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Mr. Hoar I want to'asjc tilt Senator from Ohio whether his i committee received this report 'and 'considered this particular amend ment? Mr. Forakcr No. Mr. Hoar That is the question I previously put, and I so under stand. Now I want Mr. Forakcr Will the Senator allow me to say a word in answer ' to that? , Mr. Hoar Certainly. i Mr. Foraker Our committee has not received a report. The report has not yet been fully prepared. I was about to inquire whether it had been prepared as to this point, namely, ns to the industrial condi tions obtaining at this time in 1 Hawaii. ; Mr. Hoar But as to the legis lation in this particular amendment, I understand it does not come with I the authority of the Seuator's com ! mittce. ISIr. Ioraker No; it does not, because we have not had any op portunity to consider it. Mr.' Hoar Perhaps it is a very old-fashioned notion, but my point is that whatever be right or wrong in regard to .dealing with a man who has got unlawfully into this country and I am not speaking about that now when you come to take a human being and drag bim or carry him against his will 5,000 miles from a place where he law fully is on the ground that he has broken a contract or that he has no valjd excuse for failure to work at a particular occupation, you are violating 'the fundamental and de cent principles of all human justice or law; and it is an outrage to do it without surrounding that trans action with some security for its justice and its propriety. Whether this transaction is so surrounded now the Senator from Ohio does not know, and the Senator intro ducing the amendment does not know, and the Senate docs not know. Mr., Burton The Senator did not allow mc to answer that part, and I will do it. I will wait, how ever, until the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) is through. Mr. Tillman Mr. President The Presiding Officer Dots the Senator from Ohio yield to the Senator from South Carolina? Mr. Foraker Certainly. Mr. Tillman I understood the Senator to say that this amendment bad its origin in the fact that a' sub-committee of the committee of which he is chairman had been appointed to visit Hawaii during ,the recess to examine conditions, and that those conditions are such that they have given rise to this proposed (legislation. It seems to me that it would be fairer to the Senate that that committee should be allowed to formulate its ideas and submit them to us, so that we could examine some of the reasons instead of having one member of the committee rush in, although he tells us that there will probably be opposi ion from some other mem ber. I say I think it would be fairer to us if this matter was brought in in an orderly way by letting the full committee pass upon the action of the sub-committee so (as to get it before us ma proper manner. Mr. Foraker Mr. President j Mr. Tillman I have another 'question, but I will not press it now. Mr. Foraker M:. President, it is not necessary for me to explain the action of the Senator from Kansas, for he has already explained it, and it is not necessary, certainly, for me to defend him against the charge of having rushed in prematurely. The Senator stated that he was loath to introduce this amendment to the pending bill simply because the sub-committee had been unable to prepare and lay before the Senate their report; that he had becu hold ing his amendment back until that report could be laid before the Sen- 'atc - but hnd bee" coraPelIed to ofrer it how or not at all, because this bill was about to be put upon its passage. I called attention to the fact, when the bill was about to be re ported to the Senate from the Com mittee of the Whole, that the amendment had not yet been .offer ed, because, the Senator and those associated with him on the sub committee had told me, quite nat urally, I being chairman of the committee, something of what they had found to be. the existing con ditions in Hawaii, and the necessity for some such legislation as this. I had been told that they contemplated preparing an amendment and hav ing it offered to this bill. I thought that if it was to be offered at all it ought to be offered now, and I called attention to it, because being chair man of that committee, I feel a responsibility with respect to it. Wc ought not to allow the Isl ands of Hawaii to suffer for want of legislation which we may enact, if we find upon consideration that this legislation should be enacted. I am taking no position now as to that, oiie way or the other, but I feel it my duty, oeforc this matter nnOQ fmm rrttic!rlnrattft tn rritrA ,tbis proposltioH a chan'e be heard. I should much rather have the benefit of the committee's re port, ns the Senator from South Carolina suggests; but I do not re gard that as indispensable. Mr. Tillnan I desire to clear up any idea that I am criticising the Senator from Kansas. I have no purpose or desire to pass any strictures upon that Senator's action. He has a right to intro duce any amendment he pleases. The only question that presents itself to my mind is that we had up the whole subject of Chinese immi gration to the United States proper and to the United States improper, as some of us consider the Philip pines, and everything else last spring; we discussed it exhaustively, and I thought any question as to the conditions in Hawaii and the necessities of that insular annex was sufficiently considered then to make it unnecessary for us six months afterwards to rush forward under the claim that there is a terrible dearth of labor in the Ha waiian Islands and that they are about to get into a condition of in dustrial collapse and all that kind of thing. It has occurred to me also that there might be other parts of the United States that would want labor and want it now and want it badly, and I do not really see why we should be discriminating in favor of a few corporations which own sugar plantations in the Ha waiian Islands and leaving out of consideration .the millions well, millions is not big enough of acres of Southern lands that need drain age and need cultivation. I should like to have some explanation as to why these sugar planters in the Hawaiian Islands are such pets of ours that we can not pass a Chinese exclusion bill at one session but that we must come along and mod ify it at the next. Mr. Mitchell Mr. President Mr. Foraker Will the Senator allow me to say one word in answer ! to the Senator from South Carolina? Mr. Mitchell Certainly. Mr. Foraker This amendment has no reference to sugar planters, as a class, to the exclusion of other peole in Hawaii. It is intended Tor the benefit of all the people in Ha waii. There are a few sugar plauters there, I do not know how many; it is a great industry in the Hawaiian Islands and when it languishes, when sugar plantations can not be