Show BY TELEGRAPH FORTY FORTT FIFTH CONGRESS sen nen at ASHINGTON 14 the tho Seii beli senate ate at today to day resumed consideration on of the chinese immigration bill blaine of maine having the figor floor proceeded to address the sen ates atea peaking as usual without notes but with his customary earnestness and animation substantially as follows he said on the remarks of tot the senator from ohio matthews sr yesterday he presented the idea that the government ment of the united states Bo solicited the existing treaty with china he blaine thought that just the reverse of the historic fact tact what wala was known as the reed beed treaty had given the trade facilities with china the burlingame treaty tresty treaty was certainly asked in the most moat impressive manner from the united states Bt burlingame irlin was wag a man of good address and great ability china in feleci selecting him to make this treaty selected a m man an who was able to do di 3 perhaps what no other man could have done for them the chinese subject divided itself anto info two parts one of substance and one of form t the first was wag whether we might adopt this mode of terminating the treaty and the second was whether it was desirable to exclude chinese immigration from the country mr blaine here read from the burlingame treaty to the effect that the two governments agreed to pass laws making it penal offense to take citizens of china to the united states or citizens of the united states to china without their free consent that immigration should be entirely voluntary and argued that that clause of the treaty had been violated from the bi ginning beginning by china there was waa no notice at the state tato department that china had ever complied compiled with that provision of the treaty or made mide such euch a law the chinese government agreed to make a law that immigration should be entirely voluntary but it never did so and the treaty stood broken by china from the beginning the argument of the senator from ohio was waa answered by the fact that china had broken the treaty tron if great britain france or germany abound should enc six commercial companies in new york and bring here the worst people of those countries what would the senator from ohio do Bl atthews matthews said he would use our diplomatic representative in such country to make complaint to the offending government and only in th the event ofa of ota a refusal by such buch government to obey the treaty would he resort to legislation blaine resuming said this country and this senate would not hesi tate to defy any european power aich which should act as us china had although the senator from ohio argued that we acted so with china because bhe she was not a war power honert ho next referred to the volume of treaties and said the burlingame treaty was one which did not ter itself or provide a mode upon its termination Bome somebody body must take the initiative of terminating it the senator from ohio jasd he would go to the emperor of china and make certain representations to modify the treaty sup bup X ose the emperor should refuse jn in case he should say 1 I desire to stand by that treaty what would ithe rahe senator do matthews I 1 would take it into consideration laughter blaine resuming said the senator from ohio argued from the proposed legislation giving ua us a bad name it had always been the habit of nations to terminate a treaty when it was found tobe to be pernicious self preservation was the first law of nations as well as of nature this chinese question was not new now it had been here before when the naturalization lawa were amended so far as his vote was concerned he would not admit a man as an emigrant to this country when he was not willing tomako toma kaa koa a el citizen trumbull senator from illinois had once submitted an amendment to allow ie to be natum naturalized ll zed the tho thereto vote upon the amendment was yeas 9 nays 31 there was a vote ofal of 31 to 9 that the chinese I 1 ought never nover to be made citizens under Un derbur kur lur system of government we should never admit people who were not bot to aid in the government and take pait part in the body politic we must either exclude chinese Chin eseo or include them in the great family of citizens the vast hordes of china were near nearer er to the pacific coast in point of expense of transportation than the people of kansas or the mississippi valley the chinaman today to day had the advantage over the american laborer in reaching the pacific coast either anglo angio saxon would the pacific or the mongolian would give them the start today to day with the beon been thrust of necessity behind them and it was demonstrated that they would occupy that great space between the sierra and the pacific coast the chinese themselves were today to day establishing steamship lines and providing means of transportation to this country he spoke of the vices of the chinese and looking towards howe who sits siti next to him and to mr hamlin he said the senator from wisconsin and my cay colleague both voted that the chinese would not be naturalized howe said they did not he said bald they never should be blaine you voted no and then proceeded to take the question into consideration like the senator from ohio laughter continuing