The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-03
The Question of Appropriating
Money Therefor Discussed.
A WARM DEBATE OCCURS.
Senator DOlph Speaks in Favor OF the
Appropriation.
Senator Voorhees, viii on Monday Make
a Motion That the Senate Begin
Daily Sessions at IL O'Clock
View of the Majority.

Mr.. Voorhees, gave notice that he would
on Monday move to begin the daily ses-
sions at II O'Clock instead of at noon. add
ing that he had the old fashioned notion
that the Senate should submit to the will
of the majority. The silver men see in
the motion and accompanying remarks
indication of an intention to force matters
in the repeal bill debate with the probable
effect of adopting cloture. The silver
senators at once held conference and
decided not to be caught mapping, as they
were yesterday, with no one ready to
talk.
Mr.. Palmer presented a joint resolution
for the election of senators by the direct
vote of the people, which was referred to
the committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons, together with one on the same SUBJ
ject su omitted by Mr.. Mitchell of Oregon
some time ago.
Mr.. VOORHEES, asked that the repeal bill
be laid aside temporarily in order that
Mr.. Dolph might proceed with some re-
marks on another subject.
The committee on appropriations re-
ported the House bill to provide for GER
tain urgent deficiencies in the appropria-
tions, which was passed with amend
mentS.
The repeal bill was laid aside and Mr..
Dolph spoke in favor OF his bill appro-
priating half million dollars for the en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion act.
He went on with statement of the inhu-
enceS and undesirable features of Chinese
immigration, reciting the disastrous eff
feet of Chinese competition in western
states. He reviewed in detail the legisla-
ton and treaties relating to the subjects
I'll IL
ment OF the Geary act. The provision for
registration of Chinese was drawn by
himself and intended to be within the
limits OF the treaty, and is not onerOuS.
In this country the provision requiring
Chinese laborerS to register and obtain
certificates was not inserted for the pur-
pose Of preventing any Chinese authorized
Under existing laws to enter the United
States and reside here from doing so. 1t
was not inserted for the purpose of secur-
ing deportation of Chinese; it was in
serted for the single purpose of enabling
the government to designate Chinese Ia
borers in this country entitled to remain
here that they might be distinguished
from those smuggled across our borders
There had been a great deal OF absurd
talk and ignorant criticism about the
provision. He was moro responsible for
the provision of registration than any
other man in the United States, for he
drafted it. Talk about the provision be-
ing degrading was absurd. In every
state in the union voters were required to
register in order that they might lawfully
be entitled to vote, and yet there had
been no suggestion that it WAS degrad-
| ing. AS to deportation of Chinese it was
not the purpose of the law; it was not
| incompatible with the intention of the
act to extend the time in which Chinese
may register.
Mr.. White, Democrat, of California,
said the senator from Oregon, Mr..
Dolph, seemed to have been treated badly
! in the Senate before he, White, came
here, in failing to have his name attached
to the Geary act. The bill which the sem
ator from Oregon introduced has nothing
in it with reference to registration. He
was not the father OF the registration
| idea, because that idea hae been incor
porated into the original House bill.
There was not enough money appropri-
ated to enforce the act and therefore he
was in favor of some legislation to enable
| the law to be carried out.
| Mr.. Dolph asked whether all the money
appropriated for executing the act had
been expended.
| Mr.. White said he had figures and pro-
ceeded to give them. Since 1889, $500, 600
| had been appropriated, OF which there
was an unexpended balance of $50 GOO. 1t
|
| instead OF trying to establish himself as
the father OF the measure, devote himself
to securing appropriations to enforce the
law.
Mr.. Dolph replied that he had done all
he could to secure appropriations and
there was nothing in bis remarks to
justify the suggestion that he claimed to
be the author of the act or that he had
been badly treated by the Senate.
/ Mr. UIollor Of Colorado ooiiod ottcr-
ton to the fact that the abrogation of the
treaty is not violation of the treaty, as
it carried with it implication OF miscon-
duct on the part of the government
violating it; the abrogation of treaty
carried no such inference. Certain
| lawyers in New York, influenced no
doubt by large fees offered by the Six
Companies, concluded the Geary act was
a violation of the constitution. In his
mind there was no doubt Of the constitu-
tiopal power of the government to exclude
undesirable immigration; he had not
read the arguments of New York lawyers,
because ne did not think there was
enough in them TO justify q busy man in
reading them. A nation that cannot
clear its borders of hostile alien element
is not nation with full national prerog
atives and rights. Mr.. Teller con-
tinued, this is not a political question in
the sense that either party could be said
to be responsible for legislation if bad, or
could claim credit for it if good. He had
never voted for exclusion legislation be-
cause it was desired by the people of
California, but because of the evil result
ing from Chinese labor in connection
with American labor.
At CLOCK, the repeal bill being I'M
finished business, was laid before the Sen
ate, but was temporarily laid aside to
allow discussion to continue on the SUBJ
iect of Chinese exclusion.
Mr.. Gray (Democrat), of Delaware,
while agreeing in the main with the Sem
ator from Colorado, Mr.. Teller, wished to
pressed by him that abrogation Of a treaty
was not violation of it. Some of the
recent legislation had been in the direc-
ton of a violation of the plighted faith
of the government, and a violation of
such character as seemed to him to have
been entirely unnecessary. The United
States had seen fit to undertake obliga-
tions imposed by treaty relations which
it had entered into with China, and in
such undertaking had pledged the faith
of this mighty people to their perform
ance. He did not believe great country
could violate its treaty obligations with
OUT serious evil to the country itself.
There is mode by which the United
States could honorably rid itself OF those
ODugatlOuS Obner IMAM Ja6 ruOHlesS Que OF
|disregarding its treaty. There never was
a time during which recent legislation
had been discussed in congress that the
4 United States could not have initiated by
diplomacy, q modification of treaties and
have accomplished all that was sought to
be accomplished by legislation.
! MI. Mitchell, Republican, OF Oregon.