Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-23
THE cAHeNsLY MEMORIAL.
Senator Davis Takes Occasion to Inveigf
Against Is.
[By telegraph to the pispstch-l

wAsHrNaroN, d. c., April Ex-senator
DAVIS, of Minnesota, in his speech against
the Chinese exclusion bill to-day, said
that in his Judgment, very many momen-
tous things were involved In the question.
The entire question Of immigration, its
quality, its extent, and its fearful degen-
Grafton. afforded theme not only for pro-
found thought. but for profound appre;;
hension. He did not wish to be regarded
which the United States had grown to be
80 great. He would 60 as far as any
body in acquisscing. in the con-
yiction that an inundation should be
guarded against. if possible. whose
radical differences were 80 great
as those which existed between Chi
nese and Americans, but he also
wished to go toward the other
pole of the controversy, that OF pro-
tecting the people OK the United states
against an inundation of the criminal
classes of Europe. Much as had been said
about Chinese immigration be yentured to
say that more undesirable immigration
came into this country every year through
the port of New York and across the line
from Canada, from European countries
than came from China. There was
more matter for profound consideration,
he thought, in the attempts OF Mr.. Ca
hensly, who had submitted TO the Pope
last year proposition intended to de-
nationalize American institutions and 70
supplant them by the institutions of as
many natiopalities as were to be found in
America, than there was In all the Chinese
questions that had arisen since 1853. That
gentleman (Mr. Cahenslyl proposed to use
the power Of the Catholic hierarchy to
bring about that great political result.
He (Mr. Davis) rejoiced that he could
sneak of the matter without committing
the offence of treading on religious ground,
but it is infinitely to the credit OF Pope
Leo KILL. the greatest statesman who has
ries. that he had repelled the proposition
az soon as made to him. That attempt had
not been instigated by the American
hierarchy at all. He believed that 1t met
with the reprobation of Cardinal Gibbons,
and he knew that il met with the reproba-
ton of Archbishop Ireland.
This Mr.. Cahensly. Mr.. Davis said. was
not priest but layman. O member OF the
Prussian Diet. II was this mans scheme,
Mr.. Davis said, that the various foreign
languages should be perpetuated in
the United States by the segregation
of the people according to national.
Of the political aspects of the question.
Although Protestant by birth and prin-
ciple. he did not care what kind OF re-
| ligious missionaries were sent to this eoun.
| try. The most impudent appeal to bring
| TO bear the elements of different nationali.
| ties had met, he repeated, with stern re-
prehension at the hand of the great eccle.
siastical statesman who presided at the
| Vatican, but the movement in Its political
aspect was going on to-day.
Mr.. Davis quoted at length from the
| Cahensly memorial, and asked how u
could be believed that the man who bad
penned that memorial, or the convention
which had adopted 1T, had conceived the
idea of composite American notion ol
one language and one blood, instead OF
that disintegrating idea OF many nationals
ties placed of against one another. Nevel
had there been more infamous attempt
to prostitute religious power to political
purposes than was expressed in that me-
moral.
This man, he said, was no inconsidera-
Bile man; he was man who could COM
bine allies. II had been stated that Mr..
Won Scnloezer. the German representative
at Rome. was in hearty accord with him
and backed up the memorial; and that
American families of high rank and royal
and noble people were interested in the
scheme. But 1t was the glory Of the
American hierarchy that it had fought the
proposition.
"Perhaps.n Mr.. Davis said in conclusion
"I have gone out of my way to bring uI
this subject now, but II so far dwarfs by
contrast the danger to be apprehendec
from the Chinese that could not refrair
| from itn