The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-03-15
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NEW YORK, March IL.

NEW YORK, March IL.
The Times Washington correspondent says;
The agitation of the Chinese question will begin
with the assembling of the Forty sixth Con.
gress when Jones of Nevada will appear Is the
champion of anti. Chinese legislation, in place
Of Sargent, as there will be no delegation from
introduce bill in the Senate as soon as 1t con.
venes. The bill will be more careful elabora-
ton of the original measure reported by Willis |
of Kentucky. The humane features Of the We.
toed bill will be preserved in the new measure, |
and the restrictive clause will be 30 framed Is
to meet the objections made as to the interfer-
encs with treaty rights. 1t is claimed by the
advocates of anti-Chinese legislation that the
Presidents veto of the Chinese bill was directed
against proposed notice Of abyogation Of articles
five and six Of the Burlingame treaty, and not
at the power of Congress to legislate for the ex.
clusion Of the Objectionable class Of emigrants.
Indeed, they claim that he virtually acknowl.
edged both the right and duty Of Congress to do
this. Therefore the new proposition is to Be
mado to conform to the Presidents views IS ex.
pressed in the veto message, under the belief
that he will sign 1t. The friends Of this meas
ure claim that the Chinese Embassy in this
country. speaking for its government, fully con.
cedes that there is no necessity Of involving our
treaty relations in this controversy, but that
this government, through its Legislature, has
the right to take such action as will suppress
the immigration Of contract lsborers held under
debt liens. JONES' in addition to preventing the
restriction bill, will offer resolution request
ing the President to open negotiations at once
with the British Government for . more re-
strictive regulation Of the Hongkong traffic,
with the view Of getting immediate relief. He
will also ask the State Department to cause q
special inquiry to be made through our Con.
sular officers, or other agencies In China, into
the truth of the statement SO positively made
by Caiifornians, that the lien over the Mon.
golian laborer brought to this country is made
effective in China by system of family enslave-
ment, which the peon has to work out, to the
Six Companies. after his arrival here. The
object of establishing officially this fact, If 1t be
true. is to give this Government ground on
which to make diplomatic appeal to China,
her attention to the unjust nature Of such
system and urging it to assist in its suppression
Another object in making these efforts is to keep
the relations between this and the Chinese
Government upon friendly basis, and to show
that it is the desire of the United States to pre-
vent the immigration only Of Objectionable
| persons.
The Brooklyn Presbytery to-day decided to
try DR.. Talmage on the following charges, pre-
| sented by the committee appointed at the pre-
vious session: Deceit and falsehood in state
| ments regarding his withdrawal from the editor.
ship of the Christian at Work; in stating that
the sittings at the Tabernacle were free; in ac-
cusing J. W. Hathaway Of dishonest practices,
and then denying it; Of fslsehood in collecting
subscriptions for the payment of church debts;
deceit in the difficulty concerning the organist
of the Tabernacle. and Of stating that he was to
be arrsigned for heterodoIy, when he knew that
such was not to be the case.
| CHICAGO, March Il.
| The Journals Washington correspondent
says: The Speakership contest is very quiet to
day. which is due mainly to the absence OF new
members. But very few are here. and these are
all pronounced for Randall or Blackburn, and
are working ON one side or the other. The
friends Of Blackburn claim that Randall Is very
free in his promises. and has in order to secure
the vote, pledged himself to appoint new men,
bers on the Ways and Means Committee in case
| he ia elected.
O-ville Grant, the brother of General Grant,
| is here partially insane, He is in pitiful con.
dition, and has not been restrained, although
proper subject for an asylum.
| GALVESTON, March II.
News special from Bryan says Alex. Cavitt
and ". Armstrong quarreied abeut some corn;
the former shot the latter three times, killing
him, and escaped
News Gainesville special says An old feud
Of the Billiards against the Jones and Murphy
factions eliminated last night. Two of the
billiards. and two friends, met Henry Jones,
and friend. near Jones' bridge. Both parties
| were fully armed. and firing began ct short
range. with shotguns aud pistols. Jones was
instantly killed, and one Of the billiards fatally
wounded.
| ST.. Louis. March IL.
". ". vfckery, Sheriff Of Douglas County, in
this State, went last Saturday with posse to
the house Of Sheet Alsop. to arrest him, when
Alsop resisted the process, and fred number
| OF shots at the Sherif's party, one Of which
killed the Sheriff. Alsop and his little girl,
i've years old, were then killed by the ShsFinl
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