, 1890-04-04

WASHINGTON, April 3.-It was order
ed that tomorrow. being Good Friday,
the adjournment to day shall be till Sat
urday.
Blair, at his W request, was excused
from further service on the committee on
public lands and Pettigrew was appointed
in his place.
Blair introduced q bill to regulate the
compensation of laborers employed by the
government, fixing the lowest wages at 81
per day.
The vice president announced hat he
expected to be absent several days next
week. ingalls, was chosen president pro
tempore, took the oath OF office aud as
sumed the duties.
The Montana contested election case
was taken up as unfinished business and
Gray resumed his arguments in supper
of the Democratic claimants.
The burden of Gray's argument was
against the throwing out of ia votes
cast In a precinct of Silver Bow county.
If the vote was thrown out the resolution
of the majority would be, he said. to vio-
late the most sacred traditions of American
biolOiJ ~ IVAN lbtltJs lIG plO-
tested against putting the odious mark of
the bar sinister on the State of Montana
thus early in her career. The matter
Their went over until Monday.
The house bill to amend the census law
by providing for the enumeration of Chi
nese population was read with the senate
amendments.
Hale said there was a demand from the
Pacific coast that there should be some
Identification of the Cinnamon here and
who had a right to remain here as against
Cinnamon constantly stealing into the
United States. He himself would have
been willing to go farther and stronger 10
the way OF Chinese exclusion than the bill
went. The amendments of the committee
were all in the direction of making the
bill less severe, and he feared the com
mittee had gone too far in that direction.
Eustis thought it strange the census
committee should report a bill which had
nothing to do with the census,
but a good deal to do with munich
pal, police and international obligations.
the bill provided penal statutes
with reference to a class of people
residing in the United States by reason
of treaty rights. 1t gave lust cause for
complaint to a foreign governments
government considered within the family
of nations; a civilized government with
which the government of the United
States had solemn treaties and a nation
with which the American people had i'm
portant and valuable Commercial. relations.
If the question of Chinese exclusion was
to be reopened it should be done in the
proper way and not under the snam and
mockery of taking the census. The
census committee had bowed down TO
the house in reporting what he regarded
as the most outrageous bill ever sent to
the senate. The trade with China was
exceedingly important and the United
States were brought in competition with
Germany and England for that trade.
The Chinese government was engaged in
vast public works, for contracts for
which there was much competition, and
there was no necessity why that govern
ment and people should be lnsulted, af-
fronted and degraded BY such a meas
ure.
Hale stated that the object OF the bill
was to carry out the settled policy of the
government as shown By legislation in ex-
Guiding Chinese laborers from coming into
the United States hereafter. That was
its only object. Unless some such bill was
passed hundreds and thousands of Chi
nese would come from month to month
and from year to year. as they were now
coming. The object of the bill was to pre-
vent that. The matter then went over
until Monday.