New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-02
XLIvrE CONGRESSES SESSION.

ppyru TUE MYSTERIES OF THE REAL h'iA
pooI>-sLOw PROGRESS IN IMPEACHMENT.
SENATE. WASHINGTON. May l, 1876
Tn the Senate to-day the following bulls were
s.vorably reported upon and we're placed on inc e"n
EStnoriaing the Vancouver Water Company 70 lay pipes
s The tne for completing location Of tho Port
hand Dslles aud salt Lake Railroad .. -, Nc
Petitions were presented for metric system, Ivy hsi
wITHERs Dem Val, anu for steps toward tue re M
OF Edward ON. COndon by Mr. HITCHCOCK kep' NeoJ
bin for the Of pasnst purchasers Of certain
joint resolution explanatory OF the law allowing the Issue
.1es Ss e eSsd up the resoutOn sub
mlted by him Friday last amend the rules relating ing
Impeachment trsls so that the deliberations Oh 'he
senate on questions submitted be in public ...,out
h MoRRLL eP VI Spne sH '2e i because scS
practice would interfere with the administration Oi JUS
hce. - ,., o,,ond,o.nt
and saw very btte for the Senate making d h9S
terry Of questions submitted TO It, ,.,, oror rntu To-
Without eetion the matter was la1d over un'h w
IMPEACHMENT.
The Not5 OF 1855 having arrived, the Senate resumed
fbe trial Of the articles Of impeachment against MI
Delknap. The Secretary read the pending quesuon'
being the motion Of Mr.. MCDONALD Dem, lnd9' SUD
sntei on Friday last, that the vote by which u was
ordered that the argument upon the question OF the lus
detion Of the Senate to entertain lne aL.Se %
tnent against the respondent be recOnsueeuc with
MIR EDNUNDs (Elep., VI moved that the senate Will
Mr. Blair Of counsel for the respondent said that since
Friday he had examined carefully the authoies
f6e Same rule obtained which obtained in ordinary courts
OF Justice that counsel who maintain the atmatoS VI
an issue had opening and reply and on that prcle
the defense entitled in this case to the opening ana
rrpy becAnse substantially they had demurred TO the
articles presented by the House lie Mgnea Ie sp h
for while and closed by again asking tnat Ine o fhe
Ss SsS PS 20 rTeSar s'Th hcr cns se0
Mr. boar one Of the Managers Of Impeachment, re-
lions by senator CoDkling and discussion Of legal
points sprang up, In which MI T., T los
that Of the proper party TO open and close the argument
The Senate finally, by vote OF 40 10 Is resolved 10 re
the Senate chamber it was announced that the motion
20 rescind overrued and that the four managers
may each speak the question Of jurisdiction. 49, ~
The consideration Of legislative business was theh TO
Mr. BOUTWELL, CRep., Mass) introduced a bin author
izug the secretary OF the Treasury at ms bt
IRE total amount OF all issues outstanding at any one
time shall not exceed S5OOOO,OOo. hetolreu " INC
Committee on Finance
MR. SARGENT on THE CHINESE.
Mr. SARGENT (2ep.. CALI moved 10 take up the reso-
tuition recently submitted by him recommending to the
President negotiations to be entered into WIN
the Chinese Government to effect change in the exist
ing treaty so as prevent the great influx Of Chinese
Immigration to this country After some discussion the
resolution taken up Mr Sargent spoke III substance
ETSe diffcuties surrounding this problem OF Chinese
facide State Experience has shown that Chinese pop
ulation expels all other interior currency expels al
Ban Francisco well IN other Pacific communities
landlord viii rent single house IN street. To C11a,
ordinary rooms. put IN false floor hall way 10 le cell
Ing and crowd 0S'h nTOns' hem~s n NAV e
pressed into the space sleep therein Inc atmosphere
hood which causes the tenants Of houses right and LETT
TO vacae. Tire houses cannot again be rented 10 White
SION This process on in each direction until the
whole street is abandoned to the Chinese as ~ were
ttreet in Hong Kong Hotels and churches share the
came ordinary dwellings and stores No class OF
population known TO the United states can endure con
tact
whole street is absorbed and doomed This process mas
heart OF san Francisco have been eaten out,
and still the work goes on; ana the future
less sone means are devised to avert this calamity.
tsEng testimony on this subject. The Rev Otis Gib-
san missionary of the Methodist Church tor ten years
san Francisco testiiies that among 100000 Chinese in
California there are not 100 families But the nood is
Chinese follow lines of travel everywhere aud have
reached the Atlantic states IN numbers large enough 10
slower growth OF a community, with the elements in
n ov of civilization would be preferable to rapid deve
opment by an alien heather population White laboTers
sustain families and educate their children. Europe
oers every year hundreds Of thousands of emf
grants. OF cognae languages, religion, civilization and
hopes population easily resolving Itself into
the Of American society, readily acquiring our
language honoriDg our institutions, worshpng our God
nncxceed In industry and skill spreads IKE ood over
river TINS gives health aud beauty 10 our p0ht
ment Iowa has been built up by such means Would II
be undesirable to have IT'S population retograae 10
the Level OF Chinese however industrious the latter may
,f NE Chnanan is a constant threat to labor, skilled
or unskilled. TIE operation OF these principles mas
been seen a limited scale III Massachusetts
Oh the occasion Of "strike,' where an employer
At North Adams imported sufficient number OF CHINA
men To carry establishment. and SINCE tha time
has refused 10 employ white men, lie has grown rlch
by the operation, but labor has been oVer"ed because
n learned what could be done if it not submissive
The manufacturers ia California employed Cinnamon be
tanse ihey would work half price, letting their white
lab3reTs 60 and as soon as they were taught, inc
Chinese for themselves and understood and Dank-
iuptod their employers, ana were getting large branches
% business into their own hands.
The emigration OF Chinese Is not like that OF Europeans
who seek shores voluntarily To become cilz,ns.
OF the Cinnamon who come to san Francisco
brought lie quoted from letter published
in Tar NV YORA VRBUSE Jnne 1870, showing the
the cOOe sells himself INTO slavery Tor
of his passage at an eNOrDltdnt rate, ana
lis family home When the mortgage be
comes due family Is sold on. beginning with tie
dIu htcIs and the cOOlie sometimes returning nDds
portion O the claim stil unsatlsfed ana Is hhseh SOFA
For 1t.
Accounts from san Francisco show that the Chinese
are arriving the present time at the rate OF LOCO
The trade is profitable TO tue ships, ana the
supply OF coolies IL ample where four hundred
miiluns OF population can be drawn upon
The danger cannot he avcrted by belttlng 1t.
Mr. Sargent said conclusion that ID Is not sufficient 10
say that absorption Of the country by Chinese Will
whether ia DIES rabe at the end OF century IL not,
for those who are 10 come aitef US III
WAY ~ avert the calamity. The modification OF our
treaty with China in the respects called for, will not be
dstastefn 10 Cnua The established policy OF It's Gov
eminent IL TO prevent emigration OF its people. But
this otherwise, sefprotectiOn and the highest cOnsid
esons of the present ana the future enforce our de
nand
Pending discussion the Senate went into Executive
session, aud when the doors were reopened at 5:lO
O'Clock, adjourned