Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-01-31
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
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rHE CHINESE BILL.
Preparations for Its Final Passage
In the Senate-The Probable

III tuU peh"sC AuS
ties.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Ths Pacific
Coast Senators yesterday commenced .
systematic canvsss Of the Senate to So
cure as many votes As possible for the
Chinese Immigration bill, and are
strengthened in their belief that 1t will
surely pass. They already feel rsasona-
bly, sure Of eighteen Republican votes
In the Senate and Of at least an equal
number Of Democratic votes, and 81.
though their expectations may, upon
further inquiry. be disappointsdin soms
instances, there seems to DO no reason
to doubt that as the canvass proceeds
additional support for the bill will DO
developed in other directions. As re.
CARDS the Senators mentioned in last
nights dispatch the only discourasing
information developed to-day Is that
Stanley Maithews-then classsd as n
Of the Foreign Relations Committee
likely to favor the bill-announoes him.
self opposed to II or to any legislation
contra,ening q treaty. He says. how.
ever, that he will aid In securing =
prompt report upon Il in ample tims to
allow o decision OF the question by the
Senate. An extremely clear and able
contribution to the arguments in sup
port OF passing the bill appears in the
Congressional Record OF to-day. being the
speech which Horace Davis was given
no opportunity TO deliver when the bill
was before the House OF Representa-
tives last Tuesday. In his speech Davis
calmly but forcibly shows that whereas
our fathers dealt only with the question
Of European immigration, We are con-
irouted with a new problsm-sn impor-
tation or invasion OF Aslatics who do
not assimilats with as, but form prac.
tically a Government inside Of our Gov.
eminent. a State within . State; that
the presence OF this large body OF for.
eisn laborers in u condition OF semi.
ssrvitude restores those hateful divisions
Of society which We have just spent so
much blood and treasure to break down;
that II this invasion continues unro-
stricted, white labor will be eventually
driven from the Pacific Coast. the Mon.
golians will claim and probably obtain.
the right Of suffrage, and California
will become a Chinese province; that,
aside from the inherent right Of the
nation TO regulate the incoming OF stran.
gers, II 10 the nation'sduty to protect its
| poorer classes from unequal competition
and, II this principle be admitted a. re-
CARDS the cotton spinner OF Massachu.
setts, the iron worker Of Pennsylvania
and the sugar planter Of Louisiana, II
applies with greater justice to the laborer
Ia California, whose struggle lies at his
very door. Davis closes his compact
argument with cogent quotations from
standard works. exhibiting the expert.
ence OF other countries in regard to
| Chinese immigrants. and from articles
in the Ninetecph Century and the Rerue
D,s Deur Mond,s. and the remarks OF
Baron Schouvalofi, the Russian Envoy
at the Berlin Conference, showing Euro.
pean anxiety on the subject and the
entire conformity Of the views OF promi-
nent European statesmen with Pacific
Coast apprehensions. The Record also
contains q very good speech prepared by
Haskell OF Kansas for delivery In sup
port Of the bill on Tuesday. but which.
like Davis. could only bo printed with.
out delivery.
NEw YoRK, Jan. 3l.-Ths Sun In a
column leading article denouucss the
Chinese Immigration bill AZ ridiculous,
ineffective and unconstitutional. IL
q v "In their indecent haste TO
secure the hoodlum vote the Democrats
Of tue House used the gag rule and shut
off debate that might have exposed the
ridiculous, unjust. fraudulent and fool
ish character Of the bill"
The Times says: "As might have
been expected, California papers com.
ment on the passage Of the anti Chinese
bill by the House as purely n political
measure. The Democrats are elated
that their party has the credit Of this
stroke OF policy, aud the Republicans,
while they approve the bill. think that
the Republican Senate can divide the
honors by following the example OF the
House. The Sacramento Record. Union
alone has tho courage 10 dsnounce the
bill as il deserves, and astute Kearney
ftly characterizss II as q political
dodge The snnd.lot orator probably
| r.ar.aotts the avarsnA vntar'