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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE CH1XESE HIl.L. More Ueuittostiiui la (he t tittle. WashiuytuQ, 14. Tbe senate, at 1 SO, to-day rebiitued coosidera-tinu coosidera-tinu o( tbe Oliioede immigrution bill. Blaine, of Maine, having tbe floor, proceeded to addreea the senate, speakiog aa usual without ootej, but with bid customary earnestness and aoioiatiou, subetauiially ae follow?: tie said, oq the remarts ol the senator from Onio (Matnews) yesterday, yester-day, be presented tbe idea that the government of the United States solicited the nidiing treaty witb China. He (BUioe) thought that was jodt the reverse of - the historic l-ict. What wis knowu as tbe Reed treaty, hiid given tbe trade facilities witb China. Tbe Burlingame treaty w.-te certainly askea in the moei impressive manner irom the. Uniled States. Burlingame was a man of good address, and great ability. -China, in selecting bim to make Uiid treaty, eelected a roan who waa able to do perhaps wbat no other man could have done (or them. Tbis Chinese eubject divided itself into two par!e, one of eubdtance and one cl form. The first waa whether we might adopt this mode of terminating the treaty, and toe second was whether it i was desirable to exclude Chintse immigration from ibia country. Mr. Blaine here read from tbe Burlingame tteaty to tbe eHect that, the two governments agreed to pass laws making it penal offense to take citizens of China to tbe United States, orcitzens of tbe United States to Cbina without their free consent; tbat im migration should be entirely voluntary, volun-tary, and argued that tbat clause of tbe treaty had been violated from tbe beginning by China. There was no notice at tbe state department tbat China had ever complied with that provision of the treaty or made such a law. The Chinese government agreed to make a law, mat immigration immi-gration should be entirely voluntary, but it never did ao, and the treaty stood broken by China from the beginning. be-ginning. Tbe argument of tbe senator sen-ator from Ohio wa3 answered by the fact that China had broken tbe treaty continuously. If Great Britain, France or Germany thould locate six commercial companies in New York, and bring here the worst people of thoee countries, wh3t would the senator sen-ator from Ohio do? Matthews said be would use our diplomatic representative in such country to make complaint to the oSendiug government, and only in theevtutof a contumacious refusal by such government to obey tue treaty would be resort to legislation. Blaine, resuming, said this country and tbis senate would not hesitate to defy any European power which should act as China had, although the senator from Ohio argued tbat we acted so with China because she was not a war power. He next referred to the volume of treaties and Baid the Burlingame treaty was one which did not terminate itself or provides mode upon its terru'nation. Somebody Some-body must take the initiative of terminating ter-minating it. The senator from Ohio said he would go to the emperor of Cbina and make certain representations representa-tions to modify the treaty. Suppose tbe emperor should refuse? Incase be Bhould Bay "I desire to stand by that trebly," wbat would the senator do ? Matthews I would take it into consideration. (Lauiibter). Blaine, rerumiog, said tbe senator bum Ohio argued from tbe proposed l.ipislation giving us a bad name. It bad alwus bten the habit cf nations to terminate a treaty when it v.is found to be pernicicus. Sell perser-vation perser-vation was the first law of nations, as well asol nature. This Chinese quea lien was not new. It had been here belore. V hen tbe naturalization lawe were amended. So iaraa bis vole was concerned, be would not admit a man as an emigrant to tbis country, when be was not willing to make a cilizen. Trumbull, Benator from Illinois, bad once submitted an amendment to allow Chinamen to be naturalized. The vole upon tbe amendment waB yeaa 9, nays 31. There was a vote of 31 to 9 tbat tbe Chinese ought never to be made citizens. Uuderour system of government we should never admit peopU who were not to aid in the government and take part in the body politic. We niuet either exclude Chinese or include them in ttie great family bf citizens. The vast ! hordes ot China were nearer to the Pacific coaet in point of expense of IranBportation than the people of Kansas or the Mississippi valley. The Chinaman to-day bad the advantage over the American laborer in reaching tbe Pacific coast, either Anglo Saxon would pessess the Pacific slope, or the Mongolian would give them tbe start to day witb