Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-04
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Senator Ingalls, Nov Presides
Over the Senate.
Idaho Admission Bill Passed BY the
House, 1873 10 1.
Good Reasons Why Aormons Should
Be Deprived Of Suffrage.

WAsHiSGros, April 3--In the Senate i.
vas ordered that tomorrow being Good
Friday, the adjournment shall be until
Saturday.
Blair, at his own request, was excused
from further service on the committee On
public lands and Pettigrew was appointed
in his place.
Blair introduced . bill to regulate the
compensation per diem Of laborers en-
ployed by the government, (fxina the low
est wages at 81 per day. which Was
referred 70 the committee on education and
labor.
The Vice President announced that be
expected to be absent several days next
week.
Ingalls, was elected President pro tem.
Ingalls, was escorted to the desk where
the oath of Office was administered, and
entered upon his duties as presiding officer.
The Montana election case was then
taken up.
Gray resumed his argument in support of
the claim of the t~o democratic claimants,
CLARK and Maginns. The burden of his
argument was against throwing out IA
votes cast in precinct "a Silver Bow coun
ty. He said il was no, claimed = single
vote vas illegal. Votes were throEn out
on technical grounds, one that the votes
were not received by the clerk of the board
of comfy commissioners in registered pack
are by mail (as required by Law but hand
ed to him in sealed package by one the
judges. another that while the law required
voting papers signed by clerks and attested
oy judges, the papers were signed by Judges
and attested by clerks. If those l47 votes
were not thrown out the legislature would
have been democratic. Only Ave votes
were cast for the republican ticket. He
appealed TO the Senate whether it could
cor scisntIonsly vote 10 seat two men as
[ nited States Senators, when to do so they
were obliged to throw out as unworthy of
being'counted the votes of ia electors on
such grounds. Matters went over until
Monday.
On a motion of Hale the Honse bill to
amend the census law BY providing for the
of the Chinese population,
was taken from the calendar and read With
the anne ndments reported by the committee
on census. Hale said il was very desira bic
there should be a complete enumer ration of
the Chinese, that could not be had under
the ordinary provision for tnumerators
There was demand from the Pacific coast
that there should he some !,ieAtitct IN of
Cinnamon who had rgh' to remain he-e,
as against the Chlnsmen Constantly stealth
into the United States. The bill PROVIDE
that every Chinese person enumerate b.
the census taker, should have certificate
{ Duplicates of which are fled in the census
office which should be permanent record |
Of all Cinnamon found here the first of
Tu ba IS 81
bill is TO ssgregate those pt tople and pre-
vent subsequent accession to their number |
Evarts presented a protest from the Mis-
sonsry Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He declares that if the bill is
passed there is a danger of retsliation |
a against the A mercan missionaries in China
that Cinnamon were among the most quiet
and inoffensiye of migrants, seldom found
in jsils or poor houses. The passage of
the bill was a great outrage and an addi-
tional act of Injustice He asks the Senate
10 wait until the Christian sentiment of the
United States eau be heard on the subject. |
Hale said the subj &C. matter vas me
mortal, aud had been before the census
and was covered with amend
ments reported from the committee.
Stewart said II the pc pple who signed
The memorial woul j visit the region where
the Chinese came FROM and woult see how
the Cinnamon drove out churches aud |
school, they would not stan in the way of
the er exclusion.
Hale said he himself was willing to go
farther and stronger in the way of Chinese
exclusion than the bill went. The amend |
me nts reported from the committee were
all in the direction of making the bill less
severe, and he feared the committee had
gone too far in that direction.
The bill was allowed 10 70 over till Mon
dav. After an exec Isive session the Senate
at 8. 40 adjourned till Saturday