The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-05
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
Senator Teller Devotes his Speech to
the Political Sioe.

Senator Teller Devotes his Speech to
the Political Sioe.
WASHINGTON, Sept 4-The Senate this
afternoon resumed consideration of the
House bill to prohibit Chinese immigration,
aud was addressed by Mr.. Teller in support
of the bill and defining the distinction be-
tween a violation Of the treaty and abro-
eating it in the manner here proposed. Mr..
Teller mentioned the remarkable fact that
the bill had been passed by the House with
out reference to a committee, and that it
had been introduced, not by a member of
the committee or foreign affairs, but by
man who, in no sense and under no circum-
stance, had a right to speak for American
labor As the senator from South Carolina
(Mr Butlerl had said with great frankness,
the bill was political movement.
WHERE 1T WAS DRAWN.
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 on the outside, and that it was sent
down from the executive department in hot
haste to be passed II did not take much to
make men believe there was something in
the quick passage of the bill through the
House more than desire TO protect Ameri-
can labor against the incursion
OF Asiatic labor. II he wore
to look over the house to select
the man who would most fifty represent the
American people who toll, he would hardly
select the man who had succeeded in getting
that bill through the House in not haste
He had only succeeded because he was
high priest in the democratic church, and
because he represented the President more
than any other man in the Democratic
party.
SCOTS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION.
1t was said of him tMr Scott that he had
given ten times as much money to the
democratic campaign fund as the President
had given. He (Mr. Teller did not know
how true that was, but he knew that if that
gentleman chose to give 100000 to the
democratic campaign fund he had right
to do It, He was able to do it, as he was
said to have made millions of dollars out of
the laboring men of the country. In this
connection Mr.. Teller sent to the clerks
desk and had read Mr.. Scott's autobio-
graphical sketch in the congressional direc-
tory.
SOMEWHAT OUT OF ORDER
The presiding officer (Mr Ingalls, s)-The
chair takes occasion TO remark that while
it Is undoubtedly in order to refer to tho
acts of the other House Of congress gener-
ally, it is a violation of privilege to refer to
individual character or to the acts OF CON
duct of members of that body 1t inter
feres with the absolute independence which
ought to exist between the two houses, and
the chair thinks that perhaps this debate
has already gone further than it should
have gone. The general parliamentary law
on this subject is so well defined that the
chair thinks it unnecessary to allude to it
further.
Mr.. Teller--I will not address myself any
further to any member Of congress, but to
a person acting in another capacity--as a
member of the democratic national com
mittee.
At the close of Mr.. Teller's speech the
Chinese bill went over without action, and
the Senate after a short executive session,
at sos o'clock adjourned.