The San Francisco call., 1897-06-30
Seeks to Impose a Head
Tax of 500 on All
Immigrants.
Turns His PitChfork on the
Republicans and Grover
Cleveland.
Chandler EnraEes the Erratio Sem
ator With His Keen ana
Humorous Thrusts.

over paragraphs in the tariff bill were
taken up and disposed OF. They were the
paragraphs relating to watches and clocks, |
pineapples, lead and lead ores, mica and
plaster or gypsum. The hrst three were |
discussed at some length, but on the vote |
taken the Republicans had their usual ma
iority of seven to ten.
Jewels for use in the manufacture of
watches and clocks were put on the free |
lis'.
Mallory of Florida, discussing the |
amendment increasing the rate on pine |
apples in packages from 6 TO cents
cubic loot and in bulk from S6 to 81 thoa- |
sand, said that within the last lew years
the line Of railroad from 81. Augustine TO
Miami had opene up portion of Florida
well adapted 10 the cultivation OF pine
apples and that the people were making it
profitable.
The other Florida Senator, Pascoe,
argued that the rates ought 10 be Is cents
a cubic foot and SlO thousand. The
amendment was agreed to.
The lead and lead ore amendment in
creased the duty on ore from 1 cent
! pound to a cent and a half, was agreed TO
! -aYes 80. noes %
| In the paragraph rela ting to lead in pigs
and bars and in any form not otherwise
| provided for ClS0), the duty was increased
! from to % cents per pound.
The mica paragraph was made to read:
mica, 40 per cent ad valorem; mica, un-
manufactured, cents per pound ami 20
per cent Rd valorem; mica, cut or
trimm med, 10 cents per pound and 20 per
cent ad vaIorem."
Tlllman offered an amendment Impos-
ing head tax of 500 on all immigrants
by land or water, and providing that sit
shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by fine
or imprisonment, for any alien who does
not in tend 10 become an American citizen,
or who retains his citizenship in foreign
country, to enter the United States for the
! purpose of engaging in any mechanical
trade or manual labor within the borders
thereof, provided that the act shall re-
main in force only until silver shall be
| admitted to our minis for coinage a a
| ratio of 16 10 l on the same conditions
| with gold.
Tllman said his proposition was the
| quin ntessence of protection. The Republi-
can Senators stood here as the cham ptons
of American labor against the pauper
labor of Europe They erected a barrier
against the products of pauper labor, and
yet they allowed pauper labor to come to
the United States and pete with Amer
lean labor until there were to-day half
million men in the Northern cities beg
ging for work and without bread.
you promise" he said, addressing the
Republican side, "protection for American
labor; now incorporate in your tariff
provision that will keep pauper labor out
OF this country"
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Legislature in imposing a tax of 8 cents a
day on alien workingmen, Quay called his
attention TO the fact that that was Re-
publican Legislature.
} "I know it was" Tillman said with an
angry snap, land I am asking a Repub-
lican Congress to go a little further and
give to American workingmen some actual
protection. Will you do it? Dare you do
it? Or will you give them lip service and
levy tax of cents day on their COM
petitors?"
, After talking excitedly for quarter OF
an hour Tillman took his seat, with the
remark that the Senator from New Hamp-
shire was enjoying himself in anticipation
8 of making a meal OF him.
Nothing would give me greater pleas
ure," said Chandler, humorousIy, ethan
5 TO devour the incisive ana inconsistent
2 Senator from South Carolina; but I am
/ afraid l shall not have the pleasure Of
r making a final meal of him to-day.
, agree with him as TO the evils of indis.
: criminate immigration. Everything that
can be done by law to Keep out bad. de.
' graded, INJURIOUS immigrants should be
e done. But why is there not q law fol
that purp pose to-day?"
GRenausa TilIman broka in Uvou,
s Republican President, Grover Cleveland
e vetoed it,
g "a Democratic President" said Mr.
s | Chandler, "vetoed the bill to restrict i'm
: migration passed in the last Congress-
e President for whom the Senator from
T South Carolina voted-and he should ash
t to be forgiven before the Senate and be-
o fore high heaven for what he did. Unde
= these circumstances the Senator from
South Carolina should have turned tn,
n tines of his pitchfork against Grover, who
e is not yet dead, and he should have dis
e mboweled him if possible, leaving tht
? Republican party to some future day."
J. Tillman persisted in interrupting tn,
'f Senator, and said he had gone to the
/: Democratic convention in Chicago in 1S9.
e at the head OF the South Carolina delega
It Cleveland.
W II cannot yield the floor" Mr.. Chandle-
E. broke in, with an air of mock delicacy, ct,
allow that kind of language to be used.
Ie cannot permit the Senator to speak il
IL that way of the late President. For hi
n acts, such as they we're, good or bad, tn
'r Democratic party was responsible, 70
d every iot and title of them
st As to the nroposed hasd fox of elm NJ
1t Chandler said that instead of taking tina
Ig money from the immigrants it would b
much better and wiser to give them $40
re- each to enable them to get to their desti
re nation in the West and to help them Il
y build up homes for their families As T.
Ie the free-silver tail to the amendment MI
IL Chandler characterized it as most liam
and impotent conclusion"
Once more Tillman got the floor ant
was in the act of excoriating the Republi
D. can Senators in general and Chandler i