tbe keen thrust of necessity neces-sity behind tbem, and it was demonstrated demon-strated tbat they would occupy that great space between tbe Sierra and the Pacific coast. The Chinese themselves were to day establishing steamship lints and providing means of transportation to Ibid country. He spoke ot tbe vices of the Chinese, and looking towards Howe, who sits next to him, and to Mr. Hamlin, be Baid: "The senator from Wisconsin and my colltaeue both voted that the Chinese wculd not be naturalized. Howe siid he did not; be Baid they never should be. Blaine You vottd no, and then proceeded to tike the question into consideration, like tbe senator from Ohio. (Laughter.) Continuing his argument, Blaine said with tho republic re-public organized as it ia to-d.y, he would make bold to declare tbat ws could not maiutam a non-votmg clas in this country. It was a necessity neces-sity to give tbe negro sufirnge. Dawes siid they naturalized Chinamen China-men in bis state. Bl une By what laws? Privis By state laws. Blaine Then you do it in violation viola-tion ol the United States laws? Sargent said tbe United States circuit cir-cuit couit of San Francisco, in a test case, decided that lbs Cainamen could not be naturahz d. Blaine The prohibition is on the ve-y tnmt of the law. In the course ot ;u Tiber argument, B.a:ne in quirt d if there wae a senator on this tl or who would say ttr.l undr the Burliiitama treaty ad it is now np'.riitir.g, the Chinese could not ovLrr.in the Pcifij cojsI should they cbcose to do so. Hamlin said, during tbe laat twenty years the net Cbinese immigration to this country had not exceeded 4.000 a year. He was icdifl-Tent as to all these predictions ol evils to come from Cut Lens immigration. Ireat them like Cini;t-ans, atd they will become good citizens. (Applause io the grtiieries ) Sargeut quoted from statistics to shew that theSix companies imported 151,300 Chineee duriDg the period mentioned by tbe senator, and lb if : number did not include those landing in Oregon and other places. Morrill inquired if a large number did nol return to China each year. Sargent replied in tbe negative. Hamlin claimed tbat tuere were not over 100,000 Chinese on this continent. con-tinent. Blaine, rfsuming, sa'd if the admonitions, ad-monitions, of our history were anything any-thing tbey should teach us to flee from a race trouble as the one thing to be avoided. Could any one say we hid solved the negro question eatia tactorily or tbat we were prepared to invi'e or permit another race trouble? Sucb a thing to bim seemed to be tbt-very tbt-very recblessnfss of s'atemansbip His coilegue said. "Treat tbe Chinese aa Cbristians " They could not be Chrisli jnized, and the demoralization of the whites was more rapid than the salvation of the Ctiinese, by reason of the contact. II congress failed to pas6 a bid to restrict Ohioeae immigration, law and Older could not be maintained in California, five yean hence, witb out tbe aid of the military. (To Mr. Sarei.t, ) Do I overstate it Sargeut I am sorry to fay that I think you do not. Blftiue continued and Baid be hid heard a good deal about cheap labor. ' He did not believe iu cheap labor. ' In a republic where euflrage was uni ! vt?rsl cheap labor could not be legislated legis-lated for Labor should not he cheap It should be dear. Ll should have its share. There was not a labo er ot. the Pacific Cuat to day who was not crushed on hecouut 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 on a handful cf rice. This was not an effort to bring rice up to the level of beef and bread, it was to drag beet and bread down to the rice Btaudard. (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) In conclusion he argued that this legislation was in strict accord with international obligations. It was justified, as tbe Chinese never lived one month under tbe terms of tbe treaty. Ido question was whether we would devote an import not section of the United Slates to be tbe home and refuge cf our own people and those affiliating witb us or whether we would leave it open to those who degraded themselves and would inevitably degrade us. Tbe Benate must this day choose whether it would insist upon their visitation of CbriBt or the civilization ot Confucius (applause.) Mitchell was the next speaker. He said be did not now propose to enter into any elaborate argument on this subject, as he had previously given hi views at length. He gave his hearty acd unqualified support to the pending bill. He then spoke oi the importance of the subject and said it concerned the perpetuity of our republican institutions. He spoke of the constitutional consti-tutional powers of