conducted except at a loss, and such I understand is the fact now, there is poverty aud dis tress in the whole of the islands; all classes suffer. Mr. Tillman Then there is an other question I should, like to ask the Senator. Mr. Foraker I shouldjHkeHo be J: ' permitted to answer that first and then I will yield to the .Senator. Mr. Tillman The Senator is so it e ' i t Vij;J.i Mr. Foraker The Senator from South Carolina starts all my ideas. Mr. Tillman It is the same with me. Mr. Foraker This is not intend ed for the benefit of any class. It is proposed upon the theory that it will benefit all classes. Now, what I wanted to say in answer to the Senator, before I quit on that point, is that a few moments ago I asked the sub-committee whether this portion of their report had yet becu prepared, aud if so, I will now ask that it may be at (once printed, in order that we may have the benefit of it before wc do act finally on this bill. Mr. Mitchell Mr. President, I happen to be" the chairmin of the sub-commitlCc. Only three mem bers of the sub-committee appointed were able to visit the Hawaiian Islands the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Burton), the Senator from Washington (Mr. Foster), and my self. Under the authority imposed on us by the resolution of the Sen ate wc investigated quite a number of rather important matters in Hawaii. A great amount of testimony was taken, soma 176 witnesses were examined in all, and a great many memorials and petitions were pres ented to the sub-committee for their consideration. Among the subjects investigated was this one of labor in the islands. On that subject we received a great deal of testimony and a number of memorials, petitions and letters, all bearing upon the question of labor in the islands. The Senate will see that neces sarily a considerable amount of work was imposed on the sub-committee in undertaking to digest the large amount of testimony we brought home with us. It was not convenient for the sub-committee to meet as a whole in Washington until a few days before the meeting of the Senate. We have been dili gently at work trying to digest the testimony on the various subjects and in the preparation of what we desire to say to the Senate and to the committee of which we are a part. There are several subjects that we have completed and acted upon. So far as this particular subject is concerned, it has not been com pleted; it has been very little dis cussed in the sub-committee, and only in an informal and perfunc tory way. It certainly, so far as I am concerned, has not been decided upon by the sub-committee one way or another, and as chairman of the sub-committee I frankly say to the Senator from Ohio that I am unable to say now what the report of the sub-committee will be on this parti cular question. That it will be, judging from what has occurred here, a divided report I have no doubt; but on which side there will be two and on which side one I do not yet know. Mr. Foraker Mr. President Mr. Mitchell Oue moment, if the Senator will allow me. Mr. Foraker I only want to ask ,the Senator from Oregon for some information on the point he is just touching upon. 1 Mr. Mitchell Certainly; I yield ' to the Senator. Mr. Foraker The Senator from Oregon says the report will, he thinks, be a divided report on that point. Mr. Mitchell I should judge so from what has occurred hcie today. Mr. Foraker Will the Senator allow me to ask him whether he refers to the industrial condition now obtaining or to the question of admitting Chinese labor? Mr. Mitchell I refer to the question of admitting Chinese labor. Mr. Foraker There is no divi sion, I understand, on the industrial condition. Mr. Mitchell I agree that there is at present great industrial depres sion in the islands. Mr. Bailey Will the Senator from Oregon permit me to inter rupt him? Mr. Mitchell Certainly. Mr. Bailey I wish to inquire whether the committee will take the trouble to enlighten the coun try as tp tlj&wisdom of , acquiring terfftoryituat can only be rescued from an industrial collapse by, an importation "of Chinese labor? Mr. Mitchell That is a question we have not reached. As I said, I find no fault with the course taken by the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Burton). He has a perfect right to offer any amendment, as any other Senator has, to any bill which comes up here for consideration. Still, it docs seem to mc that so far as any action is concerned by the Senate upon this particular propo sition as to whether or not it will loosen' up the existing legislation on the subject of Chinese aud admit them into Hawaii, it should not be decided until, in the first place, the committee of which wc are a part, and then the Senate, shall hear what we, as a sub-committee, have to say on the subject. Now, another thing. 'The Sen ator from Kansas states, and his statement is confirmed by the Sen-, ator from Ohio, that this is the proper time and place for this pro posed legislation. I deny that. The history of legislation from the earliest period of Chinese restric tion in the United States shows that legislation in regard to Chinese im migration has always been kept separate and distinct from general legislation on the subject of immi grants. The question of excluding Chi nese laborers because they are Chinese, because of their race, is a question that has never Lecn con sidered in connection with a general law on immigration, or, if con sidered, provisions of that character have never been incorporated into legislation which relates to immi gration generally. Therefore I say that the parti cular subject involved in the amendment introduced by the dis tinguished Senator from Kansas is one that ought to be considered separately aud apart from the bill now pending instead of in connec tion with it. Our sub-committee, as I have stated, have not yet considered, this particular question, except in a most informal manner, aud will not until wc have thoroughly digested all the testimony and memorials, affidavits, and letters presented to us relating to this particular branch of our inquiry. Therefore, Mr. President, it does seem to me that this is a matter that cannot be considered now in connection with the pending bill, and that it ought not to be con sidered now in connection with this bill, but that the amendment of the Senator from Kansas should go to the appropriate committee, of which the distinguished Senator from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) is chair man, aud it should there await the report of the sub-committee which has been investigating this matter in the Hawaiian Islands, for our report will be accompanied by an appendix showing all the testimony taken by us, so that the committee will have the full benefit of all we learned on the subject. 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