Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-19

lies or debts due to them in the Uni
ted States, and which limits their
right of return to one year. 1t admits
Chinese applicants for the writ Of
habeas corpus to bail, privilege now
denied them. It provides that any
Chinaman resident in the United
States and wishing to go back to
China and then return to the United
States may receive a return certifi-
cate on exhibition of his certificate of
registration or original certificate of
entry and proof of his identity. 1t re-
peals the provision of the existing law
placing the burden of proof upon Chin
csc arrested for being unlawfully in
the United States to show his right
to be here. 1t repeats specifically the
provision in the law of 1892 already
held unconstitutional that Chinese
found unlawfully in the United States
shall be imprisoned at hard labor for
one year and then departed.
1t enlarges the exempt classes be-
yond these mentioned in the treaty
of 1880 to include accountants, book
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learned professions, editors, or mem
bers of other classes not falling with
in the category of laborers from en-
tering the United States. But it also
provides that it shall be unlawful for
any Chinese person entering the Uni
ted States as member of an exempt
class to work for gain as laborer.
Friday, April 10.
Washington.-Two bills intended to
meet the demand of labor in the mat
ter of curtailing the use of injunction
proceedings were introduced today by
Representative Henry, of Texas. One
prohibits federal courts from issuing
injunctions or temporary restraining
orders without previous reasonable
notice to the adverse party. This pro-
vision was law from 1898 to 1873,
when it was repealed. The other bill
provides for trial by jury in all cases
of direct or indirect contempt of
court.
After nearly ten days Of general
debate with the postofice appropria-
ton bill as the vehicle for the dis
cussion of a wide range of subjects,
the house late today reached the con-
sideration of the bill itself, an hour
having been given to the reading of
the measure.
Not in years has there been heard
so much talk on any one appropria-
ton bill under the fiction of general
debate" as the house has listened to
on the bill now seriously taken up for
amendment and passage. There were
a number of lively debates during the
day, but little progress was made with
the bill under the five minute rule.
After brief speech by Mr. Latimer
in support of the house railroad rate
bill, Mr.. Foraker took the floor on that
measure and consumed practically all
of the remainder of the days session
of the senate. He spent some time in
the discussion of some of the amend
ments he has suggested to the bill
and then entered upon the considera-
ton of the entire question of railroad
rate legislation, urging again the I'M
constitutionality of the pending bill
from various points of view. He was
frequently interrupted by other sena-
tors. Mr.. Lodge spoke briefly in sup
port of the practice of granting lower
rates on goods intended for export
than on those used in domestic con-
sumption.
Mr.. Culberson presented a concur
rent resolution including senators and
members of the house in the bill pro-
hibiting officials of the government
from prematurely giving out private
information of the government, and it
was adopted.
The house substitution for the SEN
ate bill ratifying an agreement with
the Lower Brule Indians of South Da-
kota was accepted.
There is at present no standard by
which persons claiming to be stu
dents" are to. be judged. The bill ex-
plicitly defines the term student. 1t
also provides that Chinese coming to
this country from China or the islands
adjacent thereto shall depart only
from certain ports to be designated by
the United States.
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