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agreed to without further opposition.
Thus Mt. Rockwell was retained in his
CAHENSLEY SCORED.
Senator Davis Denounces tho Prussian's Ef-
forts to Foreignize American Ins titutions.

Senator Davis Denounces the Prussian's Eff
forts to Foreignize American Institutions.
WASHINGTON. April 22.-The Chinese ex-
clusion bill was debated in the Senate
again to-day. After Mt. Chandler had con-
cluded his speech. begun yesterday, Mr..
Davis. member of the committee on for
eign relations, spoke. He looked upon the
House bill as rank. radical. unblushing,
unmitigated reputation 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 tho United States. But how
was it, he asked. with the governments OF
the western hemisphersi There was more
matter for profound consideration, he
thought. in the attempts of Mr..
Cahensley, who had submitted to the
Pope. last year, proposition in-
tended to denatIonalize American
institutions and to supplant them by the
institutions of as many nationalitleS as
were to be found in America, than there
was in all the Chinese questions that had
arisen since 1858. That gentleman Mr..
Cahensleyl proposed to use the power of
the Catholic hierarchy to bring about that
great political result. He Mr.. Davis re-
without committing the oifense of treadlpg
on religious ground, because it was in
fnitely to the credit of Pope Leo XIII. the
greatest statesman who had sat on the
pontitical throne Tor centuries. that he had
repelled the proposition as soon as made to
him. That attempt had not been instl-
gated by the American hierarchy at all.
He believed that II met with the reproba-
tion of Cardinal Gibbons. and he knew
that it met with the reprobaton Of Arch
bishop ireland.
This Mr.. Cahsnsley, Mr.. Davis said. was
not priest but laymhn. q member OF
the Prussian Diet. In the memorial which
no presented to the Vatican he claimed
different nationahties of emigrants in the
episcopate was one of the chief causes of
desertlon on the part OF the Catholic forces;
and that therefore it was desirable that
every different national group of emigrants
should be organized into distinct parish,
with priest of its own nationality. 1t
was one of this mans schemes that the
various foreign languages should be per-
petuated in the United States by the segre-
cation OF people aeeording, TO S nationality nsn;
IS to the idea that there is an American
nationality and an American people
Never had there been a more
infamous attempt to prostitute the
WAS expressed in that memorial. This man.
he said, was no inconsider8ble man; he
was a man who could combine allies. 1t
had been stated that Mr.. Schloezer. the
German representative at home. was In
hearty accord with bim and backed up
the memorial. and that American families
of high rank aud royal and noble circles
were interested in the scheme, but it as
to the glory of the American hierarchy
that it had fought the proposition. Per-
haps. Mr.. DAVIS said in conclusion. l have
gone out of my way to bring up this sub
ject now, but il so fur dwarfs the dangers
to be apprehended from the Chinese that
could not refrain from it.
&nvs hntk a,A NS AAn ~ hc~
listened to Mr.. Davis's very earnest re-
marks. with obvious and undIsguised
curiosity as to jnst how be would connect
it with the pending question of excluding
Chinese. Mr.. Davis, however, did not
make this apparent. Ii was passed around
from one Senator to another. however.
that the Senator's remarks had been con-
tributed by Col. Elliot F. Shepard.