Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-29
RtPURltD III StHAlE
Another Step in Progress of the
Statehood Bill.
DISCRIMINATION ALLEGED
Charges Against the B. and 0. Read
by MIR. Tillman.
THE BOYCOTT BY CHINESE
Resolution Directing Investigation by
the Committee on Immigration
Taken Up in the Senate
HE BOYCOTT BY CHINESE

| The House statehood bill was reported
| favorabiy to the Senate today by Mr.
Beveridge, chairman of the committee on
territories. The bill had been under con-
sideration in the committee for three days
No announcement was made by Mr.. Bev-
eridge in reporting the bill
Mr.. Patterson. from the territories COM
| mittee, gave notice that there would be a
minority report.
Alleged Railway Discrimination.
Mr.. Tfllman had read a letter addressed
to him by the Red Rock Fuel Company,
owners of 1900 acres of coal land In West
Virginia. setting forth Determinations
against that company by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for the alleged reason that
the railroad did not want to permit the
Red Rock coal to come into competItion
with coal from mines in which the railroad
is interested The letter asks for an in
VeStigation OF all bituminous coal CARRYING
roads An order from the interstate COM
merce commission to desiSt from the dis
examinations practiced was also read which
order. the coal company says, has been
ignored,
In commenting on the case Mr.. Tilman
SAID 1t appeared to him the relief could be
obtained under state law, and if this was
impossible under the laws of West Vir-
ginia that state stands disgraced.
Mr.. Elkins said the relief could be had
under west Virginia laws. but he did not
| know why the coal company had NOT re-
| sorted to the courts.
The Red Rock Company alleged In It's let
| ter that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
| was under the control of the Pennsylya MIA
railroad, which Mr.. Tilman said should be
| investigated
Investigation of Chinese Boycott.
The resolution of Mr.. Tlllman asking the
| committee on immigration to investigate
the facts of the Chinese boycott of Amerf-
| can goods was laid before the Senate. The
| preamble which alleged that WI Ting
| Fang. former Chinese minister to the
! United States. had been a leader in the
movement was objected to by Mr. Teller,
| Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. Warren The latter sen-
! ator said WI Ting Fang had explicitly de-
| MED the charge In conversation with the
| senator when he was in China last summer
! Mr. Tillman read from the Presidents
message on the harshness of the exclusion
laws.
| Mr.. Dubois said he would vote for the
resolution. but thought an investigation
| would not show that the exclusion laws
| had been too rigidly enforced He said
| the boycott was confined almost wholly
| to the Canton district, which the Taft
party, of which he was member was
warned not to visit A few of the party
| learned. he said, that the Japanese were
back Of the boycott. for the reason that
when American traders leave the Japanese
| take their place. All the guilds in the
| Cantonese district, said Mr.. Dubois are
| back of the boycott because of the EFFORT
| to keep coolies out of the United States
| trict, he said
Both Mr. Dubois and Mr. Teller declared
| that the students and merchants were not
back Of the boycott and that it originated
with persons Interested In getting coolie
labor into this country.
Not Wanted In the South.
Mr. Dubois referred to the south and the
demand for Cinnamon to suppIant negro
| labor. which remark provoked disclaimers
from Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Tillman. The lat
ter said the south had conditions bad
enough now, without further mixing them
up.
''The boycott is going on; we cannot stop
it, said Mr.. Teller. THE time Is not far
Off when we Will have no trade in China.
The japanese will soon seize the trade of
those four hundred millions of people"
Mr.. Newlands supported the remarks OF
Mr.. Dubois. He said that when the cool
| les were aroused the authorities were pow
erless. He predicted increase In our
| troubles with China ON the matter Of Inn
migration. He also said that the Chinese
resent their exclusion from this country,
and added that If we shoHld add the Japa-
nese to the excluded class we would have
| the active hostility of that empire. This
| feeling would he predicted, be intensified
| by the exclusion Of the orientals from the
| Philippines. He declared that 1t was not
consistent to demand the open door In
| China and not grant 1t in the Philippines,
and that in going after the exclusive trade
| OF 100000 people In the Philippines we
were liable to lost that of 700,0Oo000.
| Mr. T1llman struck out all the portion
| OF the preamble of the resolution to which
| objection had been made thus modifying 1t
so as to merely order an Investigation
| The resolution was then referred to the
committee on contingent expenses.
1 Mr.. Hepburn then addressed the Senate
| in support of his bill providing for the COM
| pensation OF states for school lands taken
| possession OF by the national government
| for forest reservation purposes.