Show BY TELEGRAPH FORT FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS SENATE SS 28 the testimony mony of james E anderson taken before the committee of the house and affecting senator matthew was received from the house and referred to the select committee appointed last session allison chairman A number of bills were introduced and referred by edmunds authorizing the president to prescribe suitable police regulations for the govern government of various indian reservations and ana for the punishment of murder robbery and other crimes committed thereon referred mitchell submitted a resolution instructing the committee on railroads to inquire into the expediency of authorizing railroad companies operating inter state railroads to construct and operate lines of telegraph for commercial purposes and to connect with other lines ines that competition in telegraph communication may bo be encouraged agreed to illinois presented a memorial asking Congre congress hul fak to provide for an industrial bureau whose duty it shall be to obtain and collate accurate of all the count country rys interests which may roay employ labor A motion of morrill to lay jay aside the calendar and consider the bill to provide for taking UM census was I rejected ejected by hk a vote of yeas 23 nays naya 27 the house amendment to the senate bill wl making the of february a legal holiday in the district ot of columbia was agreed to and the bill passed the amendment provides that it shall take effect february 1879 dawes from the committee on public buildings and grounds reported adversely on the memorial of the missouri legislature asking the removal of the national capitol to a more central portion ot of the union who tho th awo iw U charged from further consideration plumb from the committee on military affairs reported favorably on the b will iii of the senate to authorize the secretary of the treasury to ascertain and report to congress the of money expended and the indebtedness assumed by the tho state of kansas in repulsing invasions and suppressing indian hostilities placed on the calendar the senate then resumed consideration de of ulie the unfinished busi business nessi being the bill to pay warren mitchell for cotton by government ment nent it was discussed at length and the senate refused to order its third reading yeas 17 nays 80 30 several senators state that they were paired on political questions and therefore withdrew their votes on the mitchell bill which was regarded as a political question by bome gome senators edmunds moved to take up hi his s resolutions declaring the them validity of the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to iq the constitution sti ution tation gordon moved to adieu adi adl rn rejected yeas 18 19 nays 26 the motion of edmun edmunds ds to take up the resolutions was then agreed to yeas 29 pays naya 16 edmunds said he did not desire to occupy the floor this evening neathe abd and the senate by a rising vote yeas 27 nays 17 adjourned HOUSE Aft after erthe fhe the introduction of beveral several bills bill mills mill asked if it the regular 0 order r was not the morning hour th the speaker replied that ib it was not the special order was the bill to restrict the immigration of chinese and the house proceeded immediately to it provides that hat no master of a vessel owned by any citizen of the united states shall take on board at any foreign port any number of chi nese exceeding ton too with intent to bring them to the united states under penalty of toe foe each such passenger in excess icess of ten such penalty to become a lien on the vessel conger inquired if an opportunity would be given to offe ommer offer er amendments willis ky who had charge of the bills bill replied that lie he wasi in ted by the committee on education and labor to have havethe tho the bill passed as reported conger said many gentlemen on his hia side eide of the house were in favor of the bill but wanted an opportunity to amend and debate it luttrell buttrell the people of california want action and not words page called attention to the fact that the other alde aide had made the chinese question a subject of caucus while the republicans had not considered it but still he hoped that no one would oppose the demand for the previous question conger moved to consider the bill in the house as in committee of the whole the speaker ruled that it was not in order and the previous question was seconded by to 33 aud and the maln main question ordered townsend disclaimed any intention of speaking for far the republican party or anybody else he spoke for himself as a friend of humanity when he opposed the bill he opposed kt wun wua a breaking onn off political relations with one halt half of the human race he had nothing to charge against the democratic party for en bering into a treaty with china though the treaty had been negotiated in the good old democratic days they were days when the light of heaven sometimes reached the brain of the democrats laughter he credited the democratic party not only with making the treaty but with bringing prosperity to the pacific coast from froin ita its adoption because today to day califor ala aia owed her position to it that was before kearney had come and before kearney was represented in the riat national ional lonal hall