The herald., 1893-09-05
DoLPH IN TROUBLE.
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Senator white Has . sst-ts with the o r.
egon Senator.
The San Francisco Chronicles Wash
ington special correspondent gives the
following account OF discussion on Sat
urday between Senators White and
Dolph:
WAsHMaroN, Sept. 2.--Senator Dolph
today talked to the senate in support oI
his bill appropriating $500, 900 to carry
out the Chinese exclusion law. His en-.
emies meanly said II seemed to them
that he was talking over the senate'e
head rather than to it, and that his re-
marks were addressed particularly to the
Oregon legislature. which will soon be
called upon to elect his successor.
Though claiming not to be q rabid
Chinese hater, he made o speech in
which the most ardent advocate of ex-
clusion could find nothing omitted. 1t
would have gladdened g sand lot audi
ence, and Dennis Kearney would have
shaken hands with him If he had heard
it. He swan along buoyantly enough
until he made the assertion that he is
the author Of the Geary act in reality
and that he has been deprived OF proper
credit.
nlb liulCuiOuc Cldlm Vi o6uHtQT
Dolph has heretofore been explained IN
the press, and it has been shown that
instead OF having been the father OF the
present exclusion law he sought to de-
feat it and was violently opposed to the
the act. During his speech today he
repeated this silly claim several times,
laying special stress upon it, as IL try
inn m rnnu, NJ nnhndu that ha hoo
been q h-mierepreeented and ma
ligned man with reference to this Chi
nese matter.
Senator White was in conversation
with Mr.. Geary at the time, and as soon
ss he could paid his respects to Mr..
Dolph in a manner that that gentleman
greatly despised. Tt was Mr.. Whites
first participation in running debates
and he came off with flying colors.
He was extremely sarcastic in his res-
erence to Senator Dolph's claim to the
paternity of the Geary bill, covering
that gentleman with confusion and
bringing broad smile of amusement
and pity to the face of every person
present.
In one place Senator White said with
some warmth: "Shall we represent
every individual who seeks to legislate
wisely and for the public interest az
simply struggling for political effect?
would not If l could, but were ami
mated by that spirit l might make the
same remark as to the senator's address
here today"
This was rather wicked dig, but it
was not any worse than that which
followed, in which Senator White said
that great deal OF money was just now
being expended in keeping government
officers straight at Portland, where
there are 16 of them under indictment.
This WAS sore point with Mr.. Dolph
and he did not reply to it.
Senator White later in the debate had
the temerity to lock horns with another
old member, Senator Gray of Delaware.
The latter, in his cold and judicial way,
argued against all Chinese exclusion
laws, and the old Scott law in particu-
lar, on the ground that this was too big
Q nation to violate Its treaties.
Mr.. White promptly replied that when
the Scott law was signed no treaty was
violated, as the treaty then under con-
eideration had been hung up by China
for months and months before the Scott
law was even introduced. President
Cleveland in his message accompanying
the act after he had signed it called at
tention to the fact and said that China's
way, and that was that CHINA urdt uuJ
care to enter into any new treaty ar
rangement with this country. ry.appsrently,
and that no treaty then existed, there
fore there WAS no violation.
Mr.. White quoted this part OF Presi-
dent Cleveland's message and Mr.. Gray
was undone. The discussion took po-
litical turn and in this honors were
about even between Senators Dolph and
White t.t