Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-23
The CHINESE BILL
Under Discussion in the Senate-The Ca
hensley Proposition Used as An Argu-
ment In the Debate.

Under Discussion in the Senate-The Ca
hensley Proposition Used as An Argu-
ment In the Debate.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-In the Sen
ate to-day bill was passed inviting the
King and Queen of Spain, any descend
ants OF Columbus and others, to attend
the Columbian Exposition. a bill was
also passed extending an invitation
TO the Presidents Of the American Re-
publics and the Governors Of the Amerl-
can colonies, to participate In the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
After some discussion bill was passed
authorizing the Secretary Of the In
terror 10 increase 10 S12 month the
pensions of every penSioner who is now
on the rolls al $ a month on account OF
service In the Mexican war, and who Is
wholly disabled for manual labor and is
In such destitute circumstances that
eight dollars a month is insufficient 10
provide him with the neceSSaries Of life.
The Chinese exclusion bill was taken
up, and Mr.. Chandler proceeded to pre-
sent testimony as TO the continuous in
PRODUCTION Of Chinese from Canada and
British Columbia, in order to show the
need Of more Stringest laws TO prevent
the influx of Chinese over the land
border
Mr. Davis, a member Of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, looked upon
the House bill as a rank. radical, un-
blushing, unmitigated reputation of
every treaty obligation remaining be-
tween the United States and China.
He said that the Chinese Government
was not anxious for its people to come
% the United States, but how was it,
he asked, with the governments of the
Western Hemisphere. There was more
matter for profound consideration, he
thought, In the attempts of Mr.. CahenS-
ly, who had submitted TO the Pope last
year, a proposition intended TO dena-
tiOnalize American institutions, and 10
supplant them by the institutions of as
many natiOnalitieS as were TO be found
in America, than there was in all the
Chinese questions that has arisen since
1858.
That gentleman tMr. Cahensly) pro-
posed TO use the power Of the Catholic
hierarchy to bring about that great pol
itical result. He (Mr. Davis rejOiced
that he could speak of the matter with
out committing the offenSe OF treading
on religious ground, because ii was in
fnitely to the credit Of Pope Leo MIL,
the greatest statesman who had sat on
the Pontfical 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
believed that it met with the rebroba
tiOn Of Cardinal Gibbons and he knew
that it met with the reprobation OF
Archbishop Ireland. This Mr.. Cahensly
was not a priest but layman-a mem
Der Of the PrusSan Diet.
IL the memorial which he presented
TO the Vatican he claimed that the want
OF representation of the different ma
tiOnalities of emigrantS in the EpiSco-
pote was one OF the chief causes of de-
SertiOn on the part of the Catholic
forces, aud that hence it was desirable
that every different national group of
emigrantS should be organized into
distinct parish with a priest of its own
nationality.
~ was OuC VI AAAlo man - uNulNS tAidt
the various foreign languages should
be perpetuated in the United States by
the congregation of people according to
nationality. How utterly Obvious he is
70 the idea that there is an American
nationality and an American people.
Never had there been a more infamous
attempt 10 prostitute the religious
power TO political purposes than was
expressed in that memorial. This man,
be said, was no inCOnSiderable man; he
was a man who could combine allies.
1t had been stated that Mr.. Schloeser,
the German representative at Rome,
was in hearty accord with him and
backed up the memorials, and that
American families Of high rank and
royal and noble circles were interested
in the scheme, but il was TO the glory
or the American hierarchy that it had
fought the proposition. Perhaps, Mr..
Davis said in conclusion, | have gone
out Of my way TO bring up this subject
now, but it so far dwarfs, by contrast,
the danger to be apprehended from the
Chinese, that l could not refrain from
il.
At the close OF Mr.. DaviS'S speech,
without any action on the bill, the Sen
ate went into executive session and soon
adjourned till tomorrow.