Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-09

relations the protest made deep i'm
preston on the Senate. Cullom, while
expressing himself as in favor of the
| exclusion of Chinese laborers, said
| that many of the provisions of the
bending measure were in contraVcntion
| Of olfn' treaty obligations with China
| Patterson, Colo, and Perkins, Cal,
supported the pending bill.
| At the opening of tho session of the
| Senate, President Pro Tenn Frye laid t,,.-
| fore the Senate telegram signed h+
| Claus Spreckels and about - other btisi-
ness men of San Francisco, protesting
| against the passage of the Chinese cXclu-
sion bill in its present form. The signcr.
of the telegram declared that the excl
| sion of Chinese merchants, according t.
| the provisions of the measure, would b,
| an act Of gross injustice.
Rising to a question of personal privi-
| lege, Simon (Ore.) explained that had he
been present when the vote on the slip
| .ubsidy bill was taken he would have
voted against the measure. He had tel
| egraphed here views to Senators Hanna
and Hansbrough. Hansbrough stated
| accordance with his wish, but it had been
| found impossible to arrange the pair.
| This statement, Simon said, was perfect
| ly satisfactory to him.
A bill appropriating $l5O,OOO for a public
| building at Biloxi, Miss, was passed.
Hoar then called up his resolution pro
viding that rule in which it is be amend
ed by inserting at the beginning of Clause
| ~ FILL at.,,. in
| debate shall directly or indirectly by any
| form of words impute to another senator,
or to other senators, any conduct or mo-
| tive unworthy or unbecoming a senator
no senator in debate shall refer offensive
| " to any state of the union Without
debate the resolution was adopted.
Consideration of the Chinese exclusion
| bill was then resumed, Cullom Qll.),
| chairman of the committee on foreign re-
| lations. addressing the Senate in opposi-
| ton to the pending bill. Culom reviewed
| the treaties and legislation on the sub
! iect of Chinese exclusion and concluding,
said:
| PERSONALLY 1 am in favor of the abso-
| lutte exclusion of Chinese laborers, in the
| ordinary meaning of that word, and the
proper enforcement of our present laws;
and it seems to me that those laws arc
amply sufficient. l do not think it would
| be wise for us to pass the bill under con-
| sideration because 1 consider many pro-
visions of that bill to be violations of
our treaty with China. Our trade with
China is worthy of consideration in
dealing with this subject"
| In answer to an inquiry of Patterson
| (Col), Cullom said he wanted the bill
| SO framed as to enable an honest stu
dent and an honest teacher to enter the
United States without being branded
as a criminal liable to a Jail sentence
or to deportation.
Patterson maintained that affirmative
legislation should be on the statute
books to exclude Chinese, that depen-
dence should not be placed entirely up
on the existing treaty.
Perkins (Cal) said that Chinese
coolie labor already had displaced
American working men in factories on
the Pacific coast. This condition af-
fected not only the Pacific states but
the labor market throughout the Unit
ed States.
Gallinger interrupted to express his
belief that existing legislation was suf-
ficiently drastic, as statistics showed
that in the past 10 years the number of
Chinese in this country had decreased
| from 28 to 80 per cent.
The Chinese exclusion bill, as passed
by the House, was laid before the Sem
| ate and was referred to the immigra-
ton committee The Senate then pass
ed 20 private pension bills and at $40
+. NJ. adjourned.