The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-05-22

96. The platform favors continued
lawful agitation of the subject of Mon
golian immigration to this country until
the Federal Government is moved to
modify our treaties with the Chinese
Empire SO as to prohibit it, and thus
save those Of our feilow.citizeRs who
depend upon labor for support from UNI
just and degraded competition. It
condemns and denounees the vote Of
4. B. Hayes ON the bill limiting Chi
nese immigration to the United States,
and declares that there is no relief from
the scourge except through Demo
cratic Administration. 1t imposes no
instructions upon the delegates to meet
at Cincinnati, save aud except TO vote
for the retention of the so-called two
thirds rule III nominating candidates
| for President and Vice President, and
to vote as unit i'll accordance with the
will OF the majority Of the delegation
from California; and confident in the
wisdom of the Democratic National
Convention, it pledges in advance to
their nominees the Electoral vote Of
| California in November, 1880.
The New York Tribune comments
thus ON the Illinois Convention:
Grant has won victory in Illinois.
That much must be conceded. Still it
is not victory of character to greatly
encourage the advocates of his nsmina.
| ton, or TO discourage in the least the
opponents of the third term scheme.
| He has gained what was conceded to
him from the start-what in fact, it
was absolut ely necessary that he should
| get IN order to enter the race at Chi
cago. tie has, in Short. carried his
own State, as blaine, Sherman,
Edmunds and Window have carried
theirs. The candidate who cannot Sc
cure his own State is summarily
dropped from the list, in obedience to a
custom as old as Presidential elections.
His success, however, is Of such char
acter, and was won by such strenuous
effort from the jaws of defeat, that it
shows his weakness rather than his
strength. It eonspicuoasly exhibits the
rapid degeneracy of his candidacy,
which began with boostful confidence
OF sweeping the country by a spontane-
Gus outburst of popular feeling, and has
now got to such pass that his support
ers find cause for rejoicing in tlse fact
that he has barely escaped rejection in
| his own State.
The House Commsttee on Railroads
decided relative to the George letter,
making charges of corruption in connec-
ton with the Texas Pacific Railroad,
that the Committee has no authority to
investigate the matter unless the House
shall see fit especially to authorize them
to take some action, the alleged cor
rupt transactions having occurred dur.
ing the previous Congress, and effect
ing the Senate more particularly than
the House. The Committee decided
that the subject was not proper one
for their consideration.
Logan offered the following resolu-
tion in the Illinois Convention, which
was adopted amid loud cries of EMO:
THAT General U. S. Grant is the choice
OF the Republican party in Illinois for
the Presidency, and the delegates from
this State are instructed to use all hon
orable means to secure his nomination
by the Chicago Convention, and to vote
as unit for him, and the said dele.
gates shall have power to fill all vas
canclcS.
Daggett's bill to allow the State of
| Nevada to select two million acres OF
non mineral lands in such localities and
bodies as may be most likely to render
them salable, in lieu of the nearly four
| million acres of the sixteenth and THU
ty.seventh sections heretofore granted
her for school purposes, has been favor
ably reported from the Committee of
the Whole, and will probably pass the
House to-day.
Mrs. Ella Jane Robinson, living near
Powhattan, Ohio, murdered her hus-
band, Warren Robinson, yesterday, for
accusing her OF infdelity. She had
been engaged in an alteration with
him, III the course of which he beat
her, and she finally shot him in the
breast.
The lnter-Ocean Washington special
says that Senator Cameron has Alabama
advices claiming that the State is solid
for Grant. He also claims to have pri-
yate kilograms from Nebraska, which
give Sherman three delegates, Blaine
two, Grant one.
The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention instructed the delegates to
vote as unit and for the two-thirds