The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

WASHINGTON, May 14.-Mr. Glib.
son Dem. Md addressed the senate
in opposition to the bill restricting i'm
migration as soon as the session opened
today. He urged that there was no
reason to turn back the immigrants
| from our shores so long as there were
mountains to tunnel, rivers to bridge
and virgin country to develop.
Many of the states with scant popu-
1atfon would be glad to welcome the
foreigner either with education or iIlft-
| crate, if he only works.
The most populous and prosperous
states owed their prosperity largely to
! the great benefits resulting from immi-
grafton.
MIR. Gibson said that the power be-
| hind this anti-immigration bill was
the American Protective association,
| So
SECRET OATH-BOUND SOCIETY,
red-lettered, left-handed, dark-lartern-
| ed organization. The bill had for it's
real purpose, the senator said hostility
to the Catholic church, purpose of
envy, hatred and malice. 1t was the
offspring of a brood of mischief makers.
Mr.. Gibson read the oath of the organ
| iZation This was the organization, he
said, that was seeking to enter Ameri-
! can politics. There was no branch of
honest politics which a secret, oath
bound organization could serve.
Mr.. Gibson added: 1.-The whole peo-
pie are equally interested in the well
fare of the country. and none should
| be refused an equal share with the rest
in every elaboration and in all legis-
| lation affecting it. All political clubs,
! societies and associations start on eheir
| career with professions skilfully drawn.
( so as to make it appear that their pur-
! poses are patriotic and
WORTHY OF SUPPORT.
but all of them, as soon as they have
! obtained power, are used by unprinci-
pied men to do wrong. This is ths
history of the Carboni. the nfhilisi5s,
the Jacobins and anarchists, and the
commune, and this will be the history
of the A. P. A, unless its evil tenden-
! cieS are prevented in time by the
American people and its dangerous ca
reer stopped by their good sense and
/ judgment. L have faith, Mr.. President,
without bonds or limits, in the Ameri-
can people in their moderation, wis
dom, justice and courage. L do not
believe that they will submit to the
dictation of any such organization as
/ the A. P. A, but that they win prompt
ly and effectively stamp with the seal
Of their condemnation this impudent
and dangerous interference with the in
terests of the republic"
THE BRIGHTER SIDE.
Senator Nelson said: We have been,
| to q large extent a nation of immi-
grants, and a large share of our history
was immigration history. We need
men to perform the toll and drudgery
and to bear the trials and misfortunes
! incident to the development of a new
and unsettled country. This want had
| been supplied in large measure by
/ our foreign immigrants. The blood of
nearly 15,000,0OO German people had
| been infused into the hearts and loins
of the American people. These imnnf-
grants had not come as a scourge, as
/ freebooters and pirates, but on a mis-
/ sion of peace, and had responded in full
measure to the intellectual, moral and
political instincts and requirements of
the nation RussiOns, Poles, Hungari-
ans and Italians had been cited as
samples of inferior races wholly unfit
I for American institutions He who be-
Titled and affected to despise these
races, said the senator, knows little Of
their history and ethnic makeup.
| He paid a high tribute TO these peo-
pie, and cited some of their great
achievements. He argued that con-
tinued immigration, so far from de-
pressing wages, had gradually resulted
in promoting labor to a higher level
The large influx of foreigners had led
American labor to seek higher pursuits
and more profitable ca1lings. The pro-
cess that had been going on between
the native and foreign-born had also
been going on among the foreign-born
| themselves. Speaking of the objection
| that foreigners furnish an undue pro-
| portion of criminals, the senator said
that may be true as to numbers, but
not as to character or quality.
SIXTY PENSION BILLS.
were passed, clearing the calendar Of
all pension bills except the one recon-
mended to pass over veto. Among
the bills passed were those pensioning
the widow of Brigadier-General John
Hough at $50 per month, the daughter
/ of General Phil Kearney at S25; the
widow of Rear Admiral Queen at S75.
The vice-resident named Senators
Gray, of Delaware, and Sewali, of New
Jersey, as members of the board of
visitors to West Point and Senators
! Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Hale of
Maine, TO Annapolis
At 5:45 o'clock p. m. the senate held
an executive session and then adj
journed.