Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-26
|HLNS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. THE II 1 CHINESE EXCLUDED. Tie Bill Passes the Senate
 Yesterday AFTER 4 pROTRlCTsD BIScussloN A Double Tragedy in Cam
 bridgeport. SENATOR HAWLEY IN NORWICH At the Reception of the
 Board of Trade.
From All Quarters.
AFTER A pROTRACTeD DISCUSSION.
SENATOR HAWLEY IN NORWICH
At the Reception of the
 Board of Trade.

At the Reception of the
 Board of Trade.
 CHINESE MUST STAY BACK.
 The Exclusion Hill Passed in tn,
 Senate Yesterday After a Long Dis l cussdon-The Chair Was Somevvha, l Rattled-The Substitute sRepor, I Adopted on Unanimous Vote ol
 Senator sherman - Then Senator
 Manderson Declares it No Gvote-Au
 Amendment by MT. Platt Rejected l WASHINGTON, April 25.-The Chinese
 exclusion bill was taken up and the pre-. siding officer Senator Manderson) put the
 question on the adoption of the substitute lations. MT. Sherman gave the only af- firmative vote there being no vote in the negative, the presiding officer declared the substitute adopted.
 Immediately afterwards, however, MT. | Mitchell came into the chamber and the presiding officer was proceeding to put the l question again, when Mir. Butler said he understood that the substitute had been | adopted The presiding officer admitted I put the question.
 "The Senator from Ohio," said MT. But 1 Ter twas unanimous" [Laughter.] 1 "While the chair did so decide,'' said the presiding officer. "the chair will count | it, as no vote.' Is the senate ready for the questionp'
 "No, sir," said MT. Mitchell. Instead, however, of proceeding with his own argument against the substitute he yielded the floor to MT. Squire, who argued in favor of the house bill, or of okh ryip ko the exclusion af the Chinese. He declared, however, that the great trouble in the matter was the lax and inffectual manner in which the existing exclusion laws were executed, and to sustain that view he read copious extracts from testimony taken by @ senate committee on that subject a few years ago.
 Mr. Mitchell said that, much as he re- gretted to antagonize the deliberate judg- ment of the committee on foreign rela- tions, he felt impelled by a sense of duty to vote against the substitute reported by that committee and in favor of the princi- ples of absolute Chinese exclusion as ex- pressed in the house bill. He was not, however, inspired with great hope that anything he might be able to say at this time would be potential in preventing the adoption of the substitute. He had listened with considerable astonishment to the able speeches made by the members of the committee on foreign relations and particularly made by it's chairman. (Mr. Sherman.) Their opposition to the house bill was on the ground that it was a violation of the treaty; but there couldn't be more direct and positive violation of the treaty than the Scott exclusion act of 1888, which the committee on foreign re- lations proposed to continue in force for tan n uio nf hot foo the argument of the committee on foreign relations was illogical and fallacious and ought to have no weight with the senate or with the country. Nobody should sup pose that he was talking with a hope of defeating the committees substitute. He knew that it would be adopted by an overwhelming majority.
 MT. Sherman said he had no doubt that if congress had waited two weeks longer befo.e acting on the Scott bill, until the arrival of the Chinese minister, negotia- tions would have been carried on and the treaty amended int accordance with the general provisions of the Scott law.
 Mr.Vest referred ito an article by John Russell Young asserting that but for the passage of the Scott act the Chinese gov ernment would have gladly put condi- tional stipulation in the treaty looking to the prevention of Chinese coming to the
 
 MT. Mitchell stated the figures of the ex- ports from the United States to China to show how ridiculously small the export trade was. China, he said, was not likely to give up commerce with the United States which had such results. He de- clared that the continual immigration1 of Chinese to this country would result in great danger to the United States.
 MI" CAandler made some statements in addition to, what he said last week in reference to the Chinese refusal to accept MT. Blafr as minister as due to the Chinese legation in Washington and to the govern ment at Peking.
 This closed the debate and vote was taken on the substitute reported from the committee on foreign relations for the house bill. The substitute, which extends the present laws for ten yeare, was agreed to: yeas 43, nays IA.
 MT. Platt moved to amend the substi- tute 80 as to exclude from the anti-Chi- nese laws to be extended for ten years the Scott exclusion act of 1888, and made brief argument in support of that amend ment.
 MT. Sherman opposed the amendment, although he declared the Scott law was one of the most vicious laws passed since he had been in congress. Its passage, he said, was the result of mere race between the two political parties to try and infu- ence the vote of the Pacific coast in the last presidential election. He thought it wise to let all the anti-Chinese laws stand until congress could with more delibera- tion than it could now take up the subject. MT. Dolph argued also against Mir. Plstt's amendment. MT. Mitchell also ar- gued against it.
 MT. Dawes said he would vote for the l amendment without regard to what might | be it's legal effect. The Scott law had been. passed under circumstances which | would never again meet the approval of | congress. He was not prepared to repeal all that had been done then, and to stamp | it with the approval of to-day. Mir. Vest said the Scott law had worked good, but he did not think it proper to go | forward and ruthless and needlessly offend the Chinese government. .. ! MT. Sanders said he criticised last week the way in which the anti Chinese laws were executed in California. He was in formed now that the courts in San Fran cisco refused to accept Chinese bail, as it was worthless. The number of habeas corpus cases had, therefore, diminished from 1000 in 1881 to two cases within the last six months.
 MT. Gray opposed the amendment.
 MT. Platt's amen dment was rejected yeas 8, nays 45. The affirmative votes
 were given by Messrs.. Bate, Blodgett, Call, Dawes, Dixon, Frye, Platt and Pugh.
 Mr. Chandler offered an amendment in
 creasing the penalty for the unlawful com
 ing of Chinese laborers., Rejected without
 division.
 MT. Felton offered an amendment re-
 quiring all Chinese residents (except
 diplomatic. and other officers and their
 body and household servants) to
 obtain (within one year, from the collector
 of internal revenue in their respective dis.
 tricts certificates of residence; and appro.
 priating $t00,000 to carry out that pro. vision. '. II After discussion MT. Felton's amend. nent was rejected and the bill as amended was passed without division and the title
 amended so as to read, ''To Prohibit tht
 Coming of Chinse Persons Into the United | States"
 A conference with the house was asked
 and Messrs. Dolph, David and Butler wer'
 appointed confsreres on the part of thu
 senate. .
 TIT WILL BE A BlG CONCERN.
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