Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-16
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Congressional Proceedings.

SPECIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, February Is.
The Senate resumed the consideration OF
| the Chinese Immigration bill to-day at
12:45, and Mr.. Hamlin proceeded to speak
against it. He said our treaties with China
have been procured by coercion, exerted by
the United States and other Foreign Pow-
ers, and that the Pacific coast was even
more DESTROYS that the Burlingame treaty
should be ratified than other sections OF
our country. He would procure the de-
sired modification by the ordinary methods
of negotiation. He would treat the Empire
of China as he would any other Nation.
Few Senators would be willing to treat a
warlike Power as this bill proposed to treat
China. He was opposed to legislating
upon treaties until every other appropri-
ate method was exhausted, except in ex-
treme cases, and this was not one of them.
| Mr.. Hamlin's peroration called forth con-
siderable applause from the galleries.
Mr.. Sargent, in referring to Mr.. Stew
arts speech in the Constitutional Conven-
ton, said there were, perhaps, 500 men in
| California who agreed with that speaker /;
and, in reply to one of Mr.. Hamlin's as
s~ertions about the Chinese paying taxes,
informed the Senate that the entire amount
of taxes collected from the Cinnamon is
S12 900 less han the cost of maintaining
the Chinese convicts in the State Prison.
Mr.. Eustis, Of Louisiana, was the next
speaker. He said he would vote for the
bill simply on account Of the race ques-
ton. His remarks then took q political
turn, arguing that the men of the South
| lD1 1Ao1~x -s..k1 ,1aa.IAI Inan,,an ~ 1s~1
liar difficulties and disturbances, growing
out of the presence Of the negro race
among them.
A vote was then taken on Mr.. Conkling's
amendment, and it was rejected by a vote
of 81 to SO. Following is the vote
Yeas-Anthony, Bruce, Burnside, But
Ter, Cameron Of Wisconsin, Cockerill,
Conover, Davis of Illinois, Davies, Ed
munds, Ferry, Garland, Hamlin, Hill,
Hoar, Howe, Jones of Florida, Herman,
McCreery, Mcmillan, MCPHERSON, Mat
thews, Maxey, Merriman, Morrill,, Oglesby,
Randolph, Rollins, Saunders n Withers-
81.
N~ays-Allison, Bailey, Bayard, Beck,
Blaine, Booth, Cameron of Pennsylvania,
Coke, Dennis, Dorsey, Eaton, Eustis, Cor
don, Grover, Hereford, ingalls,, Jones OF
Nevada, Kirkwood, Lamar, Mcdonald,
Mitchell, Morgan, Patterson, Plumb. Ran
som, Sargent, Sharon, Spencer, Teller,
Thurman, Voorhees,, Wallace and Win
dom-33.
The "HeraId's" Opinion of the
Anti-Chinese Bill.
NEW YORK, February Is.
The Herald's Washington correspondent
says The debate on the I .nti-Chinese bill
occupied the Senate to-day, Mr.. Sargent
being anxious that the bill excluding these
people shall be passed by the Republicans
Of the Senate as it has been by the Demo-
Gratis Of the House. Both parties will be
ashamed Of themselves by-and-by for this
piece Of demagoguery, but for the present
they are only anxious to carry California,
by conciliating Kearney and the sand-lot
voters. If the Anti Chinese men believed
that the Chinese were really injurious to
California, as is pretended, some Of them
ought to Introduce a bill expelling from
the country and sending back to China, al
the expense Of the Government, all who
are now there. The vote on such a bill
would show the small amount Of sincerity
there is in this political Anti-C Chinese
movement.
Letters received here from San francisco
report that the Chinese in California are
looking with interest for the passage of the
Anti-Chinese bill, as they think it will en-
able them to obtain increased wages. They
regard Sargent's movement as making a
corner in Chinese labor. The Chinese
question, like almost every other imagin-
able question touched upon in Congress
for many years past, has presented itself to
the politicians as o theme affording
chances for buncombe. 1t would be an
insult to the intelligence of the Sen
| afnro xu1a hauo haon 1soouSoinn - IN
assume that they do not know
how utterly they nave fallen short of the
meaning and measure Of this question in
their treatment Of it. This is as true Of
those who have opposed, as those who have
upheld the Chinese bill now pending in
the Senate. The aim OF each successive
orator seems to nave been to say as nearly
as possible what the most ignorant or the
most interested man among his constit-
uents would be apt to say about it. 1t is
not encouraging to see American Senators
rejecting the sentiments, either of the
hoodlum class, or Of the Mrs. Jellyby class,
in dealing with such a subject. Neither
the hoodlums nor the Mrs. Jellyby's con-
stitute the public opinion Of this country,
and it is insulting to the community to
assume that they do. There is not much
respect for law among the Mrs. Jellyby's,
and none at all among the hoodlums.
Mr.. Chambers speech.
New YoRE, February Is.
A Times special has the following from
Detroit In his speech last night to the Re-
publican caucus, which nominated him for
Senator, Mr.. Chandler said I: / had the
honor OF having q little OF something to
do with the election of 1876. 1t was an
election on one side of fraud and violence,
and without any exception, and ! say it
| deliberately n after mature considera-
ton, the greatest fraud, in my Judgment,
that ever was seen on earth-was Samuel
j. Tilden. As ! have said, l ran that cam
| paign to a certain extent. / was Chairman
Of the National Republican Committee,
and they howled fraud !! fraud fraud r.
| There was fraud, but it was on the other
side. Now / wish to say, with regard to
| that campaign, as l have said over and
| over again, that ! never did anything,
wrote . line, nor sent . dispatch, either in
| cipher or in the English language, or in
any other way, that l would not be glad to
see printed tomorrow in all the Democratic
papers in the land.
Civil Service Reform Still Hazy.
NEW YORK, February Is.
The "Times" says the nomination OF
Burchard. for the Dictatorship Of the Mint.
| shows that the idea OF civil service reform
in Washington is still hazy. Burchard is
n Of the most blatant advocates OF I'M
limited silver the author Of the proposal
to furnish the National banks, which re-