Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-18
By Senator EuStiS to an inter-
rogatory About Chinese
immigration
OF INTEREST TO OREGON.
Senator DOlph Refuses 10 Stand Up
and be Cross-Examined
IN THE ELECTIONS BILL DEBATE.
MOrgan's Strong Exclamation Against the
Vice of HypOcracy.
SPICY DEBATE IN THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE cousidera-
tion OF the Federal elections bill was re-
sumed in the Senate to-day, and little
more life was injected into the debate than
Tor several days past by some spicy pass
ages-at-arms between Senators Dolph and
Eustis
After the discussion had opened, Senator
Dolph took the floor and held It to be the
duty OF Congress. with malice toward
none and charity toward all, to exercise to
its fullest extent its powers under the Con-
stitution to secure to every citizen of the
United States, native or foreign born, white
or black, rich or poor, the free exercise OF
his rights under the Constitution.
Eustis Puts Question.
Mr.. EustIs said he would put a question
TO the Senator from Oregon and would ask
a frank answer to it. The question was
whether if the immigration OF Chinese had
not been prohibited if there were l, SOC, 600
Cinnamon in Oregon, who had the right of
suffrage and who established in Oregon a
Chinese State Government, and If the peo-
pie of Oregon had overthrown that Chinese
government and had re-established white
political supremacy, would he (Mr. Dolph)
in such case advocate tine passage OF q law
bv Congress, the intent and effect of which
would be to encourage, to stimulate and to
sustain those Cinnamon in their effort to re-
cover political power on race lines?
Mr.. Dolph said that that was precisely
the argument made on the Democratic side
OF the chamber.
Mr.. Eustis-Will the Senator answer my
question?
Mr.. DOlph-I am not going to be inter
rupted.
Mr.. Eustis-But L request the Senator
from Oregon to answer my question.
Not There to be Catechised.
Mr. Dolph-I will answer it In my own
way, but will not stand up to be catechized
l repeat that question, or that speech, is
precisely the argument used on the other
side of the Chamber by almost every
Senator who has discussed the bill. l
simply tell the Senator from Louisiana that
the proposition itself is preposterous. The
Chinese do not ask to become citizens of the
United States. They do not come here for
the purpose of becoming residents of the
country. But l will tell the
Senator from Louisiana that the people of
Oregon will never raise hand against the
Government of the United States. They
never will undertake to destroy this Union.
They will never fight against the flag OF
ceIve of contingency in which they will
not stand b. the flag. Now will ask the
Senator question.
Mr.. EustIs-I would prefer that you
answer nv question.
Mr.. Dolph-I have answered it, satisfac-
torily to myself.
Mr.. EusIis persisted in his efforts to have
his question answered more directly, but
without any more success.
Morgan Exclaims Against Hypocrisy.
Then Mr. Morgan took the floor and quoted
a clause from the constitution of Oregon re-
stricting the suffrage to white citizens, and
a section from the statutes of that State, pro-
bibiting the intermarriage of whites and ne
groes, Indians or Chinese, and he closed
With an exclamation against hypocrisy.
If Fred Douglass, he said, the ablest and
most respectable colored man in the coun-
try, were to go to Oregon with his white
wife, whom he had legally married in the
District of Columbia, the relations between
him and his wife would be pronounced by
the courts of Oregon as criminal, and he
would go to the penitentiary (and his wife
with him) for violating the law of that
humane and lovely State.
After arguments against the bill by
Messrs. Kenna, Reagan and Butler, Mr..
Cake obtained the floor and the Senate ad.
iourned