Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-04
THE A%NTECHINESE BILL,
Indignation and Denunciation Of
Californians at the Presi-
dents Veto.
disappointment and Universal
Regret Of the Press and
People OF the Coast.
The President Burned inEiigy and Flags
Flown at Nall. Mast.

SAN FRANCISCO, March S-0wing
to the fact that for the last two. or
three days this community has been
led to expect the veto OF the bill to
restrain Chinese immigration. and that
anxiety on the subject had to some
extent worn itself out, the actUalre-
ceipt Of the news failed to create any
excitement in the city IL cannot,
however, be REGARDED from this that q
universal feeling Of deep regret and
indignation does not exist throughout
the State aud the Pacific coSS6 All
day dispatches have been pouring INTO
the Office Of the Associated PIES with
varying sentiments Of the prCSS and
people on the action Of the President
With thus far but three exceptions
perfect unanimiW has prevailed in
these expressions, the only difference
being in the degree. The city jour
nails Of course all treat the subject ed
itorially this morning
COMMENTS OR TNE CALL.
The Cab, after briefly reviewing the
points Of the veto message, says !.
There is no intimatiOn that negotia-
tons are peRding 70 accomplish the
purpose aimed at BY the bill rejected.
On the contrary he seems to regard
the nation as pledged to permit the
immigration Of free Chinese with only
such a degree Of restriction as may
limit the influx of Chinese to the ca
pacity of the country to absorb them
This message does no. introduce any
comprehensive conception OR the part
Of the executive of the question as it
afefts this coast. The argument of
the message is not Of the character to
mitigate, in any degree, the keen dis
appointment the people of this coast
will feel at this failure Of the bill on
which so many hopes had been built.
THE ALTA CALIFORNIAN SAYS:
We fail to find any satisfactory
reason in the message for Withholding
his approval, except the inference,
that it being a treaty, therefore it
must stand until new negotiations
can be inaugurated for the revision Of
it that Is, we are bound and cannot
free ourselves, except by permission
of the Emperor of China. 1t is a
pity the President could not have
realized that the people Of the Pa
cifc coast believe they are threatened
with a great evil they are suffering
from the evil, and realizing the great
strait Of the people who have pc
titioned for his intercession have ex-
ercised the prerogatiye to allow the
bill to become a law, but it required
more courage than is possessed by the
President to listen to the vOice-of the
people in the section most directly
interested, and he has chosen the
! easier counsel to follow in Difference
to the clamor of those who are nearer
to him, but who are in no wise affect
ed by the evil TO be removed by the
bill.
APPROVAL.
The Marysyille Appeal, San Jose
Mercury and Santa Barbara Press
alone approve the veto. In addition
TO the press %utterances, the wires from
all parts of the State are burdened
with reports of mass meetings and
other demonstrations, resolutions of
county committees of both parties and
of assemblages of citizens, all deplor-
ing in the strongest terms the action
of the President, and many INDUCING
in gloomy forebodings of trouble to
arise from the disappointment of the
people. AT a mass meeting at HOlli-
ster, in San Benito county, the Presi-
dent was burned in efigy, and in Fair
field, the county seat of Sonoma
county, flags were flown at half mast
on reception of news of the veto. At
Dutch Flat the last Chinese shanty in
the town limits was burned, and an
indignation meeting called for thi:
evening.
From Nevada and Oregon the public
and press opinions coming in are o
the same purpOrt as the above, and thu
whole Pacific coast seems to hav,
united in a general expression of re
greet and denunciatiOn. In this city
notwithstanding the deep feeling pre-
vailing, there is no hint of anythin,
bordering on violence. At the San,
Lots this afternoon there was an unus
/, al attendance, about 1000 being pres
cnt. The President was roundly de
nounced by the speakers, and in circu
lating through the crowd it wa
/, noticeable that a general sentiment c
disapproval Of the veto prevailed
: coupled with an intention to keep u
the agitation and unite for a MOI
radical cure of the Chinese evil in tn
future. A resolution was adopted
the effect that the bill was a piece
political clap-trap which the working
!, men would have accepted in goc
: faith for what it was worth and d
. handed more, but that they did n,
= consider It of sufficient importance
= mourn over it or to strike a blow Il
it.
! Everything Is perfectly quiet in Il
y city, aud there is not the slightest a
%prehension Of any violent or inccnd
airy action.
M sketch by a California Artist.
San Francisco Examiner.
Henry Ward Beecher dares to ri
his commands as to what God c
nectqn from A,narican oit;yane