The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-01-17
EASTERN STATES.

the COLUMBIA river Gnu tltOularles, Dy
any m cans whatever, between July 26th
and October 1t of each year. and i'm
poses penalties of at least 81, 900 for the
frs. offen.e, and 81 500 fine and twelve
months imprisonment for subsequent
offeu.es. Minute regulations are pre-
scribed concerning the taking by gill
nets, seines. wires and traps, between
April 1st and July Goth, and similar
heavy penalties are imposed for viola
ton. The bill also prohibits throwing
into the stream sawdust from mills. or
waste liquids from factories. tanneries
ETC., between July lst and December
3ist of each year, under penalty of
$500 for each offense. One half of the
fines are to be Iaid to the informer, and
the rest devoted to the propagation and
protection of fish under the direction Of
the commissioner of fisheries.
No report was presented on the Wig
gington- Pacheco contest. owing to the
sickness of Wait, Republican member
of the subcommittee.
Fashionable society is pleasantly sgi-
tated by the announcement to-day that
Secretary Evarts proposes giving a
grand reception towards the close of
the present month. in the state depart
ment building. He will furnish music
and Refreshments. and the government
will supply gas anu magnificent suite
of rooms, including Che superb diplo-
matte audience chamber. The rooms
and adjacent corridors will accommo-
date nearly 1000 persons, and the en-
tertainment is expected to be one of the
most brilliant ever known in Washing
ton.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Representa-
tive Page introduced bill for the re-
lief of settlers on forfeited railroad
lands. allowing homestead settlers
who were restricted to eighty acres on
account of their being within the rail
roads limit. to enter additional tracts
Of eighty acres each upon the same
conditions. Similar relief for pre-.
emption settlers WAS provided for by
the enactment Of the bill introduced by
Page several years ago
The Chinese bill also came up for 6
share of notice. Eickhoff. of New
York. introduced bill providing tina,
the President be requested to open cor.
respondencc with the Taitsing. England
and the other, governments interested
with view to prohibit or restrict tn,
immigration of persons known as Chi
nese coolie laborers.
Shelley's new bill is an extraordinary
production, which seems likely to bring
ridicule upon its author and to retarC
rather than facilitate practical action il
the direction advocated by judicious OPP
ponents of Chinese immigration. l
may, how ever, serve to show that Cali
fornisns are comparatively very moder
ate in their demands Its title is "A
Bill to Provide for Colonizing or Trans
porting Chinese" 1t directs the Sec
rotary of the Interior to select a trac
Of land in one Of the territories. as re
mote as possible from white settlement
to be used exclusively for Chinese in
habitants, giving eight acres to each o.
the family, nine for each child and forty
for each single man. together with 81
additional number of acres equal to q
per cent. Of the foregoing as reserve
to provide for possible natural increa ST
Of said people. The total size OF th,
tract is to be determined by means of 1
census, Immediately after which tn,
Secretary of the Interior must cause t.
be collected and transported to this res
ervAtion, all Chinese found in the Uni
. ted States; the details to be executed
by Board consisting of two army Off
Gers, and one civilian appointed by thu
President and confirmed by the Senate
The bill appropriates $4,000 for thes
purposes, and also provides that tn
Secretary of the Interior may pay So
for the homeward passage Of any Mon
golian who wishes to return to China
bat those who elect to remain in thi
country must Immediately be taken t.
the reservation. The bill also makes i
unlawful for any American to liv
within this reservation, or to employ
Chinamsn outside. on pain of forfeitur,
of citizenship, and under penalty of i'm
prisonment from five to twenty -fiv
. ysars.
Finally this astonishing bill provide
, that after enactment NO subject OF Chi
, M. except duly accredited agents Of tn
. government aud their families or ser
wants shall have the right to enter tn,
United States for any purpose whatsvs,
and that any one who does come in de
fiance OF this prohibition shall be forth
with imprisoned for life The extravs
. gsncs OF these provisions, however,
nearly parslelled by the following par
, agrsph. which forms part of the ~