his argument blaine said with the republic organized as it is today to day he would make bold to declare that we could not maintain a non vot ing class in this country it was a necessity to give the negro n suffrage dawes said they naturalized in his state blaine by what laws davis by state laws blaine then you yon do it in vlola violation ti on of the united states sargent said the united states circuit court of san francisco ina lna in a test case decided that the could not be naturalized blaine the prohibition ia is on the very front of the law in the course coune of furth further br argument blaine inquired if there was a senator on this floor who would pay say that under the burlingame treaty as it is now operating era ting the chinese could not overrun the pacific coast should they choose to do eo so hamlin said during the last 20 years tife tive th e net chinese emigration lo 10 thia this country had not exceeded a year he va was indifferent as to arf alt tho the predict iona lona of or Js to come from chinese immigration treat them a as s christians christians and ad they will become good citizens applause in the galleries sargent quoted from statistics to show that the six companies imported chinese during the period mentioned by the bena sena benator senator tor tot and this number did not include those landing in oregon and other places morrill inquired if a large number did not return to china each year sargent replied in the negative hamlin claimed that there were not over chinese on this continent blaine resuming said if the admonitions ions olour of our history were werd anything they should teach us to flee from rom a race trouble as the one thing to be avoided could any one say we had solved the negro question satisfactorily or that we were prepared to invite or permit another race trouble such a thing to him seemed to be the very recklessness of skAtes slates salesmanship manship his colleague had sam sard treat the chinese as christians they could not be christianized zed and the demoralization of the whites was more rapid than the salvation of the chinese by reason of the contact if congress failed to pass a bill to restrict chinese immigration law and order could not be maintained in california five years honce hence without the aid of the military to mr sargent Sargen tJ do I 1 overstate it sargent I 1 am sorry to say that I 1 think you do not blaine continued and said he had heard a good deal about cheap labor ile he did nov not believe in cheap labor in a republic where suffrage frage eum Euf was universal cheap labor jabor could not ba legislated for labor should not nok be cheap it should be dear it should have its share there was not a laborer on the tho pacific coast today to day who was not crushed on account of competition with chinese labor you could not make a man who must have beef and bread and perhaps beer work with a man who could live livo on a handful of rice this was an to up to level of beef and bread it was wag to drag beef and bread down to the rice standard applause incept inca elusion hei be argued that this leg legislation isla was in strict accord with international obligations it was WILS justified as the chinese never lived one month under the terms of the treaty the question was whether wo we would devote an important section of the united states to be the home and refuge of our own people and those affiliating with us or whether we would leave it open for those who inevitably degrade us the senate must mast this day choose whether it would insist upon their visitation of christ or the tion lion of confucius applause mitchell Ml was the next speaker he said bald he did not now propose to enter into any elaborate argument on this subject as he had previously given his views at length he gave his hearty and unqualified support to the pending bill he then spoke of the importance i of the subject and eaid mid it concern concerned ed the perpetuity of our republican institutions he spoke of the constitutional howera of congress to pasa pass the bill and argued that all nat nations ionia recognized the imperative pera tive necessity of so regulating their thein affalee as to free their people from contaminating influences under no circumstances could a chinaman become a citizen of the united states the sooner wa announced our true position on his this bis subject and maintained it the better it would be by the law of nations every treaty prejudicial to the state was void and fell to the ground in support of this argument he quoted from vattel and continuing asked who had a better right to judge whether a treaty was prejudicial than the lawmaking law making power lower he spoke of the and habits of the chinese and in conclusion argued that the passage of 0 the pending law was justified not only by law faw but by the highest considerations of governmental policy matthews submitted the following aa as a substitute for the house bill ilu that the president of the united states is hemby hewby requested as promptly as in hi his ju jurgill judgment would be expedient to give in notice 1 I t ac to the emperor of china ithac that the existing treaty stipulations regulating the immigration of subjects of the chinese empire to this country and the practice oi 01 which has resulted are not satisfactory to