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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



1875, he subverted and destroyed the liberties 

 of the people whom I represent upon this floor. 

 I can not vote for General Grant, because when 

 he was President in 1873 and the people of 

 Louisiana were being deprived of their consti- 

 tutional rights and privileges, and a govern- 

 ment foreign to them and not elected by them 

 was being installed over them by his order and 

 by military force, they sent on to him a com- 

 mittee of two hundred of their best citizens, 

 not politicians but citizens and tax-payers, men 

 possessing an interest in the State as the repre- 

 sentatives of property, and they telegraphed to 

 him: 



Please do not take any final action in the recogni- 

 tion of this government until we shall have a chance 

 to lay our case before you 



" He responded to them through his Attor- 

 ney-General : 



It is useless for you to send two hundred thousand 

 of your best citizens ; they can not be heard ; the case 

 is adjudged; the Pinchback government is acknowl- 

 edged, and it will be maintained. 



"Am I to vote civic honors, am I to vote 

 military honors, to the man who thus set his 

 foot upon the liberties of my State, and was 

 deaf to the appeal of her people to be heard ? 



"Again, in 1875, when the Legislature of 

 the State of Louisiana was assembled and 

 organized, a belted officer, followed by his 

 bayonets, entered the legislative chamber of 

 the State and unseated the Speaker whom the 

 members had elected, and dissolved that Legis- 

 lature, which had organized, and this was 

 done by the order and command of General 

 Grant, President of the nation, and as such, 

 acting Commander-in-Ohief of the Army. Did 

 this entitle him to the regard and support of 

 my people ; and for this shall he be rewarded? 



"No, Mr. President; for what he did in 

 war, all honor ; no one will accord it to him 

 more cheerfully than I ; but not for what he 

 did in peace as a civilian (and I consider the 

 bill before us now to confer reward as a civil- 

 ian, he steps upon this ground as a civilian, he 

 is to be crowned as a civilian, and as such he is 

 t) be promoted), I for one shall never consent 

 by my vote to reward or approve such vic- 

 tories as he gained in Louisiana over republican 

 institutions and the liberty of the people." 



The question was taken on the amendment 

 and it was rejected. 



The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a 

 third reading. 



The bill was read the third time. 



The President pro tempore: "The question 

 is, Shall the bill pass?" 



The roll-call having been concluded, the re- 

 sult was announced as follows : 



YEAS Allison, Anthony, Blair, Brown, Call, Cam- 

 eron of Pennsylvania, Cameron of Wisconsin, Conger, 

 Davis of Illinois, Davis of West Virginia, Dawes, 

 Ferry, Frye, Harrison, Hawley, Hill of Colorado, 

 Hoar, Ingalls, Jones of Florida. Jones of Nevada, 

 Lapham/ Logan, McDill, McMillan, Miller of Cali- 

 fornia, Mitchtll, Morrill, Platt. Ransom, Eollins, 

 Saunders, Sawyer, Sherman, Teller, Windom 35. 



NATS Bayard, Butler, Cockrell, Coke, Farley, 

 Groome, Grover, Hampton, Harris, Jackson, Jonas, 

 Maxey, Pendleton. Pugh, Slater, Vest, Walker 17. 



ABSENT Aldrich, Beck, Camden, Edmunds, Fair, 

 Garland, George, Gorman, Hale, Hill of Georgia, 

 Johnston, Kellogg, Lamar, McPherson. Mahone, Mil- 

 ler of New York, Morgan, Plumb, Saulsbury, Sewell, 

 Vance, Van Wyck, Voorhees, Williams 24. 



So the bill was passed. 



In the House, on July 31st, the bill was re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs. 



CHINESE IMMIGRATION. In the Senate, on 

 March 1st, the bill to enforce treaty stipula- 

 tions relating to the Chinese was taken up. A 

 substitute was proposed and considered. Its 

 important point was the limitation of Chinese 

 immigration. 



The Presiding Officer (Mr. Hoar in the chair) : 

 "The question is on the amendment of the 

 Senator from Kansas (Mr. Ingalls) to the sub- 

 stitute reported by the Committee on Foreign 

 Relations. Is the Senate ready for the ques- 

 tion ? The Chief Clerk will report the pending 

 amendment." 



The Acting Secretary : " In section 1, line 4, 

 before the word ' years ' it is proposed to strike 

 out ' twenty ' and insert ' ten,' so as to read " : 



That from and after the expiration of sixty days 

 next after the passage of this act, and until the expi- 

 ration of ten years next after the passage of this act, 

 the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States 

 be, and the same is hereby, suspended. 



The roll-call having been concluded, the re- 

 sult was announced : yeas 23, nays 23. 



So the amendment to the amendment was 

 rejected. 



Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts : " Mr. President, 

 I do not wish to prolong this debate or to re- 

 state the argument which has, to my own sat- 

 isfaction, demonstrated the enormity of the 

 legislation which is proposed. The vote which 

 has just been taken shows that it is the purpose 

 of those having this bill in charge to force it 

 through without regard to its effect upon the 

 public faith of this Government, just pledged, 

 by an act in which the Senate itself took its 

 constitutional share, to the Empire of China. 



" Such is the purpose of the framers of this 

 bill, we having promised that we would not 

 prohibit, but would only reasonably suspend 

 the immigration of Chinese laborers to this 

 continent, that promise having been accom- 

 panied with an express assurance given to 

 China, reported to us by our envoys, that it 

 was the purpose of this Government to use 

 this power to adjust the balance of this class 

 of labor in different parts of the country. 

 When China asked for a more specific defini- 

 tion of this right of suspension, our commis- 

 sioners said to China, ' You may trust in the 

 justice and good faith of the Government of 

 the United States.' 



" In the face of that treaty and in the face 

 of that contemporaneous promise reported to 

 us before the treaty was ratified by the Senate, 