congress to pass the bill and argued tbat all nations recognized recog-nized the imperative necessity of so regulating their afi'airs as to free their people Irom contaminating influences. Under no ciicumstances could a Chinaman become & citizen o! tbe United States. The sooner we announced an-nounced our true position on tbis subject and maintained it the belter it would be. By tbe law of nations every treaty prejudicial to the state was void and fell to tbe ground. In support of this argument be quoted from Valtel, and continuing, asked who had a belter right to judge whether a treaty was prfjudiciil than the Ittw-mukint? oowet? He spoke of the vices and babitB of the Chinese, nod in conclusion argued that the passage of the pending law was justified justi-fied not only by law, but by tbe high est considerations of governmental policy. Matthews submitted tbe following as a substitute for the house bill: That the president of the United States !B hereby requested, ao promptly as in his judgment would be expedient, to give notice lo tbe emperor of Cuina that trie existing treaty stipulations stipu-lations regulating tbe immigration of subjects ol the Cbiaese empire to this country, and the practice of immigration immi-gration which has resulted tbere from, are not satislactory to this government, gov-ernment, and to request such modifications modifi-cations thereof as will, in his opinion, limit or prevent the evil3 resulting therefrom, and that unless the emperor em-peror of Cciua shall assent to such modifications by negotiation of a new treaty, to bo submitted to the Benati1 for its ratification, on or belore the 1st day of January, 18S0, the president presi-dent is hereby authorized and requested re-quested then further to notify tbe emperor of China tbat this govern meut abrogates the existing treaty from and after the 1st day of July thereafter. Thurman, Ohio, said be had vsry few words to say on tb a bill, and nothing no-thing to say on the general question involved. Ho would assume that the arguments already made had convinced con-vinced the seuale tbat a limit sbould be put upon Chinese immigration. immi-gration. What he would say would be as to the mode of limiting that immigration. It had been argued tbat a uew treaty should be made with China. To him it seemed perfectly clear that it would be ruin-uiis ruin-uiis to this or any otner country to ay that a treaty could only be ended by the negotiation ot a new treaty, li that doctrine was Irue, tbe emperor em-peror Of China, by refusing to negotiate negoti-ate a new treaty, could hold the United St.ttes to tuis, no matter how pernicious it might be to us. He argued that the power of abrogiting treaties reo'.ed iu congress, and quoted from a number of authorities in support of hi position. He alsc referred to tbe abrogation of the Fn neb treaty by act of congress in 17i)S, as a sufficient precedent for tbis bill. Toe immigration of Chinese to the United States always bad been a more suiUhle subject for legislation than for treaty. Il should be deall with by the house ot representatives rather than by tbe treaty-making power alone. He areued that tbere bad been ample time for the executive execu-tive to move for a modification of t;,e treaty. Nothing bad been accomplished, and now it ws time for connrees to lake the business iu hand. In cse the treaty should be simply abrogated, tbe Ctiinese couid slid o-me to this country unless there was leg. Nation to prevent toem. He tlierelure opposed op-posed Matthew's amendment. Continuing Con-tinuing bis remarks, be said tbat of all countries on the (ace ol the earth Cmna was the Ust one to insist upon ' tbe immigration of her subjects, woen lor ten centuries she bad snot out the wb'-ile world. We have three races on ibia coctinent now the white man, tut; biaca mu and the red man and we wanted no more mixture?. ' He was in favor of the iramigra lion of white people to loia country (Continued on T'iird pays.) t I!!i:SK KILL. (Continue' fr-ui F-rst pJU.) Ij2cau ;o every ooo of the m added strength and wealth to the nation, but chat m not th'. l:a-o with t-i Man-gol.an. Man-gol.an. H-irg-Mit submit ltd n't;r.il itmend-iiinU itmend-iiinU to tho b:il of i vtrb.tl u:iracier and tiny were agnr-d to. He aUo submitted an ameudment, na an additional section, providing that ihe act ahall not apply tu persons officially connected wnb tne Cmucie government, govern-ment, or any pmiu '.say thereof, or to pernons rescued (rum ship wreck. Agreed to. Also an amendment amend-ment directing the prcddeiil of ihe Uuiud State immediately, upon the approval of the act, to give notice tu me government of China, of tho