Show More lay Wanted New York 1C Heralds Washington The Senate today recommitted to its finance committee tho bill passed by the House raising the pay of night inspectors from 260 to 3 per day flee committee commit-tee had reported adversely through Senator Sen-ator Wallace and the recommittal is to give the New York and San Francisco night inspectors a chance to show that they aro now underpaid A curious feature fea-ture of the case is the arguments made by the San Francisco night inspect It is these revenue officers that personaly handle the hordes of Chinese that come to the Pacific Coast acd between the ingenuity in-genuity of t he hinarnan in concealing opium and the zeal of the inspectors in detecting and confiscating the precious drug an amount of poisonal contact takes place thst has no parallel in the customhouse custom-house service of any other port in the world The night inspectors allege that they do not only habitually get invested with the vermin peculiar to tho Chinese but incur violent contagious diseases oftener than is tolerable witn occasional fatal results They comment upon the fact that of all the railers against the Chinese Chi-nese they alone know by personal experience exper-ience the worst sido of tho Chin ro personnel per-sonnel and think that 3 a day is not too much to pay them for dealing with it Another fact put forward is that Chinese crews are much used by vessels resorting to San Francisco and that these crews are fed ashore three times a day and have to be personally searched for opium and silk every manof them each time |