Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-15
The Report of The Senate Com
mittee on the Chinese Immi.
grafton Subject.
FURTHER NOMINATIONS OF FED.
ERAL OFFICERS.
MEETING OF SECRETARIES KEY
AND THOMPSON.
Packard Declines to Accept Stanley
Matthews Proposition.
WADE HAMPTON OPPOSES TIE NEW
ELECTION PROPOSITION.
WASHINGTON. March Is,

WASHINGTON, March Is.
In accordance with the request of
the President, Senator Patterson. OF
South Carolina, to day presented a
paper containing the views of the
South Carolina Republicans who have
suggested a new election. 1t sug-
gests hat Chamberlain he rec
ognized as Governor and that the
Legislature be allowed to meet
with the understanding that they pass
only a registration law and a Law for
a new election, Chamberlain ani
Hampton each to select two of tho
Board of Canvassers and General Ru-
ger to select the fifth. The election is
then to be carried on under Ruger's
orders, he to use the military only as
a guarantee OF a fair election. There
is to be no public parades of rifle clubs
and no political meetings whatever.
The Republicans would, Patterson
guarantees, abide by the result. He
suggested that both Chamberlain and
Hampton be invited to Washington to
consider the plan, Ruger to maintain
statue quo in Columbia meantime.
Hayes asked. will the other side agree
to this? Patterson replied, if you de-
sire them to do So, | have no doubt
they will, otherwise their protestations
of "a desire for a peaceful and fair set
Element of the dispute will be proven
insincere. The President said the
matter would be carefully considered
in the cabinet to morrow, meantime
he would ask some South Carolina
Democrats to submit their views. The
President seemed pleased with the
proposition, and remarked that he
wished that the Louisiana difficulty
could be settled in the same way.
Patterson thinks that if the Democrats
refuse to accept this that Chamberlain
will be recognized. Late in the even
ing, General Butler, the Hamburg
personal dissent to this plan, but
promised to communicate with Hamp-
ton. 0
There seems I be considerable mis-
apprehension regarding the recent re-
port of the Joint Commission on the
Chinese immigration. The report was
read at a tull meeting of the Commits
sion and was unanimously auth ,rized,
both Morton and Meade S voting.
Morton said, however, that while
agreeing fully in the conclusions of the
report, he wished to offer some addi-
tlOnal suggestions in writing. He sub
>%equently obtained leave in the Senate
to do this and a final publication of the
report is DELAYED by order of Sargent
until Morton's supplemental docu-
ment is ready 10 print with the rest.
Meade made no minority report. He
prepared a speech on the subject, but
not getting an opportunity to deliver it
had il published i'll the Congressional
Record. The speech was not intended
to cOntrovert the Commissions report,
aud made no such attempt. 1t how
ever elahorately portrays the Chinese
merchants who showed the authors
personal attention. The report has
been widely published in the East and
has been generally commended as
moderate in lone and statesmanlike in
it's recommendations.
New YORK, March IA.
A Worlds Washington special says:
Patterson's plan has been submitted
In the place of n mission to the South,
headed by Vice President Wheeler,
and is we'll received. Patterson says
if Nichols and Hampton do not accept
Hayes will recognize their opponents.
Southern Democrats unitedly oppose
the proposition.
Among the nominations which
will be sent to the Senate to-Inor-
row, said John ID. Defreres, prin-
ter, are ex Senator Henderson, of Mis-
souri,, Assistant Secretary of the Inte-
rior, and Fred. n. Seward, Assistant
Secretary of State.
As the new Secretary OF the Navy
vas leaving his hotel this morning for
the Department he vas suddenly ac-
costed by a gentleman who said: "Is
your name Thompson ?" The reply
was Yes" "Well," said the strang-
err, "my name is Key; we are both in
the Cabinet, let us be friends" They
shook hands in the oId-time style.
Thompson remarked: II know We
will be much better friends with such an
introduction than if we had been more
formally presented to each other"
A telegram received to night from
New Orleans states that several DAYS
ago a letter was received by Packard
from Stanley Matthews, conveying a
proposition looking to his surrender Of
executive authority. This tenor OF the
letter is the same as that sent by the
same writer to Chamberlain. A dis
patch from Packard states that he will
decline to make any reply, for the rea-
son that Matthews in his argument be-
fore the tribunal conceded Packard's
right to the executive chair, and also
because Matthews is but a private indi-
vidual and has not been commissioned
by either administration or party to
make such a proposition.
A Herald'S Washington special says:
Judge Mackey says this evening con-
corning the Patterson plan for a new
election that he is authorized to speak
for Hampton and to say he would ut