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Show i Morn lllaino to Come What iliv. l'ui-illc Ituilroutin Propose. ( Washington, 6. The Blaine in-, vestigation will be resumed to-morrow. Ex Senator Kice and Mr. Howe- of Arkansas will be examined touching the Little Rock and Kurt Smith railroad company. The proposition presented to the. house judiciary com mi -tee to-day in' behalf of the Union Pacific and Ceu-; tral Pacific railroad companies as a substitute for the Lawrence bill recently reported by the majority of, the committee, provides that each1 of theso companies shall pay to the United Elates treasury $000,000 per pnnum for ten years ana .ou,-j 000 per annum thereafter until theso1 accounts, with compound interest, ; shall have created a sinking fund t sufficient to liquidate the respective Jj totals of the subsidy bonds advanced j J by government, together with simple .0 interest up to the dates of maturity. ' a These payments are to beiulieuof;t 5 per cent, payments on account of , 1 uet receipts, and all other j monetary requirements. It is ; 1 also proposed that the com- panics' lands shall bo exempt j from taxation unler stale or terri- torial authority, and that the exist-j' ing law which makes all lands not 1 disposed ofwithin three years subject, to preemption entry shall be repealed. The proposition now submitted doesj not include any provision for selling or reconvcying to government any portion or the Pacific railroad laud grants. Frank Pixley of Sau Francisco argued to-day bcloro tho tcnale com- j nut tee on foreign relations against . Chinese immigration. The promi-i neut points made by him were that) thero had been a great change of sentiment on this question in Cal.v-fornia; Cal.v-fornia; that tho people had been disappointed dis-appointed in realizing any benefits from the presence of Chinese in California, Cali-fornia, and' that opposition to tuem continuing immigration was common to the intellectual, busiue.-s. religious and labor chisies; that the Cuinase interfered with all the best interests Of the Pacific coast, and tint their influence is demoralizing to the c m-munity m-munity in which they resido. He represents! that in the hrart ol Sau Francisco thero were 40,000 rhinese, presenting a di?gracciul spectacle ot squalor, Yilth, disease, poverty and crime ; that of thii number 10,000 were confessed criminals and 2t)',000 were prostitutes; that China embraced 500,000,000 of people, the ' United States '10,000,000, and the 1 Pacific states about 1,000,000 peo-plf; peo-plf; that the cost of passage from " China to San Francisco is less than " from Mississippi to California, and that Chinese immigration threaten' d ' to overwhelm tho Pacific coa.-t. to ' destroy its industries and to imperil its prosperity. It was explained that hcillh and police regulations could not be enforced in San Francisco because be-cause tho penalty of imprisonment - was welcome relief to the Chinese " who found the comforts of the county jail superior to their ordinary hie; r that tlie vicious and idle classes were rapifily multiplying ar.u uireaieniuj , become a p- st and burden to the state; and city (.overnment. Chinese were I monopolizing all the lighter industries indus-tries and driving tlie labor classes lo I extreme want. They are mostly adult maim, c.ipah'c of living upon a little rice, tea and dried fish, and that tho white laborer could not compete with them and earn enough to support and educate his children; that the strain upon tho laboring population is so severe that there i danger of violence and bloodshed. I'ixley claimed that he represented the popular opinion ol all intelligent and respcctaUo classes upon llie Pacific coast; lhat.il w;w an intnlligent public opinion formed by actual observation of Iho Chinese for twenty-livti years, and was entitled to great consideration. In conclusion he said the Pacific, cunst demanded ol the treaty-making power a modification modifica-tion of tho treaty, and of the executive execu-tive enforcement of existing law to restrict Chinese immigration, and fnpecially of coolie prostitute, criminals and other dangerous c Us see. Roach submitted bomio commercial figures showing enormous trade balances bal-ances in favor of Cliinu, And argued that pven if any commercial inter ruptions were likely to occur by reason rea-son of a change in the treaty, which he denied, wo could nevertheless obtain ob-tain from Japan aud other countries the samo producLs that we now iui porttd from China. Sargent then addressed the committee in a comprehensive comprehen-sive argument on tho geivr.tl question, and in conclusion urged the pissagoof his pending lull to restrict tho number of Chinese passengers uduiisablo on any ono ve.-acl. He was willing to moilify it so as to make tho number fifty or ono hundred. He claimed that tho government of China would itself bo glad to have llie Coolie- tratlic stopped by this means, and called attention to a similar restriction re-striction having boon successfully placed on ChiucKO immigration by iho Australian colonies of Creat ftritain. Ho read an artielo from tbn Loudon Tunes showing thai the danger threatened to American institutions insti-tutions and the industry on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast ih understood eveu in Lu-gland, Lu-gland, and ho argued that no political politi-cal party could hopo lor miceosa on that coast which should ignore this qiienliou. Tlie members of thu committee asked many questions which were aiiHWcred apparently to their satisfaction, satis-faction, and euch interest w.w manifested mani-fested on tho subject that thi Pacific coat rop rea enta lives feel quilo confident confi-dent of lavorablu action at an early day. When tho sonalo went into sooriit sewaion to-day, to consult in regard to fixing tho lime to proceed with the i-Ielfcuap impeachment trial, Sargent uulimittd a resolution that furl her proceedings in tho case, after Die defendant shall file Ids answer, ho postponed until tho (Hh of December. Kdmunds moved to nmend by in-hi in-hi rling the 0th of July inateiid of Iho Oili of December, and iho amendment amend-ment was agreed to. |