Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-28
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telegraph ana Railroad Matters.
CHICAGO, February ~.
A Tribune Washington special says:
General Butler, in an interview on the
Telegraph bill, said that the Supreme Court
had decided. in the well-known Florida
case, that telegraphing was the transmits
sion Of intelligence, and so it becomes a
part Of the duties Of the Government to
regulate it. It has been questioned by
tho Western Union Telegraph Company
whether railroads can transmit messages
for the general public. on the ground that
telegraphiEg is not what they are chartered
for, and that . State would rave the right
TO control that matter by legislation, as
they are generally creatures Of the State.
The amendment authorizes them, by law
Of Congress, which is the supreme law
over post roads, TO- do this, therefore no
State can interfere with it in any way.
In reply to . suggestion that the Western
Union has contracts with the railroads,
that they shall not transmit any tele-
graphic message over lines of railroad
ether than under the direction OF the
Western Union, Mr.. Butler said: There
are many answers to this. The first is:
That, without any legislation, many re-
spectacle courts have doubted whether
such contracts are not void a. against
public policy. The Supreme Court has
decided that the State has no power to
make : law to prevent the transmission
Of kilograms. Being authorized by the
amendment, 1t would remov all doubt as
TO contracts made by railroad companies
and post roads, not to transmit intelli-
gence, % being against public policy. The
effect Of the bill will be, undoubtedly, to
give full and complete authorization to
railroads to go into the telegraph business.
The Opinion or m Educated Chimee.
New YoRK. February ~.
Moy Jim Kee, . C%hinaman, who has
been for several years studying, for the
ministry, says the Cinnamon who come
here are not real Chinese, but Tartars or
Coolies. He speaks English iueutly, aud
In an interview said Congress might very
properly have legislated against the semi
slave trade carried on by the Six Coolie
Importing Companies Of California, and
the Chinese Government would gladly have
co-operated with ours in suppressing that
traffic. He says the true Chinese and the
Japanese are the same race, and wonders
Why the latter are welcomed, while the
former are excluded. He declares that
many Of the better class Of Chinese would
come here II they could be properly pro-
tected in their persons and property.
Well educated ana prosperous a. ne ID, nc
cannot bring his wife to this country, and
respectable Chinese women are kept away
for fear Of The treatment 10 which they
might be subjected here. In this city,
several Of his countrymen desired to A.
tend tn free night school. but are deferred
by fear Of ridicule md indignity.
The Tribune" asks. while New York Is
busy. denouncing the p~roscriptive spirit OF
ne Pacific Coast, might not something be
lone 10 give these men . chance OF educa-
Hon, which would not be denied TO them
4 they were in China or Africa, instead Of
IN . civilized country. The journals are
still full OF Chinese matters, which, per-
haps, are best epitomixed by . head line
thus /: "Pscido Coast hoodlums still howl
ing for the Presidents autograph"
The Constitutional Rights OF Citi.
WASHINGTON, February ~.
In the Senate. yesterday, Mr.. Edmunds
reported . bill to further protect the COM
stitutional rights Of citizens, and to- BUN
ish violations Of the same. 1t was placed
on the calendar. 1t Furnishes, with fine
and imprisonment. any person or persons
Who seek by intimidation, unlawful men,
ace, OF any other unlawful means, to pre-
vent the peaceful assembling OF citizens
for the purpose Of p~etitioning Congress for
Hn6Yeaa az Urievancea. ar COnsiderinO H.