Show WASHIXGTOR Washington 20The passage by bo Houso yesterday of the socalled Garfield amendment to the federal election laws continues to beth I principal topic of conversation in political circles today and there are indications that it i will give rise to an exciting contest in the Senate The democrats are generally very jubilant over the result in the House Con resBraan Springer eays of it This is the greatest victory we have won We have regained all we lost by the extra session and n great deal more We do not want any more riders now The republicans aro completely demoralized de-moralized and do not know what to do It is a sd blow to the Grant boom too because there can be no more talk about the democrats nullifying nulli-fying the laws Under this amendment amend-ment the court must appoint the election marshals and they must betaken be-taken from different political parties that will prevent a partisan use of the laws and it puts the democrats in a stroBg position before the country We have the republicans in full retreat re-treat and they are blaming Garfield for the bad management ot the matter mat-ter We have got all we want now Congressman Frank Heard of Ohio representing the out and out Bourbons on thid question tikea avery a-very different view of it He predicts pre-dicts that the democrats of the House will regret their action because in the first place it is a complete abandonment of the positions i taken at the extra session that the election laws were unconstitutional I and that I the democrats would never vote a dollar to enforce them and secondly because he believes that if any democratic demo-cratic deputy marshals are appointed by republican judges they will be Ii class of men willing to woik for the republicans for 5 a day Several prominent republican senators announce an-nounce an intention to oppose this amendment in the Senata as strenuously stren-uously as they fought tbe attempted repeal of the election laws at tie extra session Messrs Conkling and Carpenter will undoubtedly come to the front on this question but it is somewhat doubtful whether they will be able to command the entire parly strength in tho Senate because of the suspicion that their purpose in taking the lead is to engineer the debate so as to help a certain presidential presi-dential candidate At any rate there will be a heated political discussion over this question in the Senate which will revive some of the memories memo-ries of f tho extra session Tho bill I billI cannot very well come up iu tje I Senate before Wednesday as it must first be acted on by the committee on appropriation There is a dspoai tion ot both sUes howeverto bring j it forward as scoa SE practicable and it will doubtless be taken up early nExt week The Pod democratic organ under the hsad of An unequal 1 bargain publishes an editorial showing that fcy the Burlinganae treaty wo give China a great deal more than we I receive and that in fact it brings to us nothing except a few rights of trade which we should have if no I each treaty existed The editorial I concludes aa folloW3 The treaty while it stands must be fulfilled ful-filled but it cannot bo too scon i abrogated as to most of its provisions s e must see that this country shall not ba overrun with a turbid tide of I Asiatic degradation China has shown us how to do this by fixing up cortan ports where Americans may enter and certain paes where under defined de-fined condition they may reside In a new treaty with that empire we i must follow this example If TCO I have any single right as a people it is that ot self protectoa and under this right we are bound to fay that the millions of Asia shall not occupy lira country or came here in euch numbers as to do us harm It is ttated that a commission to negotiate a new treaty with China will soon be appointed It should begin be-gin with a lair understanding that China is incapable of giving us much that we would not possess were there no international compact that China is too exclusive to fairly claim a standing with the treatymaking powers that we are ready to extend our commercial relations on fair terms but do not intend to adopt and take homo the miserable millions of that Godforsaken bnd Thacoinmissiouera of the general land office tordry decided tbe case of John H Davis against the Seaton Mining Company Sacramento District Dis-trict California The claim of Davis is rejected and the Seaton Company are allowed to enter the mine on completing proof Col E G Brooks ot the Indian bureau gave the Senate committee a history ot tho removal of tbe Poncas which he claimed was in obedience to the law though in violation of the treaty and against the wishes of the Indians and without their consent |