Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-04
Indignity Of the People Expressed About
the Veto of the Anti Chinese Bill
President Hayes Severely
Censured-Death Blow
TO the Republic
can Party.

from henO, Nevada, says. AZ dUout AllSOn
minutes to six o'clock this morning an alarm
Of FIRE was sounded. The fire commenced IN
some wood buildings at the west end OF the
business streets, back of the Masonic block.
A fearful gale was blowing from the west at
the time, and before the water could be got
on the fire was beyond control. The flames
leaped from house to house and from block to
block with lightning rapidity. The panic
stricken and half-clothed people caught
handful of the most valuable articles and LETT
all else to the demon OF destruction. The
fremen were helpless. The herceness OF the
wind and the intensity of the heat rendered
it impossible to get close enough to do any
good. In three hours all of the business part
Of the town was in ashes, the only houses es-
Gaping being the Masonic building, with
Hagerman & SchodiDg's grocery store on Its
first floor, and John Larcombe's; everything
else Is gone. The buildings that stood the
other fires without damage melted away be-
fore this one. Among the buildings destroyed
are three freight depots, Bender's bank, the
postofiice, Davidsons & Frederick's Jewelry
store, Renningers & Osborn S and Shoemaker
drug stores, depot, Pollard, International and
Arcade hotels, both telegraph offices, railroad
baggage-rooms, Baptist and Catholic
churches, Hammond & Wilson's stables,
academy of music, Barnett's, PresCott's and
Grey & Isaac's dry goods stores, Abraham s
and Nathan's clothing stores, Manning d
Ducks and Farmers cooperative ASSOCIATION
grocery stores. Two or three Central-Pa
ciic trains, including the lightning express
train, were destroyed. The condition of the
track made II necessary to transfer passengers
to the Virginia and Truckee train, across the
river, to go to Virginia. The loss, as near as
can be calculated at this time, is about one
million dollars, with only about one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars insurance. Five
lives are known to be lost, as far as
heard frum-Mrs. John Buck, Mrs. Riley and
nd 1.1TT- rIau
but at this writing it is impossible to get cor
rect information. The gale blowing was the
iercest known for many day, and carried
blazing pieces of timber for many miles.
Several farm houses situated two miles down
the meadows were burned by this means.
After working till exhausted, the whites
forced the Chinese to work on the engines.
Already several are having lumber hauled
upon their still smoking grounds.
Homes are in great demand and citizens are
throwing open their doors to homeless ones
and are doing all they can to relieve the dis
tressed. All the buildings on Plaza street,
including the academy of music, are burned,
and the fire only stopped when all was de-
stroyed. Even the residences OF w. H.
Getchell and w. H. Treadway and others,
we've not far enough away to be saved. The
Central Pacific yard-engine, No. IS, fought
the FIRE bravely until her cab caught fire,
and the engineer had to abandon her to her
late- \ WdISE Lidln dIilfGu HUN 11uChCCB
but too late to do any good. Reno is now a
suburb without town, and great fears are
entertained as to her ability to survive the
shock"
Owing to the fact that for the last two or
three days the community had been led to eX-
poet the veto of the till to restrain Chinese
immigration, and that the anxiety on the
subject, to some extent, had worn itself out,
the actual receipt Of the news failed to create
any excitement in the city. 1t cannot, how
ever, be regarded from this that universal feel
ing of deep regret and indignation does not
exist throughout the State or the Pacific coast.
All day dispatches have been pouring into
the office of the Associated Press conveying
the sentiments of the press and the people on
the action of the President. With, thus far,
but three exceptions, perfect unanimity has
prevailed in these expressions, the only differ
ence beng In the degree. The city
journals, of course, all treat the subject edi-
torially this evening.
The Call, after briefly reviewing the points
of the message, says: There is no intima-
ton that negotiations are pending to accom-
plish the purpose aimed at by the bill reject |
ed. On the contrary, he seems to regard the
nation az pledged to permit the immigration
Of free Chinese with only such degree of
restriction as may limit the influx of the |
Chinese to the capacity of the country to alb |
sorb them. This message does not Indicate |
any COMPREHENSIVE conception on the part OF |
the executive of the question as it affects this |
coast. The arguments OF the message are not |
of the character to mitigate, in any degree, |
the keen disappointment the people of this |
coast will feel at the failure Of the bill on |
which So many hopes had been built"
The Alta says: I'VE fail to find any sat- |
isfactory reason In the message for withhold
ing his approval except the inference that it |
being a treaty, therefore 1t must stand I'M
til new negotiations can be inaugurated for /
Z l.
cannot free ourselves except by permission of
the emperor of China. 1t is pity the Presi-
dent could not have realized that the people
of the Pacific coast believe that they are
threatened with the great evil they are suf-
IeTing from, and realizing the great strait of
the people who have petltIOned for his inter
cession, have exercised the prerogative to al
low the bill to become a law; but it required
more courage than Is possessed by the Presi-
dent to listen to the voice of the people In
the section most directly interested, and he
has chosen the easier counsel to follow In
Difference to the clamor of those who are
nearer to him, but who are In no wise affect
ed by the evil to be removed by the bill"
The Chronicle says: 1.-The message will
no doubt receive the applause of the eastern
press as an act Of justice and good faith
toward China. On this side of the continent,
where it is well known that the second clause
OF the fifth article of the Burlingame treaty is
Ia eHecC violated Dy every porter OF CnlneSe
from Hong Kong, British port, and that
vast majority that are brought hither are in
fact services or coolies, the sentiment of the
people will not approve the President's argu
ment and conclusions. The veto settles moth
ing. The agitation of the question will go on
all the same as if it had rot occurred, and
with increasing vigor, as the public comes to
a better understanding of the situation
The opinions of interior papers, received by
in many cases in advance of their
publication, are generally much stronger in
tone than the utterances Of he city journals.
The President is spoken of as having dis
graced the presidential chair, killed the Re-
publican party IN the State, turned deaf
ear to the wall of the citizens of the Pacific
coast out of Difference to the feelings of the
emperor of China, and yielded as a coward
and time server to the popular clamor of peo-
pie ignorant on the subject under considera-
ion. The language of denunciation is pretty
'almer view OF the veto, and while crediting
he President with statesmanlike devotion to
International courtesy, regret his action none
he less. The Marysville appeal, San Jose
Mercury and Santa Barbara Press alone APP
prove the veto. In addition TO the press ut
erances, the wires from all parts of the State
ire burdened with reports Of mass meetings |
md other demonstrations, resolutions of
county commissioners of both parties, and of
,ssemblages of citizens, all deploring III the i
trongest terms the action of the Presi-
lent, and many indulging IN gloomy fore
,odings of trouble to arise from the dlsap- |
continent of the people.
At a mass-meeting at Hollister, San Be- !
tito county. the President was burned in eff
ICY, and at Fairfield, the county seat of So /
iona county, flags were ilown at half. mast. t
On the reception OF the news of the veto at I
Dutch Flat, the last Chinese shanty in the i
own limits was burned, and an Indignation I
meeting was called for this evening
From Nevada and Oregon pubic and press i
pinlons are coming IN to the same purport t
d the above, and the whole Pacific coast :
GEMS to be united in a general expression of b
egret and denunciation.
In this city, Notwithstanding the deep feel
ng prevailing, there is no hint of anything
ordering on violence
AT the Sand Lots, this afternoon, there