The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-18
Lodge Bill, which Mr.. Fairbanks
Passed by u Vote of 45 TO IS.
SENATOR HANNA SWORN IN
CONDITION OF ARMY CRITICISED BX
GEN. G. d. M'CLELLAN's SON.
Messrs. Gage and FairchiId Before
MIR. walkers COmmittee-Importa
Life-Insurance Decision.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Lodge bill
to restrict immigration passed the Senate
this afternoon by about the expected vote.
10 to 2S. The two or three amendments
tackled on do not affect the bill in any i'm
portant particular. After the passage OF
the measure Chairman Danforth. of the
| House committee on immigration, came
over to the Senate and asked that it be not
sent to the House until tomorrow. his pur-
| pose being to attempt to have it taken up
| when reported and passed without reference
| to committee. The amendments which We're
| put on in the Senate viii necessitate the
| calling together of the committee, and this
| hurrah programme was afterwards aban-
| doned The bill will be brought up for
| House consideration in the very near future,
| however, and it may become a law within
| fortnight.
The proceedings of the Senate to-day
were the most interesting and important
that have characterized any single days
work of the Senate during the present ses-
sion. In anticipation of them the galleries
wers crowded at an early hour. Quite un-
expectedly Senator Hanna appeared at the
| opening of to-days session. Mr.. Foraker
| the senior senator from Ohio, presented Er.
| Hanna's credentials for the remainder of
| Mr.. Shermans term, which will expire on
| March A, 1898, and asked that the oath of
office be administered to him. Mr.. Foraker
| escorted his colleague to the desk, where
| Vice President Hobart administered the
/ oath.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Wolcotts speech
| the immigration bill was taken up and dis
cussed until o'clock, the hour at which. by
| previous agreement, it had been arranged
| to vote finally upon the amendments and
| the bill. An amendment offered by Mr..
| Spooner- re wisconsin, providing that the
ability on the part Of the immigrant either
| to read or to write should be accepted as a
sufficient test of his literacy was adopted by
vote of AZ to p. Another amendment by
Mr.. Spooner providing that the members of
the family accompanying an immigrant re-
jected under the conditions of the bill should
be returned to the country whence they
came by the steamship company was also
adopted. Other efforts were made to amend
the measure, but failed. The bill was then
passed by a vote of 45 to 2S.
PROVISIONS OF THE BILL.
The bill as passed provides that all inn
migrants physically capable and over six
teen years Of age shall be able to read or
write the English language or some other
language, but q person not able to read or
write who is over fifty years of age and is
the parent or grandparent of a qualified
immigrant over twenty-one years and
capable Of supporting such a parent or
grandparent may accompany the immi-
grant, or the parent or grandparent may be
sent for and come to join the family of the
child or grandchild over twenty-one years
of age qualified under the law; and a wife
or minor child not able to read or write
may accompany or be sent for and come to
join the husband or parent who is qualified.
The act does not apply to persons coming
to the United States from the Island Of
Cuba during the continuance of present dis
orders there who have heretofore been in
habitants of that island.
When the bill was taken up in the Senate
this afternoon Messrs. Hoar and Lodge
spoke in it's favor. The latter declared that
the opposition to the bill had been stimu-
lated by the German steamship companies,
had aroused the opposition to the measure
and had been aided materially by the deputy
himself been citizen of this country for
scarcely seven years
After Mr.. Spooner's amendments had been
adopted Mr.. Caffery offered an amendment
increasing the age of immigrants affected
by the bill from sixteen to twenty-one
years. The amendment. was lost by Is yeas
to S6 nays. Mr.. Kyle offered amendment
providing that any immigrant convicted
within year of his landing in this country
be returned to the country from which he
came. The amendment was lost without di-
passage, the detailed vote being as follows:
Yeas-Allison Baker, Burrows, Cannon,
Carter. Chandler, Chiffon, Clark. Davis, El-
kins, Fairbanks, Foraker. Gallinger Hale.
Hanna, Hansbrough Harris, Hawley, Hoar.
Kyle, Lodge. Mcbride, Mcmillan, Mantle,
Mason, Morrill,, Penrose, Perkins, Pettigrew,
Proctor, Quay, Sewel Shoup, Spooner, Tel
ler,, Thurston. Tfllman. Warren, Wetmore,
Wilson and Wolcott-45.
Nays-Allen. Bacon, Bate, Berry caffery.
Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, German. Heitfeld.
Jones CArk). .Kenney Lindsay, McEnery.
Mallory, Martin. Mills, Mitchell. Money.
Morgan. Murphy, Pettus, Rawlins Roach,
Stewart, Turpie, Walthall and Whites.
Chaplain Milburn, In his invocation, made
touching reference TO the death Of Major
Butterworth. commissioner Of patents, and
to that of Mr.. Logan n. Carlisle, son or the
late secretary of the treasury
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES.
Among the motions then presented were
the remonstrances of 512 Roman Catholic
societies of the United States, representing
more than fifty thousand members, offered
by Mr.. Murphy. against the enactment or
the pending immigration bill.
Mr.. Foraker for the Pacific Railroad
Company, reported from the committee Il
substitute for bill relating to the Pacific
railroads. and asked for its immediate COM
sideration. Objection was made. and the
report went over until tomorrow
Mr.. Hale, Of the appropriations commits
tee, reported the urgency deficiency bill
passed last week by the House. and gave
notice that he will call 1t up tomorrow at
the conclusion of the routine morning busi-
ness.
Mr.. Harris presented resolution for
which he requested immediate considera~
ton, asking the secretary of the treasury
why since 1872 he had omitted from his
statement an item of something more than
$11 100000 interest due 10 the United States
from the Pacific railroads. Objection was
made by Mr.. Thurston and the resolution
went over until tomorrow.
Mr.. Allen presented and asked for in-
mediate consideration of a resolution di-
rectng the committee on pensions TO ascer-
tain by what authority the commissioner
of pensions refuses To pass on applications
for increases of pensions until twelve
months shall have elapsed since the last
allowance was made. MIR. Gallinger, chair
man of the pension committee, objected 10
immediate consideration of the resolution.
and Ii went over until Tomorrow.
A bill authorizing the Muscogee Coal and
Railroad Company to construct and operate
a railway through the Indiana Territory
and Oklahoma Territory and for other pur-
poses was passed. OH motion OF Mr.. Baker.
Mr. Carter, chairman of the census COM
mittee gave notice that after the disposi~
ton tomorrow OF the urgent deficiency bill
he should insist on consideration of the un-
finished business, which is the measure pro-