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Show RESOLUTIONS OF SPITE. The surprlso of tho day Is tho attl-tudo attl-tudo of the Chamlier ut Commerce nnd tho Men hunts1 Hxch.ingo ot tiiin Prati-rlsco Prati-rlsco toward tho Chinese exclusion hill. They both condemn the mensure that Iras been iigrocd upon by the Western delegations in Congress, nnd now pending pend-ing In Hint body, nnd call for modltl-cations modltl-cations which ate so sweeping that to call the lesldue an exclusion bill would lw a farce. The action of these commercial com-mercial Itodlca Is said to be tho result ot tho municipal cumpalgn there last cr, when tho labor ticket wonngalnst the candidates of the two old paitles. If this Is so, Ihe resolutions nmnifut to nothing, for It Is not possible th it Congress Con-gress would consider the diegs from tho rhagiln of defeat as of nny force against the bill Nor do wo see any sign ot weakening In the ri'.lfornla delegation delega-tion on the bill ns presented. Thnt bill should lie passed. It allows plenty ot liberty for the entrauco of Chinese In transit, and for the Incoming ot genuine merchants and ot officials. It would be a most uiifnvnrablo time Just now to let down the liars of exclusion', Chltin Is In a ferment, the country Is unsettled, famine threatens, and business and families are broken up. If exclusion Is taken away, there would come a rush of coolies and degraded characters from China, compared with which all former ones would be ns the bursting of a child's toy dam tu a till compared with a crevasse on the lower Mississippi. We could better have suffered uninterrupted uninterrupt-ed Ingres! for the past ten yearn than a eor of It now. The spite resolutions from Han Prunclsco don't count. The country expects Congressman to stand film and pns the bill, and pass It, too, In season so that there shall ho no lapse of time fiom the expiration of the Geary act till tho new exclusion measure meas-ure goes Into effect |