The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
CRINGES TO
 JAPANESE Senate Follows Lead of
 Master. IMMIGRATION BILL PASSED United States Government Has Been Insulted and Browbeaten. Rooseveit's Policy Is to KnuckIe to Other Nations and Use Big
 stick on His Own
 People.

was consumed in the Senate today in routine business after which the com ference report on the immigration bill was cgain taken up under the agree rnent of yesterday which contemplates vote before adjournment today. The discussion was opened by Sen- ator simmons of North Carolina, T shall vote for the report" he said. because I believe the South will not suffer under it's provisions" He be- lieved tho demand for labor in the South had been oyerestimated by Sen- l ators Bacon and Tiliman, although he said his state could use so.oeo more agricultural and 10000 more cotton factory laborers.
 MT. Simmons placed higher irn- portance on maintaining the amity and good feeling which he said had al- | ways existed between the South and the Pacific coast on labor and other questions than on any disadvantage to his own section which might re- suit from the changes in the immi- grafton law. Nevertheless he regard cd the changes in the contract labor provision as not properly in the re- port and expressed the opinion that the conferees had exceeded their au- thority.
 Senator Dubois opposed the pass ! port provision in the bill. T do not think" he said, ~the president of the United states ought to be allowed ] to legisiate directly as he has done in the case of this provision. If tho clause meant the exclusion of Japanese laborers. he said, it would not be satisfactory to Japan. If 1t did not mean this 1t would not be satis- factory to the Pacific coast He re- ferrad to the resolution offered by Senator Culberson yesterday instruct Ing the conferees to bring in q 1Ixy Ia anese laborers. The provision in the bill. he said. was makeshift and he predicted that within a week after its adoption the people of the Pacific coast would be clamortng for Jap- ''l opnositsos Not wtshdrswn. A denial was made by MT. Bacon of printed reports that the expedition l Of hirnsnlf and Senator Tfliman to l2SYe conferees report had been with I draw,l under pressure from Senator < Aldrich to eaye or secure appropria- tons in the river and harbor biH RcrerrinE briefly to the labor sit i fuaslon irl fhe south Mir Bacon said The fact cannot be concealed that there is a serious and growing jeaI- l ousy on the part of manufacturing fn- dustries in Massachusetts against the growth and increasing misunderstanding interests of the South.
 
 with the further development of those industries of the South and no more sure method could be adopted than that proposed in this bill.
 Mir. Tillman interrupted Mr. Bacon "to get some light.
 q see in the morning papers," he began. s'referepces to tho big stick
 making threats of an extra session un-
 less this report is adopted and the big stick in New York (Senator Aldrich)
 telcphoning to Senator Crane orders about the river and harbor bill to leave out the South Carolina and Geor- gia items We'll, South Carolina has
 not much in that bill. Georgia may have a whole ham of the beef.
 'I notice also that the cabinet met some time yesterday and that it reached the conclusion that the changes made in the immigration law did not affect the decision of Secretary Strauss on the South Carolina case.
 Perhaps the Senator from Massa- chusetts (Lodge), who is so well in- formed as to what occurs at the White House and on occasions telephones, may tell us whether the cabinet did decide that question.
 Here MT. Tillman paused long for an answer. Senator Lodge made no sign of replying.
 'I hope the Senator will say yes or
 
 thS@. after another silence. well. T have tried to get some enlightment. but 1t seems I have failed
 TilIman vs. Hale.
 As the result of a further Interrup. tion of Mir. Bacon by MT. Tillman, a slightly strained situation developed between the South Carolina Senator and MT. Hale. Mir. TIllman read Mir. Hale's statement in condemning tho ty, ha fe in new matter, which he concluded by saying, "I shall be woefully, woefulIy. woefully disappointed if the Senator from Maine does not stand by his wise and proper decision last June. but shall change and become an opportunist."
 In reply. Mir. Hale first compii- mented Messrs. Tillman and Bacon on the able manner in which the debate had been conducted. He had not felt called upon to participate, and said that the Senator had no ground to say that he had changed his attitude.
 When MT. Tillman insisted he was justified In presuming a change by the Senator's silence. MT. Hale contended he had been busy on appropriation bills.
 Then MT. Tillman referred to a pri- Vate conversation he had had with M- Hale. from which he had understood the Senator was going to vote for the Mi. Hale evidenced irritation at this and declared 1t was most unusual to make private conver- sations public.
 Resenting the reference to private Mir Hale said: The Sena- tor has no business to stand up here and refer to little interlocutory talks. I never do that. If l should l would | get the Senator into hot water every | day"
 MT. Tnlman replied that he had no | suspicion that the Senator from Maine | would talk one way privately and an- 1 other way publicly. The Senator | grows more and moro offensive" re- | torted MT. Hale with some heat. '.IIe has no right to intimate that I have said anything tn him on this promo sition in any way as indicating how | should vote.'
 MT. Tillmah resented being lecture5 [ He expressed regret that he had ere | ated any unploassntness and offered l 10 withdraw. if he could honorablv snvth'nE he had said. This MT. Hale | did not desire.
 Defending the position of the con. !