The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-05-20
dearly the Whole Day In the House Taken
Up in Discussing the Subject.
The Title of Owens to a Seat From
Kentucky Confirmed.
The Senate DevOtes Its Attention
Almost Exclusively to the District
of Columbia Appropriations Bill, a
Good Deal of Debate Occurring Over
the Question of Charities and Hos
pitfalls.


WASHINGTON, May 19.-The House
to-day passed the resolution reported
by the Committee on Elections No. =,
confirming the title of w. G. Owens
Oem.) to the seat he occupies as a
Representative from the Seventh Dis
trict of Kentucky, which had been con-
tested by George Denny, Jr. (Rep). 1t
also passed a resolution from the same
committee providing for count Of the
ballots cast for Congress in the Sixth
Illinois District at the November cleo
ton in 1894 in the contest of Rinaker
VS.. Downing for the seat in that dis
trict
The message of President Cleveland
vetoing the bill to pension Carolina D.
Mowatt was laid before the House. and
referred to the Committee on Invalid
Pensions.
Steele Rep) of Indiana, Cousins
Rep) of Iowa and Mcclellan Oem.) Of
New York were appointed visitors on
the part of the House to the Military
Academy at West Point.
Nearly all the day was taken up by
argument upon the several bills report
ed from the Committee on immigration
and Naturalization to impose addi-
tional restrictions upon immigration.
Speeches were made by Bartholdt Rep)
OF Massachusetts in favor of the Nc
Call bill imposing an educational test;
by Traoewell (Rep.) Of Indiana and w.
"A. Stone (Rep) of Pennsylvania In ia
vor Of the latters bill requiring Consul
lar inspection at the port of departure
by Corliss (Rep) of Michigan, in favor
of his bill to relieve the lake cities es-
pecially of the burdens of Canadian
competition. and by Buck Dem.) of
Louisiana, in opposition to any addi-
tional restraint whatever
The immigration Committee early
claimed the floor under theorder adopted
yesterday, and Bartholdt Rep) of Mis-
souri, called up for consideration the
Mccall bill establishing an educational
test for immigrants in the future-they
must be able to read and write some
language before they will be admitted
The bill applies only to male immi-
grants, and the parents of any person
now residing in the United States or
who may hereafter be admitted shall
not be excluded because of inability to
read or write
Corliss (Rep) of Michigan offered as
an amendment the bin introduced by
him intended to relieve the lake cities
Ct the competition of Canadians who
come into the United States temporarily
TO labor, and especially to prohibit the
employment of Canadians on vessels
engaged in the lake trade and on the
railroads running into the United States
from Canada.
w A. Stone Rep) of Pennsylvania
offered as a substitute for the first Sec
ton of the Mccall bill his bill which re-
Quires in addition to the educational
test a satisfactory Consular inspection
OF the immigrants from the port OF de-
pGrture, without which admission to the
United States shall be denied.
Johnson (Rep.) of California proposed
as an amendment to the substitute oil
Stone bill forbidding the admission OF
any foreign born laborer, skilled or un-
skilled, into the United States after
August 1, 1896. This was ruled
out on point of order.
Bartholdt opened the debate in sup
port of the bill called up by him. The
assertion that immigrants did not as
simulate with the people Of the coun-
try, he said, was not borne out by the
facts. The educational force OF the
common school had largely settled thai
question. They We're no longer Ger
mans. English, French or Italians but
Americans. Had 1t not been for the
services of the foreign born soldiers OF
the Union, the result of the war of the
rebellion might have been different
Patriotism was not marked byea mat
ter of longitude. Bartholdt warned his
associates that they could face the
country as defenders of an educationa
test, but not as advocates of a Consular
inspection measure, which in its effects
will bar the bone and sinew of Scanda-
navia and Germany, and we shall come
to grief
". A. Stone advocated the passage 0.
his bill. He said that if there was any.
thing from which this country was suf.
fering it was superfluous immigration
and as an illustration he pointed ou
his own State Pennsylvania), which
he said was suffering from the presenc,
Of large foreign population which hat
no interest in local affairs, and who's,
race riots disgraced the State.
Emigration to the United State.
from many Of the countries now sendins
its citizens here in large numbers is &
matter of recent years. said Stone
land We must put a stop to it II we ex
pect the United States TO become wha
we have wanted 1t TO and believed i
would be. The agitation upon this sub
ject Will not cease until we give 10 la
bor the protection 10 which II is en-
titled and which we have given to CAPT
tai" (Applause.)
Corliss (Rep) of Michigan said tina
lou,oOo Canadian laborers, birds o
passage" came TO the United State.
and entered into competition with tn,
laborers of this country. They carried
their earnings back to Canada witt
them, refusing to make their home!
here. There was nothing in the amend
ment he had suggested which would
prevent any Of them from securing
home in the United States, but was in
tended TO prevent them, until they fel
so inclined. from coming in competition
with the laborers of the United State.
and receiving the high wages which
should so to our own citizens.
Buck CDem.) of louisiana eloquent,
opposed any additional restriction up
on the right Of immigration.
This closed the debate for the day