The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-19

of order on the ground that the con- ferees had been wholly within their rights when they agreed to substitute for both the Senate and House bills.
 Speaker overruIes.
 "The case in which Speaker Henderson made this ruling and to which reference had been made by the gentleman from Mississippi (Alr. Williams), was wholly different" said Speaker Cannon. Then the House and Senate had disagreed about certain claims and the eonferees taken advantage of that fact to add cer- tain other claims which had not been considered by either house. Inasmuch as the whole ocean of claims from the time of Christ to the future supposed death of the man with the horns and eleven hoofs had been included, Speaker Hen derson very properly sustained the polnt of order. but the present ease IS wholly different"
 He then showed how both houses had considered legislation along similar lines and held that the sections in controversy were wholly germane. MT. Burnett ap- pealed from the decision of the char, whereupon MT. Payne of New York moved to lay the appeal on the table. The ayes and noes were called and the appeal was tabled by a strict party vote, ayes 196; noes 104.
 The conference report was then taken m for consideration on it's merits, one hour being fixed for debate. MT Williams of Mississippi desired to warn the peo- ple of California of something which they already knew and that was that the views of the President were not their views
 eThis man to whom you have left the discretion in the matter of Japanese im- migration is one who has already rec commended the naturalization of the Jap anese.'' said Mir Williams. 'l am with the people of California on the question of separate schools And 1 am with them on another question, continued MT. Williams. "I want the Pacific coast kept a white mans country (applause) and l want all this country as far as it can be to be a white mans country. not merely because I believe the Caucasian is supe- rior to other races, but because this Is our land, the land of our traditions and our ideals, and l know that the lhiluN of another race means another race problem for another portion of this re- public and another social warfare,
 First Slave Ship.
 T want to say that every Wee which this country has suffered has resulted from the landing of the first slave ship at Jamestown (Applause1
 Mir. Garrett of Tennessee alluded to an lltterance Ol the Spedkef III ruililk oH Niio points of order which was to the effect that there is contest between the friends of American labor and the oppo- nents tlereof I have frequently ob- served, he said, that at talking time tho prSYoonaerance of noise in behalf of Ia hor is on the republican side of the chamber. but at voting time it is on the other side He added: 'I am opposed to placing power in the hands of a man who on the vital question involved-on. the question which made the conspicuous issue of the bill-has already sided against his own country and his own eountrymen as has the president with reference to California.
 Mir Hayes of California frankly stated that the section to which so much obJec- ton was made, the Japanese exclusion section, was not just what the people of California wanted, but said it would go very far toward ameliorating present conditions. He said the delegation had agreed to support the bill in the interest of the whole country and in the interest of California and the Pacific coast.
 MT. Burgess of Texas and nr. Under wood of Alabama opposed the report of the conference The conference report on the immigration bill was agreed to, lS7 to 101.
 The following democrats voted in favor of the report, DeArmond of Missouri, Maynard of Virginia, Moon of Tennessee and Wiley of Alabama.