The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
FROM WASHINGTON
Hams, pn.,.s the immigration Bill by
Big Observation-Disclosures Speech W
Morgan on The cuban puestiOn-Gor
man Rather Puts sherman In H0ic'


The long struggle on the Delawar
senutorship was ended friday by tn
rejection Of Col, Du Points claim Z
+ the position. The vote was 10 to 81
the Republicans all voting for his al
mission and the Democrats and Pop
ulists all against it,
The Senate has thi, week dispose
of the District of Columbia bill afte
putting back into ii the applopri
alton for sectarian institution
: which the House refused and thei
had the Fertilization hpproprla
ton bills before it. AS it passed the
House the bill carried 80, SID. S3I, t
which the Senate added s4,9lo, 0ol,
making the total reported to the Sen
ate SO, 7G3, SSS Even worse cxtrav
agance, considering the condition OF
the treasury, was included in thf
River and Harbor bill. which the Sen.
ate passed last week. When the bllI
come from the House it carried appro,
priations of so, $50, 600 and authorized
continuing contracts amounting IL
about SOL, 600. 600 more The Senate,
as is usual, increased the total of APP
preparations IN this measure to ST.,
$50, 600 and the total OF contracts au-
thorizcd to upward of SOL, 600, 600. In
addition to these amounts there is in
the bill a clause relating to the Mo
nongahela river which will probably
make necessary an appropriation of
So, 600, 600 more in the near future.
The Senate has already passed appro-
priations this winter of So, 5Sl, GOO on
eXisting contracts. \ characteristic
Job in the bill, but one that happened
to be squelched by Senator Frye's ac.
tior. was that devoting $50. 600 to an
Oregon port that consisted of Just one
wharf and one saw mill. The Pres
ident is reported to be strongly in
clincd to veto the whole thing, even
though it involve a suspension of much
meritorious work. He will at least,
probably, let it become law, without
his signature.
Senator Morgan introduced ii resolu-
ton Friday, which was passed Sat.
urday. in relation to the sentence OF
American citizens captured on the
Competitor in Cuban waters, instruct
ing the foreign affairs committee to
inquire into the treaty rights bearing
on the subject, and the secretary of
state to transact all correspondence re-
lating to it. Morgan made one of his
humping speeches in support of the
resolution. The Spanish force, he
said. consisted of l50. 900 troops and 30
war vessels, while the insurgents had
in the field not less than 30, 600 troops
1t was utterly preposterous therefore,
to assert that state of war did not
exist there. 1t shocked common sense
that the United States government was
la, h.. al 10
lenses. to admit that peace prevailed |
in Cuba. He charged that Secretary |
Olney had yielded his patriotic i'm |
pulses to the dictation of a great syn |
iicatc of Massachusetts capitalists (
having sugar and railroad interests in (
Cuba. though the President was not F.
accused of knowing about it, 1t is al /
so believed that one great influence
which operates to malgin Olney with !
Spanish interests and against Cuban
freedom comes from the New England
owners of the Hawaiian debt as well as
If Hawaiian sugar lands. As affairs
stand, Hawaiian sugar comes into
american ports free. Cuban sugar
las Il duty imposed upon it. Were
Cuba freed from Spain it would not,
30 these New Englanders rightly APP
be six months before the is
and would find annexation to the
United States, and this would mean
rec sugar from Cuba in competition
With them.
The House began debate on the
question Tuesday There
re three bills before il dealing with
he subject, the Mccall bill which
imposes IA reading and writing test on
the Stone bill which pro-
ides for consular inspection abroad of ,
Intending emigrants to the United
tates, and the Corlss bill which
'ouId exclude all immigrants who
ave no intention of making perna y
ent homes there. The Mccall bill i
the one that has the endorsement of {
ne immigration .restriction league
18th headquarters at Boston. Bartholdt |
Missouri, Corliss of Michigan, Store S
T Pennsylvania, Tracewell of Indiana, \
uck of Louisiana and others partic- s
,ated in the debate. The strongest n
rgument was that of Bartholdt in ia s
Or of the Mccain bill which would |
Derate to exclude the undesirable j
from Southern Europe, c
hose illiteracy ranges from % per d
mt in Greece to y in Italy, and
ave very little effect against that of :
orIhern Europe, whose illiteracy was .,
, per cent. in Denmark, in Norway, r
in Germany and Scotland, ) in Ia
rance and England. in Ireland and -,
in Wales. The bill. he said, ap. ="
les only to male immigrants, and the
Irents of any person now residing in
e United States or who may hereaf- ca
+ be admitted shall not be excluded p'
cause of inability to read or write. D.
albany of New York, offered subst- ca
tie to absolutely exclude all foreign III
rn laborers, skilled or unskilled,' M
It it was ruled out of order. Mr.. ui
,rliss of Michigan offered an amend DC
mt intended to relieve the lake cit
OF the competition of Canadians of
10 come into the United States tenn be
rarily to labor, and especially to pro pu
bit the employment of Canadians pa
vessels engaged in the lake trade at
d on railroads running into the di
lited States from Canada, He said HI
J, 600 of these laborers came into the Gle
nntry every year to compete with -
+ labor, carrying their earnings back =
tn them and refusing to make their | r
me here, and it was competition
wanted to stop.
|lr. Mccall closed the debate We'd |
'day in support of his bill and it |
S passed by the surprising vote of |
TO %. i'll
The senate passed the $40, 1853, 600 |
tification bill Wednesday, in spite
the treasury deficit. German pro
ed the issue of 500. 600. 900 of } per
It. certificates to meet the deticien
and the extravagant appropriations
t are being piled up, but was voted