The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
MINISTER WU
 IS CRITICISED Senators Pull the e la- mans Quesyos.
 
 EXCLUSION sslLL IS UP Diplomats Protest Declared Contrary to Precedent. Hoar and Teraksr Declare That the Minister Did Only His Duty. Mr. Vest Dsplorss Revival of ssctionalism.

Washington, April 12.-A feature of the l Chinese exclusion debate in the Senate | today was the sharp criticism of Minister | wu of China because of his protest made to the Secretary of State against the en- actment of the pending bill. Mir. Mitchell (ore.) and MT. Teller tCol.) sharply attacked him, declaring that he deserved to have been given his pass ports and that no self-respecting nation would have permitted such interference ins its legislative affairs.
 Mir. Foraker,, tohio) and Mir. Hoar tMass.) insisted that the Chinese, minister had done no more than his duty and that hel would have been derelict in his duty had he done less. i. MT. Lodge tMass.) delivered speech in support of the pending bill, although he antasonized that provision which pre- vented. American ships from employing Chinese seamen.
 The Chinaman is a social, political and industrial parasite and ought not to be admitted to this country. He opposed the provision excluding Chinamen from participating in expositions. in this' coun- try and excluding Chinese from the Philippines.
 Mir. Patterson ,(coi.) explained that. in the absence. of Mir. Vest, the provision excluding Chinese who might come to the United States to participate in exposi- tions had been stricken out. He also said that in some mysterious manner" that provision had been inserted in the bill and he. thought 1t was at the in- stance of the Secretary of the Treasury. MT. Deliver Qa.) interrupted to say i that the statement of MT. Patterson con cerning the Secretary of the Treasury was entirely unwarranted.
 Mir. Vest insisted that the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands were citizens of the United States.
 Deprecates sectionalism. Passing from the Chinese question, MT. Vest regretted exceedingly that sec tional discussion had been injected into the debate yesterday. He had hoped such discussion never again would be heard in the Senate. He paid tribute to Lincoln. Garfield and Mckinley and said the people of the South were sincere mourners at the bier of all. The people of the North. he said. should remember that the South had produced great and
  tioned General Washington and Robert 'E. Lee He said he never should cease to feel kindly toward President Roose- welt who, in the broadest spirit of states msnship, had eulogized Robert F.. Lee.
 MT. Vest adverted with deep feeling to the death of Hon. Wade Hampton. In the course of brilliant tribute to MT. Hampton, Mir. Vest said he was the highest type of a Christian gentleman fs,. ..@sz.
 MT. Lodge Speaks.
 In support of the pending bill, Mir. Lodge (Mass.) made a somewhat ex- tended speech. although there were some provisions of the measure to which he was opposed. He hoped some sections would be omitted and some others modi- fed If we are prepared, said. he, 10 admit Chinese from the Philippine Islands, 1t is for the Senate to say so. but in his opinion Chinese from the Philippines should be excluded. Congress had excluded Chinamen from Hawaii and he regarded it as idle to argue that Con- gross had not the authority to prevent the Chinese from coming to this coun- try from the Philippines.
 MT. Lodge antagonized tho substitute for the pending bill offered by Mir. Pistt. He said the adoption of the substitute would merely put of the evil day.
 Mir. Lodge strongly antagonized that provision of the bill which excludes Chi nese from employment on American ships. He declared that 1t would drive every American ship on the Pacific coast under a foreign flag and send every foreign ship into Van Couver. He urged that there were not enough American seamen on the Pacific coast to meet the require ments of the bill. and he pointed out that the provision in the measure would oper- ate to the disadvantage of the country He maintained that the operation Of the pending bill would not disturb our trade relations with China.
 sanctity of Treaties.
 He was firmly devoted to tho sanctity of the treaties of this country and Knowing ly would not vote to violate any treaty certainly not a treaty with China. The pending measure, he maintained, was not in contravention of the treaty of 1894, which provided that Chinese laborers should be excluded.
 In conclusion, Mir. Lodge made a gen. eraI argument against the. admission of Chinese and against unrestricted immi- grafton generally.
 Senator Hanna (Ohio) and Senator Frye 5Me) read letters and dispatches from San Francisco business men urging the re-enactment of the Geary act and ob- jecting to the proposed exclusion bill. which they regarded as too drastic and likely to interfere with our trade with China. Speaking of the provision in the bill relating to the employment of Chi nese on American ships. MT. Frye re- ferred to what he called a spectacular performance" the other day between the Senator from Indiana Mr. Fairbanks) and the Senator from California tMr. Perkins)
 Mir. Fairbanks took exception to MT. Frye's reference and said somewhat warmly: "Tt seemed a spectacular per formance' only to the Senator from Maine" r-.-
 .I doubt it. insisted Mir. Frye. "lt seemed so to many Senators"
 Mr Mitchell COre.) had read a telegram from Thomas J. Gesry. author of the ex- istine exclusion law. declaring that noth- ing short of the Senate bill would exclude effectuslly Chinese laborers and protect American lstcrers.
 Mir Mitchell criticised the chines- min ister for 8 letter he had written to the