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measures reported to the Senate to-day
was the pension appropriation bill. Ii
was placed on the calendar.
At the conclusion of the morning
business the immigration bill, the un-
finished business, was taken UP and
Caffery of Louisiana was recognized for
a speech in opposition to the measure
Canery said:
The pending bill is as mild a form
of antagonism to immigration as ma
tivisn will permit. It imposes an edu-
cational test of no very stringent char
acter, so far as the test is concerned
1t is the beginning of a new departure
From the foundation of the Government
we have invited the hardy, adventur-
Gus people Of the Caucasian family to
our hospitable shores. The grand
transformation of this continent from
the wigwam of the savage and the laiI
of the wild beast to the myriads OF
homes of happy, industrious people has
been the work of white immigrants
Yet we are about to spite the hand
that has upbuilded US. To give a sting
to ingratitude, many whose ancestors
are foreign born are now clamoring fol-
a restricted immigration.
TT is just and proper to hold this
continent against the Monaghan. The
exclusion of the Chinese is justified by
wise policy and by the principle of re-
taliation. Their doors have been closed
to the world, but their arrogance and
selfshness are not the role for wise
nations to play in this worlds grand
theater Not to admit to this country
the Irishmen. Swedes or Italians VINO
cannot read or write is Chinese-not
American. No danger to our instltu-
tons has ever arisen from admitting
immigrants who cannot read and write.
This Government is the outgrowth or
the labor of countless immigrants who
would be disqualified by the pending
bill. He who is vigorous in body, sound
in mind. honest and Industrious, is a
good citizen. No immigrant not
pauper. or insane or diseased or criminal
should be turned away from our
shores
Caffery maintained that each State
established a right to legislate regard
ing restriction on suffrage, but he held
that a citizen of the United States was
one thing, and voter in State quite
another. "A large number Of the sup
porters of this BILL said Caffery, IA
vor the Incorporation into the United
States of the Hawaiian Islands, with
their Heterogeneous mass of Kanakas-"
tcafrery deemed it useless to print long
columns Of figures showing that ooU-
900 immigrants focked to the slums OF
Eastern cities and supplied the largest
percentage of iliterates. If there were
not work for them they would not be
there. Gallery said that the enfran-
chisement of colored people kept the
white immigrants out of the South since
the war. much to the detriment OF that
part of the country.
"A career of boundless prosperity
opens up before u.s." declared Ca1fery,
but we must take care lest our un-
wise restriction of immigration, and our
cruel foolish laws of prohibition OF
foreign goods. do pot work US Woe
This BILL" continued Caffery. rs the
cry of prescription and selfshness 1t
is another form. of mania of protection.
1t IS repugnant to democracy in its
widest sense 1t is a libel on 10000
600 free men, whose ancestors as well
as themselves have welcomed TO
our shores every son and daughter Of
TOLL
The resolutions in memory Of Ishanl
G. Harris of Tennessee, which were to
have been presented to-day, Were post
poned on request of Senator Bate, in
the absence Of Senator Turney, his col
league. They win not be offered until
after the election of a Senator by the
Legislature of Tennessee.
At the conclusion of Caffery's speech,
the Senate, at 1920 o'clock, on motion
of Chairman Davis OF the Foreign Re-
lations Committee, went into executive
session.
At $50 the Senate adjourned until
tomorrow.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I3-The House
to-day completed the consideration Of
the agricultural bin in Committee Of
the Whole, and then adjourned on the
motion of those who favored the print
ing of another edition OF the famous
Horse Book" There was the annual
fight over the question OF free seed dis
tributlon to the farmers, but the effort
10 strike out The appropriation $3.50, :
000) failed as usual, the majority
against it to-day being l36. One Of
the important amendments adopted
provided for the inspection Of horse
meat for export purposes in the same
way that the meat Of cattle and other
animals is now inspected
During the debate to-day some very
caustic criticism of the proceedings in
the Senatorial election in Ohio from
Dearmond (D) Of Missouri called forth
a warm defense of Senator Hanna from