The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-18
IMMIGRATION BILL PASSES
4 FAVORABLE TOTE OF a5 TO es IN
 THE SENATE.

THE SEN1TE.
 Senator spooner Speaks Against the Meas ure but Reaching an Agreement With Senator Lodge Finally Votes for It--sen- ator Lodge Declares Opposition Has Been Stimulated by German Steamship Cos. Washington, Jan. 17.-Upon the close Of Senator Wolcott's speech (printed elsewhere in this paper) in the senate to-day upon the work of the bimetallic commission in Europe Senator Lodge of Massachusetts demanded the regular ! order of business, which was the con- sideration of the immigration bill. Af- ter slight tilt with Senator Allen dis cussion of the measure commenced and was led by Senator Hoar. He spoke in N favor of the bill. He referred to the { defeat of the federal election bill known as the Force bill," and said that those who had deserted their associates at that time in order to serve their own ends had made the present measure necessary, as the immigration bill was in effect a suffrage bill. He had receiv- ed many remonstrances and they came X this action.
 Mir. Spooner of Wisconsin said that he, too, had received remonstrances, K some of them in the envelopes of steam
 ship companies, which clearly showed \ their selfish purposes. While support ing the general character of the bill, he pointed out a feature which he said was indefensible, namely, that requiring an immigrant to both read and write DOT M tions of the United States constitution. He had known men to rise to eminence S in this country who could read, but not N spell punctuate and write with accura- N cy He would not vote to turn from N our shores any man who can read in some language our laws and our his- N tory. Rather than support the provi- sion requiring the immigrant to write E as we'll as to read, he would be com & peled to vote against the bill.
 E At the conclusion of MT. Spooner's S E remarks an agreement having been $ reached by the Wisconsin senator and 2 MT. Lodge, in charge of the measure, \ that Mr. Spooner should draft an ! amendment providing that steamship
 companies should take back to Europe ] the wife and children of an immigrant & who had failed to meet the requirements { of the proposed law, Mr. Lodge spoke & briefly in support of the measure. He & said that the bill needed some modifi- 3 cations as passed by the senate in the < last congress. MT. Lodge declared that M the opposition to the bill had been stim- " ulated by the German steamship com \ panies, which would suffer by it's pass 4 age. They had aroused the opposition 4 to the measure and had been aided ma E terially by the deputy commissioner of # immigration, who had himself been a X citizen of this country for scarcely sev- N en years. MT. Lodge read letter writ = ten by the deputy commissioner, and N then said: T never differ in opinion @ with any man on account of creed or & race, but this appeal to race prejudice is as bad as any know w-nothingist. We are all Americans here and ought to % have done with such appeals as this to M prejudice and caste" The amendment @ offered by MT. Spooner was adopted by M AZ ayes to 22 noes.
 @ MT. Caffery of Louisiana offered an amendment increasing the age of inn migrants affected by the bill from six & teen to twenty-one years. The amend % nent was lost by 28 yeas to 36 nays. IN MT. Kyle of South Dakota offered an amendment providing that any immi- grant convicted within year of his landing in this country of felony or other violation of law shall be returned E to the country from which he came E The amendment was lost without divi- & sion. The bill was then passed by a N vote of 45 to 2s, as follows:
 N Yeas-Allison, Baker, Burrows, Can non, Carter. Chandler, Chilton Clark "A Delvis, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker Frye, Gallinger, Hale, Hanna, Hans "a brough, Harris, Hawley, Hoar, Kyle x Lodge, Mcbride, McMillan, Mantle, Ma N son, Merrill, Penrose, Perkins, Petit grew, Platt of Connecticut, Platt o1 # New York, Pritchard, Proctor, Quay Sewell, Shoup, spooner, Teller, Thurs | ton, Tillman Warren, Wetmore, Wilson and Wolcott-45
 < Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caf. E fiery, Carey Clarkwell, Daniel, German 3s Heitfield, Jones of Arkansas, Kenney \ Lindsay McEnery, Mallory, Martin Mills. Mitchell, Money, Morgan, Mur. 3a phy, Fettus, Rawlins, Roach, Stewart Purple, Walthrall and White-2S
 M The bill as passed provides that inn kS migrants physically capable and over sixteen years of age shall be able tc | read and write the English language ol # some other language, but person moi K able to read or write who is over fifty 'H years and Is parent or grandparent
 T of qualified immigrant over twenty ' one years old, and capable of support
 ing such parent or grandparent, may
 accompany the immigrant or the parent
 E or grandparent may be sent for and E come to join the family of the child oi W grandchild over twenty-one years oi E age, qualified under the law, and wife
 & or minor child not able to write may & accompany or be sent for and come tc E join the husband or parent who is qual @ flied The act does not apply to per ! sons coming to the United States iron Al Cuba during the continuance of tht
 M present disorders, who have hitherto M been inhabitants of that island.
 % WAGES HATE INCREASED.
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