The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-12

fIIdTked aTtentlOn- Speech
was really a brilliant effort. eliciting fire.
quent applause. His violent attack on the
officers of the administration and especially
Attorney-ge Olney, for failure TO en-
force the Geary law, and his charge that
the original Everett bill contained the I'M
mistakable ear marks of Monaghan dlplo-
macy, created something of sensation
When the House met this morning Mr..
Hunter introduced joint resolution pro-
viding for recess of Congress from oct IA
to Nov. 1. 1t was referred TO the committee
on rules Mr. Hunter introduced the recess
resolution on his own motion. he ex-
planned that his purpose was 70 let Con.
attend the worlds fair.
Mr. Brickner secured the passage OF a
resolution authorizing the state OF Wis
consin TO erect in Statuary Hall a statue
to Pierre Marquette. the missionary.
Mr. Cultivate then presented the order
for the consideration of the McCreary bill
to amend the Geary exclusion act from day
to day until disposed of, and without di-
vision it was adopted. Mr.. McCreary.
opened the debate. This bill, he said ef-
fected a contention between two great coun-
tries. concerned 100000 Chinese in this coun-
try, and If passed would save billions OF
dollars to the United States and at the
same time meet with the widespread de-
mand for discontinuance Of undesirable
length the provisions of the bill, and also
reviewed the treaties between China and
the United States and the legislation lead
ing up to the passage Of the Geary ex-
clusion act He said this bill simply gave
the Chinese in this country six months adj
ditional 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 reg
lister, as the law would be declared uncon-
stitutional.
Mr. Geary, who followed, was granted
leave to proceed without limit. He began
with an Indignant denial of the reflections
made upon Pacific coast people in their war
on the Chinese. The Moors were not ex-
Hugenots were not forced from their homes
because they had refused to obey the laws
OF the country in which they resided. The
chairman of the foreign affairs committee
was not more humane than he, no more
Christian than he. while / don't believe
the Chinese are entitled to any new rights.
said he, ''if L believed this bill would give
us a settlement of this question, give us the
opportunity to regulate their stay here and
prevent more from coming 1 would vote Tor
it. 1 am against it, because believe 1t
only temporiZes with the situation, We
will offer amendments which we beleve
will make the bill effective If they are re-
jected we will vote against it,
He went on to speak of the adverse criti-
csm of the bill that bore his name. He
ent religious bodies, all. strange to say, in
the same phraseology demanding the I'M
mediate repeal of the Geary law. What
gress to do anything? He had supposed
that the line between church and state was
sharply drawn in this country. he did not
churchmen must petition as individuals,
and not invoke the influence OF the church
(Applause) Ever since 1897 when the
United States declared its hostility 10 the
Chinese there never was an hour, when by
fraud and duplicity, the Chinese were not
trying at all the borders of the United
States to break into this country: CHINA,
knowing this, could have stopped the viola
ton of law. But China remained silent
There is no room for sympathy o I9r Tnh a.
defraud us. The surplus earnings OF me
Chinese, which they had carried back TO
China. amounted to the enormous sum or
like Chinese in California; he asked; II
In any one of your Eastern States 10000
Sc, 600 day in surplus earnings. would you
not want to get rid of them! They are an
army of leeches. not an army or laborers.
Mr.. Geary denounced the administration
for violation of party faith and party
platform, and, although he loved his party
1t his duty to condemn the Demo-
trust If they had violated the law they
must go down. He had no fault 10 ma
with the Treasury Department; put tne
the law could not be defended. 1t mad
made 1t the duty of the Democrats TO de-
nounce and condemn him. He called at
to the effect that the Chinese minister had
accepted the McCreary bill as satisfactory.
Can we not modify any laws bearing on
a foreign people, the tariff laws, for IN
stance, without securing the consent Oh
the foreign Minister'S He intimated that
the Chinese minister had had a hand in
the preparation of the Everett bill, or
which the McCreary bill was a modifica-
ton.
Mr. Geary then proposed the amend
ments which, he said, would perfect the
bill. namely. the photographing clause and
the definition of the term Chinese laborer
Mr. Geary closed with an eloquent plea TO
the Democratic party to do the PACING
coast justice. over % per cent; OF the
Chinese" said he, live west OF the Rock
les Not a Democrat at either end OF the
Capitol is unpledged to the doctrine of
local self-government Give us local self
government When you from the South
came to us battling for white supremacy
we Joined with you. Do not let it be said
now that Democratic Congress has
stricken us down when we who recognized
the Justice of your contention asked you
to free us from the accursed bane or the
yellow slave. Tremendous applause) The
House then, at o'clock, adjourned.