The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-04-14
CHINESE MAY
ENTER
SAYS SENATOR PATTERSON IN
A STARTLING SPEECH.
IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED
Else Through the Denunciation of The
Exclusion Treaty of 1894, by The
Chinese The Chinks Can Flood The
Country.

Chinese The Chinks Can Flood The
Country.
Washington.-Mr. Patterson adj
dressed the senate on the denuncia-
ton of the Chinese exclusion treaty
of 1894 by the Chinese government.
He announced his conviction that un-
ess additional legislation is had before
congress adjourns every barrier
against Chinese immigration that has
been built will be removed on the 9TH
of December next, and the ports of the
country thrown open to the unre-
stricted coming of the Chinese hordes,
whose invasion of the United States
was arrested twenty years ago.. This
opinion was based upon China's de-
nunciation of the treaty of 1894, max
ing it of no effect from December 7th,
next. He traced the prospective trou-
Die to the failure of congress in its
vote of 1902 to duplicate the act of
1892, continuing in force for ten years
The exclusion act of 1892. "Had Chi
na not denounced the treaty." he
said, "there would be no trouble now
with the exclusion laws, for the act of
1902 would have kept them all in
force, but with the 1894 treaty out of
the way, under the act of 1902 our
exclusion laws viii all fall to the
ground on the coming of the 9TH of
December. The cause Of this is the
usual wording of the 1902 act. For
the first time in this Chinese legisla-
ton the validity of exclusion laws was
made to depend upon the terms of
treaties with China" In conclusion
Mr.. Patterson said: The legislation
that must be compared with this trea-
~ of 1880 is the act of 1902. The
acts Of 1882 and 1892 each suspended
immigration for ten years, but the act
IF 1902 absolutely prohibits it, and is
therefore not in conformity with the
treaty of 1880, and necessarily falls
70 the ground.
The State Department has decided
20 find temporary employment for
The persons recently appointed to con-
sular Offices in Manchuria and will
make no effort to place them at their
designated posts pending the issue of
he war between Russia and Japan.
Mr.. Cheshire, who is nominally United
States Consul to Mukden, will be at
tached to the United States legation
at Pekin. Mr.. Davidson, who was
named as consul to Antung, on the
Yalu river, will be sent instead to
New Chwang to serve as an assistant
to Mr.. Miller, the consul at hat point.
Edwin Morgan, who was to have been
consul at Dalny, will be sent to Shang-
aai as assistant consul.
The House Committee on Labor has
decided to refer the eight-hour bill to
Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
Cortelyou, with a request for a report
on the following points to be made to
The Committee at the next session of
Congress. First-What would be the
additional cost to the United States
under the bill on articles which it Gus
tomarily obtains by contract. Second
What damage would it infict on the
manufacturing interests Third
Would contractors who now supply
the government continue to contract
with the government? Fourth-What
effect would it have on the shipbuild-
ing interests? Fifth-What effect
would it have on any export trade ?
Sixth-Are laboring people willing to
have taken from them the right to
labor more than eight hours? Seventh
What effect would it have upon the
agricultural interests?
The House Committee on Military
Affairs has authorized a favorable re-
port on the Parker Military Park
Commission Bill which provides for
the termination of the existing Ma
tional Military Park Committees
Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh and
Vicksburg-and the creation of a
commission to consist of five men, to
be known as the National Military
Park Commission. Those appointed
within the next ten years shall have
actively participated in the Civil War,
and two of them shall have served in
the Confederate Army. The first men,
bers of the commission shall include
one member of each of the existing
commissions and an officer of the
Army, active or .etired.
The Census Bureau estimate of pop
ulation for the United States, exclu-
sive of Alaska, is 10000, 1899. New Or
leans has just passed the 800, 000mark.
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