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Show TELEGRAPHIC CHIAESE IJlUIUAl JO.N. Measures Proposed for Sap-presHiDic Sap-presHiDic It. Ciiicago, 6. Tirnea' Washington: The houee committee on immigration immigra-tion and la;xjr have agreed unanimously upon a policy that will check tbe evils or Chmeie iinmiRra lion upon tbe Pacific coast. The committee has prepared a joint rbBoiution requesting tbe president to see what cn ne done by correspond-iog correspond-iog with China and Great Britain; with view uf abrogating the treaty; stipulations permitting unlimited Cbineae immigrations. Tbe report supporting the resolution was prepared pre-pared by Mr. Wilna and approved by the whole committee, and makes the following BUggeLtiune: First, the statistics of the custom house for the pat twenty years show that dividn.g uaid twenty years into periods of five years aaub, the average increase of said periods is 50 percent, estimating the pruent number of Coinese on tbe Pacifio slope at 150,-000, 150,-000, which is the lowest eutimatefrom any source. If the above rate of increase in-crease should continue, by I860 the number ol Chinese wculd exceed the native voting population, tcgether with the immigration from all other sources, oter 50,000. Tho question, therefore, is nut one ot prospective, but of present importance, aud demanding de-manding immediate legislation, if these immigrauts aie o' jectionable. Second, the largest cues of imoii grauls are from the Icuilh, or lowest class of Chinese; a class aniens whom when in China tha marriage relation ia ignored, and polygamy, prostitution and concubinage recognized re-cognized if not legalized. Children and wives are sold iuto slavery, tho sanctity of the out h is disregarded, infanticide, especially of females, is common and unrebuked. Cleanliness Cleanli-ness is almost unknown and Paganism the only religion. Tnird , they are mostly brought here under contracts by wbich they agree to pay to certain brokers or to the six Chinese companies a large per enntnge upon their pieeage money. VVben these Chinese attempt to return home thy are nimble to do so unless these six companies give them a permit. The companies exercise a control over them greater thau that of the civil government. The women, who come are without exception immoral, and are bought and sold like sheep in the shambles. Fourth, viewiug the subject from a labor standpoint these Cmnamen live fifty in one room, twenty by twenty Tbey have no wives, no children,, ' and no home in the sense in wh . the word is known . Ame oa; Ihoir food ia rice. PacJd likt sardines and enjojing none of the cohorts of a he. -ib, they live upon 10 or 20 cunts per day. Fifth iha rennrf ami.M th(. tko Filth, thn report argues that they .tre uutit to be American citizens; that tony disregard oiths; keep up pigan custom?, and that it is impossible im-possible to execute the laws over them or to make them regard sanitary, regulations. Sixth, the chief objection to Chinese is their utter failure to assimilate with our people and institutions. insti-tutions. In this respect they arc unlike un-like al) European immigrants. They have been in the country ibr twenty-seven twenty-seven years, and they are the same to day as when tbey first came; the same in dress, religion, social habits and political views. The committee are also considering the form of a law to prevent further Chinese immigration. They hold that -congress has already power to deal with the subject and apply the remedy. Mr. Willis says that there are a number of supreme court decisions affirming that congress in its power of legislation over eueh subjects, sub-jects, is not rentraioed by treaty stipulations, stipu-lations, aod that tbe present treaty with China must not stand in tbe way oH1 e legislation demanded by the highest considerations of publio i safety. |