Show 8REAI AYjIN SE ATE i GiET j Interesting Proceedings Enhanced j By Wolcotts Speech I I TH IMMIGRATION BILL I DEBATE AND PASSAGE AFTER DiAT I l AMENDMENT 1 I I I I Galleries Well Filled Mrs Wolcott I In Diplomatic Gallery Boss Hanna Han-na Sworn In Wolcott I Fine VoiceVofe n Immigration Bill I Its Provisions Washington Jan 17In anticipation of an Interesting session of the senate today all of the galleries were filled some time before the senate convened Mrs Wolcott wife of Senator Wolcott I chairman of the bimetallic commission I who was to deliver a speech upon the work of the commission was In the diplomatic gallery with a party of friends The wives of the members of the foreign relations committee were also In the diplomatic galleries Senator Hanna who has just been reelected from Ohio was cordially greeted by his colleagues on both sides of the chamber His coming to Washington Wash-ington was unexpected as It had been announced that he would remain in Cleveland for several days to rest HANNA SWORN IN Sir Foraker announced that the legislature leg-islature of Ohio had chosen Marcus Alonzo Hanna to be senator from Ohio for the remainder of Mr Shermans term of six years ending March 4 1S99 He presented Mr Hannas credentials cre-dentials and they were read As there was no objection to the administration of the oath of office Mr Foraker escorted es-corted Air Hanna to the vice presidents presi-dents desk As the two senators passed down the man aisles of the senate there was a murmur in the galleries leries and a craning of necks to get a good view of the two distinguished Ohioans Mr Hanna appeared to be in firstrate health The oath of office was administered by the vice president and Mr Hannas response was distinctly dis-tinctly audible Many senators hastened tened to extend their congratulations to Mr Hanna Among the memorials presented were the remonstrances of 52 Roman Catholic Catho-lic societies representing more than 5000 members presented by Mr Murphy Mur-phy New York against the enactment of the pending immigration bill PERTINENT QUESTION Mr Harris Kansas presented a resolution reso-lution for which he asked immediate consideration asking the secretary of the treasury why since 1892 he had omitted from his statement an item of some 11000000 interest due the United States from the Pacific railroads Objection Ob-jection was made by Mr Thurston Nebraska Ne-braska and the resolution went over WOLCOTT IN FINE VOICE At 1230 Mr Wolcott Colorado chairman chair-man of the biirietallic commission was recognized for a speech upon the work of the commission By this time the baileries and the floor were crowded Mr Wolcott was In fine voice and spoke with only occasional references to his manuscript which h0 had before be-fore him He was accorded the cloaest accore attention by his auditors among whom b st tfshom I were many members of the house At the conclusion of Mr Wolcotts I speech the immigration bill was taken up and dlsfiussed until 3 oclock the hour at whfdhby previous agreement I i had been arranged to vote finally upon the amen ments and the Iii An amendment offered by Mr Spooner of Wisconsin providing that the ability on the part of an immigrant either to read or write should be accepted as sufficient test of his literacy was adopted by a vote of 42 to 22 Another amendment by Mr Spooner providing that the members of the family I ily accompanying an immigrant rejected I reject-ed under the conditions of the bill should he returned to the country whence they came by th steamship company was also adopted 1 Other efforts were maue to amend the measure but failed I IMMIGRATION BILL PASSED The bill was then passed by a vote II of 45 to 28 Yeas Allison Baker Burrows Cannon Can-non Carter Chandler Chllton Clark Davis Elklns Fairbanks Foraker FIe Galllnger Hale Hanna Hans brough Harris Hayley Hoar Kyle Lodge McBride McMillan Mantle Mason Morrill Penrose Perkins Pet tlgrew Platt of Connecticut Platt of New York Pritchard Proctor Quay Sewell Shoup Teller Thurston Till man Warren Wetmore Wilson and Wolcott 45 Nays Allen Bacon Bate Berry Caffery Clay Cockrell Daniel Gorman Gor-man Heitfeld Jones of Arkansas Kenny Ken-ny Lindsay McEnery Mallory Martin Mar-tin Mills Mitchell Money Morgan Murphy Pettus Rawlins Roach Stewart Stew-art Turple Walthall and White 28 NATURE OF BLL The bill a passed provides that all immigrants physically capable and over 16 years of age shall be able to read or write the English language or some other language but a person not able I to read or write who is over 50 years of qge and is the parent or grand parent i par-ent of a qualified immigrant over 21 years of age capable of supporting such a parent or grand parent may accompany i ac-company the Immigrant or the Parent or grand parent may be sent for and come to join the family of the child or grandchild over 21 years ot age who qualified under the law and wife or minor child not able to read or write may accompany or be sent for and come to join the husband or parent who is qualified TlJe act does not apply to persons coming to the United States from the Islands of Cuba during the continuance of present disorders there who have heretofore Island been Inhabitants of that |