Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
FIFTY-sEvENrH CONGRESS.

In the senate, on the 18th. the days
session was devoted to further consider
alton of the Chinese exclusion bill, Messrs
Foraker tOD and McLaurin Is. c. speak
ing against the pending measure. Mr..
Teller tCol.) spoke for the bill. arguing
that the right to abrogate treaties was
ruby recognized. Mr.. Lodge Dlass.) gave
notice of an amendment to strike out the
clause prohibiting the employment OF
Chinese sailors ON Americas ships......ln
the house most of the day vas devoted to
further discussion of Cuban reciprocity,
the conference report on the post Of
nee bill having first been reported.
In the senate. on the 18th, the debate
on the Chinese exclusion bill was contin-
ued and practically concluded. Two
amendments, striking out the definition
as TO Chinese students and teachers, were
agreed to without discussion. The asser-
ton by Mr.. Turner that politics had crept
INTO the discussion was vigorously denied
by Mr.. Spooner. who said the opposition
to the bill was entirely due to its conflict
with the treaty.....In the house: with
the close of the Cuban reciprocity debate,
the leaders that all danger OF
the bill being, weighted down with unde-
s1rable amendments was over, and the
passage of the bill as it came from the
committee was assured.
In the senate on the 18th, the drastic
Chinese exclusion bill. originally framed
by senators and representatives from the
Pacliic coast, was defeated. and the sub
80 ihtuchiV, olltltu ny iiu l '"Ne
Comm, containing the provisions of the
present exclusion law, and also applying
tpat exclusion to all the insular territory
under the jurisdiction of the United
States, was paSsed-T6 to |. The senate
then made the Philippine civil govern
ment bill the unfinished business......ln
the house, a motion to close general de-
bate on the Cuban reciprocity bill on the
18th, at 3 p. m, was carried by a vote OF
1853 to 1913. Thirty-three republicans voted
against the motion. and 81 democrats
voted with the great body of republicans
In favor of it. The general debate on the
bill was featureless.
In the senate, on the 18th. Mr.. Morgan
(Ala.), chairman of the isthmian canal
committee, made a f~our-hours' speech,
comparing the desirability and practical
5ility of the Nicaraguan and Panama
routes, ~strenuously favoring the selection
of the former. The Chinese exclusion bill
passed by the senate was substituted for
the house bill. .....In the house, the dis
cussion of the Cuban reciprocity bill was
continued, the feature of the debate being
a speech by Mr.. Cushman against the
measure. Many other speeches. for arsl
against the bill, were made. Mr.. LouC
(Cal.) declared that directly and indirect.
ly Cuba already had cost the United
States one thousand million dollars.
In the senate, on the 18th, D priva ,e
pension bills and Il few other unimportant
measures were passed, after which the
bill to provide a temporary form OF gov
eminent for the Philippine islands Waa
read and the committee amendments were
agreed to tentatively, but no action on the
bill was taken......In the house the Gu
ban reciprocity bill was passed by the
overwhelming majority of 2f7 to 81. the
ruling of the chair in committee OF the
whole on the question of the germaneness
of an amendment to remove the defer
entail from refined sugar during the eX-
istcnce of the reciprocity agreement pro
vided for in the bill having first been over
ruled by a vote of III ia 1870, and the
amendment adopted in committee, 1854 tc
1O5, and later in the house by the
still larger majority of 1872 to 105, "a re-
publicuns voting with tfY democrats
for the amendment.