Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-31

| Will pass tne Seuhte WlUDOuD mate
rial amendment and become q la W
previous to the 4th Of March. Per-
sonal inquiry has elected the fol.
lowing expressions of opinion and
statements of purposes from the
Senators named:
Sargent believes that the bill
can be passed and, although
he has not yet regained his health
and strength, he intends to do all
he possibly can to promote early,
favorable and prompt action upon
it.
Of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, to which the bill has
been referred by the Senate, Ham
lin, Howe and Conkling have
hitherto been opposed to legislation
of this sort, and, of the remaining
six members of the Committee,
Kirkwood, (Rep.,) and Eaton,
(Dem., y are the only ones who have
thus far declared in favor of the
bill. But Matthews, Johnson Me-
Creery and Morgan are considered
more likely to vote for it than
against it. There is psospect of
q majority to report it favorably.
Booth says he thinks it will pass
the Senate and believes that, in
view of the political importance
lately attached to the question,
| Senators of both parties will now
find less difficulty than heretofore
in reaching conclusion favorable
| to the bill.
Jones is very sanguine that the
bill will pass, but says he thinks it
will require industrious work,
more especially in the line of pri-
vate conversation and personal ar
gument with individual Senators
whose prejudices, constitutional
objections, ETC., can thus be re-
moved much more effectually than
by formal debate or written argu-
ments.
Shaypn says he has not had op-
portunity to learn the views of
many of his colleagues concerning
Chinese immigration, but he in
tends to do what he can to promote
the passage of the bill, and believes
it will be enacted.
Mitchell is confident that the bill
can be passed and in view of the
good results in the House by the
Democrats, caueussing on this sub
ject, he proposes that caucus of
Republicans of the Senate be held
In which the Importance of passing
the bill may be freely set forth in
party point of view as we'll as in
all other lights bearing upon its
intricate merits and public well
fare.
Grover believes the bill will pass
the Senate after being amended as
proposed by Representative Gar
field in the House yesterday SO as
to require formal diplomatic notice
to be given to the Chinese Govern
ment before it goes into active op.
Grafton. This lie considers incum.
bent on the United States as an act
of international duty and courtesy.
Grover says he has discovered, in
| his conversation with Southern
Senators on the subject of Chinese
immigration, that they have gener-
ally been disinclined to favorre.
strictive legislation because Of the
contemplated possibility that the
Chinese might eventually go to
labor in the cotton fields and on the
rice plantations of the Southern
States. He has, however, con-
vinced all with whom he has yet
talked that Chinese labor could
never he practically utilized under
the system of credit business prev
alent in the South.
In addition to the Senators incl
dentally mentioned the following
gentlemen have announced TO your
correspondent or privately stated
to various Pacific Coast Senators
that they will support the bill or
some similar measure to restrict
Chinese immigration: Messrs. AL
lison, Blaine, Chaffee, Plumb, Nc
Donald, Oglesby, Thurman and
Window. OF these Messrs. Blaine
and Mcdonald are especially earn.
est in their convictions of the ne.
cessity of prompt and favorable
| action in this matter and Blaine
may be relied on not only to vote
for the bill but to give it his earn
est and powerful support If need be
OH the floor of the Senate.
wn.se,aw Reid Refare sne po,tnr
Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-White.
law Reid, of the New York Tribune,
was before the Potter Committee
to-day. He received q package oil
cipher dispatches from VIM. 7.
4 Chandler and one from Hiscock, oil
the committee. He produced two
scrap books with the remark "Here
are two volumes of the dispatches
received by me-" daughter.
The first volume contains copies oil
Florida dispatches with an appen'
dix of miscellaneous character.
Volume two embraces kilograms
referring to South Carolina
and Oregon. Before the telegrams
were deciphered, Reid said, he pub
lished editorials on the subject
with a view to inducing some one
to come forward with the key tC
the cipher, but that falling, copies
were attacked seriously. Hazard
aud GrOvenor did the entire work
of translation. Prof. Holden aidet
in some immaterial way.
hlScOCk lnuulrou IL tlere nut
ever been any complaint from par
ties to whom the kilograms were
attributed. Reid replied that, witt
the exception of Marble, there hat
been no direct complaints, and, il
that case, Marble was perfectly Jus
tilted, as he was not the author of 0
telegram attributed to him
in the publication. The
first of the Oregon dispatches
were not deciphered and published
in the Tribune, but in some othel
paper. In the Associated Press dis
patches, his attention was drawn
to the fact that the cipher used was
an old mining cipher, and was
taken from the Household Dlction
ary. The Tribune experts thei
. II.