The morning call., 1893-10-12


appearance. Physicians and lawyers
must register. too"
Rawlins OF Utah suggested to Geary.
soto voce, that when Senator Mcdonald
and the eminent st. Louis lawS er, Broad
head, went to Salt Lake to defend suit
for the Mormons, they were required to
take an oath that they were not polyga-
nous and had not cohabited unlawfully.
Laughter.
Geary ridicued the statement that 1t
would take $4,000 900 to execute the regis
tration law. 1t would not cost $1,oo0.ooO.
or even S5O00OO. he said. 1--WE who know
the aims and ambitions of the Chinese and
the economies they practice know better
than Carlisle, gentleman from Kentucky.
how much it will cost to transport tbem
/ say that the administration could at least
have shown its good faith by spending the
S25, 900 it had on hand for the deportation
of as many Chinese as could be shipped for
that amount. Applause from Pacific
Coast men, If the officers of the admins
tration had done their duty on May 5 the
present condition would not have been
presented, and there would have been no
occasion for an extension of time"
whether the $4,000 appropriated would
have been sufficient. Geary declared that
the Chinese would have taken no risk of
being sent back to China. Rather than do
that they would voluntarily have left our
borders. The S250OO. by demonstrating
our intent to enforce the law, would have
been as effective as S25, 200. 600. ZAP
planse.
He denounced the administration for its
violation of the party faith and the party
platform. and said that although he loved
his party it was his duty to condemn
Democratic officers who betrayed their
trust If they had violated the law they
must 60 down. He had no fault to find
with the Treasury Department. but the ac-
ton of the Attorney General in defying
the law could not be defended. 1t had
made it the duty of Democrats to denounce
and condemn the Attorney Gene eral.
He called attention to the statement in
the morning papers to the effect that the
Chinese Minister had accepted the Nc
Creary bill as satisfactory. "What a
spectacle we present." said he. could
we not modify any laws bearing on foreign
people, the tariff for instance. without
first securing the consent of foreign min
isters?"
Geary said Carlisle, Olney and the gen.
tleman from Kentucky got their heads to-
gether and this so-called McCreary bill
was the result of their labors. Laughter. !
He intimated that the Chinese Minister
mad had hand in the preparation of the
Everett bill, Of which the McCreary bill
was a modification. Geary then proposed
three amendments. which he said would
perfect the bill, namely: the photograph
ing clause, an explicit provision as to what
executive officer of the Government shall
be charged with the enforcement of the
law and definition of the term Chinese
laborer."
Geary closed with an eloquent plea to the
Democratic party to do the Pacific Coast
justice. "Over 95 per cent of the Chinese" +"
said he. "live west of the Rockies. Not a
Democrat at either end of the Capitol is
unpledged to the doctrine of local self
government. Give us local self-govern-
ment. When you from the South came to
us battling for white supremacy we joined
with you. Do not let it be said now that
q Democratic Congress has stricken us
down when we, who recognized the justice
CT your contention. asked you to free us
from the accursed bane of the yellow
slave" Tremendous applause.
The House then at O'Clock adjourned.