Connecticut western news., 1879-02-26

who shall have certificate from the Chinese Government for that purpose. If signed by the President the bill takes effect July list, 1879.
 SENATE.
 In the Senate some miscellaneous business was first disposed of, and the Chinese Immigration bill was taken up and long and earnestly debated MT. Blaine, MT. Sargent and MT. Beck ad- vocated it; MT. Matthews and MT. Conkling offered substitutes for it MT. Blaine explained our treaties with China and said that China had not lived up to them. Self-preservation was the first law of nations as we'll as of nature. Men should not be admitted as immi- grants whom we are not willing should be citizens. MT. Hamlin said in the last twenty years the Chinese immigra- ton to this country had not exceeded 5000 year. He was indifferent as to all these predicted evils to come from Chinese immigration. Treat them like Christians and they will become good citizens. Sargent (Cal.) quoted from statistics to show that the six companies imported 151, BOO Chinese during the period mentioned by the Senator from Maine, and this number did not include those landing in Oregon and other places. MT. Hamlin said there were not over 100, ,OO0 Chinese on this continent. Mir. Blaine said he had heard good deal about cheap labor. He did not be- lieve in cheap labor. Labor should be cheap; it should not be dear it should have it's share. There was not 8 laborer on the Pacific coast to-day who was not crushed on account of compe- tition with Chinese labor. You could not make man who must have beef and bread, and perhaps beer, work with 8 man who could live on handful of rice. This was not an effort to bring rice up to the level of beef and bread. It was to drag beef and bread down to the rice standard. MT. Hamlin said this was only counterpart of that wild craze that ran over this land 8 few years ago, known as Native Americanism. Where would this thing stop? Next it would attack theology, and the Catholic would be told he could not come here. No one could tell where it would end.
 The bill restricting Chinese emigra. tion to the United States was passed in the Senate by vote of 39 to 27, after g hot debate. MT. Hamlin spoke against the bill, his argument being chiefly con. fined to the legal aspects of the case. Incidentally MT. Eustis made plea fol the white people of Louisiana, to which Senator Blaine replied. MI. Thurman and MT. Conkling discussed the question of repatriation. An amendment offered by MT. Conkling was voted down or three several occasions. Sixteen Repub icans and 21 Democrats voted for the bill and IT Republicans and 10 Demo crats against it.
 The Senate held long session ovel the bill to amend the revenue laws, con- curing in the action of the House 1T making the tax on all manufactured to bacco sixteen cents. The action of the Senate Committee in striking out the clause repeating the tax on matches wal followed, however.
 The Senate refused practically to con sider the proposition to tax tea ano coffee, and passed the bill to amend the internal revenue laws. As passed it re duces the tax on snuff as well as tobacct to sixteen cents, leaves that on cigars and matches as at present, repeals thu tax on the assets of insolvent banks an( goes into effect on May 1. The bil detailing officers of the Engineer Corp of the navy for scientific schools wal passed.
 Among the bills acted upon in th' Senate were those incorporating tht Railway Mail Service Mutual Benefi Association and regulating the pay o letter-ca carriers, both of which wer passed. The Senate passed, 25 to 16, tn House bill regulating the pay of lette carriers. Itdivides them in three classes at pay of $1, 1000, $85O, and $500 respec lively. The Post Office Appropriation bill was taken up, and various amend ments reported by the Senate committe were agreed to. When the Brazilian clause was reached points of order wer made against it, but the Senate refuse to sustain them. A long debate too place on that portion of the bill to ap propriate $200, 900 8 year for ten year for the Brazilian mail service. Durin the debate MT. Blaine (Rep., Me.) sai the United States steamship Tennesse was recently onta cruise of thirty-fou months. The Government paid for tha cruise $2, 800, 900. Congress at this yer session had appropriated thousands C dollars for the South Atlantic squadro to protect commerce which does no exist.
 HOUSE,
 The House took up bill to pay Joh T. Armstrong of Virginia, $1, $40 for ren for wharf in Alexandria in the war, be ing so-called war claim. MT. B. F. But Ter of Mass, in discussing it said tha both sides desired that bygones shoul be bygones, and all about the war shoul
 be forgotten. Loyal men, he said, ha
 been injured in the South, so had the
 been in the North. Loyal men had mt
 losses in the South, so had they in th
 North to the amount of untold millionl
 Loyal men and women had sufeere
 hardships in the South, so they had i
 the North. They had both mourne
 their first born dead. It had bee
 grievous for both sections, and the
 both ought to be contented now thu
 they had come together as on
 country and one government. All th
 claims for the South were for loyal me1
 If he believed the evidence by whic
 loyalty was now proved he would hay
 difficulty in imagining where and ho
 the South had recruited it's armiel
 Those armies had been recruited by a
 the able bodied men in the South, an
 with men that were not able-bodiet
 either, on account of old age or you'll
 How did it happen now that everybod that lost dollar during the war we loyal to the Union? The time was nt far distant, he said, when the feeling (
 brotherhood would take into the chare of the Government the maimed and di abled soldiers of the Southern arm, remembering their courage, their steat fastness, and their gallantry, and fo getting the mistaken judgment whic made them fight upon the side they dit They would be remembered as America , soldiers who had given great honor an