Show In the Senate WASHINGTON Dec 17 The morning hour having expired without anything of importance im-portance being done the Senate resumed consideration of the election bill Dolph resumed re-sumed his speech of yesterday upon the subject Dolph held I to bo the duty of Congress with malice toward none and with charity char-ity for all to exercise to tile fullest extent ex-tent its powers under the I onstuution to ecure to every citizen of tie United States native or foreign born white or black rich or poor tlio free exorcise of all his rights under the constitution Eustis said he would put tie question to the Senator from Orecron and would ask a frank answer The queiion was if the migration of Cbinebu bad not been prohibited pro-hibited if there were annllion and a half of Chinamen ir Oregon who hail the right of suffrage and who establistod in Oregon a Chinese state government and i the people of Oregon had overthrown that Chinese government and reestablished white political supremacy would he Doiph in such case advocate the passage of a law by Congress the intent and effect of which would be to encourage stimulate and sustain those Chinamen in their effort t o revive political poweron race lines t Dolph said that was precisely the argument I argu-ment made on the Democratic side of the I chamber Eustis Will the Senator answer my question I DolphI an not going to bo interrupted Eustis But I request the Senator from Oregon to answer my question Dolph I will answer it in my own time but will not stand to be catechised I simi j sim-i ply tell the Senator Jrom Louisiana that the proposition is preposterous The Chinese Chi-nese do not ask to become citizens of the United States But I will tell the Senator from Louisiana that the people of Oregon will never raise a hand against the government J govern-ment of the United States They will never fight against the Hag of their country I coun-try tryEustis Eustis persisted in his efforts to have his question answered more directly but without with-out success Then Morgan took the floor He quoted the clause from the constitution of Oregon restricting the suffrage to white citizens and a section from the statutes of that state prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and negroes Indians or Chinese and closed with an exclamation against such hypocrisy After arguments against the bill by Kenna Reagan and Butler Coke obtained the floor and the Senate adjourned |