ubrog'.tinn ol articles five and six ol Lie Bjrl'na-ne treaty. Agreed tu. Jones of Nevada then took the fl ior and made an elaborate argument in lavor ol restricting Chinese immigration. immigra-tion. He relerred at length to their habils aud said iu dexterity and imi'a-tivenesi imi'a-tivenesi tney had no superior. He argued that if they nbou'd be permuted per-muted to come litre, tney would drive out American tab jr. All they needed was capital a:.d thai they would speedily accn nulale. Many more Cuinamtu would bavn been here if this immigration hd not been ohecked by popular in Jinatun. He poke at length on tho Ubor qu'-ctiou land argued that Chinese competition waa dangerous to whits Ubor, jnt as ' negro slavery was prejudicial to it The Chinese, under all mcunibUucet', maintained their national cliaracu r. Mr. Jones spoke abent two hours and ably discussed the questions involved in-volved in the bill from a variety of standpoints, including especially those Ol political economy, innology and the law ol nations. Hoar, of Maesacbusell, t G o'clock moved to adjourn. Sargent hoped the Benato would not and urged it to remain in session and dispuae of this matter. Windom (Minn) gave notice that he would insist upou the appropriation billB tomorrow. The senate, by aiising vote of yeaa 14, nave 31, re- iueed to adjourn. Coukliog (N- Y.) then submitted the following as a substitute for Matthews amendment: That the president of the United States is hereby requested immediately to give notice to the emperor of China that ao much ot the existing treaty as permits the immigration of subjects of the Chinese empire to the government ol United States, and in its judgment are pernicious, perni-cious, ia abrogated, and to propose auoh modifications of thesaid treaty as will correct the evila complained of, said modifications to be made in a new and supplemental treaty to be submitted to the senate of the United States on, or before be-fore the lirBt day of January 1SS0. Should the government of China re:uae or omit to agree by a change ot the existing treaty, to such modification modifica-tion as are aforesaid, then the president presi-dent of the United States ia further requeBted, and he is authorized to inform the emperor of China that the United States will proceed by laws ol its owd, to regulate or prevent the immiEration or importation to its shore of the subjects of Cnina, and. alter January 1st, 1SS0, to treat tbo obnoxious stipulations as at an end. . Matthews withdrew hia amendment and that of Cunkling was in order. 1 Sargent hoped the amendment of the senator from New York would be voted down. It was simply a promise to do something hereafter, Conkling said he was sorry to hear nia friend from California appeal to the friends of the bill to vote down this amendment, and sorry to bear him call it a mere promise. The immigration of Chinese to our shores did not begin with the treaty. It began before the treaty and would proceed pro-ceed after the abrogation of the treaty. He explained hias.mendmenl and nid there was something more than a promiae in it. It was what surgeons would call heroic treatment. We are not dealing now with a nation pro vided with means to conquer. There wero aonalors who left that the bill beforo the senate was excesaive, abrupt, unwarranted. These senators argued that, according to the manners man-ners prevalent in civihzsd nations, there were belter methods known by which to initiate transactions such as this. He sympathized with the people peo-ple of the Pacific coaat and said thoy felt the evils of Chinese immigration more than anyone else, on account of their contact with it. He was as eager as any senator from California, Oregon or Nevada to do what is permitted per-mitted b7 civilized usages between nationalities to accompliah tho whole purpose. He had undera'ood tnat negotiations were pending which, iu-etead iu-etead of indicating that the government govern-ment of China waa opposed to any change in tlie treaty, indicated just the reverce. There wero many senators sen-ators who did not underctand that we had not bsen met with any relusal on the part of China to change the treaty. Tburman opposed Cjnk ling's amendment. It went upon the idea that it would be a rude and offensive mode for the Benate to terminate a treaty by the proposed bill. The proposition of the aenator from New York was far moro oO'-naive to the Chinese government than the pending pend-ing bill. Eaton, Connecticut, al.