Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-10
LABORERS IN HAWAII
MIR. BURROWS AMENDMENT
TABLED BIZ THE SENATE.
Discussing the Immigration Bill
Clause Prohibiting Sale of Liquor at
the Capitol Retained.

In the Senate lateaTesterday afternoon
consideration of the Immigration bill was
temporarily suspended while the president
pro tempore. Mr.. FrFe. laid before the
Senate messages from 7the President trans
hitting the papers ingthe Plus fund case
and the report of the governor of Porto
Rico. The bill was again taken I'D and an
amendment by Mr.. Hoar (Mass) was
agreed to providing for the careful inspec-
ton of families of aliens who already have
been admitted and filed their preliminary
declarations for citizenship
An amendment offered by Mr. Bailey
CTex) was adopted providing that skilled
labor may be imported II labor of like kind
cannot be found In this country
To Prohibit Liquor Selling.
The amendment to the prohibition of the
sale of liquors in the Capitol, which was
passed over the previous day. was taken up,
and Mr. Berry (Ark) declared that the
Capitol was not the proper place to run a
saloon.
Mr. Penrose answering him, said the
paragraph was stricken out because the
committee thought 1t was not a proper
place for 1t. 80 i'itfy
Mr.. Bailey CTex.) contended that each
house of Congress had authority to act in
the matter without any law of Congress-
Mr.. Tfllman said he wanted little light
on the subject. He had been informed. he
n
ate end of the Capitol. The House is sim
ply playing hypocritical game before the
people, said he, "and endeavorng to make
the Senate attend to it's morals The
amendment was rejected. which has the eff
feet of retaining the clause in the bin pro-
hibitng the sale Of liquor in the Capitol
At the instance of Mr.. Penrose the Senate
agreed to substitute for the twenty-first
section of the bill. extending to two wears
the time for the deportation of aliens who
become a public charge. The section as
amended specifies lunacy, idiocy and cpl
lepsy. and says that aliens afflicted with
either trouble shall De presumed to have
been SO affected prior to landing In the
United States, and shall be deported at the
expense of the transportation con1Danies
bringing them in.
The Burton Amendment.
Mr.. Burton sought to secure action on
his amendment introduced earlier In the
day, providing that the educational test
shall not apply to the territory of Hawaii
and also that where the number of agricul-
tural laborers is Insufficient for the devel-
opment of the territory Chinese laborers
may be admitted, but Mr.. Mitchell (Ore) of
the committee on PACIFIC islands and Porto
Rico interposed an objection on the ground
that his committee should first consider IT
The amendment had the effect Of opening
up the discussion of the Chinese question
several senators participating in the debate
Mr.. Burton declared that he Hawaiians
laborers have raised che, price of labor
higher than the traHie; will BEAR and he
added that they are not SO good citizens as
the Chinese. ,c ...
In the course of the discussion which fol-
lowed Mr.. Tillman. rsrnarked that there
may be other parts of the United States
that might want labor, and he did not see
why We should discrhntpate in favor of
rev corporation, ,pesss who own sugar
plantations in Hawaiisar
Mr.. Foraker differed from him, and in
sisted that it was Offended to benefit all
the people of Hawaiio.1cn
In conclusion Mr. Burton made a plea for
the consideration of the amendment at the
hands of the committee, on immigratio ion,
but Mr.. Penrose, speaking for the commit
tee, declined to do so BECAUSE as. he said,
the amendment was premature, and also
that 1t was not germaBe., He therefore
moved that the amendment be laid upon
the table. The motion prevailed without
division. %. r. ..--......
On motion of Mr.. Mctomas the section Of
the bill relating 70 the exclusion OF anarch-
lists was amended SO as TO make 1t specifi-
cally provide for the exclusion OF anarchists
who advocate the destruction of govern
ment of 1.-The United States or Of all gov
ernments by violence" While the debate
on this motion was in progress Mr.. Hoar
remarked that there are some governments
whose destruction by violence he would ac-
complish II he could
The Senate then. on motion OF Mr.. Cul-
lom, went into executive session. At $40
the Senate adjourned