The Washington times., 1902-04-16
Platt Substitute to Chinese
Bill Finds Favor in
the Senate.
OPPOSITION GROWS STRONGER
Committee Offers Amendments Striking
Out Definitions of Teacher" and
Student" as Applied to Exempted
Orientals.

stampede against the Chinese exclu-
sion bill occurred in the Senate at q
late hour yesterday afternoon.
When adjournment finally came after 6
O'Clock. all expectation that tbs meas
ure favored by the committee would pass
had been removed wholly.
The committee itself began the work
Of destruction by moving, through Mr..
Fairbanks. to strike out two of the most
Objectionable sections of the measure, de-
filming the terms student" and teacher"
as applied to Chinese persons who shall
be allowed to enter the country.
A Despairing Effort.
This concession on the part of the COM
mittee was very evidently made with
despairing hope that 1t would save the
bill. But the opponents of the measure
were not satisfied with this. and continued
to talk against it vigorously all day.
Senator Turner, Democratic supporter
of the bill, put another nail In its coffin.
to use the expression of one of its OPP
ponents. by insinuating that the Republic
cans are not in favor of any form Of
exclusion, and that sinister motives have
influenced their views.
Senator Spooner followed him, and Wig
orously denounced this suggestion. I'M
mediately after he had finished bitter
speech against the measure the last and
most significant event of the day occur
red
Friends of the bill brought out the
Plat substitute and began to propose
amendments to it. This move on their
part was generally considered to be
virtual acknowledgment that the bill has
been beaten. 1t indicated that they
wished to strengthen the substitute as
much as possible.
Terms of Plat Amendment.
The Plat amendment originally pro-
posed simply to re-enact the present law
until 1904, the date when the Chinese
treaty will reach its first ten years
limit.
1t was amended yesterday afternoon to
make the exclusion law extend to the
and the other insular territory
of the United States, thus killing one OF
the chief objections to the present law
as it stands.
The Senate will meet at 10 o'clock to-
day, in order that number Of additional
speeches may be made on the bill before
the voting begins at l o'clock.
Senator Turner wishes to reply 20 Sen
ater, Spooner and Senator Fairbanks.
member of the immigration Committee,
has given notice that he will make an
other speech.
Mr.. Gallinger was the first man to at
tack the bill yesterday He read sew
craI hundred kilograms from all parts Of
the country, protesting against the enact
meut of the pending bill. Bankers. manu-
and shipbuilders of the Pacific
Slope pleaded for the re-enactment OF
the Geary act.
Inspector Dunn's Charges Denied.
Several score of the kilograms read
were from San Franciscans. one being
from half a dozen law firms condemnins
and denying certain charges made against
the legal fraternity of that city by Immi-
grafton Inspector Dunn, formerly of Mas
sillon, Ohio. stationed on the Pacific
Coast.
Mr.. Gallinger a little later got tho
floor again. and made bitter attack on
a Mr.. Furuseth. who. he stated, repre-
scented the sailors before the Committee
on immigration. when 1t was hearing the
arguments on the bill.
Mr. Furuseth had said that the Chi
nese sailors had shown themselves to be
towards. and most inefficient seamen dur
ng the disasters to the steamships Oceanic
and the Rio de Janeiro, and that many
lives had been lost on account Of their
actions Mr.. Gallinger read statements
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