Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-05
WASHINGTON.
The Chinese Exclusion Bill
Still Pending.
PARTISAN TACTICS DISPLAYED,
Republicans Anxious to Make a Chi.
nese RecOrd-Better Late
Than Never.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

resolution adopted at the recent tOnVen-
ton at Denver in favor of dep water
harbor on the Northwest Coast OF the
Gulf of Mexico, suggesting that no Sena-
tor, Representative or Delegate be elected
who was not known to be honestly in
favor of an appropriation for that pur-
pose, and will not work for it earnestly
and faithfully. He also presented me-
mortal on the same subject from the
Deep Water Harbor Committee of Gal
weston, and asked that it be printed in
the Record. So ordered.
Cullom offered resolution (adopted)
calling Oh the Secretary of War for infor-
nation as to the channel ordinarily used
for the navigation of the Detroit river and
st. Clair Flats; whether its water was
within the jurisdiction of the United
States or Canada, etc.
Cullom also introduced bill to declare
trusts unlawful, and had it referred to the
Committee on Finance.
TIE CHINESE BILL.
At 2 AS the Senate resumed considera-
ton of the House bill to prohibit Chi
nese immigration and was addressed by
Teller in support.
He alluded sarcastically to Cleveland's
remarks on being informed OF his nomin-
alton at st. Louis wherein he said the
feeling Of awe with which had heard OF
his first nomination had now been inten.
sifed.
Plumb said he could understand that
remark in view of the fact that the Dem
cracy had been hungry for twenty
years. He also brought up circumstances
connected with the removal of District
Attorney Benton, of Missouri, and Dis
trict Attorney Stone, of Pennsylvania, for
neglecting their fficial duties in order to
make partisan speeches, the former hav-
ing been reinstated through the efforts of
Vest, although Benton had maligned the
Administration, while the latter, who
had not maligned the Administration,
had not been reinstated. He merely
wanted to show that the comparison
brought forward yesterday by Vest, to
show the impartiality of Cleveland, did
not compare.
Vest replied to Plumb's treaty of the
Benton and Stone matter and remarked
that it was like the 'threshing out of old
straw" Incidentally the politics of the
st. Louis newspapers (from which Mr..
Plumb had quoted extracts) was brought
in. Vest then referred to the Foster cir
cular containing the remarks of Re-
publican Senator as to Crying the fat"
out OF the protected manufactures, and
said that if the Senators were to indulge
in elimination and recrimination, it
would be interesting to know what Sem
ator had made use Of that language
The two senators from Vermont had de-
MED that they had made any such state
ment, and the question now was who had
made it. When that question was
answered he Vest )would 90 further in
the details of the pending campaign.
Reagan denounced the Republican
party for its legislation on the greenback
question and the silver coinage question,
and was followed in the same direction
by Stewart, who expressed his sympathy
with the views expressed by the Texas
Senator.
Stewart, in that connection, deplored
the possibility of Cleveland's election,
which would, he said, prevent the relief
of the silver question in the next four
years, because Cleveland was in favor of
the single gold standard and of the pay
ment of bonds in gold. Why, he asked,
was the Senator from Texas supporting
such an administration as that, an ad-
ministration in favor of the single gold
standard and free trade, the twin sisters
of destruction?
Reagan retorted to Stewart, and ex-
pressed surprise that the Nevada Sena-
tor should act with the Republican party,
which had caused the very condition OF
things which he had admitted and de-
plored.
Stewart replied that two things recon
ciled him with his party. He knew
Cleveland would veto any bill for the
free coinage of silver, and that Harrison
would not veto such bill.
Reagan questioned the latter part OF the
remark, because, he said, Harrison was
representative of class interests at the
expense of the people.
The resolution went over without ac-
ton, and the Senate resumed consider
alton of the bill to prohibit Chinese i'm
migration, and was addressed by Teller
in support of the bill.
TELLER GOES FOR REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT.
He replied to the argument made yes
terday by George, throwing the response
bility for the presence of the Chinese on
the Republican party. He disclaimed
such responsibility and defended the
course of Harrison in his votes in the
Senate on anti Chinese legislation. The
Republican candidate for the Presidency
had occupied the same position on the
Chinese question as he (Teller) had al
ways occupied and was as sound as any
man in the world on the question of pro-
lection to American labor, whether
against the pauper labor or Europe, or
the pauper labor of China.
Teller proceeded to compare the course
of the two parties on the Chinese ques-
ton in California, the only State where
that question had crystalized into public
opinion, and claimed that the Republic
can party there has always been opposed
to Chinese immigration, while the Demo
cratic party had not been. Governor
Stanford's message to the Legislature in
1862 had been the first official declara-
ton against it.
Senator Payne inquired whether the
Central Pacific Railroad Company, of
which Stanford was President had not
imported Mongolians to build that road.
Teller--No, sir, nor any other railroad
company. They came to California of
their own accord. As to the pending
bill, he mentioned as a remarkable fact
that it had passed the House without
reference to the Committee, and it had
been introduced, not bya member of the