The morning call., 1893-11-26
AS TO THE EXTRA SESSION.
:: Effects of the Sherman and
=. Geary Acts.
w. b. HARRINdToN's OPINIONS.
He Advocates Some Reforms-A
= :; " Choice Banquet the Preliminary
to the Discussion.

=
-. Some of the most striking topics of the
=: day.:were discussed last evening by the
:: ii Unitarian Club. Previous, however, to
*t4is feast of reason more material if not
Substantial feast was partaken of. The
+:=nAenJl, was a most elaborate one aid was
: done full justice to by the club and the
ESPECIAL guests of the evening.
= 1T: had been anticipated that the Hon.
!. A.*Caminetti and the Hon. E. F. Loud
:: wp pld; be present, but unfortunately they
were. unavoidably detained elsewhere. To
Z the right of Colonel John P Irish sat
i Senator George c. Perkins, who later in
the evening entertained the club by speak
::ing:.of the extra session and its results.
!: The paper of the evening was that read
! by:.WiTlard B. Harrington. In introduc-
!. inghi to the club the president amusingly
!: defined the duty that devolved upon Mr..
: Harrington TO be that of "treading upon
+ the: toes of some mems preiudices. and
barking the shins of their convictions"
: :; Truly enough Mr.. Harrington while
:. reading his paper on "The Geary Act and
SILVER" did most decidedly run counter to
many ideas.
:: :: :-'s":The Congress of the United States,''
:: said he, 'for the second time has passed a
law for the punishment of objectionab bic
- aliens. and the Supreme Court for the first
time finds warrant in the constitution for
their. Punishment. In the ethnolOgisrs
.a'eatalpgue Chinese long resident here NAV
= pass for men as various breeds of dogs are
known by the generic name. Under the
;: Geary act the testimony OF even COnfucus
:: himself would not save Cinnamon wh O
! Violate its provisions.
:: i: f'NNe have seen fit to provide for the ban
=; lie hment- of Chinese, but will the matter
!: end here? Already dim mutterings are
:: heard against the Japanese who have To-
Gated here. A precedent has been estab-
=: lished the result Of which cannot now be
:. fDreseen.
: Z, .'Iwish not to be understood as object
. dfig to the policy of stopping the further
im migration of Chinese la5orers. To this
policy, l am assured on unQuestioned au-
" thority, the Chinese Government is willing
:: to accede.
- ,: Mr.. H arlington. having entered his plea
on behalf of the Celestials. had something
TO; say on the silver question. His ideas on
. this. point were almost as much opposed
: to those generally held throughout this
=: State as in the case of the Geary act.
.:W lille allowing that there are some honest
men among the minority OF the silver ad-
VOcates. he considered that the main body
was composed of the silver producers.
MIR. Harrlngtons paper certainly did
sstread upon the toes of mems convictions" /"
but Senator Perkins. Rho followed. an.
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made ~l ente srtainiDg Speech
sing 10 speak Colonel Irish
hat he had had the privilege of
East with CallfoInla's junior
AS they neared the capital he
ressei with the feeling of awe
tIa& med to, take possession of his
friendN q nearer they approached their
destnatrn. Upon reaching the city Sem
ator Perkins remarked in the station. with
: solemnity: 81 feel like Moses when he
ahoH hrr rpi1 hf1e 4 faoI
eround 70 taks snTe Te:ponsbities
weighed heavy upon him." remarked Col.
'onel Irisb. ''but when Psaw him week
later: there was a slight change. l asked
.onholy ground. Said he: oh, 1 know
everybody low. and feel as if l could go
around in gum boots.
Handicapped with this story against
him. Senator Perkins spoke of the extra
session.
-. In .convening Congress the President
:: believed that great commercial exigency
demanded that some measures of relief
should be adopted. Before the Senate
concluded the discussion of the silver
question. the financial panic had passed
. away and the President was proven not to
:: .beinfallble.
In the Senate there were eghty-five
Senators. made up of thirty eight Repub-
: licans.- forty-four Dem mocrats and three
.Populists, and Of these twenty-one men,
hers served In the Confederate ranks dur
.::ing.th war. In the House Of Representa- Ia
!: tyes: there were 126 Repu blicans, 220
Democrats and ten Populists. and of these
:: fifty-four served in the Confederate and
sixtY-two in the Federal armies.
= 81 want to say that despite this fact
there never was Congress so non-par-
tisan.. These Confederates are loyal and
true. The dead past is buried and for
gotten.
'...':When Congress convened there were
hvs votes against unconditional repeal of
" the Sherman act. / am safe in saying that
3. ofthe speeches made both for and against
:" the measure no better literature has ever
been made public on this subject.
with regard to the Chinese 1t is true
hat they haven't many friends. But I
=. maintain that they constitute servile
:. class. brought into this country under con-
tract who never would have reached these
. shores had they not been brought by the
Six Companies. Such labor as theirs de-
grades honest white labor, and directly
.:and indirectly has a communicating infiu-
:ence On the youth of our State.
- 'If an American travels in China he
must have a passport Why, then, shou Id
any objection be made to enforcing SIM
ifar observance on Cinnamon coming
: here? A good deal of talk has been mad 9
:: about, treaty rights. but by the provisions