The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-17
GEARY LAW
 ISEXTENDED Senate Adopts PlatfS
 Substitute. VOTE 4s YEAS TO B NAYS On Final Passage Senator Hoar Only One to Vote Nay In the House the Advocates of Reci- procity with Cuba Win Victory, Democrats Joining With the Republicans.
 
VOTE 4s YEAS TO B NAYS

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 Washington, April 1S.-The drastic Chinese exclusion bill originally framed by the Senators and Representatives from the Pacific States met defeat in the Senate today, and in it's place was substituted measure offered by Mir. Platt (Conn,} extending the provisions of the present (Geary) exclusion law and also applying that exclusion to all insular territory under the jurisdiction of the United States. The vote by which the substi- ute took the place of the original biii was, years, 4S; nays, 8. Once the sub stitute had been made. all Senators joined in it's support with the single exception of Mir. Hoar. the substitute being passed 7s toil The Senate after disposing of the Chinese exclusion bill made the Philip pines civil government bill the unfinished business.
 Only Three Senators Present.
 Pursuant to yesterdays agreement the Senate today was called to order at 1O o'clock two hours in advance of the usual hour of meeting. This hour was fixed Yin order to permit more extended debate on the Chinese exclusion Dill prior
 
 gan at 1 o'clock. The attendance was very slim. Only three Senators-Messrs Pettus, Kean and Kittridge, faced Mr. Frye when he called the Senate to order. MT, Morgan gave notice that tomorrow he would call up the Nicaragua canal bill for the purpose of addressing the Senate upon it.
 The president pro tenn. laid before the Senate a number of telegrams bearing mRazaRCs were all from the Pacific coast. sixty-one of them being favorable to the Platt substitute and twelve opposed it. % Mir, Turner then took the floor to reply to- the speech made yesterday by MT Spooner, but before he could proceed. MT Culberson suggested the absence ol 2 quorum This was at io:lS and 1t tooh twenty-five minutes to get quorum.
 MT Turner CWash.) then proceeded, ex- pIaining a caEuai remark made yesterday concerning the Republican party. He said he had no bitterness Toward that party and that he had been member of 1t SC long as it was true to principles He de- clared that the party now on all occa' sions prefers the dollar to the man and that this fact is demonstrated by the Republican organizations attitude toward the Filipinos In that proceed ing he said there had been no regard for principles of liberty and Democrat, government and they were, he declared allowing this tendency to drown m sea of blood the aspirat tions of an allied people for freedom
 Railroads Making Fight.
 He said the shipping Interests and trans-continentaI railroads have agents in Washington using their. strongest eff forts to defeat the pending bill.
 Mir. Turner then entered upon discus sion of the merits of the Chinese exclu sion bill He declared that two-faced ness is a characteristic of Chinese poo pIe from which not even the emperor i' free He also declared that the Chinese viceroy who had recently died had amass ed his colossal fortune by the corrupt use of office and followed this remart with the statement that if Chinese wcr' to be admitted to the United States upof certificates 2 of Chinese officials, there might as we'll be no pretence of a checl upon it.
 When Mir. Turner concluded, Mir. Qua, (Penn.) asked how much time he wouit be allowed in speaking upon the amend ment he would offer for the admission o Christianized Chinamen. He was assured he would be heard 'f'-t Mir Patterson called attention to th' fact that as at present constituted thu Piatt amendment fails to prohibit Chi nese from going into the Philippines.
 Whatever the motives of Senators il commission. he said, he was quite sur' that those outside the Senate who wer' opposing the pending bill have well defined and clearly defined policy, ant that policy is to leave the Philippines il such condition that those islands shal be exploited by the aid of Chinese labor no matter what the result to the real in habitants of the islands. or to the homo of the United States.
 He quoted with appreciation the -repor of General MacArthur, and said that tn proposed, legislation is equivalent to notice that the policy of exclusion l. looked upon with disfavor. and he coul' not conceive a more indefensible act thai during the formative period in the Phil ippines to flood that country with peo pie whom the natives hate and who the! believe would drive them from their lan' and it's trade and commerce.
 Mir Patterson also defended the pro vision in the Mitchell bill excluding Chi nese from American ships, declaring tha 1t Is essential to the protection Of Amer ican labor on the sea. The opposition t this provision meant he said, that 1t wa Intended to subsidize the ships and thel allow their owners to go into the cheap est markets to secure labor. leaving tn American seaman to his fate
 This, said he. would drive American sailors from the American ships.
 Hanna Makes Argument.
 Mir. Hanna was the next speaker. H read the text of one of many telegram he had received. which said:
 "Demand and insist upon your support ing every essential feature of the Chi nese exclusion bill
 This telegram was, he said. so smila to all the others received by him that h had concluded all of them had commo origin Whether this was true or not. h
 ha all essential features were embodied the existing law which it was proposed rn.enact by the Platt amendment, an th. additions which had been suggested.
 He felt confident that with the amend rents susg,sted the intcrests or tn xorkingmcn would he anundantly pro ,sctEd MT. Hanna then turned his alter si..S tn the connection of J. R. DunI