Show roW ro-W sgNqrON Washington 26Hon John F Swift has arrived from California He called upon President Hayes this morning with Senator Booth and in the course of a pleasant fifteen min utea conversation the President expressed ex-pressed himseif warmly in sympathy with the people of the Pacific Coast j in regard to the evils of Chinese immigration im-migration and eunesly desirous ol a modification of the Burliugame treaty to restrict it Mr Swift subsequently sub-sequently paid his respects to Secretary Secre-tary Evarls and also made the acquaintance ac-quaintance of his colleague Mr irescott Minister Angeli hAt not yet returned from Michigan but is i expected daily and upon his arrival the necessary instructions for the work of the commission will be promptly completed Representatives Berry and Horace Davis appeared before the House committee on commerc tcday to urge liberal appropriations for f the improvement im-provement of Sacramento River and Pelulame Crook Berry showed tbe committee that the Sacramento River is the only natural outlet for a farce portion ot California including an extensive wheat growing region which would be wholly at the mercy of the extortionate railroad monopolie if the navigation of this stream bo cot opened and kept opu He advocated ad-vocated an appropriation of 30000 for the specific purpose of conttruct a snag boat by means of which the snags may be pulled up and destroyed i 1 i continuine work troyed instead of UUUUUUIUK nui on the present eytetn of dragging them out of the channel into shoal water whence they arc washed back iuto the channel Washington 20 The House I committee on public buildings I having agreed to recommend I an appropriation of 200000 for tho erection of a new pojtofficeat San Francisco Representative Davis I now intends to endeavor to induce the committee on appropriations to insert u corresponding item for tsis i purpose in the sundry civil appro pfnuion bill The House Indian aflaira committee commit-tee have reported favorably on Davis bill to provide for auditing the ac counts of California merchants for supplies furnished for the Indian eer vice In former years n copy of thic C bill was introduced by Boata in the Senate and hag also been favorably y reported to that body |