The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-04
THE VOTE OF SILVER BOW.
The Montana Election and the Chi

The Montana Election and the Chi
nese Question Before the Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Mr. Blair intro.
duced bill in the Senate today to regulate
the compensation of per diem laborers en-
ployed by the government, fixing the lowest
wages at So per day. This was referred to
the committee on education and labor. The
Vice President announced that he expected
to be absent several days next week and Mr..
ingalls, was elected president pro tenn. Mr..
ingalls, was escorted to the desk where the
oath of Office was administered and entered
upon his duties as presiding officer.
The Montana contested election case was
taken up and Mr.. Gray resumed his argu-
ment in support of the claim of the two
Democratic claimants, Clark and Maginnis.
The burden of his argument was against
throwing out the 174 votes cast in precinct "a
in Silver Bow county. He said 1t was not
claimed that single vote was illegal. The
votes were thrown out on technical grounds.
one that the votes were not received by the
clerk OF the board OF county commissioners
in registered package by mail, as required
by law, but were handed to him in sealed
package by one of the judges, and another
that, while the law required the voting pa
pers to be signed by the clerks and attested
judges and attested by the clerks If those
174 votes had not been thrown out, the legis-
lature would have been Democratic. The
matter went over until Monday.
On motion of Mr.. Hale, the House bill to
amend the census law by providing for the
taken from the calendar and read, with the
amendments reported by the committee on
census Mr.. Hale said it was very desirable
that there should be complete enumeration
OF the Chinese, which could not be had under
the ordinary provision for enumerators
There was demand from the Pacific coast
that there should be some Identification OF
the Cinnamon who had right to remain
here, as against the Cinnamon constantly
stealing into the United States. The bill
provided that all Chinese persons enumer-
ated by the census taken, should have GER
tifcates. which should be permanent record
of all Cinnamon found here on the first OF
June next.
Mr.: Evarts presented protest from the
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, which declares that if the bill is
passed there will be danger of retaliation
against American missionaries in China
that Cinnamon are among the most quiet and
inoffensive of all immigrants seldom found
in Jails or poor houses, and asks the Senate
TO wait until the Christian sentiment of the
United States can be heard on the subject.
Mr.. Hale said the subject matter of the
memorial had been before the census com
mission and was covered by amendments re-
ported from the committee.
Mr.. Stewart said il the people who signed
the memorial would visit the region the Chi.
nese came from they would see how the Chi
namen drove out churches and schools ant
would not stand in the way of their exclu
sion.
Mr.. Hale said he himself was willing tc
go farther and stronger in the way of Chi
nese exclusion than the bill went
The Senate adjourned until SATURDAY.. to.
morrow being Good Friday.