The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-03
EAST AGAIST The WEST
The Senate Sp,nds Tho Day Consider
ils the Chinese Question.
OLD ARGUMENTS REHAsHED
western Senators Defend the
Osary Act and Demand Ads-
Quats Appropriations for
Its enforcement

voorhees, gave notice that lie would on
Monday move to begin daily sessions at
IL o'clock instead OF At noon. adding he
had on old fashioned notion that the sem
Ato should submit to the will of the ma jor-
ity. The silver men sec In the motion and
accompanying remarks an indication or
intention TO force matters In the repeal
bill debate with probable effect TO adopt
cioture. The silver senators at once held
. conference aud decided not 10 be caught
mapping, as they wero yesterday, with no
one ready TO talk. Palmer presented q
joint resolution for the election of sena-
tors by direct vote of the people. 1t
was referred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections, together with one on
tho same subject submitted by
Mitchell OF Oregon some timc ago.
Voorhees, asked that the repeal bill be laid
aside temporarily in order that Dolph
might proceed with some remarks on an.
other subject. The committee on appro-
priations reported the house bill to provide
for certain urgent Deficiencies In appro-
priations and il was passed with amend
ments. The repeal bill was laid aside and
Dolph spoke in favor of his bill appropriat-
ing half million Tor the enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act.
lie then went on with q statement OF
the evil influences and undesirable feat
ures Of Chinese immigration. reciting tho
disastrous effects Of Chinese competition
in the western states. Dolph reviewed in
detail the legislation and treaties relating
to tho subject and conditions which led up
to the enactment OF the Geary act. The
provision for the registration Of the Chi
nese was drawn by himself and intended
to be within the limits OF tho treaty and is
not onerous. Tue provision requiring
Chinese laborers in this country to regis
ter and obtain certificates was not in
| serted for the purpose OF preventing
any Chinese authorized under existing
laws TO enter the United States aud reside
here from doing so. 1t was not inserted
for the purpose of securing deportation of
the Chinese; IL was inserted for tho single
purpose of enabling the government to
designate Chinese laborers in this country
entitled to remain here that they might be
distinguished from those smugglcd across
our borders. There has been . great deal
OF absurd talk and ignorant criticism,
about the provision. He was more respon-
sib.c for the provision of registration than
any other man in the United States, for
he drafted 1t. Tho talk about the provis-
toh SSaiS uS&soosnk - obootAs AS " Wy
state in the union voters are required To
register in order that they might lawfully
be entitled 10 vote, aud yet there has been
no suggestion that It was degrading. A
to the deportation Of the Chinese, Il 10 moi
the purpose of the law. 1t 10 not incom-
patible with the intention of the act tc
extend the tins In which Chinese may
register.
White OF California said the sonatos
from Oregon (Dolph) seemed to have been
treated badly in the senate before he
| CWhite) came here in failing to have his
name attached to the Geary act. The bill
which the senator from Oregon introduced
has nothing in II with reference to regis.
tration. He was not the father of the
registration idea, because that idea had
been Incorporated in the original HOUSE
bill. There was not money enough appro
priated to enforce the act, and therefore
he was in favor OF somc legislation to on.
able the law to be carried out. Dolph
asked whether all the money appropriated
for executing the act had been expended
| White said ho had the figures, and
proceeded to givo them. Since
1889 s290,Ooo has been appropriated
| OF which there is unexponded
balance of 900. II would bo better, hs
said, II Dolph. instead of trying to estab
lish himself as the father of the measure
would devote himself To securing appro
priations to enforce the law. Dolph re
piled that he had done all he could to sc
cure appropriations, and there was moth
ing in his remarks to justify the sug
gestion that he claimed to be the author o
tho act or that he had been badly treated
By the senate.
| Teller Of Colorado called attention tc
the fact that an abrogation treaty Is not Z
violation of treaty. Certain lawyers IN
New York, influenced, no doubt
by largo fees offered BY tia,
six companies. concluded that the Gear,
act was violation Of the constitution. In
his mind thcrd was no doubt Of the con
stitutionai power OF the government to ex
clude undesirable immigration. He has
not read the arguments Of the New Yorl
lawyers, because he did not think ther,
was enough in them to justify busy maj
In reading them. A nation that canno
clear its borders OF u hostile alien elemen
is not o nation with full national preroga
tives and rights. Teller continued sayin,
that this is not political question in tin
sense that either party could be said to b'
responsible for the legislation IL II is bad
or could claim credit for it If il is good
He had never voted for exclusion legisla
tion because IL was desired by the peopl
of California, but because of the evil re
sulting from Chinese labor in competition
with American labor.
At 2o'clock the repeal bill being un
finished business was laid before tn
senate but was temporarily laid aside q
allow the discussion to continue on tn
subject of Chinese exclusion. Gray. dem
ocrat, of Delaware. while agreeing in TIN
main with tho senator from Colorado
Teller. wished to express his dissent fron
the view expressed by him that an abro
cation OF treaty is no, violation Of !,
Some of the recent legislation had been Il
direct violation Of the plighted faith Of tn
government and a violation of such
character as seemed to him to have beef
entirely unnecessary. The United State
had seen fit to undertake obligations i'm
posed by treaty relations which
lentered into with China, and Il