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Show The Chinese ((aestlon. Washington, 17. The following etter haB been addressed to the president pres-ident ot the United States hy Repre jentative Page of California: "WjieniNQTOX, Dec., 16, 1877. To the President; I desiro toctll your ttttonlion to the question of (Jhiimso im-migration, im-migration, whicn now and bus been fur 1 fow yoars past ai(itatinjt the people of Califerni. I W'-u'd rospudiul'j aslc that you Rive the subject such consideration considera-tion as you-Ta'uftbio tim will permit. You a o doubildas Kware that there are now in the state of Calif nis. mur than 150,000 of thefe peopl.-, about ono-flft-i of whom are temnlea, brought here for immoral im-moral purp sea at. d are now bald and owmd as slaves. The remaining fur-tiltbB fur-tiltbB are males, equM in numbor to the entire voting population of the BtaU), and are, with fuw eicepLiins,ojolie3 or slavea. brouft .t here under contract for snrvile purpose?. llanjortheBeccmcfrom Hodr-kofg, Hodr-kofg, n En lien port, undur the trtiiUy with China of 16(38. That you may mere fullv understand this matter, I sand you, accompanying this le'.ter, a report of tho stale aunate commiltoi-', made at tho last session of tne ftiuo legislature on this subject. I also cal I your attention to the report of a j -in t special commiUf of tho senate, known as senate document No GbO 1 doeire, still furtbor, to btalo that in California there is no division of opinion opin-ion as to thuoviMof Obiueao immigration, immigra-tion, and I, therefore, on behalf of tbo people of thai 8'Mo, very rn3p'ctfolly gunRest that jou make this matter tha subject of a special meisflRO to congress when it c niTone- in January next. Per-imiis Per-imiis I ought to nAd that thti condition of all'airB in tne city of tian Francisco for the pint few months htB occasioned alarm throughout tho stale, and while it is true tlif,t some irre ponsiblo poraouB, 6ncourgd by disreputable newt"paiprB, are ondnavoring to incite a rint which w ull b a aisastar to tho state, the liOtter portinn of the C 'raoiunity, aided b the respectable and re p mnble press, ia endeavoring to suppress anything like violence, and confidently appeal to the executive and legislative powers of the government fur relief. I cannot, in a brief c immunication, go further th in I liavo done into tne - ,.f V,m f.,11,7 belieTing tint you are somowbat familiar with the da g-ra now threaten in the people of California on account of ihis gret evil, 1 close by atking your early und earnest attention to this subject. Trusting that some plan may bo dvied, to tho end that negotiation may bo en-tHred en-tHred into between our and tho Chinese government, wiiich will satiifactorily lattlo this vexed queitton, i h&va the honor to be, Yerv mpoctfully, Your most obedient servant, (feigned,) A. V. Page. |