The record-union., 1896-12-18

to cross the st. Lawrence into the
United States, and to cause immigrants
from China and Japan to take steam
ships to Vancouver inasmuch as the
amendment would not apply to imml-
grants coming by land.
After further discussion Elkins'
amendment was rejected.
Morgan D) of Alabama offered an
amendment prohibiting the naturaliza-
ton of an alien who cannot read cor
rectly the Ten Commandments and the
Constitution of the United States print
ed in some language" and made an ar
gument in support of it,
Lodge opposed the amendment as
opening up new and important ques-
tions. He moved to lay it on the table.
The motion was agreed to-yeas 40,
nays Is.
The bill was then passed-52 to 10.
The following is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Allen, Bacon, Baker, Bate, Ber-
ry, Brown, Burrows, Butler, Call, Cam
eron, Chiffon, Clark, Davis, Dubois, Ell
kins, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Hale,
Hoar, Kyle, Lodge, Mcbride, Mcmillan.
Mantle, Martin, Mitchell (Or), Morrill,,
Nelson, Pascoe, PETER, Perkins, Petit
grew, Platt, Proctor, Pugh, Quay, Sew
ell Sherman, Smith, Stewart, Teller,
Vest Walthall, Wetmore and Wilson
81
Nays-Messrs. Blackburn, Blanchard,
Caffery, Lindsay, Mills, Mitchell of iWs-
consin, Morgan, Murphy, Palmer and
Vilas-10
The bill, which is substitute for the
House bill passed on the Goth of May
last, is as follows:
That section one of the Act of March
>, 1891, in amendment of the immigra-
ton and contract labor Acts, be and IS
hereby amended by adding to the classes
of aliens thereby excluded from admis-
sion to the United States the following:
"All persons over 16 years of age who
cannot read and write the language of
their native country or some other Ian
guage but an admissible immigrant
over such age of 16 may bring in with
him or send for his wife or parent or
grandparent or minor child or grand
child, notwithstanding the inability to
read and write.
For the purpose of testing the ability
of the immigrant to read and write, as
required by the foregoing section, the
inspection officers shall be furnished
with copies of the Constitution of the
United States, printed on numbered uni
form slips, each containing five lines of
such Constitution printed in the various
languages of the immigrants in double
small plea type. Those slips shall be
kept in boxes made for that purpose and
SO constructed as to conceal the slips
+, from view, each box to contain slips Of
| but one language, and the immigrant
may designate the language in which he
prefers the test shall be made. Each
immigrant shall be required to draw one
of said slips from the box and read and
afterward write out in full view of the
immigration officers the five lines print
ed thereon. Each slip shall be returned
to the box Immediately after the test
Is finished, and the contents of the box
shall be shaken up by an inspection
officer before another drawing is made.
No immigrant failing to read and write
out the slip thus drawn by him shall be
admitted but he shall be returned to the
country from which he came at the ex-
pense of the steamship or railroad COM
pany which brought him, as now pro-
vided by law. The inspection officers
shall keep in each box at all times full
number of said printed paSteboard
slips, and in the case of each excluded
immigrant shall keep a certified mem
orandum of the number of the slip
which the said immigrant failed to read
or copy out in writing.
THE Act shall not apply to persons
arriving in the United States from any
port or place in the Island of Cuba dur
ing the continuance of the present dis
orders; provided that such persons have
heretofore been inhabitants of that is
| land
That this Act shall take effect three
months after it's passage"
A committee on conference was or
dered, Senators Lodge R.) of Massachu-
setts, Chandler (R.) of New Hamp-
shire and Faulkner CD of West Vir-
ginia being appointed conferrees on the
part of the Senate.
Then, after a short executive session,
the Senate, at 80 p. m, adjourned until
Monday.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE House
to-day set the inaugural ball rolling by
the passage of the usual bills authoriZ-
ing the laying of the necessary tempor-
airy railroad tracks to accommodate the
increased travel the use of streets and
reservations for the erection of review
ing stands. and the loan of such Govern
/ ment flags and ensigns as can be spared
| for the decorative purposes.
The army appropriation bill. which
was the unfinished business at the open
! ing of the session. was passed, after the
amendment recommended by the Com
mittee of the Whole Wednesday, prac-
| tically abolishing the hospital at Hot
| Springs. Ark, by cutting off the appro-
prlation for its maintenance, had been
agreed to.
| Half dozen measures of local interest
| to the District of Columbia We're passed.
and consideration of the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill
was begun in the Committee of the
| Whole.
Thirty-one pages of the bill were dis
posed of without amendment, when at l
| o'clock the committee arose and the
| House adjourned until tomorrow.
TRAIN PASSENGERS ROBBED.
Three lien Secure Several Watches