The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
ACROSS THE WIRES
Interesting Late Dispatches
About Important Events.
The United States Senate Rejects
the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Inc United States Seuats passed its OWL
Chinese bill exactly as reported by the SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations, and
sent it to the House for conference.
The Geary Total Exclusion bill was killed
by vote Of forty-eight to fourteen.
The Chinese question was debated until 4
P. NJ, when vote was taken on the ques.
tion Of substituting the Senate bill, which
continues ia force for ten years the present
the Geary House bill. which absolutely pro-
hibits Chinese from coming to this country.
The vote stood: Yeas, forty-three; nays,
fourteen, as follows:
Yeas-Allison, Bate, Berry, Brice, Butler.
Call, Carey, Carlisle, Cockrel, Coke, Col
quit Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Frye, German,
Gray, Hansbrough, Higgins Hiscock, Jones'
(Ark.I, Kyle, McMillin, Mcpherson. Man.
derson, Morgan, Paddock Palmer, PETER,
Perkins. Pettigrew. Platt, Proctor, Pugh,
Ransom, Sawyer, Sherman, Squire. Stock
bridge, Vest, Villas, Walthal and Wash
burn-forty-thre
Nays-AIlsn, Blodgett Chandler, Daniel,
Dubois, Feltop, Jones New, Mitchell, San.
ders, Shoup Stewart, Teller, Warren and
Wilson-fonrteen.
The following is the text Of the Bills
That all laws now in forcs prohibiting and
regulating the coming into this country Of
Chinese persons and persons OF Chinese
descent are hereby continued In force for
period Of ten years from the passage OF this
act.
SECTION Q. That any Chinese person or
person of Chinese descent convicted and ad-
fully entitled to be or remain in the United
States, shall be removed from the United
States to China, unless he or they shail. make
it to appear to the Justice, Judge or Com
missioner before whom he or they are
tried, that he or they are subjects or citizens
of some other country, In which case he or
they shall be removed from the United
States to such country. Provided, that in
any case where such other country Of which
such Chinese person shall claim to be citi-
zen or subject shall demand any tax as a
that country, he or she shall be removed to
China.
SEC. 8. That any Chinese person or
person Of Chinese descent arrested under the
provisions Of this act shall he adjudged to be
unlawfuIly within the United States, unless
such person shall establish, by affirmative
proof, to the satisfaction of such Justice,
Judge or Commissioner his lawful right to
remain In the United States.
SEC. 4. That any such Chinese person or
person Of Chinese descent, once convicted
and adjudged to be not lawfully entitled to
be or remain in the United States and hav-
ing been once removed from the United
States In pursuance OF such conviction, who
shall be subsequently convicted for such
offense, shall be imprisoned at hard labor
for period Of not exceeding si1 months.
and thereafter removed from tho United
States as herein before provided.
Tragedy of a Wooden Leg.
The discovery that her lover had a wooden
leg led Maggie Williams, Of Cambridgeport,
Mass, to dismiss William E. Cunning
ham, to whom she was betrothed.
The young woman upbraided her
lover for the deception he had prac-
tised upon her. Next morning Cunning
ham visited IS Portsmouth street, where
Maggie was employed as q domestic, and
asked her to shake hands and make up.
Maggie refused to be reconciled to the
Then Cunningham drew a revolver
and fired two shots at his sweetheart
one bullet taking effect in her left
temple and the other over the heart. Cum
ningham then placed the revolver at his own
head and fired. The shot did not kill and the
man fired again, the bullet passing just over
the heart. he fell across the body Of the
girl and awaited death.
The police summoned an ambulance, and
hurried the victims of the tragedy to the
hospital. The girl died before reaching the in.
stitution. Cunningham would say nothing
before his death about the matter save that
the woman was killed by getting in tho way
while he was trying to commit suicide.