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CONGRESS. (SPECIAL SESSION CHINESE EXCLUSION.) 



Caruth, Catchings, Causey, Chick'ering, Clancy, Cobb 

 of Missouri, Cockran, Cogswell, Compton, Coombs, 

 Cooper of Florida, Cooper of Indiana, Cooper of Wis- 

 consin, Cornish, Covert, Crain, Cummings, Curtis of 

 New York, Daniels, Davey, De Forest, Dingley, 

 Donovan, Draper, Dunn, Dunphy, Durborow, Ed- 

 munds, English, Erdman, Everett, Fellows, Fielder, 

 Fitch, Fletcher, Forman, Gardner, Geary, Geissen- 

 hainer, Gillet, of New York, Goldzier, Gorman, Gresh- 

 am, Grout, Haines, Hall of Minnesota^ Hammond, Har- 

 mer, Harter, Haugen, Henderson of Iowa, Hendrix, 

 Hines, Hitt, Holman, Hopkins ot Illinois, Houk of Ohio 

 Houk of Tennessee, Hunter, Johnson 01 Indiana, John- 

 son of North Dakota, Johnson of Ohio, Joy, Kiefer, 

 Kribbs, Lapham,Layton,Le Fever, Lilly, Linton,Lisle, 

 Lockwood, Loudensla^erj Lynch, Magner, Mahoii, 

 Marshall, Martin of Indiana, Marvin of New York 

 McAleer, McCall, McCleary of Minnesota, McCreary 

 of Kentucky, McDannold, McDowell, McEttrick, 

 McGann, MeKaig, McNagny, Mercer, Meredith, Meyer, 

 Milliken, Montgomery, Moon, Morse, Mutchler, Oates, 

 O'Neil of Massachusetts, Outhwaite, Paschal, Patter- 

 son, Payne, Paynter, Pearson, Pendleton of West 

 Virginia, Phillips, Pigott, Post. Powers, Price, Ran- 

 dall, Kay, Rayner, Reed, Reilly, Reyburn, Richards 

 of Ohio, Richardson of Michigan, Ritchie, Rusk, Rus- 

 sell of Connecticut, Ryan, Jschermerhorn, Scranton, 

 Settle, Shaw, Sherman, Sickles, Sipe, Somers, Sperry, 

 Springer, Stevens, C. W. Stone, Wt A. Stone, Stone of 

 Kentucky, Storer, Swansou, Talbott of Maryland, 

 Taylor of Indiana, Thomas, Tracey, Tucker, Turner, 

 Turpin, Tyler, Van Voorhis of New York, Wanger, 

 Warner, Washington, Waugh, Weadock, Wells, 

 Wheeler of Illinois, White, Whiting, Wilson of West 

 Virginia, Wolverton, Woomer, Wright of Pennsyl- 

 vania 193. 



NAYS Aitken, Alexander, Allen, Arnold, Bailey, 

 Baker of Kansas, Bankhead. Bell of Colorado, Bell of 

 Texas, Blanchard, Bland, Boatner, Boen, Bower of 

 North Carolina, Branch, Broderick, Bryan, Burnes, 

 Cannon of Illinois, Capehart, Clark of Missouri, Cobb 

 of Alabama, Cockrell, Cooper of Texas, Cox, Craw- 

 ford, Culberson, Curtis of Kansas, Davis-De Armond, 

 Denson, Dinsmore, Dockery, Doolittle, Ellis of Ore- 

 gon, Epes, Fithian, Funston, Fyan. Grady, Hainer, 

 Hall of Missouri. Harris, Hartman, Heard, Henderson 

 of North Carolina, Hermann, Hilborn, Hopkins of 

 Pennsylvania, Hudson, Hutcheson, Ikirt, Jones, Kem, 

 Kilgore, Kyle, Lane, Latimer, Livingston, Lucas, 

 Maddox, Alaguire, Mai lory, Marsh, McCulloch, Mc- 

 Dearmon, McKeighan, McLaurin, McRae, Meiklejohn, 

 Money, Morgan, Moses, Pence, Richardson of Tennes- 

 see, Rob bins, Robertson of Louisiana, Sayers, Shell, 

 Sibley, Smith, Snodgrass, Stallings, Stockdale, Strait, 

 Sweet, Talbert, of South Carolina, Tarsney, Tate, Ter- 

 ry, Wheeler of Alabama, Williams of Illinois, Wil- 

 liams of Mississippi, Wilson of Washington 94. 



