Mr. CHANLER. I move to strike out the last word of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, in opposing the motion made by the gentleman, from Pennsylvania I make no objection to a proper, dignified exPression of opinion on the part of this Government; but I do object to a special case of this character brought up now without any broader or deeper reason than that Presented in the preamble to the amendment. The gentleman should extend his amendment to the Government of Turkey for its treatment of Christians. There are Governments through out the world with which we have intimate diplo matic relations which limit the rights of sepul ture and of religion and sometimes banish men for differing with the governing power; and I believe that the secret motive. Government in maintaining the peculiar opinions of its own people should be respected here, for toleration is the basis of our own institutions. Ours practically has become a Protestant Government, at least made to appear such by such sectarian acts as this. If the amend finent of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania means anything, it is a direct exPression of Protestant resentment against the Papal government of Rome. It is a renewal in a form most objectionable in my mind of a system long worn out and which for wise reasons the Government of the U.S. has always passed over and left to sleep in the oblivion of ages, beneath the ruin of empires that have fought out these questions of prejudice, of reli gious sects in the Christian church. Sir, the Christian who goes to Rome for purposes of faith goes there as the Mussulman goes to Mecca, and if the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. STEvens] were to attempt a pilgrimage to Mecca today his valuable life would be sacrificed and lost to his excellent constituency; he would be immolated upon the altar of Mohammedan prejudice. Thereason, good or bad, for which the Catholic hierarchy of Rome excludes the Protestant church from its walls is not a matter of debate here. It is an established principle of the Roman hie rarchy that the ritual of its establishment must be exclusive, and though myself a Protestant, I cannot as a member of this Government, rePresenting a Catholic constituency, under the tolerant principles of our Constitution, consent to this bold attack, upon an established religion, equally Christian with our own. They have as much right to exclude the Protestant church from the walls of Rome as the gentlemen on this floor and elsewhere who, under the organization of Know Nothingism, would have branded every man who differed with it on the question of religion. We have had this issue fought out at the ballot box in this country, and it has been fought on more bloody fields than can be numbered here in the 5 minutes allowed for debate. I protest against inaugurating this petty cause of discord between the head of the papal church and the Government of the U.S. The system of that hierarchy organized through out this country is one of the greatest instruments of civilization that we possess. It has done as much to advance civilization here as any othersect of the Christian church. I with draw the amendment.