe allegiance, and
without regard to the port. place OF
country from which he or she may
come to the United States.
Tne second section provides that all
Chinese laborers who departed from
the United States between November
18th, 1880, and June 9th, 1882, having
at the time of departure the right to
return to the United States under
provisions of the treaty between the
United States and the empire oil
China, bearing date November II,
1880, shall avail themselves of such
right 80 secured, and return to the
United States within six months after
the passage of this act. Every Chinese
laborer SO departing, who fails to re-
turn to the United States within said
six months, shall be taken and
deemed to have waived his right to
return under the provisions of the
treaty, and shall forever thereafter be
excluded from the United States.
Section three reads as follows: that
the certificate provided by the Act OF
of May 2, 1872, to be delivered to
Chinese departing from the United
States for the purpose OF Identification
on their return shall, ninety days
after the passage Of this act, be such
as the secretary of the treasury shall,
from time to time, prescribe. And
the secretary Of the treasury shall
have the power to make all needful
rules and regulations to prevent entry
into the United States Of any Chinese
who are denied the right so to enter
by any act Of Cong ess, and the acts Of
Congress relating to the entry ol
Chinese into the United States are
hereby amended so as to conform
with such act.
Sherman, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported a resolu-
ton as an amendment to the one
offered by Stewart requesting the
President, in view of the difficulties
and embarrassments which have at
tended the immigration Of Chinese
laborers under the limitation Of the
treaties with China, to nominate 8
treaty with the Emperor of China
containing a proviso that no Chinese
laborers shall enter the United States
Laid over.
THE MOUNT HOOD PARK.
Mitchell offered resolution, which
was agreed to, instructing the Com
mittee on Public Lands to inquire
into the propriety and advisability ol
having seven or eight townships OF
the public domain surrounding and
including Mount Hood, Oregon, sci
apart as national park.
A bill to provide for the compulsory
education of Indian children, as
amended by Vest, was passed. Il
makes it the duty OF the Secretary oi
the Interior to establish an industrial
boarding school on every Indian
reservation upon which there may be
located any Indian tribe number.
ing 500 or more adult Indians
The pupils are to be taught
the branches OF useful labor in addi
ton to the usual studies in primary
classes. Nothing in the bill is to pre-
vent the education of Indian children
in schools outside of the reservations
with the consent of their parents OF
guardians, and no provisions Of the
act are to apply to the five civilized
tribes, nor to the Usage Indians OF the
Indian Territory.
Call offered a resolution which was
laid over, instructing the Committee
on Public Lands to report that the
bill declaring all patents for public
lands issued by the Secretary of the
Interior without the authority of the
law, be declared absolutely void, and
requiring the Attorney General te
brings suits to vacate and set them
aside.
A bill providing for. a Nationa
Art commission, to pass upon works
of art to he purchased by the Govern
ment, was taken up and passed.
PENSION CLAIMS.
The Senate then resumed consider
alton of the bill granting pensions to ex
soldiers and sailors incapacitated fol
the performance of manual labor, anC
providing for pensions to dependent
relations of deceased soldiers and
sailors.
Wilson, of Iowa, moved an amend.
ment, to insert the words "from
infirmities of age," so as to pension
all exlsoldiers suffering "from infirmi
ties of age or from mental or physical
disability"
In the debate which took place
Plumb delivered an eloquent eulogy
on the army.
Vest said that they had heard q
good deal about almshouses and
veteran soldiers. In the State O
Missouri there were no Fedora
soldiers in almshouses, and he was
proud to say that there were no Con-
federates either. The South to-day
was covered with manned and Grip
pied soldiers who had been shot ant
shelled for their honest convictions
and they asked for no pension, anC
would not take it. God be blessed tha
they were not in almshouses, ant
none of them had ever been seer
begging for bread. Whence, then
came the talk OF Federal soldier,
in almshousos? They were no
there. He was tired and sicl
of the insinuations Of robbery and pre-
tences of hypocrisy in the name o
true and gallant soldiers of the Union
He would give every disabled o.
dependent soldier Of the Federal
army, and the widows and orphans o
those who lost their lives in. service
tie last acre Of land and the last dol