The San Francisco call., 1901-12-03
EASTERN CONGRESSr1EN
WILL AID PACIFIC COAST
Poll on Train Shows Pennsylvanians Are
Ready to Resist the AsiatiC Hordes.
BY c. c. CARLTON.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ALL BUREAU, 14O6 G STREET,
n N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.,
u Dec. 2.-There appears to be no
~ doubt whatever in the minds of
Californias Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes in Congress that the Geary
Chinese exclusion act will be continued
in force and strengthened. No sooner
had Congress assembled than the Cali
fornia and the entire Pacific Coast dele
cations set diligently to work in advoca-
oy of more rigid exclusion. 1t is, OF
course, the subject of legislation of par
amount interest to the Pacific Coast re-
gion. But they were surprised to find
such lively interest exhibited by Senators
and members from all sections OF the
country. The Boxer uprising and atroci-
ties committed during the siege Of Pc
king have greatly intensified the feeling
against the Celestiais, and the sentiment
against undesirable immigrants of all
classes, especially the anarchists, famed
into a flame by the assassination OF Pres
ident Mckinley, has not been allowed TO
die out. Every other member has "a
bill' 10 put into the legislative hopper
calculated to protect America from this
dangerous element.
Nor is the Boxer uprising forgotten
The anarchists and Chinese are included
in one sweeping anathema, They must
60" The LABOR organizations throughout
the country are uD IN IOO. dllQ
should there be any sentimentalist in this
Congress who religiously protest against
what they are pleased to call race pre-
judice and persecution of the poor heath
en-" that sentiment will be quickly dis
PEELED when they are brought face to face
with the thousands of petitions and me-
MORALS that are now pouring in from
labor organizations all over the country.
The petitions are being piled up in the
Capitol like cord wood. The labor organ
izations and the votes of individual work
ingmen are greatly feared by the average
member of Congress.
Combating Chinese Contributions.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, proposes
to solicit dollar subscriptions from mem
bers of the organization with which 10
nese Six Companies, who have assessed
each Chinaman in this country 81. Com
pers has powerful allies in the heads of
other labor associations. Eugene V.
DebS of Indiana introduced a resolution
in the Central Labor Union which de-
clares that capitalists would "use the
poorest paid toilers of the earth to cheap
en- production and force workingmen TO
the degradation of being leveled to the
plane of these imported Chinese Con-
gressmen and all thinking men should
use their influence to cause the re-enact-
ment of the Chinese exclusion laws
Congressman Holiday of Debs' district
says:
"I believe that the law excluding Chit
prosperity depends largely on the ability
of the workingman to obtain good wages
To permit an alien people who are willing
to work for starvation wages to come into
this country and compete with our own
laborers would lower the general average
of wages and diminish bySso much the
ability of the American laborer to sun
port his family and educate his children. .
John T. Morgan of Portland, Ore, VINO
came East to attend the convention Of
the American Federation of Labor Will
speak at maSs-meeting in Philadelphi1
Saturday night and will then come to
Washington. Morgan and other delegates
from the West will deliver addresses.
Union adopted resolutions calling upon
Congressman to exert every effort in the
extension of the Chinese exclusion law
In Favor of Exclusion.
The effect of labor union petitions unon
Congressman is shown by a straw vote
of the Pennsylvania delegation taken on
train between Philadeluhia and Wash
! ington BY The Call correspondent vest IT
! day. OF twenty-five Congressman infer
viewed nineteen expressed themselves in
! favor of rigid exclusion and six wal1sc1
time to think" Quay was silent. as
usual.
| Representative Mondell of Wvonino :
one Of the most energetic Western mem
bers in behalf of exclusion. He has al
ready introduced bill on the lines of the
! Geary act. '-e
''The people of my State and those ot
the whole Pacific Coast are very much
dell to-day. And they will be content
with nothing less stringent than tbs
Geary act. / shall give especial attention
/ to the subject, and If the law now in ex-
| istence or some other equally prohfbitive
am personally very much Interested 5e-
/ cause / feel that If by any slfp Consress