Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
REMEDY HITS A SNAC
Point Of Order Against Jap
anese Passport Provision
0vERRULED BY THE CHAIR
Senator Tillman Wants Time to Con.
slider the Matter.
EFFORT TO FIX DATE FOR VOTE
Democrats Refuse Consent to Allow q
Division on the Matter Be.
fore Adjournment.
0vERRULED BY THE CHAIR
EFFORT TO FIX DATE FOR VOTE

The Senate was thrown into a snarl this
AFTERNOON when the conference report on
the immigration bill. which contains the So
| luton OF the Japanese controversy, came up
for consideration. On the democratic sIda
there was a request for further time to read
| the report, Senator Bacon stating that sem
ators had had no time to read II. and he
thought II should go over so that they might
De informed or what II contained before be-
Ing asked to either speak or vote upon IT,
senator Dillingham;. in charge of the bill,
nnaily acquiesced In this request to the ex-
tent that 1t should go over until tomorrow
providing unanimous consent was given to
vote upon 1t before adjournment.
This called Senator Tillman to his feet
Senator Tillman said that so far as he was
concerned after examining the bill he might
and thought he would have no objection to
1t. But he did not want to bind himself re-
CARELESS of what an inspection OF the re-
port might show to an agreement to vote
before adjournment, because IL was pos
sibie so strong an objection might be dis
covered as to warrant the minority in wish
Ing TO defeat the proposed legislation alto
gether.
After an exchange of words between Sen
ator Iiliman and Senator Dillingham; the
latter finally suggested that the vote should
be taken not later than Saturday evening
but this again was objected to. Mr.. Dill
bingham would make no further concession,
dhu lIUldU TeIIldThlnS tnat lie had
seen good many efforts in the Senate to
jam legislation through, but had never seen
anything gained by it, Strengthened him
self up ready to make a speech.
Senator Patterson interposed to say that
he favored the report, but that he thought
Senator Tillman's request should be agreed
to. He thought that in the morning an
agreement to vote on the bill promptly
might readily be reached whereas senators
were not inclined before reading a report
to bind themselves to vote on It within a
given time, not knowing what an exami-
nation might discover.
Senator Dillingham;, however would make
no further concession.
Senator Tillman then made q point of
order that the japanese passport proviso is
new and extraneous matter. which was
never considered by either house; that the
conferees exceeded their authority and are
entirely outside their Jurisdiction
Senator Tillman then proceeded to discuss
his point of order.
The chair called attention to the fact that
debate was not In order except by unanl-
nous consent on point of order.
Proceeding by unanimous consent, Sena-
tor Tillman cited the case which arose in
the last session on the point of order made
against the railroad rate bill report and
at which time, he said. Senator Lodge
had contended that conference report
should not contain extraneous matter.
Senator Lodge, by unanimous consent,
briefly discussed the point of order He
said that this case was different from
the railroad rate bill report and that
there could be no doubt that under the
particular circumstances the conference
committee had wide powers. He said that
the proviso to which objection had been
made was but a modification Of an exist
Ing law to regulate certain classes of i'm
migrants. He commended that 1t was held
by the Senate last session that point Of
order did not lie against a conference
report, and he Is now inclined to agree
with that holding.
Senator Culberson insisted that under the
uniform rule of the Senate the point OF
order made by Senator Tillman against the
Japanese passport proviso was well taken.
and that 1t was the duty of the chair to
submit this point of order to the Senate
for it's decision.
Point Of Order Overruled
Vice President Fairbanks in the chair
stated that he had carefully examined the
rules of the Senate on a previous case
similar to the one under consideration and
he was of the opinion that the rules and
practices Of the Senate for long time
were such to authorize a submission
OF a point of order OF the kind involved
to the Senate itself for its decision. He
then ruled that the point Of order was not
we'll taken.
This decision permitted vote by the