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Show EXCLUDING THE HEATHEN. Throughout the 'Country the Sentl-meiit Sentl-meiit Grown Stronger and Stronger. Washington, February. 12. Senator Michell, in speaking of his anti-Chinese bill, introduced in the Senate yesterday, said that he received from fifty to a hundred hun-dred letters a day, and' that nine-tenths of these were upon the subject of Chinese restriction. He says that, while he will vote for Representative Morrow's bill if it passes the House and comes before the Senate, he does not think it goes far enough, and that some more ' radical measure is necessary. It is hardly probable prob-able that any bill so sweeping in its nature na-ture as the one introduced by Senator Mitchell will pass . Congress, and it is possible that Morrow's bill, even if it passes the House, may be defeated in the Senate. . But it is the wishes of the Republicans Re-publicans in both branches of Congress that the burden of failing to add a stronger safeguard to the Chinese restriction act, m order to prevent the further importa-tion importa-tion of Chinese into the country, shall not fall on the Republican party. It is-not unlikely that the fact that the anti-Chinese convention meets in Portland. Ore gon, baturday, had some influence upon Senator Mitchell to cause him to introduce intro-duce his bill. A Representative said : "I have not seen the text of the bill, but understand it amounts to the exclusion of all save the representatives of the . Chinese government gov-ernment and their attendants ; in short, it is virtually exclusion full and simple, and, of course, leaves no loopholes for the further exercise of that peculiar ingenuity in-genuity that has enabled that craftv race thus far, iu great measure, to evade the law of restriction. It is an application of the heroic treatment to a deep-seated and dangerous disease. It must necessarily neces-sarily result in the abrogation of existing treaties, in all essential particulars. The people of the Pacific Coast, in this their, work of emancipation from the burdens -and drawbacks of servile labor, 'are but occupying the outer posts in a contest which must sooner or later meet the approval ap-proval and gain the active support of all, either east or west, north or south, who, by the sweat of their brow earn a livelihood liveli-hood for themselves, wife, and babies. To this conclusion at last must the question ques-tion be brought, and in the matter of figures in the way of lost trade with China, Chi-na, that is of so little imrxrtan.:e in com parison with the urgent demands and pressing necessities of the laboring element, ele-ment, which is our. component congenial part, that it is fraction in the balance of sentiment, which is perceptibly growing grow-ing in favor of granting our people relief, though there are those yet who plant themselves on the plane of sentiment, and deem our land the refuge of all nations na-tions ; but they are few and growing less in number." - |