Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-01-08

and the necessity Uncle jeff found for its
issue on his side Of the clothes line.]
ResotUed. Power to levy imposts-a
revenue power only-a perversion of it
to protect special interests urconstitu-
tional, unjust, ETC., etc. Government
should at once return to a system of ad
valorem duties reduced to the lowest fig
ure compatible with the necessities of the
Government. THE first respectable po-
litical issue in the resolutions.l
Resotved, That Asatc immigration is
an Asiatic slavery and it ought at once
to be controlled. It's evils are rected, +,
the Burlingame Treaty condemned, and
subsidies to steamship lines keeping up
Asiatic immigration to be revoked. THE
second and last respectable statement in
the whole list.l
ResotUed That copies of the resolutions
be sent to President Grant, each officer
of his Cabinet, to both houses of Congress
to our Senators and Representatives ETC.,
and that the first be instructed ard the
latter requested to vote and act in ac-
cordance with the spirit of the document.
The resolutions have gone to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations, but | am
told will be reported back early, and then
pass the House with a rush, but not with
out some debate, be assured.
OTHER MATTERS.
A topic now exciting most comment
here is concerning the evil resulting from
the deposit of mining debris upon agri
cultural lands. The meeting at Marys-
vile recently has awakened much atten-
ton and the problem for the Legislature
is, how can we prevent the $50, 900, 900
worth of agricultural productions in the
valies, from being ruined by sediment
deposits from the mines, which produce
but Sl7 600, 600 annually, and yet work
no hardships in either industry ?" The
Legislators are really in earnest in seeking
information and advice on the subject,
and will probably early appoint com
mission to gather and report the facts,
and to suggest some other means of dis
posing OF hydraulic mining sediment
than that Of running it off into the
streams. The solution will be II difficult
one. Mining men here say that they will
have no war about it, they want the ag
rlcultural lands protected if possible, and
will second all reasonable measures to
accomplish it. The hope is, that this
spirit will continue to prevail
Irrigation is now chief topic of
with thinking Legislators
Senator Raymond has bill in providing
for organizing irrigation districts, but it
is deemed faulty in fixing United States
survey lines as boundaries, instead of
natural geographical contormaLions and
bounds. How the State is to rec ,ver the
water rights already settled upon under
her law, is the hardest pat Of the whole
matter, for all the best streams are held
now by private parties who located them
and hold them under our silly State law
permitting that to be done.
The San Francisco bills are promising
to consume disproportionate time of
both houses. The chief of these are to
to complete the City Hall g bills), to
provide cheap water q bils), to widen
Dupont street, to regulate street railroads,
to reform the Harbor Commission, and
these are sufficient to create all sorts of
rows and wrangles from now to the end
Of the session, to say nothing of II score
OF side bar bills of more or less i'm
portance.
The Assembly has repealed the Local
Option Law and that ends the temperance
fight, and eliminates the question from
the Legislature.
A bill is in to have the State laws fur
nished by the Secretary of State to the
County Judge, County Clerk and Dis
trict Attorney Of Modoc county, intro
duced by Assembyman Harris.
A resolution comes up to-day providing
that no new bills shall be considered after
March 10th. 1t must pass, no fear of
that.
Murphy, of Del Norte, has introduced
a bill in the Assembly to regulate freights
and fares on railroads. This is number
three of regulating railroad bills.
Outside Of Legislative news, nothing of
interest is To he noted here The waathpr
is cold, windy and wet, with real showers
of hail and plenty Of lightning. AS l
write the news of the death OF James
Anthony, one of the old proprietors of
the Sacramento Union is announced.
He died Of apoplexy, in San Francisco
this morning, aged 50. The remains will
be brought here for interment.
NATHANIEL.