laughter but it was said that congress must take unusual grounds for the benefit of the laboring ruen the laboring men the gentie gentle gentleman maii mazi arora pennsylvania wright had said yeste yesterday mati mayi were starving of them he said were starving laughter and besides there were in pennsylvania people in the lunatic asylums from the hardness of the times he would say to the gentleman from pennsylvania that lunatics were sometimes made by hard times sometimes by unrequited love sometimes by unsatisfied ambition and pennsylvania lunatics made from rom such causes did not al ur did not wish to disparage rate the sufferings of laboring clas seli seil the hard toils tolls of f pennsylvania new york and aw sew new england had bad made a body of men that the country might well be proud of the prosperity of 1878 and it had been beian the most prosperous year since the dawn of creation had been to a great degree due to the overthrow of the fanaticism of olden ti mesbur today to day it was the heathen chinese he reminded his friend from kentucky willis who represented the louisville district of the day when the cry was against the catholic irish and against the condemned german and when the streets of louisville and st louis flowed with blood because those men were coming in to takeaway jakeaway take away labor from american citizens many of the great men of the democratic party had been opposed to the irish and germans elastus erastus brooks of the evening excess Ex as toda today to day da a trusted leader had been the head of what was called the american order organized to protect the country against the inroads of the hordes of irish and germans he e townsend had been in the m minority bority but thank god that minori minority ty had bad beaten and the prosperity of the country was in a great measure due to the stalwart labor of the irish rish and germans A member demag demagogue e guely guell 7 tow townsend somebody y says demagogue ma gogue s Is it bill nye that bays il it I 1 have bill nye holding up a copy 0 of f the heathen chinee continuing he said he had never join led ed in a raid against anybody and he hoped that god would give him the grace never to join in 1 a raid against any descendant of adam but there was now a school of philosophers in the country who went before the labor committee and and said that the suffering of the laboring classes was occasioned casio ned by over production and that it tended to impoverish and starve not the laboring man as they stated but the man in the corner grocery who was supported by his wife and never did a daya work those were the men represented by the gentleman from pennsylvania wright yesterday what work did kearney perform what did he do for a living except blow hla hia insurrectionary horn ryan kyan kansas rhe he passes around the hat townsend continued and referred to the persecutions of jews in the middle ages yot yet now in the tho nine cent century u no nation in europe could declare war until the consent of the jew waa was obtained it was said eaid that the jews were wicked certainly they were we had never known a people thau thai were not wicked but did anybody bellevo believe that they had bad ever boiled down children to get fat laughter it had bad been sald eald that if the irish ani and germans were admitted into the country liberty would leave how many democrats from the north would be in the house today to day except by permission of st patrick laughter thank heaven beaven he had given his permission to him townsend he had stood patrick in his dark days and st patrick had not forgotten him laugh Laughter te rAbou About t the wickedness wicked ness bf of chinese it was said that they could not be brought ndoc ar to tho tl ahns tian religion he could tail tall of a way to get them over the lady who had a chinese boy servant said to him john be a good boy and learn to love jesus yes yes yea he replied give me a dollar more a week and I 1 will love jesus ss loud laughter that wat wap wa the way to bring the chinaman over to the christian religion and it it fall tali failed tailed ed then he townsend would lose h hla hia is bet everybody had bad heard of bill nye he was not sure cure whether Bill nye was alive but one of bis his friends on the other side aide alluding to luttrell must pardon me for saying that when the ibe heathen chinee was spoken of inthis in this house he rather doubted whether bill nye did not live in santa rosa bosa laughter he was rather for going forward and treating the human race as brothers he would quote in conclusion tho the views of robert burns then let us pray thac that como coma it may r 1 I aa As come it will for a that that man to man the world olez eer oer shall brothers be tor a that page was in favor of restricting chinese immigration to this country and declared that he had never advocated any views that were not in accord with the liberal sentiment and advanced ideas of the republican party the party had ever been J ja w f ri r in eom kor there were on the pacific coas coast const chinese who were unitt unfit by educations education by bry habits and by mode of life to become citizens and government should not allow the pacific coast to be overrun by a people who were considered unfit for citizenship zen ship he hoped nobody on his side of the house