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the several States and Territories and the District of 

 Columbia, and pertinent information relating to all 

 departments of lubor and production in the United 

 States, especially touching the pecuniary, industrial, 

 social, educational, and sanitary condition of the la- 

 boring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of 

 the productive industry of the whole country ; and 

 the salary of the chief of such bureau shall be $3,500." 



The motion was tabled by the following 

 vote: 



YEAS Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Call, Cameron o, 

 Wisconsin, Conger, Cullom, Edmunds, George, Hale 

 Harrison, Hawley, Hill, Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Lap- 

 ham, Logan, McMillan, Morrill, Pike, Platt, Pugh, 

 Sawyer, Sherman, Voorhees, Wilson 26. 



NAYS Bayard, Butler, Camden, Cockrell, Coke, 

 Colquitt, Dolph, Fair, Garland, Gorman, Harris, 

 Jackson, Jonas, Jones of Florida, Kenna, Maxey, 

 Morgan. Pendleton, Kansom, Slater, Van Wyck, 

 Vest, Walker, Williams 24. 



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hone, Manderson, Miller of California, Miller of New- 

 York, Mitchell, Palmer, Plumb, Eiddleberger, Sabin, 

 (Salisbury, Sewell, Vance 26. 



Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, offered, by 

 way of amendment, the following substitute 

 for the House bill : 



Be it enacted, etc., That there shall be established 

 in the Department of the Interior a bureau of labor, 

 which shall be under the charge of a commissioner of 

 labor, who shall be appointed by the President, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The 

 commissioner of labor shall hold his office for four 

 years, and until his successor shall be appointed and 

 qualified, unless sooner removed, and shall receive a 

 salary of $3,000 a year. The commissioner shall col- 

 lect information upon the subject of labor, its rela- 

 tions to capital, the hours of labor, and the earnings 

 of laboring men and women, and the means of pro- 

 moting their material, social, intellectual, and moral 

 prosperity. The Secretary of the Interior shall ap- 

 point a chief clerk, who shall receive a salary of $2,000 

 per annum, and such other employe's as may be neces- 

 sary for the said bureau: Prw^ded, That the total 

 expense shall not exceed $25,000 per annum. During 

 the necessary absence of the commissioner, or when 

 the office shall become vacant, the chief clerk shall 

 perform the duties of commissioner. The commis- 

 sioner shall annually make a report in writing to the 

 Secretary of the Interior of the information collected 

 and collated by him, and containing such recom- 

 mendations as he may deem calculated to promote 

 the efficiency of the bureau. 



The substitute was adopted by the following 

 vote: 



YEAS Aldrich, Allison, Bayard, Butler, Camden, 

 Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Dawcs, Dolph, Edmunds, 

 Fair Farley, Garland, Gorman, Hale, Harris, Hawley, 

 Ingalls, Jackson, Jonas, Jones of Florida. Kenna, 

 Lapham, Maxey, Miller of New York, Mitchell, 

 Morgan, Morrill, Pendleton, Plumb, Puarh, Eansom, 

 Slater, Van Wyck, Vest, Walker 37. 



NAYS Blair, Call, Cameron of Wisconsin, Conger, 

 Cullom, George, Harrison, Hill, Hoar, Jones of Ne- 

 vada, Logan, McMillan, Pike, Platt, Sawyer, Sher- 

 man, Voorhees, Wilson 18. 



ABSENT Anthony, Beck, Bowen, Brown, Cam- 

 eron of Pennsylvania, Frye, Gibson, Groome, Hamp- 

 ton, Lamarj McPherson, Mahone, Manderson, Miller 

 of California, Palmer, Eiddleberger, Sabin, Sauls- 

 bury, Sewell, Vance, Williams 21. 



The measure then passed the Senate with 

 only two dissenting votes, those of Colquitt, 



of Georgia, and Saulsbury, of Delaware. The 

 House non-concurred in the Senate amend- 

 ment, and a conference committee was ap- 

 pointed, which decided to accept the bill as 

 passed by the Senate, with the proviso that 

 the Secretary of the Interior when appointing 

 a chief clerk shall do so " upon the recom- 

 mendation of said commissioner." The re- 

 port was agreed to, and the measure went to 

 the President and was approved by him June 

 28. 



Chinese Immigration. May 3, the House took 

 up the bill amending the act approved May 6, 

 1882, "to execute certain treaty stipulations 

 relating to Chinese." The debate upon the 

 measure in the House followed old lines, and 

 brought out nothing new in thought or inter- 

 esting in oratory. The purpose and character 

 of the measure were set forth by Mr. Rice, of 

 Massachusetts, its leading opponent, as follows : 



"In 1868 this country made a treaty with 

 China under the lead of Anson Burlingame, of 

 Massachusetts, whom some of us there still re- 

 member with pride and affection. It was a 

 treaty granting mutual privileges and rights to 

 the inhabitants of the two countries. China, 

 before that, had walled herself in from the rest 

 of the world ; but by friendly negotiations on 

 our part, preceded by some acts of hostility on 

 the part of European nations, that Chinese 

 wall was broken down and this friendly treaty 

 negotiated between this country and that. 

 Under the operation of that treaty 100,000 

 Chinamen got into this country, and then arose 

 the cry of alarm from the Pacific coast. Some- 

 thing must be done to protect the people of 

 that coast from this immigration of yellow, 

 non-voting laborers. They could bear the im- 

 migration of all others, but the yellow laborers, 

 who have no votes, must not be admitted with- 

 in the confines of the free republic, and an act 

 was forced through Congress under the lead of 

 these same representatives from the Pacific 

 coast, for whom, I beg to say, I have the high- 

 est regard and consideration, which was vetoed 

 by President Hayes because it was in violation 

 of the Burlingame treaty which we had ob- 

 tained from China. 



" That veto of the President was accepted, 

 but demand was made for some action, and 

 subsequently a commission was sent by this 

 Government to China, and a supplemental 

 treaty was made with China by which some 

 relief might be afforded to our friends upon 

 the Pacific coast, and yet no violation to the 

 treaty be committed James B. Angel being 

 the leading commissioner on the part of the 

 United States. That supplemental treaty pro- 

 vided what? It provided for a limited re- 

 striction of the immigration of whom ? Of the 

 Chinese laborers into this country ; a limited 

 restriction which should be reasonable. 



" Only laborers are to be included in the 

 limitations ; and the second article of that sup- 

 plemental treaty provides that all other Chinese 

 subjects may still continue to come and go into 



