The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
SENATE PASSES ON
CHINESE MATTER
Adopts an Amendment Reaf-
firmlnq Existing Exclusion
Laws.

WASHINGTON d. c., April %
The general deficiency appropriation
bill was passed by the senate today,
leaving but one of the appropriation
bills Enacted upon by that body. A
large number of amendments were
adopted, among them being one limit
ing the Chinese exclusion legislation
to a reaffirmtion of the exclusion law
of 1902 and the other existing exclu-
sion laws. An amendment which was
accepted was that excluding Chinese
and other aliens coming in as a result
of agreements between other countries
and steamship companies, having es-
peeial reference to a contract between
the Cunard line and the government
of Hungary to supply annually $4,000
Immigrants to the steamship company.
Mr.. Hale said the Chinese exclusion
provision had been inserted by the
house and the senate committee on
appropriations. feeling that it did not
have time to consider it sufficiently,
and had decided to send the entire
matter back to the senate without
amendment or recommendation.
CuIIom Amendment Adopted.
Mr.. Cullom's amendment to the rider
was discussed at considerable length
Then it was agreed to without di
vision. This amendment strikes out
all of the house Chinese exclusion pro-
vision except the first section, and that
section was amended so as to read:
That section 1 of the act of con-
gress, approved April 20, 1902, entitled
AN act to prohibit the coming into and
~ OF hn Will hO
United States, its territories and all
territory under its jurisdiction, and the
District of Columbia, of Chinese and
persons of Chinese descent, is hereby
amended as to read as follows:
All laws in force on the 18th day of
April, 1902, regulating, suSpending or
prohibiting the coming of Chinese per-
sons or persons of Chinese descent
into the United States, and the resi-
dence Of such persons therein, inc1ud-
ing sections 5, 6, I, 8, 9, 10, IL, Is and
Ii of the act entitled an act to pro-
hihlt the coming of Chinese laborerS
into the United States. approved Sept.
ID. 1885, be and the same are hereby
re-enacted, extended and continued,
without modification, limitation or con-
dition. and said laws shall also apply
to the island territory under the juris-
dictiOn of the United States, and pro-
hibit the immigration of Chinese Ia
bOrers, not citizens of the United
States, from such island territory to
the mainland territory of the United
States, whether in such island territory
at the time of cession or not, and from
one portion of the island territory of
the United States to another portion of
said island territory:
provided. however, that said laws
shall not apply to the transit of Chi
nese laborers from one island to an
other island of the same group; and
any islands within the jurisdiction of
any state or the district of Alaska shall
be considered a part of the mainland
under this section.
No Help for Indians.
Mr.. Quarles sought to secure the in
sertion of a provision granting allot-
ments to the StOckbridge and Mqncie
Indians, of Wisconsin, but it was ruled
out on point of order made by Mr..
Hale. Mr.. QuarIes protested, saying
that the Indians had been denied their
rights for the past half century, be-
ing met at every turn by points of or