this government awa to bequest thereof as will in his bis opinion limit or prevent the evils resulting and that unless the emperor of china shall assent to such modifications by negotiation of a new treaty to be submitted to the senate for its ratification fi on or before the day of january ilso the president id is hereby authorized and requested then further to notify the emperor of china that this government abrogates the existing treaty from and after the lat day of july thereafter thurman ohio said he had very few word worde to say on this bill and nothing to say on the general question involved he would assume that the arguments already made had convinced the senate that a limit should be put upon chinese immigration what he I 1 would say would be as to the mode of limiting that immigration it had been argued that a new now treaty j should be made with chins china to him it seemed perfectly clear that it would be ruinous to this or any other othen country to say that a treaty could omy only be ended by the negolia neg otia otla tion lion ofa of a new treaty jf if that doc trine was true the emperor ol 01 china by refusing to negotiate a new treaty could hold the united states to this no matter how per licious it may be to us he argued that the power of abrogating treaties rested in congress and quoted from a number of aut sut horl hoil support of his position me also referred to the abiog abrogation atlon of the french treaty by act of congress in 1798 aa as a buff lelent sufficient prace precedent for this bill the immigration of chinese to the united states always had been a more suitable subject for legislation than for treaty it should ba be dealt with by the house of representatives rather than by the treaty makine power alafi alone e he argued that there had been ample time for the executive to 0 move for a modification of the treaty Nothing had been accomplished complis hed and now it was wab was time for con Uon congress gress to take iho the business in hand in incase case the treaty should the could still come to this country unless there was legislation to prevent them he therefore opposed matthews amendment continuing his remarks he said that of all countries on the daae face of the earth china was the last one to insist upon the immigration of her subjects when for ten centuries she had shut out all the world we wb have three raees races on this continent contin ent ont now the white man the black man and the red mail man and we wanted nomore no more mixtures hoaas he was in favor of the immigration of white people to this country because every one of them added strength and wealth toche to the nation but that was not tho the case caso with the Mon sargent submitted several beveral amendments to the bill of a verbal character and they were agreed to he also submitted an amendment as an additional section providing that the act shall not apply to persons officially connected with the chinese government or any embassy thereof or to persons rescued from shipwreck agreed to also an amendment directing the president of the united states immediately upon the approval of the act to give notice to the government of china of the abrogation of bf articles five and six of the burtin lingame game treaty agreed to joners jones of nevada then took the floor and made an elaborate argument in favor of restricting chinese immigration he referred at length to their habits and eadd in dexterity and they had no superior he argued that if they should be permitted to come here they would drive out american labor all xii they needed was capital and that they would speedily accumulate bum cum many more would have been here if this immigration had not been checked by popular indignation he spoke at length on the labor question and argued that chinese competition was waa dangerous to white labor just as negro slavery was prejudicial to it the chinese under all circumstances maintained their national character mr jones spoke about two hours and nd ably discussed the questions in involved in the bill from a variety of standpoints including especially those of political economy I 1 ethnology and the law of na nations hosrof Massachusetts at 6 moved to adjourn sargent hoped the senate would not and urged it to remain in les EOS bion alon and dispose of this matter I 1 windom minn winn minn mann kave gave notice that fie wouter nautee eh cliv edg F 6 tion lion bills tomorrow to morrow he the senate by a rising vote ot yeas 14 nays 31 refused to adjourn conkling N Y then submitted the following as a substitute for matthews amendment that the president of the united states 14 i hereby requested immediately to kive give notice to the emperor of china that so much of the exist ipg treaty as permits the of subjects of the chinese empire to the government of the united states andin its judgment are pernicious is abrogated and to propose such modifications of the said treaty as will correct the evils complained of sald said modifications to be made in a neav and supplemental treaty to be submitted to the senate of the united states on or before the 1st day of january 1880 should the government of china refuse or omit to agree by a change gO of the existing treaty to such modi modifications flea as are aforesaid then the president of the united states Is |