would vote against the bill not even the gentleman from new york mr townsend who he did not believe was opposed to it but wanted an opportunity to get off one of his numerous speeches deferring referring to the democratic caucus of last night nights he said that the members of his side of the house had bad never been dragooned by caucuses nor allowed themselves to be whipped in by the party lash luttrell repudiated the idea of 0 the popular sentiment on the subject of the chinese being fairly represented by the republican party and claimed that it was only t the a democratic party which represented that sentiment the democratic house in the last congress had pass red eed a resolution calling for a modification fi 11 of the burlingame treaty l and the republican president had protected it in 1872 he Luttre luttrell lJ offered an amendment to prevent the employment of mongolians Mongo lians on mare island and other navy yards and that amendment had been voted against on the republican side of the house while every democrat had voted in favor of it such a thing as the regard for the hardworking classes of the country had never entered the hard hearts of the republicans the old gentle man from new york townsend who wa was so fond of shaking his head bead at the democratic side eide of the house had spoken against kear ney he luttrell was not there to defend kearney kearney was capable of defending himself kearney represented the great laboring element of the country they and not the heathen chinee were the men who had helped to build up california willis kentucky closed the discussion in a speech in advocacy of it he claimed that under the constitution ution the treaty was not morg mora binding or sacred than laws law and that it was the last expression of ie ia gi mind whether in the tho form of a treaty or law that controlled troll ed if therefore this bill became a it laithe burlingame treaty so far aa as it conflicted with the provisions of the bill became null and I 1 vod void he dwelt upon the fact that wherever had gone in large numbers as to blam java singapore and the australian colonies the popular judgment had been almost unanimous against them and repressive legislation had to be resorted to in order to check the evil evils of their presence in conclusion ho he said our government ig is but a reflex of the character of our people if it they are corrupt ignorant and bel sel selfish fiah flah the government govern mont will reflect these traits in its own national feature features is the introduction there of a class of men like the chinese who were without homes and without families whose education and habits disqualify them for citizenship whose low wages degrade lamorand lab orand whose want of virtue and aud morality unfit them for society is fraught with the greatest dangers to our republican institutions and should be promptly checked we say bay bayto to all our people that they should be protected in their rights ard and privileges how hows then can we expect among the laboring classes of our community a bold boid dennant defiant honorable citizenship 3 if we wd say eay to them thattie that the hon honors omand and privileges of citizenship are one onla thing and their protection and enjoyment another and different thing the house proceeded to vote volel on the bill and on the pending amendments offered on the part of the committee in the first Bec tion tiou the restriction of chinese passengers OR any one vessel to ten was extended to 15 cannon desired to submit an amendment so as to except chinese travelers or students student but Luttre luttrell JJ objected conger desired dedred to except chinese envoys and their suites but he was i met with mith tile the same bame objection then conger desired to submit an amendment excepting shipwrecked chinese but objection was made by cox new york and luttrell garfield desired to submit it a an amendment that the bill should not take effect until after due notice had been given to the chinese govern government ment under the rules of international ter law cox objected L a trew ls Is a Dal Dable T violation olat 0 of international 1 law and was got up rather for party purposes than out of consideration for the interest of the workingman the house then proceeded to vote on the passage of the bill and it was passed yeas nays 72 the bills bill as passed makes it a misdemeanor punishable with nine fine and imprisonment for the master cf 0 any vessel to take on board at any chinese or other foreign port more than fifteen chinese passengers whether male maie or female with intent to bring them to the united states the act is to take effect from and after july ish 1879 79 after taking up the post past office bill baker ind moved to increase the appropriation for mail mall transportation by railroad from to after a short debate it as adopted yeas 89 nays 76 chalmers Gb almera submitted an amend ment increasing the appropriation for transportation on steamboats from to agreed to without final action the committee rose durham introduced a joint resolution calling oh on the secretary dietary Se ol 01 state for a expenditures made by government at the paris exposition passed aldrich asked leave to offer a resolution directing the commatee comm itee on public 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