Show 11 ka I 1 TILLMAN SPEAK aa U 1 1 1 im M imn ro IN BILL 1 1 1 arcady Y ready to vote for exclusion of japanese fro from m V pacific coast but W would Enc encourage outage i I 1 I 1 I 1 A 1 immigration 1 to southern states t I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 washington NV fob feb 15 alvery one on Eup supposed posed that this immigration bill v as dead continued mr TJ Iman but lo 10 and behold an exigency has arisen on the Pacific coast strenuous individuals are at work to a accomplish cm a certain end the able man I 1 I 1 presiding over the state department drafts dra ats an amendment to the law I 1 passed last may by the senate and 1 last june by the house houze and which I 1 has been in conference evor ever since the conferees take talie that distinguished I 1 gentleman into their confidence or egather ex jather ather he takes them into his confidence and ihfe senate is fioti notified fied that abis bill must go through why speaking in plain terms to keep heep the japanese out of california but there Is a two told object involved in the Trie measure asure the first is intended to leep cep japanese laborers off oft the pacific coast roast and from getting into this country I 1 and the conference in further I 1 I 1 aice of a a policy which looks to sectional I 1 aftan advantage tage have incorporated a provision which changes the law in regard to the contract labor which will keep out the little dribble of im ni migrants grants who have havo started southward ard and these two provisions linked together are to be driven through congress I 1 the southa interests are as usual ignored the pacific coast of course ls taken care of mr ir tillman Tl liman con contended bended that his procedure roast must be in pursuance of a settled policy and made strenuous ob to it air ar flint of california dec declared lared that there was no to necessity of bringing the california relief measure into the discussion mr air tillman insisted that it was impossible under the rules to do other I 1 than consider the two questions together as the confere conference ace committee refused to withdraw the report and amend it IL would exclude ja japanese aneal 1 I will vote for an exclusion act tomorrow which will keep the japanese 1 1 out he added 1 I do not nut see why there should be a prejudice against them yet I 1 am willing to keep heep them out it if it brings war senator lodge arose at this if he be said in a low lone tone we are going to discuss that question questions think we ought to do ao so behind closed doors 1 11 I 1 I am perfectly willing to go behind cl closed ased doors mr air tulman tillman responded perhaps 9 I 1 can get a heart to heart talk with some people who will not stay here and listen but who have got rot orders from the white house that this report has got to go 90 through mr rayner asked if a discussion of the legal phases bould not be permitted n in apen session there was not the slightest object aton to this consideration mr lodge answered but he lie continued there are certain phases which all sern senators tor will see ought not to be discussed in public if it we have got to pig pigeon eon ioe foe around here asserted mr air tillman and mid cannot discuss our own national Is brues aties we ha have got to a desperate pass 1 I dont desire to go into secret session on any other phases of the bill as the senator well knows said mr Lod lodge gp I 1 but they are involved insisted mr air tillman if the roan it the white house had not taken it upon himself to meddle with everything in the T united states we would not have had this issue here immigration to south stating his opinion against oon contract tract labor to bo be as strong as any one ar mr tillman said sald he would give the proper pro encouragement to 0 o desirable himml imm 4 grants to the south and he believe bellev efI the government would be willing to spend ofie one hundred millions for that purpose the south was to be discriminated against he maintained because the senator tram fram massachusetts had a large number of highly respectable constituents who were opposed to the southern states getting immigrants unless they got them from the slums of bf the northern cities the south did not want serums and rif raff r mr lodge was que questioned closely to ascertain just what he construed to be the effect of the bill does it mean that A state agent cannot go abroad and secure himml gration gs atlon asked mr fr tillman it brails that he lie cannot use us other than state funds tor for that purpose answered mr lodge Sup poe the these 6 states should pay the tile pas passage age af pf an immigrant nt and then come one should come along and reimburse the state asked mr air tillman who added there are more tys than one to beat the devil around a stump and the senator from massachusetts knows just as well a as s anybody else elie how to do it r that might inight be one way answered mr ar lodge who added that he did no not t think it ought to tie be done I 1 mr Tillma Tl llmann inn discussing the japanese prop proposition coition maintained that the placing of the Dropo proposition sitton in the report the conferees had exceeded their authority tho rity he ile had bad been informed the confer conferees eeg themselves had not brawn the japanese amendment but it was the work of secretary root t of course he lic added the conferees could deny it if it it was not cor correct this however i went weilt tp to s show that it was a matter er outside the scope of 0 the conference I 1 committee defeat bill by Argument mr nir tillman said he lie realized the only ir way the report could p defeated under tinder ave th e discipline that pr aUed would be to defeat it by Tume ment nf he ile wag was not prepa prepared r e ato to abo T jf such extreme mea measured even