The morning call., 1893-10-17
HOW 1T WAS DONE.
The Bill Passed the House Practically
Without Dissent.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-The House this
afternoon passed the McCreary bill with
the amendments offered by Geary and
Camnetti. The bin as passed extends the
registration provisions OF the Geary law
six months, defines Chinese laborers and
Chinese merchants, makes mandatory
Photographic identi fca ton. requires Mar
shals to carry out orders for deportation
and for jailing Cinnamon without bail
pending the execution OF deportation wrIts,
and excludes Cinnamon convicted of felony
from the right TO register. Geary declares
that the bill as passed will be perfectly
satisfactory to the coast. and says that if
it is enforced at the expiration of the time
limit it will settle the Chinese problem
Those who depart will not be able to
transfer their registration certificates. and
in the course of time they will disappear
from American shores. The admnistra-
tion is also satisfied with the bill. so Chair
man McCreary Of the Foreign Affairs Com
mttee AYERS.
When the House met this morning de-
bate on the bill was at once resumed
Blair of New Hampshire. who was nom-
mated TO the Chinese Mission by Harr-
son, but whose exequatur was not granted
by the Chinese Government on account of
his hostile expressions toward the Chinese
when the exclusion act was passed In 1885,
spoke in favor of the bill. While be did
not think the McCreary bill ALIEN bracing
in substance, it covered the policy upon
which the Government had entered with
reference TO the Chinese. Ii the policy
we have undertaken respecting Chinese
immigration is now to he mutiated or
modified, said he, we might as we'll as
sumo that the tide of immigration from
all other directions is to flow on unim-
peded.
He strongly favored the photographing
Identification clause on the ground that no
honest Chinaman could object to the pro-
vision. 1t might furnish a new rogue's
gallery, but what of it? He Indorsed the
Geary law unless. he said. ''we are merely
tampering with the policy Of Chinese ex-
clu si0n."
Wilson of Washington characterized tha
bill as one of the most remarkable ever
presented to Congress. He reviewed the
alleged course OF the administration in
debating to Congress in nullifying the
Chinese and pension laws.
For thirty years, said he. the Demo-
cratic party has howled about the usurpa-
tion and Capitalization of political power.
There had been more Capitalization of
political power, more usurpation of legis-
lative functions by the executive depart
ment since March than since the founda-
ton of the republic to the present time.
[Republican applause.
Dinsmore of Arkansas favored the bill
and also advocated the enforce ment of the
exclusion acts.
Caminetti of California opposed the bill.
He proposed an amendment providing
that no Chinese convicted Of felony
shall be entitled to register under the act,
but shall be subject to deportation.
Chairman McCreary, in closing the de-
BATE declared that he favored protecting
American labor against the millions of
Chinese laborers, but while he favored
exclusion he did not thinkit just or honor
able to deport $4,000 men without giving
them an opportunity to register when
they had been led to refuse to register on
the advice of their attorneys and employ
ers. Honor and conscience demanded so
much. If at the expiration of six months
the CnlneSe were not TeRlSteTeu ne would
unite with the Pacific Coast members in
fayoring any measure to deport them.
At 8 o'clock. by the terms of the agree
ment, the previous question was con-
sidered as ordered ON the bill and the pend
ing amendments.
Geary's three amendments were con-
solidated into one defining the torn
Chinese merchant, providing for the
photographing of registered Chinese
and requiring United States Marshals to
execute the deportation clause with
dispatch and providing. pending its execu-
tion, that Cinnamon shall be con fined and
not admitted to bail, was agreed to, 100
to 10.
The vote was then taken on the Nc
Creary bill as amended. A rising vote
resulted 167 ayes and 8 noes.
Loud made a point of no quorum, but
tellers were ordered and quorum de-
veloped. Loud's request was withdrawn
and the bill declared passed.
Cox then called up the bill to afford
additional safeguards for national banks
Its sole object is to prevent the officers of
national banks. their directors or attor-
neys, by combin ations, from absorbing the
assets of any bank. Cannon Of Illinois