Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-09
FIFTY FOURTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, February 8.

A resolution was reported from the
committee on contingent expenses ana
was agreed to, instructing the judiciary
committee to proceed with the investl.
cation in the matter of Charles NJ.
Amidon, nominated to be district judge
for the District OF North Dakota.
On motion of Mr.. Hoar it was order
ed that, at 10 minutes before l o'clock
tomorrow, the Senate shall proceed to
tho hall of the House of Representa-
tives to take part in the count of the
electoral vote for President and Vice
President of the United States.
A joint resolution was introduced by
MIR. Lodge and was referred to the
committee on printing. appropristing
$57, 900 for employees of the govern
ment printing office who did not re-
ceive, or use, leave of absence from
1887 to the present time.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Pettigrew withdrawing from the
President bill as to timber-culture
land, was presented and agreed to-Mr.
Hill stating that the question as to the
constitutionality of such withdrawal
could be raised and decided when the
bill came again before the Senate if the
President should return it,
Senate bill appropriatiug $3.50, 900 to
aid in the improvement of the South
pass by closing the existing crevasse in
Pass a'fOutre in the Mississippi river
was, on motion of Mr.. Gallery, taken
from the calendar and passed.
at 1910, on motion of Mr.. Sherman,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, the Senate proceeded to the
consideration of executive business (the
Anglo-American treaty of arbitratioD).
HOUSE.
In order that it might prepare the
bill making appropriations for carrying
on the postal service in the year ending
June so, 1898, the committee on post
Offices and post roads, on motion Of
Mr.. Loud, was permitted to sit during
! the sessions of the House.
Mr.. Danford called up the second
agreement of the corferees upon the
immigration bill, which was presented
to the House yesterday, and after
/
ferees, he demanded the previous ques-
ton. This was seconded-94 to y.
The bill as agreed upon provides for
| the admission of illiterate wives and
children of male immigrants who them
selves are eligible to admission. The
educational test was changed so as to
admit any male immigrant, otherwise
qualified, who can read and write the
English or some other language. The
first agreement compelled the immi-
grants to read and write in the language
of their native or resident nation. The
sections relating to the coming Of
"birds of PASSAGE" especially over the
Canadian border, have been changed
to read as follows:
"Section 4. That it shall here
after be unlawful for any male alien
who has not in good faith made his
declaration before the proper court Of
his intention to become citizen of the
United States to be employed on any
public works of the United States, or to
come regularly or habtually into the
United States by land or water for the
purpose of engaging in any mechanical
trade or manual labor, for wages or
salary, returning from time to time to
foreign country.
Section s. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, partnership, company
or corporation knowingly to employ
any alien coming into the United States
in violation of the next preceding Sec
ton of this act provided that the pro.
visions of this act shall not apply to the
employment Of sailors, deck hands, or
other employees of vessels, or railroad
train hands, such as conductors, en-
gineers, brakemen, fremen, or baggage
men, whose duties require them to pass
over the frontier TO reach the termini
OF their runs, or to boatmen or guides
on the lakes and rivers on the northern
border of the United States.
Section 6. That any violation of the
provisions of sections four and five of
this act by any alien or citizen shall be
deemed misdemeanor, punishable by
a fine not exceeding $500 or by impris.
onment for the term of not exceeding
one year, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment, in the discretion of the
court: provided, that all persons con-
victed of q violation of section four of
this act shall be deported to the country
whence they came.
Section 7. That Notwithstanding the
provisions of this or any other existing
law, the Secretary of the Treasury may
permit aliens to enter this country for
the purpose of teaching new arts or in
dustrieS under such rules and rapula.
tons as he may provide.
A new section was added as follows
Section S. That this act shall not
apply to persons arriving in the United
States from any port or place in
the Island of Cuba, during the continu-
ance of the present disorders there,
who have heretofore been inhabitants
of that island.
Mr.. Mahany antagonized the adop
ton of the conference report. He
characterized the proposed measure as
a crime against civilization, and said
that if it had been in force a hundred
years ago, a majority of the members of
the House would not only not be repre-
sentatives of American people in Con-
gress, but not even citizens OF the gov
eminent. The bill would admit freely
anarchists, socialists and communists,
and at the same time keep out God |
fearing men who with their descendants
would make good citizens of the re-
public.
MIR. Bartholdt one of the conferees,
who did not sign either report, express