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Show SENATOR MlTCIIELlS. ELOQUENCE, Ucasous Why All Treaties Permitting- Immigration of Chinese Shouid Re Abrogated. A Washington', "February 27. Mitchell, of Oregon, addressed the Senate yesterday on his bill for the abrogation of all treaties permitting per-mitting immigration bfjfChinese :tothe JJnitea IfUtSsJje said rtue people of the whole Pacific Cjgast wereAtoday,sttfl;erihg from the presence of large numbers of an uncleaii, non-assimilating and pagan race. Impending over them and gradually extending extend-ing eastward was the cloud of wrath of imperiled im-periled labor. i HiIOBMKXT'GULDv BE NECESSARY, 1 An3 a more' decided and-agtiertTc joteru-mental joteru-mental step than has yet been taken wUlbe "fifecessary.'i The" meanSf oif life Cpuldjiot properly ba availed of whilepreserviitg: $he -treaty stipulations with thrChinese govern-; ment, neither could we expect within any leasonableiime to secure ralief by negotiations negotia-tions with that government. Hence it was that, the bill submitted, by him ( Mitchell) propoped that -the i States ahd. .pepple of -this -4 Republic, through ' Congress and the Executive or by two-thirds '.of (, Congress J (without otbe!H approval of the" Executive, should Temove the obstructions ob-structions by first wiping out , of existence all treaties which reoognizeLtae coming -of Chinese to the United States, aud then absolutely abso-lutely vj?rosoribingJ their comjhig except in case of consular arid diplomatic officials.1 Mr. Mitchell. argued at length to show that the United States has power to' abrogate by ah act of Congress' a treaty with a foreign nation, and that the, magnitude of the evil jUx lw'movedjjuslified. ihe step proposed. Mr. Mitchell read a number of newspaper articles to show that the recent anti-Chinese disturbances in the West were not the work of rther irresponsible or hoodlum element. They were : THE VOICE OF JIONEST -IiABOB, .. .. Che. ail ot the indignant .toiler .struggling in an unequal contest with servile labor. .The Burlingame treaty, he said, was valueless value-less to the United States. At this point the speaker enlarged upon rthis faotwitli detail and circumstance, quoting the statistics" of rTburYcommetoe with China in support of Ins contention. Mrv Mitchell, m conclusion', satd:"''This" "bill, unlike our restriction acts and proposed acts, is not elastic. It is absolutely ironclad. It leaves nothing to construction. It is conclusive. It is not open to the objection of being liable to having its vitality sapped or its efficiency destroyed by department jOr :judioiaf decisions. deci-sions. . No delicate question as to" a conflict between the act and the treaty are left open for construction or determination by either the court or department. The conflict that is waged on this subject of Asiatic occupa-. tiori of this country is as irrepressible as the conflict that resulted in the overthrow of human slavery. It is a conflict for supremacy on American soil, between the intelligent, enlightened and honest American laborer, and the cheap ..and. degraded Iabor.-of the lowest order of the Mongolians It is. J A CONFLICT BETWEEN MOBALITY AND VICE, Order and anarchy, Americanism and Asiaticism; a conflict between civilization and heathenism, Christianity and paganism; a conflict between-two opposing forces in all. essential, particulars j non-assirnUaimg and repellant", when considered iii the relation rela-tion of one to the other, and one or the other of which uiu3t and willr ultimately and necessarily, be driven to the wall. Nor does it require any peculiar prescience to determine the result of the contest. The United States Government cither stands supinely, by. and does nothing,, or, what is but little moie effective for good, simply attacks the advancing army of invaders with wooden swords and paper bullets under the pretense of Conforming to the treaty stipulations stipu-lations aud sustaining the diplomatic relations." rela-tions." - |