The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-10
Immigration Bill Calls Forth
 Many Amendments
CAPITOL SALOONS IN DISPUTE
Provision in House Bill Providing for Sale of Liquors in Building Causes Considerable Criticism, But
 It Is Allowed to Remain.

Washington. December s.-The senate devoted most of today to the immigration bill and adopted a number of amend- ments. There was considerable discussion of an amendment offered by MT. Burton of Kansas to admit Chinese laborers to Hawaii. It was met with considerable opposition and finally laid on the table. The provision in tha bill providing for the sale of liquor in he capitol building. caused some criticism of the house for putting 1t in the bill, but the provision was not stricken out. During the day the militia bill was discussed. It will be taken up again Thursday.
 MT. Kean of New Jersey gave notics that on December 1T he would ask the senate to consider resolutions upon the life and character of the late Senator William J. Sewall.
 Messages of the President transmitting the papers in the Plus Fund case and the report of the governor of Porto Rico. were laid before the senate and then an amendment to the immigration bill by MT. Hoar of Massachusetts was agreed to, providing for the careful inspection of families of aliens who already havo been admitted and filed their preliminary declarations for citizenship.
 An amendment offered by Mir. Bailey of Texas was adopted providing that skilled labor may be imported If labor of like kind cannot be found in this country.
 Liquor in the Capitol.
 The amendment prohibiting the sale of liquors in the capitol was taken up and MT. Berry of Arkansas declared that the capitol was not the proper place to run a saloon. MT. Penrose, answering him, said the paragraph was stricken out be- cause the committees thought 1t was not proper place for it.
 Mir. Bailey, Texas, colstended that each house of congress had authority to act in the matter without any law of con- gress.
 MT. Tillman said he wanted little light on the subject. He had been in- formed that no liquor was sold In the senate end of the capitol. '"rhe house is simply playing a hypocritical game be- fore the people," said he, ''and endeav- bring to make the senate attend to it's morals"
 The committee amendment striking out the section was rejected which has the effect of retaining in the bill the clause prohibiting the sale of liquor in the cayitol
 At the instance of MT. Penrose, the senate agreed to a substitute for the Fist section of the bill, extending to two years the time for the deportation of aliens who become a public charge. The section as amended specifies Iunacy, idiocy and epilepsy and says that aliens affected with either trouble shall be pre- stunned to have been so affected prior to landing in the United States and shall be deported at the expense of the trans portation companies bringing them in.
 On motion of McComas, tne section of the bill relating to the exclusion of an archists was amended so as to make 1t specifically provide for the exclusion of anarchists who advocate the destruction of ''the government of the United States or of all governments by violence" While the debate on this motion was in progress MT. Hoar remarked that there are some governments whose destruction by violence he would accomplish If he could.
 The senate then on motion of MT. Gull lom went into executive session, and at 5:10 p. m. adjourned.