-o opposed Conkling's amendment, and Baid the whole sum and substance of it was that it aaid to tho emperor of China: We will not abrogate the treaty tonight, to-night, but we will eix months hence, unleia you consent to abrogate it in the meantime. It waa an absolute, downright threat, aud a threat was worse than a blow. He failed to aee the amendment in any other light tnen as anfeault to the emperor of Chin-i. Sargent, in reply to some remark of Hoar, Massachusetts, eaid ono mistake the opponents of the bill made was in beliitliug the fact that the peace of the pacific stales decided upon the passajp of this bill. He again spoke ot the hatred botwecn Americin laborers and the Chinese and the violence ready to buret forth in San Francisco at auy time, but now kept down by the cooler judgment of the citlzsuB of that city. The difficulty was that the senators did not t:iko the Chinese question to heart; they seemed to care more fr the Chinese, more for the alien, than they did for the coui-lort coui-lort aud happiness of the ci'i2jn. He argued that there wis no locipro-city locipro-city in ibeae Chinese trrt ts. We are ahowed to enter but rive por!.s in China He referred to the commerre n ith Cjiua, and said there waatomt-ihing waatomt-ihing more important than com nicrce; there was something in n-n n-n jual purity; there was something iu navmg the country inhabited by republicans re-publicans and not by imperial:, as the Ca-nese are; there was tomc-j tomc-j tiling m the church, something in I thu Bchoolbome worth preserving. Sirgeut, buiug physically iudirpOEfiJ, fhiJ be was tick and uuable to go i.n wnb his rt mark?, but be could uul jiistily lnnii'clf in hia own coni.ieuce 1 d:d lie not, at th-s moment, appeal to 't!ie tenate to act upon th s matter 'low ui.it the other buuae bad acted. I U-i k uf Kentucky, said no greater Vil.Hiuy could betail the nation lean j io have a horde of Cninameu j coming here and degrading our people. I Bruce(Miss.)6A:d that representing. as he did, a people who, but a few years ao were diaquahtied lor ciliznaiii,!, ai.d who wer now stru-ling stru-ling to advance theinselve-, he would vole against the pending bill Hamlin said he was opposed to ttie bill hut wuul f not be driven to an I extended expression of hia opinion at tnis late hour. Howe thought it a ueedicsa dhs-courtefy dhs-courtefy to drive this q-iestion to a final vntrt without Kivmg the ecuator from Maine, chairman of the committee com-mittee on foreign relations, lime to express his opinion in ibis matter. Ho there tore HiiggeiUed thai, by unanimouH consent, it be understood that ibe deb'ile on this question be adjjurned over uutil to morrow aud tht the vote be taken at 2 o'clock. Horsey anJ Windom objected to thio arraignment on the ground that to morrow'snttaian should be devoted to the pont ntiiee appropriorion bill. Bayard aud Withers insisted that to morrow the tax bill should next be considered, and Conkling ttiereupou proposed that an adjournment be taken until 11 o lock to morrow, witbeut any understanding, except lliiU the chairman of the unmniiltee who reported Hie peudin bill Bhould be given ;in opportunity to speak upon up-on it. Sargent remarked that the Senator from Maine had simply reported the bill without recomniGudalion; btd no responsibility lor il and could have spoken upou it to-day if be (Hamlin) bad ao desired. He (.anieotly hoped ibe urnate Mould fiuiah this matter tonight. to-night. Lijrdon waiJ be wa-t in favor of the hill and would vole lor it, but be thought the B"ti4'.u should adjourn iu deference to a request of this soit, rude in behalf ol ita senior member, who was not prepared to v,o on at ao late an bout. The yeas and nays wero ordered upon Conkling's motion to ajjuura, but further colloquy and considerable confusion occurrtd in tlie chamber, so tnat tho order for roll call was apparently forgotten by tho presiding olbcer, Ferry temporarily occupying the chair, aud he put the question to a vote by sound. One or two members mem-bers responded "aye" aud one or two said "no, whereupon, to the astonishment of the Irieuds of t'ie bill and of nearly everybody else, Ferry announced: "The ayes have it, and the senate stands ail jou rued until 11 o'clock to-morrow." The gavel fell and Bimultaucousiy at 8 40 to-day's long eeseion ended. The bill haa undoubtedly gained ttreugth to-day and moat of the democrats who were classed last niiiht as doubtful doubt-ful appear to have made up their minds to vote for it. Several, indeed, have 80 expressed themaelvea and in ' view of these conversions and the anticipated good effects of the power- ful speeches delivered to day us well as the iufluence ol earnest representations representa-tions made in private by the friend a of tho bill, there seems once more to be a certainty ol its passage in the shape desired by its friends. |