it if the south was discriminated against senator culberson Culb interrupted mr fr tillman Till roan to pre present ament the fol following lawIng resolution TI that rat the conferees on of the senate aate on the immigration billa bill are instructed p to present to the conferees an amendment providing for the exclusion of japanese laborers and coolies from the united states and their territories and insular possessions and the district of columbia to be effected january 1 1808 1908 11 mr the point that the i debate wag wal in order on the resola 1 tion ar mr culberson berson said ho he did not N dish to fake take senator tillman from uie floor by demanding immediate consideration i mr tillman had bad read the debate relating to new matter in the conference report on the rate bill at tho the lest last session he did this he said that it if be apparent that senators changed their positions from session S shoji to ids session slon in order that they baay nay do any old oll thing 1 I want to know why it is continued mr tillman bian that the president of the united states should be lye permitted if this bill becomes a law and I 1 know it will to dicker dicler with labor unions to make bargains with labor unions why should the interests of labor on the pacific make it possible for the president to issue an executive order to prohibit the landing of a certain class of immigrants I 1 we ought to ha havea vea law to regulate such a thing 1 it ought not to jo be left to executive discretion there ought not to be any bargaining here I 1 for political purposes we have all heard that in the last presidential election an understanding was reached reach ed by those who had charge of the campaign that if the 11 mormon ormon vote tote went a certain way a certain colleague would be cared for we ave heard it talked too that the chief executive who wag was the beneficiary of that vote though ho he did not need it has exerted himself to the utmost tc tv carry out baat agreement and is u using ing his influence to stave oft off a 1 ote iiii prote ct in every way he could the senator from utah these bargains are not conducive to the public welfare I 1 am sick and disgusted with this disposition on the part of the senate and with congress actually surrendering everything into the keepings keeping of the executive mr tillman then made reference to our friend wadsworth who he said bad fallen outside of the breastworks breastwork li because last winter he had stood tor for what chat he be believed proper on 4 the meat inspection mil bill 1 I dont like that tendency in our national affairs continued mr fr tillman but af pf p course I 1 am like a child crying in the night when nathen mr air that in ip his opinion the conference hadd ha d not exceeded their aut authority bority and that they bad gone over all the immigration laws mr gallinger got alon 1 I simply rise to say that I 1 am astounded by the answer of the senator from massachusetts he said certainly not a crumb hut but a chunk of comfort responded mr tollman had exceeded authority senator carter took the po position Edtion that the conference had exceeded their authority A vote taken on this question continued mr ir carter will in my judgment result in the defeat of 0 the conference report he had reached this conclusion after consulting with many of his colleagues while it might be extremely important to enact the desired clause regard regarding ing passport passports s he bald said he deemed it qt more importance that the procedure ot of the senate in enact I 1 I 1 t emmet idaho feb 16 reached here early this evening of a terrible tragedy gt it the home kome of A kuchkuda Kuch kua rancher living a mile and a halt from the town mr kuchka and wife were found by their two children a boy aged 19 and a girl aged abed 12 lying dead upon the kitchen floor in a pool of blood lato ate in the a afternoon when the children returned hom hemf from school evidence indicate that kuchka ahot shot bigwife and then blew hid alig own braine out al mrs rs kuchka was totally blind I 1 t kuchka bad had been mentally alced for some time ing the lassof the country should be preserved to do otherwise would be to establish a pr precedent which would be extremely dangerous in alio future it a vote for the conference report involved the approval dt tho the principle involved mr carter concluded that ho he waa was perfectly frae I 1 to say he should vote tote against it this statement brought mr ar tillman to the conclusion of his speech abruptly with this statement after such a clear forceful force fulk I 1 unanswerable presentation sen tation of what I 1 have been trying to say I 1 quit I 1 senator culberson endeavored endeavor id to induce the voce president resl dent to submit to the senate for a vote tote the point or order made yesterday by mr air tillman the passport 7 amendment amend men but this the chair declined 0 to o do mr fr patterson then secured unanimous consent for a vote on the conference report before adjournment tomorrow the discussion to be resumed as soon as morning business isope 0 of the way AH all talk of an extra session or of delay on the report was terminated ted by the agreement to vote tomorrow both bacon and tillman disclaimed any intention to conduct a filibuster and anany many other democratic democrat ip senators stated that th at even it if the orala senator and the south carolina senator did lid entertain such a purpose they would not follow them during the debate a member of the tile cabinet who was on tho that floor told certain senators that the subject of state immigration had received tha attention of the cabinet at its meeting today and that there bad had been beena a general conclusion that the terms of the till would not require a new ruling in the south carolina case I 1 |