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Show RESOLUTIONS OF SPITE. The surprlso of tho day Is tho latitude lati-tude of the Chamber of Commerce nnd tho Merchants' llxrliinaja of Hut l'rnn-cisio l'rnn-cisio toward tho Chinese, exclusion hill. 'Ihey both condemn the manaura that hna been oktcviI upon by tho Western delegations III Connies, and now pend-Iiib pend-Iiib lu that bod. nnd call for modltl-cations modltl-cations which uio so sweeping tint to cull the lesldue an exclusion bill would be a farce, 'Ihe action of these commercial com-mercial IkvIIm la mid to bo tho rosult of the munlclpil cnnipilgii there hiBt enr, when tno I ibor ticket won against the candidates of the two old patties If this Is so, tho resolutiona amount to nothing, for It Is not powilble tint Con-Kresa Con-Kresa would consider the diegs from tho cham In nt defeat na of nny force naalnst tho bill Jor do we wo any sign of woukenlng In the California delea. tlon cm the bill na presented. That bill ahould bo lucuscd, It allows plenty of liberty for the entrance of Chinese In transit, mid for the Incomlmr of semilne merchant and of olhclals It would be n moat unfnionible time Just now tn let down the Imra of eeluslon; China 1 In n. ferment, the country Is unttled. famine threatens, nnd business mil families aie broken up. If exclusion Is taken nwa, there would come a rush of coolies and degraded characters from China, compared with which all former one would be as the bursting of a child a toy dnm lu a till compared with a creiusse on the lower Mississippi We could better have suffered unlntetrupt-ed unlntetrupt-ed Ingres for the past ten ora than nveurofUnow The splto resolutiona , from 8iln rrunclaio don't coi t The , country expects Congressmen to stand firm and p-isa thi bill nnd pass It, too, 111 season s that theie shall bo no lnpua of time fmni th- expiration of the; floarj act nil the new exclusion meaT.' me goes Into c f i jfSJE i |