St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-12
POINTS ABOUT PIGTAILS.
HOUSE MEMBERS DISCUSS THE CHI
KESE L4W
DEBATE ON THE GEARY ACT.
McCreary's Amendment Excites a
Lively Debate - Geary Makes
q Bitter Attack on Attorney
General OIney for Failure to
Enforce This Law-John China
man Troublesome Citizen.


man Troublesome Citizen.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE house
today began the consideration of the
McCreary bill to extend the provisions
of the Geary act for six months under a
special order providing that it shall be
considered until disposed of. Only two
speeches were made - by McCreary.
chairman OF the foreign affairs commit
tee, in support, and by Mr.. Geary, the
author of the old law. in antagoniSm.
Both speakers were accorded marked
attention. The speech OF Mr.. Geary
was really a brilliant effort, elIciting
frequent applause. His violent attack
on the officers of the administration.
especially Attorney General Olney, for
failure 10 enforce the Geary law, and his
charge that the original Everett bill
contained the unnistakable ear marks
of MOngolian diplomacy, created some
thing of sensation.
When the house met this morning.
Mr.. Hunter. of Illinois. introduced a
Joiut resolution providing for recess
of congress from Oct. Il to Nov. l. 1t
was referred to the committee on rules.
Mr.. Hunter introduced the resolution
on his own motion. He explained that
his purpose was to let congress have
recess that the members might attend
the worlds fair.
MIR. Brickner, of Wisconsin. secured
the passage of resolution allowing the
state of Wisconsin to erect in Statuary
hail statue of Pere Marquette. the
missionary.
Mir. Cummings, from the committee
on naval affairs, presented and had
passed a resolution calling ON the sec
tetary of the navy for information as to
the amount of premiums paid 10 con-
tractors for construction of
=. WAR SHIPS
developing speed in excess of require
me nts. with all other facts relating
thereto. The bill to remit the penalties
on the dynamite cruiser Vesuyius then
came up, Mr.. Savers. of Texas, taking
the floor in opposition to the bill. He
read a letter from the chief of the
bureau of ordinance under date or Sept.
%, 1898, which he said showed that the
VesuviuS was absolutely worthless for
| the purpose for which she was built.
| Mr.. Talbot. of Maryland. in support,
read a letter from Secretary Herbert, in
which the secretary declared thai this
| was an equitable claim on the part of
the contractors. He said the VeSuYius
was staunct and fleet and if her dyna-
mite guns did not show improvement
| she weuld be fitted with other arma-
nent aud would become an efficient
cruiser. The amount involved is S39,-
| QUO.
| After debate the morning hour eX-
pired and the bill went over without
action.
| Mr.. Outhwaite presented the order for
| the consideration of the McCreary bill
| 10 amend the Geary exclusion act from
| day TO day until disposed of. and with
! out division it was adopted. Mr.. Nc
| Creary, chairman of the foreign affairs
committee. opened the debate. The
! bill, he said. effected contention be-
tween the two great countries, con-
cerned 100000 Chinese in this country,
| and if passed would save billions of
| dollars to the United States, and at the
same time meet with widespread de-
I9aHd for discOntlnuance of undesir-
! able Chinese immigration. he eX-
! planned at length the provisions of the
! bill, which have appeared in the ASso-
! ciated Press reports, and also re-
! viewed the treaties between China and
| the United States and the legislation
] leading up TO the passage OF the Geary
exclusion act. He said this bill simply
gave
THE CHINESE
/ in this country six months additional
/ time in which TO register, they having
/ declined TO do SO on the advice OF their
! attorneys pending the decision of the
/ supreme court. The Chinese. he said,
! had able lawyers. who advised them not
| to register. as the law would be de-
/ clared unconstitutional.
The fact that but five of the nine
| justices of the supreme court" said
Gov. McCreary. could be found in an
| opinion that the GearY law was conStI-
tutional certainly shows that those at
torneys certainly had good grounds for
| their advice"
He said the Chinese who acted on the
advice of their attorneys should have
! the opportunity to register. To trans
port the $1,000 Cinnamon who have not
| registered would cost the government,
! according to the estimate of the secre-
/ tary of the treasury, S7.000,0O0.
"Over S5,000." said he. ''are anYiousiy
waiting for congress TO decide their
fate, and thousands of American mis-
sionaries in China are waiting with fear
! and trembling, lest, if we are precipi-
tOuS, the Chinese may, in their wrath,
| retaiiate against them"
Mr.. McCreary said in conclusion that
the Chinese had simply acted on the
opinion OF their lawyers regarding the
| constitutionality of the law. The ex-
| pulsion OF the Jews from Russia, or the
I Huguenots from France was not more
| barbarous than would be our action if
/ we forced $4,000 Cinnamon TO depart
because they had been misled by their
lawyers.
Mr. Geary, who followed, was granted
leave to proceed without limit. He be-
gan with an indignant denial of the re-
tiections made upon Pacific coast people
/ IN their
WAR ON THE CHINESE.
The Moors were not expelled, the
| Jews were not driven OUT, the Hugue-
nots were not forced from their homes
because they haG refused to obey the
laws of the country In which they re-
sided. The chairman OF the foreign af-
fairs committee was no more humane
than he, no more Christian than he.
"While l don't believe the Chinese
are entitled to any new rights" said he,
"if l believed this bill would give US d
settlement of this question. give us the
opportunity to regulate their stay here
and prevent more from coming, l would
4 vote for ib | am against it because
believe it only temporizes with the stu
alton. We will offer amendments which
we believe would make the bill effect
! i've. If they are rejected we will vote
against It,"
4 He went on TO speak OF the adverse
i criticism of the bill that bore MS name,
4 He spoke of the resolutions adopted by
l different religious Dodies-all, strange
to say, in the same phraseology--de
nanding the immediate repeal Of the
I Geary law. What right, he asked, had
4 any church to ask congress to do any
i thing? He had supposed that the line
ketWeen church and state was sharply
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