In addition to this. Mr. President. the other day the Senate was harangued by the distinguished Senator from New Hampshire upon the great evils to be apprehended by permitting steerage passengers to come into this country from Europe. and he s3riously proposed legislation prohibiting that immigration to this country for the period of twelve months for two reasonsfirst. because these immigrants were of such a character as to threaten the moral and political autonomy of this Government. and in the second place. because they endangered the health of the country by bringing with them the germs of Asiatic cholera. Scarcely had the sanitary eloquence of the distinguished Senator ceased to reverberate in this Chamber. when dispatches came from San Francisco that the emissaries of the revolutionary government in Hawaii. were on their way here for the purpose of securing annexation to the United States. it was also made known to the American people that this revolution had been accomplished peaceably by a town meeting. Upon this information. meager as it was. when these commissioners had not waited long enough to receive more than one petition from the inhabitants of the Islands upon this great questionfor it is authoritatively stated that a petition containing the names of 134 natives was thrown upon the deck of the steamer as it actually moved out of the harborupon this information the Senator from New Hampshire rushed frantically into this Chamber. scarcely waiting for the conclusion of the morning prayer. to offer a resolution for the unconditional annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. with 90.000 inhabitants. but 4.000 of whom are whites. with Kanakas.
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Immigrants are of such a character as to threaten the moral and political autonomy of this Government and endanger the health of the country by bringing with them the germs of Asiatic cholera.