Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-26
FURTHER Discussion Of the Matter BY
the scnato.-i Lonely AMIR.
native Vote.
SENATOR seuIRr ARGUES IN FAVOR
or THE HOUSE BILL.
'roiests Against sunday Closing =
Chinese Q NeiusIou HItI


bhy ADVENTIST, urging Congress not
| 70 commit Itself 10 any religious creed
| ~ urging that the Columbian Expose
| tion be closed on Sundays, were laid
before TIE Senate; also two femuu-
/ ttfanc,a FROM Massachusetts against
/ W. passage u the Chinese exclusion
| bill.
senator Butler gave notice that
] Thursday Of next week lie would ask
Tue senate 10 take up for action the
/ BIZ 20 transfer the revenue marine from
I me treasury department to the navy
department..
senator Allison expressed the horo
mat, whom the Appropriation bills wer.
| ready, they wOulu take precedence OF
all other matters.
Senator Coke gave notice that he
would adde's the Senate very briefly
tomorrow on Senator Morgan's silver
resolution.
TnE CHINESE EXCLUSION mLL
was then taken up, and the presiding
uihccf put the question on the adoption
OF the substitute reported by the com.
ni1tee On foreign relations. Senator
sherman gave the only Affirmative
| vote anu there being no vote Ia the neg.
alive. the presiding officer declared
tue substitute adopted. Immediately
afterwards, however, Senator Mitchell,
who lad the iloOr to speak Against tho
subs Uute. came into the chamber, and
the Presiding officer was proceeding 10
tut Ia. question again, when senator
liutlcr said ho understood that the sub.
sliluto was adopted.
The presiding officer admitted that
he had 20 decided, but said that he
would put the question again, while
the chair did now decide 10 count II as
"nu vote"
tiou:"
"Nc, sir" said Senator Mitchell.
Instead, however, OF proceeding with
his own Argument against the sub.ti.
tutc, ho yielded the floor TO Senator
squire, who argued Ia favor OF tho
House bill, or SOME other vigorous
measure to enforce hecxcluslon OF the
Chinete. He declared, however, that
he great trouble In the matter was the
Lax and Intellectual manner In which
the existing laws were executed, and
10 sustain that view read cOpious ex.
tracts from the tostimony taken by tn.
senate committee ON that subject q
Few year. ago.
Senator Mcpheuon introduced an
amendment 10
THE SPRINGER FREE WOOL NIL
providing that after January ist next
all sugars, tank bottt mH, DRAWINGS,
sWeepins, syiups or cane Juice, melada,
concentrated melada, concrete and
uhcontfeted molaises, glucose aud
grape sugar, he admitted nee.
Senator Mitchell, speaking upon the
lfllHfttat rim
gtetted u antngOnizc the deliberate
judgment OF the comml,lp, ON foreign
relations, he fe't lmpelled by sense OF
duty 10 vote against the substitute,
anu IN favor OF absolute Chinese ex.
rlutlon as expressed Ia the House Till.
The discussion WAS continued until
O'CLOCK, when "a vote was taken on
The substitute measure reported from
Tue committee on foreign relations, and
u was agreed to-yeas 40, nays II.
ftas- Allison, Bate, Berry, Brice,
Butler, Call, Carey, Carlisle, Cockrell,
Coke, Colquitt, Culluni, Dawes, Dixon,
Frye, Goiman, Gray, HansbTougli,
Higgins, HisCOck, Jones' (Arkansasl,
McPheison, MsnderBop, Morgan, Pad
dock, Palmer. PETER, Perkins, Petit
grew, Plat, Proctor, pugh, Ransom,
Sawyer sherman, Equifes, Stock.
bridge, Vest, Villas, WRlthall and
Washhurn--i3.
Nays--Ailen, Blodgett, Chandler.
Dnnitl, Dubois. FELTON,, Jones tNeN.l,
Mitchell, Sanders, ShOup, Stewart,
Teller, Warren aud Wilson-li.
Wolcott aud Dolph we're paired with
Messrs. kenuA and George,
Senator Plat moved
10 AMEND TIrE SUBSTITUTE,
so as to exclude from the antl.Chiness
laws TO be- extended for ten yeaIs, tho
Scott exclusion OflSsS.
Senator Sherman said that he wp,
not Inclined to vote tor the amendment.
although he declared that the Scot.
law was One Of the mUst vicious passed
since lie has been In Congress. Its
passage, he said, was the result OF
race between the two political parties
10 try 10 Influence the vote OF tho
Pacific Coast In the last Presidential
election.
Senator Plntps amendment was re.
iecled-yoas S, nays IS, the yeAs being
Senator's bate, Blogett, Cab, Dawes,
Dixon, Frye, Plat, Iugh.
Senator Chandler offered an amend.
ment increasing the PENALTY for the
unlawful coming OF Chinese laborers.
Rejected
Senator FELTON, offered an amend.
meut requiring all Chinese residents,
except diplomatic and other officers
and their servants, TO obtain, within
one year, from the collector Of inter.
nal revenue In their respective dis.
tiicts certificates Of residence, and ap.
$4,000 to carry out their
provision. Rejected.
The bill us amended was then passed
without division, and the title amends
eel TO read: "TO prohibit the coming
Of Chinese persons into the United
States"
A conference with the House was
asked.
The bill, Us passed, continues in
force all the laws now IN force, pro.
hibl,ins and regulating the coming in.
TO the country Of Chinese, for ten
yoaTs. Any Chinese persoo, or per-
son 0f Chinese descent, when con-
vicled under said laws, shall be re-
from the United States to
China, unless 1t is made to appear that
said person is u subject or citizen OF