Show BY jovie juvIE GRAPa FORTY 41 n AI 01 s t I washington ish kellogg ini in produced trod a bill to secure the completion of a iino yino of lof railway from han san antonio AntonI 6 texas to a point rint at or near eort fort mark dark and thence to a 6 point at ut or near el paso on the bio blo bio rio grande to bo be known as the mexican and pacific extension of the galveston Gal gai yeaton and san antonio railway rail bail way ho he spoke briefly in favor of the construction of a road which asked but a mile milo from gofern government ern brn ment lie he had bad read jetters letters showing the advantage of the proposed po eed sed road the billias bill was referred sargent Sa igent then took ther theo he floor he braid if the senators would turn torn to page of the revised statutes they would find a precedent for this bill there was wag nothing novel iri irl inthe the proposed legislation except that it was wag directed to one people instead of all the people upon to which he hd referred it was was wag provided that the number of buch passengers shall not be greater than fir JIT the proportion of one to every two b berths bertha erth 5 of such euch vessels if it instead of saying wit tb at congress should bay eay that thal there should bo be only so many on a vessel no one could deny but that the principle vas yas arjust just the same came it had been baid eaid that chinese could bo brought here in foreign vessels even should this bill pass he denied that this thia was the capoand caso case and referred to the decision of the supreme court in support of his arg argument ciment the bill had also been objected to td on account of the treaty with chinaita Chi ohi china ohina naIth with which it would conflict 1 if this were true it would be a fatal objection to tho proposed legislation that it was not true had been settled by the practice of this government and all civilized natio nations ils he she argued ahat that it was waa within the constitutional power of congress to 16 legislate gi slate in contravention to a trea tty i ty this power had been sustained JL by the courts and executive dopart departments part ments the principle was laid I 1 I 1 down by hamilton that the ther power of self selo defense resides ina lna in a nation and a nation must exercise even though it act selfishly other nations under just juat such exigencies have acted just as the proposed act by this bill the english authorities had passed a statute stat tite levying a tax on each Clif chinaman fiaman landing in certain colonies the object of it was to restrict the immigration of chinese into their colonies the french colony of had imposed special taxes on the chinese coming therein the chinese government had not objected to the taxation of its subjects by other governments that government was not in favor of the immigration of her people therefore the f passage of this bill he be did not believe would make any changes in our oun relations wi th china ohina at the tho proper propose amendments to the bill providing that it should not affect embassies abr nur nor shipwrecked ship wrecked persons he f would not turn away any man however humble rescued upon the blas bins seas beas and brought to our shores it had been asked why the pacific states should not bo be open to immigrants same as our atlantic states i of all nations the Chine not like the people who came te to the atlantic coast the pacific coast wanted this legislation because the burden was unbearable there were now I 1 in a california more than there were voters and these were increasing enormously year by year month by month there had been a hope that congress would act upon this subject and the tho peo people of the pacific coas coss coast had llad been persuaded to patience up to this time there had been no violence except in sporadic cabes he T argued that it was the duty of congress when thero there was great discontent among the people to investigate the tho causes thereof and endeavor to remove them there wab wap in san francisco a city within a city a site cut out of pekin mr sargent here pictured the chinese quarters in san fran frau cisco the filth fl ith and vices of the cht chi nese and said the chinese did not bring their families lbs ibs to this country M with them what was the morals of men inen without families ho could not discuss that subject at the present he then referred to the labor question and asked how could the american laborer compete with an american wanted to educate hta hla children to live comfortable he wanted the little conveniences of hac he wanted tion did not he lived in squalid barbarism he sar bar sargent had ead not sympathy with ag garian garlan ibm ism he bad ino mo sym zym sympathy pathy with but bul means must be devised to remedy the chinese evil mr grover oregon ie viewed reviewed at length the treaties with China and argued that in no one once of the articles cheslof cles cies the burlingame treaty of 1868 was there to be found jound any privilege of substantial value to any american citizen which could not be enjoined under former treaties while td the chinese it gave every avery privilege of the country except citizenship he spoke of the resources of our country and said if we preserved our heritage and developed the plans which our fathers marked out