Show S I I t THE CAUSE OF IT J I the tile people of alic pacific coas r I I ard arc still much exercised over the V failure of the anti chinese bill I to become I come c a law the garis ins are still agitating the tile ab c ibi on n n a I t t their defeat t to vanous various c causes some charge it to the venality I I of some of the journals some to the strong opposition of I C eastern politicians who know 11 nothing of the true state of affairs I on tho the pacific slope and a few of i the tile apathy of creation representatives 11 I of the people from the western states but hero is what the I 11 record union considers the real I F r cause of the bills bill s defeat it is once more in order to call attention all to tho the seriousness of ha the loss I sustained by california in the excle kr i t eion flon of mr if r sargent from the cabinet V sy if that energetic and tireless gentle I I I man had bad been secretary of tho tile interior during the past two weeks it is absolutely certain that president P arthur would not have been allowed alloi ed to base his veto upon an entire misapprehension I I of the tile treaty negotiations I sir mr sargents Sar gents presence in in the I cabinet at euch such a juncture would have been w worth orth more than all else to tho the pacific coast lie ile would hayo have 14 stood up like a tower against the attacks oi of the sentimentalists lie ile would have live placed the strongest arguments for tho the bill in tho the clearest I I light we firmly believe that he lie 14 I would have bave been successful where all k the there rest of our representatives and friends failed and that be would have sav saved the bill tho the fears of a gangoff gang of I i the worst thie thieves ves in the country how 11 I ever inspiring ring the tile scurrility of the r most vena venal and disreputable journals deprived this state of the invaluable ln assistance of the ablest and most persevering g and energetic public men who b has as ever made California respected 11 at washington i k it is an old arite saying that peo pie do not miss the water until the W well runs dry and it f frequently I S happens that the value of the services of a public man are not appreciated precia ted by a community until it is I deprived of his services some journals in the west lost no N opportunity to speak prejudicial to and use their influence to prevent prez Z Z Z 11 the appointment of hona hon A F I I A sargent to tile of the interior but wo we believe the S I gentleman was eminently ertly fitted for H kp the tion and that the record I union now speaks the sentiments of t many who were before I so strongly opposed to the ex senator |