The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-09
PROTEST FROM CULLOM
AoArNsr PASSAGE or THE. CHI
 NESE EXCLUSION BILL.
He Favors Keeping Out Coolie Labor, But Says Pending Measure vio- lates Provisions of Exist
 ing Treaty. /.

| | test was mad, in the Senate today by MT. | Cullom GID against the passage or the | Chinese exclusion bill in its present form. 1 Coming from the chairman of the Com | mittee on Foreign Relations. the protest | made a deep impression on the Senate. | MT. Cullom while expressing himself as in favor of the exclusion of Chinese la borers, said that many of the provisions | of the pending measure were in contra vention with our treaty with China. Mir. Patterson (Colo.) and Mir. Perkins | (CalD supported the pending bill, main | taining that in no way did it contravene | existln~ treaties as by the convention of 1894 China had agreed that Chinese labor CTS should be excluded from this country. At the opening Of the session today the | President pro tenn. Mir. Frye. laid be- | fore the Senate a telegram signed by Claus Spreckes and about twenty other | business men of San Francisco protesting | against the passage of the Chinese ex- clusion bill in it's present form. The sign CTS of the telegram declared that the eX- clusion of legal Chinese merchants. ac- | cording to the provision of the measure. would he an act of gross injustice. Rising to a question of personal prlEl- lege Mir. Simon (Ore) explained that had he been present when the vote on the ship | subsidy bill was taken. he would nave voted against the measure. He had teie.
 
 Hansbrough.
 MT. Hansbrough stated that an effort was made to pair Mir. simon in accord. ance with his wish. but it had been found impossible to arrange the pair.
 This statem mt. Mir. Simon said, was perfectly satisfactory to him.
 A bill appropris ting N5o.ooo for public building at Beloxi. Miss, was passed. providins m aF that at' Rnie FS XIX be @ amended by inserting at the beginning of Clause 2 thereof the following: No senator in de- bate shall directly or indirectly by any form of words impute to another senator l or to other Senators any conduct or mo tive unworthy or unbecoming a senator no Senator in debate shall refer of- | fensively to any State of the Union. Without debate the resolution was adopted.
 Consideration of the Chinese exclusion bill was then resumed. Mir. Cullom nll.) addressing the Senate in opposition 10 the pending bill Mir. Cullom reviewed ! the treaty and legislation on the subject | of Chinese exclusion and continuing: sald | that he favored absolute exclusion Of Chi | nese laborers the proper entorcement oi
 our present laws, but he considers many provisions of the bill to he violations ot | our treaty relations with China. He said l that under present conditions China 2 1 trade is as sure to come to the In'ttu @ | States as the sun shines upon us, II we | do not close the doors ourselves. MT. CuI- lom added:
 My belief is we ought not to pass any l laws in disregard of the spirit or iet.er | of our treaties; that we can continue tne l present laws until the treaty of ls9i shall | expire. if notice shall be given that this | government does not desire It to De con l tinued another ten years and in the mean | time a new treaty can be agreed to
 which will abrogate any possiole treaty | calculations against the absolute exciu- l sion of Chinese laborers and which will | permit us to enact such legislation as
 we may deem necessary Tor the pro,ec, ] tion of our country from the innux o' l these Chinese laborers into the Cnitet | States If China should decline to enter l into a new treaty of this character VI
 might then be justified in. going ahead | and passing any law on the subject O. Chinese immigration we choose.
 In answer to an inquiry of Mir. Patter'
 son O'ol.1 MT. Cullom said he wanted the l bill so framed as to enable an hones student and an honest teacher 10 entei
 the United States without being brandee
 as a criminal liable to jail sentence ol | 10 deportation. That was the meaning ol
 the. treaty with China and that ought tc
 be the meaning of the law. The treaty IT
 force clearly prohibited the coming tc
 this countr,f of Chinese laborers and ever If no law should be enacted by Congress
 the treaty would prevent the admission
 to this country of undesirable Chinese;
 Mir Patterson maintained that until the
 enactment of affirmative exclusion legts
 lation. such as was this bill, the admis
 sion of Chinese from Hawaii and tn
 Philippines could not be refused.
 Mir Perkins (Cal) said that i5 per cent
 of the Chinese in this country had come
 through the port of San Francisco Chi
 nese coolie labor, he said. already hat
 displaced American workingmen in fac
 tories on the Pacific coast. The attacf
 of the Chinese coolie was not alone upoI
 wages but upon the highest aspiration,
 of the American workingman. No legis
 lation could be too drastic to preven
 such a consummat tion.
 Mir. Gallinger interrupted to say tha
 existing legislation was sufficiently dras
 tic statistics showed that in the pas
 ten years the number of Chinese in thi
 country had decreased from 2S per cen to % per cent. The Senate then passed thirty private
 pension bills and o:30 p. m. adjourned.