for us there could be no naf failure lure in our attaining the highest and best beat civilization grover then spoke of habits of the chinese and their entire difference from our people china bad no army no navy eler her people never built ships lever diver never sailed them when a chinaman came away from his big country ho he brought everything with him as well as his big unchaste habits grover referred to a decent di in a new york paper of a chinese laundry in that city and eald paid that it meant that betone long washerwomen washer women would bo bu out of employment and thousands of children would be crying for bread in the metropolis of the nation the chinese paid no taxes lind nd in no manner blanner helped to bear the burdens of bf the government if it should be understood that the chinese could come here and stay in peace jt would not be a half a century before they would outnumber the white people on this continents continent the people demanded action and he believed the constitutional tUti tut ional ODal power of Con congress gress grees ia ls ample to press the bill it was a astop astep step stop in the right direction let that step be taken and europe would rejoice with us that america was to remain anglo saxon and not mongolian booth was the next sp speaker ealier he said mr president however wv ner may differ on the merita of this question there can be butone bub but one opinion aa as to its importance we sand dayland day days sand and weeks in the discussion of principles which are supposed to define the differences between political parties this question rises above all consideration of parties and is free from their trammel most tf bf our time is occupied in consideration of questions of policy at rare intervals there arises one which touches the life of the republic when our counsels muy be overruled by events as though we stood in irl the very presence of fate this question concerns the tuai conditions of the society which makes the existence ten ca of the republic possible itis it is a question which today to day is under our control the time may come when it will control us how easily the institutions of slavery might have been prevented what hecatomb a of lives were offered up at its destruction the meeting of two civilizations antagonistic in every form and feature in a struggle for existence in the same country cannot be other than an event of moment momentous ouss historical importance certainly I 1 do not exaggerate the possibility suppose in the one hundred years of our independent existence the influx of population had come to us from asia in the same volume it has hag froin from europe can we now imagine the ohan chan change geft gelt it would have wrought in the conditions of society which underlie and are of far more morn corl cori consequence sequence than the forms of government I 1 ask ah you senators seriously to inquire what would be the condition of our country morally socially and politically if two fifths of the male adult po population were chinese with an indefinite increase until Arneil arnell american labor should be reduced to tho the level levei of asiatic necessities that is our condition and prospect in the pacific coast states that will be yours if chinese immigration is to be free and unrestricted when it shall come the discontent of labor will lake ethe the form of violent anger or sullen despair the discontent of labor is 14 a powerful factor in pur society and politics today then it may become an element of revolution today to day its suggestions gest ions lons may appear to be crude but its suffering is real and he who ia Is deaf to its cries may live to be sen sensible bf its power here then lithe is the ultimate question shall the condition of american labor laboi be brought to the asiatic level levei or forced towards it what is that level kud and why ia Is it lower than the tho american the who come to our shores bring no family he has no children to support educate and provide fora for he gives no hostages to the future and ard as sume none anone of the social obligations which make up eo so large largo and essential part of american lifee life he has been trained down to the lowest means of subsistence he said that as a member of the committee committed ont out forie foric foreign ign relations he be had felt greatly embarrassed to determine whether congress at this time should abandon all efro efforts arta to remedy the evils evila complained b 0 by diplomatic correspondence he would prefer to hay haye ethla ethia thia whole subject presented to 10 the chinese government by the state department and regretted th atit bad drifted away from diplomatic control to the hails halls of legislation q AMERICAN washington 12 by good management and persistent efforts the bill for the restriction of chinese immigration las has today to day been brought to a posit position lou iou from which there la Is only aj short stepto step lo 10 18 its passage by tho tha senate and its ninal final enactment act ment sargent bald said ho bo did dt undervalue the importance ot 0 the bill referred to by the tha senator from delaware and neither would that i senator undervalue the irn iru importance porta nce nee of the chinese question although he sargent was vas suffering in bodily health he was ready