Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
.CAHENSLY RECALLED
By a Senator Who Pays a Very High
Compliment to Pope Leo KILL
Mr.. DAVIS ON THE CHINESE BILL.
Blair's Resignation Accepted After He Had
Withdrawn It
HIS OPPOSITION TO THE SCOTT BILL

WASHINGTON, April 22.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Hoar, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported bill to amend section G, of
the revised statutes, which authorizes ap-
peals to the Circuit Court of the United
States from State courts in cases where the
/ person convicted claimed to have acted un-
der the authority of any statute of the
United States under the authority of any
foreign power. The amendment is to add to
the section the words: provided that said
appeal sha all not stay execution in capital
cases, unless accompanied by an order from
the Judge from whose decision such appeal
is taken, restraining the Sheriff or other
officer from executing sentence of the trial
Judge"
An explanation of the matter was made
by MI. Hoar, who'gave as an illustration of
the need of the proposed legislation the
case of wife murderer in New Jersey who
had pleaded guilty and been sentenced to
death, but tor whom an appeal had been
taken on the ground that the Constitution
of the United States provided jury trial in
all capital cases.
The bill was passed, with an additional
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Army Appropriations Coming Up.
The army appropriation bill was reported
and placed on the calendar, Mr. Stewart
giving notice that he would call it up on
Monday next, provided it did not interfere
with the Chinese bill
The urgent deficiency bill was then taken
up and q number of amendments were
agreed to, when the calendar was taken up
and lot of unimportant bills passed.
After some discussion q bill was passed
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to
increase to S12 month the pension of every
pensioner who is now on the rolls at So a
month on account of services in the Mexi-
can War. and who: is wholly disabled for
manual labor and is in such destitute cir
cumstances that So q month is insufficient
| to provide him with the necessaries of life.
The Chinese exclusion bill was then taken
up, and Mr. Chandler proceeded to present
| testimony as to the continuous introduction
| of Chinese from Canada and British Colum-
bia, in order to show the need of more
stringent laws to prevent the influx of
Chinese over the land border. He favored
the seventh section of the House bill, pro-
viding the penalty of imprisonment in q
penitentiary for Cinnamon so introduced.
In the course of his remarks, he referred to
the Scott act of October 1, 1888, as a viola
tion Of the treaty with China The term
"violation" did not suit Mr.. Teller, who
suggested the use of the term "abrogation"
or ''repeal," but Mr.. Chandler said he saw
no difference in the terms.
Blair's Opposition to the Scott Law.
In reply to question by Mr. Hiscock,
L.
had never assented to the partial abrogation
of the treaty. 1t had refused to receive the
new Minister from the United States on the
ground that Congress had passed the Scott
law. He was free to admit that he thought
the situation between the American Govern
ment and China bad one. Reverting to
the case of Mr.. Blair, he remarked that that
Senator was almost the only one who made
a vigorous fight in the Senate against the
Scott bill
The Speaker then went on to read and
comment upon the correspondence of the
State Department with the Chinese Govern
ment and Mr.. DENLY on the subject of Mr..
Blalr's rejection as Minister. He referred,
particularly, with much acerbity of Ian
guage, to the fact that the dispatch of the
State Department of October (explain-
ing and defending the position Of Mr..
Blair), had not been communicated to the
Chinese Government, but had been buried
in the archives of the Legation until Mr..
Wharton, by his dispatches Of March 20,
1892, directed it to be done forthwith.
A Withdrawn Resignation Accepted.
He called attention to the fact that on
July Mr.. Blair had (for reasons stated in
his memorial now before the Senate e)written
to the State Department as follows: "I
withdraw my tender of resignation, and |
will thank you to inform the President"
Dr. Wharton's response to that was: 'I
have received your letter of the 9th instant,
Withdrawing your tender of resignation; |
and in accordance with your request, shall |
inform the President Of your action this |
afternoon. "And yet" said Mr.. Chandler, |
with much earnestness of manner, "on Oc- |
tober 6 the President accepted the resigna- |
tion which had been withdrawn, and there
is the record"
Mr.. Davis, member of the Committee |
on Foreign Relations, looked upon the |
House bill as rank, radical, unblushing, |
unmitigated repudiation of every treaty
obligation remaining between the United |
States and China He said that the Chinese
Government was not anxious for its people |
to come to the United States But how
was it, he asked, with the Governments of /
the Western hemisphere?
The Cahensly Matter Recalled.
There was more matter for profound con-
sideration, the speaker thought, in the at
tempts of Mr.. Cahensly, who had submitted
to the Pope, last year, proposition in
tended to denationalize American institu-
tions and to supplant them by the institu-
tions of as many nationalities as were to be
found in America, than there was in all the
Chinese questions that had arisen since
1858. That gentleman MIR. Cahensly) pro-
posed to use the power of the Catholic
Hierarchy to bring about that great politi-
cal result. He (Mr Davis) rejoiced that
he could speak of the matter without COM
mitting the offense of treading on religious
ground, because it was infinitely to the
credit of Pope Leo Kill, the greatest
statesman who had sat on the Pontifcal
throne for centuries, that he had repelled
the proposition as soon as made to him.
That attempt had not been instigated by
the American Hierarchy at all. He be-
lieved that it met with the reprobation of
Cardinal Gibbons, and he knew that it met
with the reprobation of Archbishop Ire
land.
This Mr.. Cahensly, Mr.. Davis said, was
Prussian Diet. In the memorial which he
presented to the Vatican he claimed that the
want of representation Of the different ma
tionalities of emigrants in the episcopate
was one of the chief causes of desertion on
the part of the Catholic forces; and that
hence it was desirable that every different
national group of emigrants should be Or
yanized into distinct parish, with priest
Of its own nationality. 1t was one Of this
mans schemes that the various foreign
languages should be perpetuated in the
United States by the segregation Of people
according to nationality.