NOT VOTING. Abbott, Bartholdt, Boutelle, Bowers 

 of California, Brattan, Breckinridge of Kentucky, 

 Burrows, Caminetti, Childs, Clarke of Alabama, 

 Cqfteen, Conn, Cousins, Dalzell, Dolliver, Ellis of 

 Kentucky, Enloe, Funk, Gear, Gillett of Massachu- 

 setts, Goodnight, Graham, Grosvenor, Hager, Hare, 

 Hatch, Hayes, Heiner, Henderson of Illinois, Hep- 

 burn, Hicks, Hooker of Mississippi, Hooker of New 

 York, Hulick, Hull, Lacey, Lawson, Lester, Loud, 

 McMillin, Murray, Neill, Newlands, North way, O'Far- 

 rall, O'Neill of Pennsylvania, Page, Pendleton of 

 Texas, Perkins, Pickler, Robinson of Pennsylvania, 

 Russell of Georgia, Simpson, Stephenson, Strong, 

 Tawney, Taylor of Tennessee. Updegraff, Van Voor- 

 his of Ohio, Wadsworth, Walker, Wever, Wilson of 

 Ohio, Wise, Woodard, Wright of Massachusetts 66. 



The President approved of the measure on the 

 same day. 



Chinese Exclusion. Oct. 4, the following 

 bill, to amend the Chinese Exclusion act of May 

 5, 1892, was reported in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives : 



A bill (H. R. 3687) to amend an act entitled " An 



Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into 



the United States," approved May o, 1892. 



Be it enacted bj/ the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the United States of America, in Congress 

 assembled. That section 6 of an act entitled " An Act 

 to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the 

 United States," approved May 5, 1892, is hereby 

 amended, so as to read as follows : 



" SEC. 6. And it shall be the duty of all Chinese 

 laborers within the limits of the United States who 

 were entitled to remain in the United States before 

 the passage of the act to which this is an amend- 

 ment, to apply to the collector of internal revenue of 

 their respective districts within six months after the 

 passage of this act for a certificate of residence ; and 

 any Chinese laborer within the limits of the United 

 States who shall neglectj fail, or refuse to comply 

 with the provisions of this act, and the act to which 

 this is an amendment, or who, after the expiration of 

 said six months, shall be found within the jurisdic- 

 tion of the United States without such certificate of 

 residence,'shall be deemed and adjudged to be un- 

 lawfully within the United States, and may be arrested 

 by any United States customs official, collector of in- 

 ternal revenue or his deputies, United States marshal 

 or his deputies, and taken before a United States 

 judge, whose duty it shall be to order that he be de- 

 ported from the United States, as provided in this 

 act and in the act to which this is an amendment, 

 unless he shall establish clearly to the satisfaction of 

 said judge that by reason of accident, sickness, or other 

 unavoidable cause, he has been unable to procure his 

 certificate, and to the satisfaction of said United States 

 judge, and by at least one credible witness other than 

 Chinese, that he was a resident of the United States 

 on the 5th of May, 1892; and if, upon the hearing, it 

 shall appear that he is so entitled to a certificate, it 

 shall be granted upon his paying the cost. Should 

 it appear that said Chinaman 'had procured a certifi- 

 cate which had been lost or destroyed, he shall be 

 detained and judgment suspended a reasonable time 

 to enable him to procure a duplicate from the officer 

 granting it, and m such cases the cost of said arrest 

 and trial shall be in the discretion of the court ; and 

 any Chinese person, other than a Chinese laborer, 

 having a right to be and remain in the United States, 

 desiring such certificate as evidence of such right, 

 may apply for and receive the same without charge ; 

 and that no proceedings for a violation of the provis- 

 sions of said section 6 of said act of May 5, 1892, as origi- 

 nally enacted, shall hereafter be instituted, and that 

 all proceedings for said violation now pending are 

 hereoy discontinued." 



" Provided, That no Chinese person heretofore con- 

 victed in any court of thfrStates or Territories, or of 

 the United States, of a felony shall be permitted to 

 register under the provisions of this act ; but all of 

 such persons who are now subject to deportation for 

 failure or refusal to comply with the act to which this 

 is an amendment, shall be deported from the United 

 States, as in said act, and as in this act provided, upon 

 any appropriate proceedings now pending or which 

 may be hereafter instituted." 



SEC. 2. The words "laborer" or "laborers," 

 wherever used in this act, or in the act to which this 

 is an amendment, shall be construed to mean both 

 skilled and unskilled manual laborers, including Chi- 

 nese employed in mining, fishing, huckstering, ped- 

 dling, laundrymen, or those engaged in taking, dry- 

 ing, or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for 

 home consumption or exportation. 



The term "merchant" as employed herein, and in 

 the acts ot which this is amendatory, shall have_the 

 following meaning and none other : A merchant is a 

 person engaged in buying and selling merchandise at 

 a fixed place of business, which business is conducted, 

 in his name, and who, during the time he claims to 

 be engaged as a merchant, does not engage in the per- 

 formance of any manual labor, except such as is neces- 

 sary in the conduct of his business as such merchant. 



