The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-24
NOT ORIGINAL ONE
PLATr SUBSTITUTE FOR MITCHELL
KAHN BILL.
Passed the Senate by Vote Of 4S to 33-Sen.
ator Mitchell Succeeded In Incorporating
Some Essential Features, but the Bill as
Passed Is Nearer the Old 6sary Law-Text
OF the Substitute.

Washington, April 1S.-The drastic
Chinese exclusion bill, originally framed
by the senators and representatives
from the Pacific coast states, met defeat
in the senate, and in it's place was sub
stituted measure offered by Mr.. Plat,
of Connecticut, extending the provisions
of the present exclusion law, and also
applying that exclusion to all insular
territory under the jurisdiction OF the
United States.
The vote by which the substitute took
the place of the original bill was, yeas
4S to nays 33. Once the substitution
had been made, all the senators joined
in its support. with the single exception
of MIR. HOar, the substitute being passed
70 to l. The friends of the substitute
showed their strength throughout the
voting on amendments that preceded
final action, and succeeded in preventing
any material change in it's features.
Some minor conditions were made, adj
hitting Chinese persons connected with
national expositiOns, and providing for
certificates of Identification of Chinese
in our insular possessions. Otherwise,
however, the substitute was adopted sub
stantially in the form that Mr.. Plat
presented it.
The senate, after disposing of the Chi
nese exclusion bill, made the Philippine
civil government bill the unfinished
business.
The Plat substitute, which was adopt
ed, reads as follows:
THAT all laws now in force prohibit
ing and regulating the coming of Chinese
persons and persons of Chinese descent
into the United States, and the residence
of such persons therein, be and the same
are hereby extended and continued, in.
Guiding the act entitled AN act to pre-
vent the coming of Chinese laborers to
the United States approved September
g, 1888, so far as the same is not incon-
sistent with treaty obligation now exist
ing, in full force and effect until the 7th
day of December, 1904, and so long as
the treaty between China and the United
States, concluded on March II, 1894, and
proclaimed by the president on the 9Th
of December, 1894, shall continue in
force, and said laws shall apply to all
territory under the jurisdiction of the
United States and to all immigration of
Chinese laborers from the islands to the
mainland territory of the United States,
or from one portion of the island terri
tory of the United States to another por-
ton OF said island territory; provided,
however, that this shall not apply to the
transit of Chinese laborers from one
island to another of the same group, or
to any islands within the jurisdiction of
any state or the district OF Alaska.
'Second-That in case said treaty be
terminated, as provided in article 6
thereof, this act and the acts hereby ex-
tended and continued shall remain in
force until there shall be concluded be-
tween the United States and China q
new treaty respecting the coming of
Chinese persons into the United States.
and until appropriate laws shall be pub
lished to carry into effect the provisions
thereof.
"Third-That the sec. etary of the
treasury is hereby authorized and en-
powered to make and prescribe and from
time to time change such rules and regu-
lations as he may deem necessary and
proper to execute the provisions Of this
act, and of the acts hereby extended and
continued, and of said treaty of Deem
Der 8, 1894, and with the approval of the
president to appoint such agents as he
may deem necessary for the efficient ex.
ecution of said treaty and said acts.''