Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-05

The Chinese Who Were Elk
cluded Ten Years Ago.
SO Decides the Senate by a
Vote of 80 to Is.

Senator sherman Protests Declaring
That, In His Opinion, the United States
Has No Right to Trample ON tho Treaty
with China--How Present Legislation
is Affected by the New Law.
WASHINGTON, Mays The conference
report on The Chinese exclusion bill was
laid before the senate Tuesday. AS
agreed upon the bill is practically re-
enactment for ten years of the existing
law, with the following additional pro.
visions:
No Chinese person is to be released on
bail pending action on a writ of habeas
corpus. All Chinese laborers now in the
United States are to be compelled to OBJ
tain registration certificates, and all per-
sons other than laborers may apply fol-
such certificate for which no charge is
to be made. This feature of the law is
to be carried out under the direction of
the internal revenue bureau of the treas
ury department. Forging certificates
will be punished by Imprisonment for
five years. Chinese persons who attempt
to come into the country unlawfully will
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manded to China.
sherman Protests.
AS soon as it was read, Mr.. Sherman
stated that although a member of the
conference committee, he had not been
able to sign the report. He was very
willing to provide any necessary legisla-
ton for the restriction of Chinese labor,
and thought that the senate bill had
done so very broadly. Those who be-
lieved that the United States had right
to trample on the treaty and to disre-
gard it might vote for the conference
report without compunction; but, for
his part, he did not feel at liberty to
do so.
Mr. Vest said that he had no DISPOSE
ton to violate treaties; but self-preserva-
ton was the first law of nations as well
as of individuals.
Mr.. Frye spoke of a visit which he
had made to Rock Springs, Wy, where
he had seen about a hundred Cinnamon
--peaceable, quiet, well behaved, clearly
people. There We're also there two com
panies of infantry; and when he in
quired of their commanding officer why
the troops where there, he was told
that their presence was necessary in
order to protect the lives of these quiet,
unotfcnding Cinnamon from horde of
unnaturaizud Poles and Hungarians,
who worked in the mines.
Mr. Palmer said that there We're two
reasons why he could not vote for the
conference report. One was that a
Chinaman seeking to come into the
United States was not to be admitted to
bail. That was an unnecessarily harsh
provisiOn-one not consistent with the
fundamental principles of justice that
existed in lima, and America, and
every where where God reigned The
other reason was the provision for the
arrest of Cinnamon not provided with
certificates. He sympathized with the
gentlemen of the Pacific coast, and
would do an-'thing to help them except
what he believed to be essentially wrong
and unjust.
The vote was then taken, and the con-
ference report was agreed to-yeas 80,
nays 15-as sollows:
Yeas-Me' rs. Allen, Allison, Chand-
Ter, Cockrell, Cullom, Dolph, FELTON,,
Gallinger, German, Hansbrough, Harris,
Hiscock, Jones of Arkansas, McPher-
son, Mitchell, Morgan, PETER, Perkins,
Power, Ransom, Sanders, Shoup, Squire,
Stanford, Stewart, Stockbridge, Vest,
Walthall, Warren and Wkite-30.
Nays-Messrs. Bate, Call, Colquitt,
Dawes, Dixon, Frye, George, Gray, Hig
gins, Kyle, Palmer, Platt, Push, Sher-
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