Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — THE CHINESE BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE CHINESE BILL.

In the House Monday Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, asked unanimous consent to introduce for. present consideration a bill supplementary to an act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May 6,1882, and it was taken upland -passed withoutoobjection. The bill is as follows: Section I.—From and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any Chinese laborer, who shall at any time heretofore have been or may now or hereafter be a resident within the United States, and who shall have departed or shall depart therefrom, and shall not have returned before the passage of this act, to return to the United States. Section 2 provides that no certificates of identity provided for in the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement shall hereafter be issued, and every certificate 'heretofore' -issued in pursuance thereof is hereby decided void and of no effect; and the Chinese laborer claiming admission by virtue thereof shall not be permitted to enter the United States. Section 3 provides that all duties prescribed and liabilities, penalties and forfeitures prescribed by the second, tenth, eleventh and twelfth sections of the get to which this is a supplement are hereby emended and made applicable to the provisions of this act. Section 4 provides that all such part or paris of the act to which this is a suppTerheui as are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.