to stay there and debate this matter tonight and dispose lii xii spose of ot it it was of Im immense mense menEe importance to the pacific coast he ald aid apt desire to prolong the debate he would allow a vote to be taken upon the measure without baying a wort won if he thought it would be right to do BO so or if he thought all the senators understood the bili lull J atall at all ail events it would not bonsu consume me m much u ch time and he earnestly alp appealed daled to the sen senate ate to allow it to be taken up for consideration and action as a measure in which every coast be tools the deepest lyer pet franal an fn interest cereac nad and ae uma usa matten matter not only of ap pp paramount aramoune importance to the pacific coast but of great concern to the whole country booth then took the floor and with great earnestness remarked that he desired to emphasize everything that his colleague sargent had said in his own opinion there was no more import important mit wit subject ever submitted to this or an any other congress if it should not be considered now he be feared it if would not be at this session of con Cor congress gress he bell beli believed ewed eved il it could be decided by one daya earnest discussion the potter committee has summoned coyle of new now York Wooley of cincinnati solomon of south carolina and dunn of Fl olida oilda Th the teller eTeller committee today to day examined gen gen reuben E davis of who testified that he was a candidate for congress in the lat late p election from the first district he had been informed privately of threats to prevent him from being heard beard the idea prevailed that he was endeavoring to reorganize the negroes in opposition to the democrats aner after the election heard he bad been hung in and then burned he be was a greenback candidate having been nominated by that party an fn opposition to his own wishes and voted for by the colored people who understood der stood their interests on that question ha he was at first informed I 1 that he had been elected but was afterwards told that muldrow row was successful senator garland of the committee asked the witness whether he did not once make a speech in congress about hanging banging northern men witness replied that he did in december 1859 i it was during the considers consideration con sIdera tion of the election case in iti that speech ho he arraigned the republicans as rebels and bald said if sewald would come south and utter titter such sentiments aa as he entertained and had frequently expressed he witness thought the people would hang him before he be returned north witness added I 1 was wag kicked butof the democratic party when a boy in 1835 1 I have since bince been kicked out on the currency question and I 1 am now out of f the party by force NEW YORK 12 T tho board of ef health today to day ordered the arrest of jacob hecht and abraham stein charged with bringing diseased cattle into the city A herd of 11 cows which they shipped here I 1 from I 1 connecticut has been slaughtered and disposed of as offal charles dean doan hrs brought suit sult against mrs mis theresa liell sell dented to be the wife of thomas bell of san francisco in the supreme court kings county for salary alleged to be due the complaint alleges hat that in january ry 17 78 the defendant employed the plaintiff at bin san francisco to travel with her as an escort es cort port one of his duties was to mir carry y on his person a quarter of a million on dollars worth of jewelry t the a defendant refusing to deposit it t in a place of safety but making the plaintiff carry it and Jn insisting abbt fb at he should be armed to guard against r robbery the plaintiff alleges that at the end of i six months in paris he was dascha discharged aged without compensation i the judge granted an or order derand and some of mrs neils bells property at the hoff hoelman man hoube house eln in this eity city where the lady is residing has been attached tac hed it is reported that when urs atre bell arrived from europe recently her jewelry was by the customs officers was wak e released 12 in the case of Adol phui gillman on trial triai tri trl alfor alfon for fon ejecting a deputy united states marshal from a polling room at petersburg judge hughes hughea ruled that deputy marshals mars bais bals had bad no right in the election room during the process of voting unless needed to quell actual disturbance or the supervisor be in actual need of protection tec tion or fraud be attempted A noile nolle prosequi pro segui was wag wasteen wast then ben entered bas BAN 12 at eureka nevada this afternoon L C andersen in a drunken frenzy set bet fire to the house of mrs dennis and standing in front of the door with a razor threatened death to all who approached he was over powered I 1 but not nob until lie he bad cut his own throat at dying in a few moments A bodle dispatch says the mechanics mechanical ch anicas anical cs union is on strike for an increase of wages and a reduction the union paraded the streets and compelled the mines to shut down till their terms were acceded to the bodie bodle company and a number of others stopped work I 1 the superintendent of the mono company barricades barricaded barrica ded the works The union gave nim him two fivars to TV tow move the |