Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-24

ing of money to sustain them in their action
the activity of Major j. L. Smith the hold
ing out of Sawyer, who claims to be Secretary
of State; the drilling of secret clans of armed
men, and the incendiary talk of the Green
back Labor Chronicle of Auburn that the
State House must be taken, though it costs
thousands of lives.
GOVERNOR DAVIS EQUAL TO THE SITUATION.
From consultation with the military au-
thorities Governor Davis became fully con-
WINGED of the seriousness of the situation,
and that the position of Mayor Nash is per-
fectly sound. He therefore ordered to the
State House the Capital Guard and the
Richards Light Infantry, who, at l o'clock
this morning, were there: The Auburn
Light Infantry will leave that place for the
Capital at 2 o'clock this morning, and other
military forces will be brought here if neces-
sary. The information OF the operations of
the Fusionists comes from reliable men in
each county. The design is to take the State
House, but the prompt action of Governor
Davis will avert all trouble. Men are known
to be ready at the call of Smith from Lincoln
and Somerset counties, who are to take
sleighs across the country. The prompt action
of Colonel Peaks prevented movements in
Piscataquis county.
REPUBLICAN DETERMINATION.
BosToN. January 24th-A. NJ. Augusta
specials say: The Richards Light Infantry,
Of Gardiner have just arrived z a. NJ, and
marched into the State House. A Gatling
gun will be here in the morning. All the
armories in the State are under guard. The
Republicans mean to hold possession, and if
the State troops are not adequate the Presi-
dent will be called on for aid.
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial to the RECoRD-USIoN.I
WASHINGTON, January 23d.-Several of
Consul Mosby's letters to the State Depart
ment show that during Consul Bailey's adj
! ministration of the Hongkong consulate,
from 1871 to the latter part of 1873, the in
spection of Chinese emigrants to the United
States, under the Act of Congress requiring
Consular certificates of their voluntary emf
grafton, was a disgraceful farce, and merely a
means of collecting fees which Bailey almost
wholly pocketed. Mosby in one letter
writes: "The following is brief history of
| the ceremony of examination: On the day
before vessel was to leave with Chinese
emigrants the United States Consul was in
! formed that at tain hour the passengers
would be ready on board for examination. AT
the appointed time Peter Smith, an illiterate
keeper of sailors boarding house, appeared
with the Consular seal. The passengers
came on deck and passed in review before
him, each being asked if he was voluntary
emigrant. If he said he was. his ticket was
stamped with the Consular seal. 1t would
take, on an average, about one hour to com
plete the investigation. This was the whole
proceeding" Mosby also reported that
the Act prohibiting the importation of Chi
reese lewd women into the United States was
simply made cover for extortion, it being a
general understanding that any woman could
procure a Consular certificate by paying to
the Consul premium of $40 or SIS. A letter
received by Mosby from the San Francisco
Collector of Customs, dated August %,
1879, congratulated him on his success in pre-
venting the shipment of lewd women to the
United States, thus demonstrating that the
previous failures to inforce the law were at
tributable to a mere want of proper vigi-
lance and good faith. = The General stated in
his report of September Goth, of the results of
his investigations under the orders of the State
Departm ent, as follows: Upon the general
question as to the voluntary character of Chi.
nese emigration, | find it difficult to form a
satisfactory judgment. Among the foreign
els in China the prevalent belief is that so
far as the Pacific States of the United States
are concerned, this emigration is mainly pro-
NOTED by the Six Chinese Companies or
Guilds of San Francisco, and that emigrants,
after arrival. remain in the power OF these
companies, and are in fact controlled by
them. l find this belief so strong and
| so general, even among persons who
| differ as regards the expediency of the
emigration, that | must declare it worthy of
serious consideration but at the same time
| | Dah Ia 70 tain
clear evidence to support it. This is possibly
owing to the secrecy which characterizes all
such combinations among the Chinese and to
the great power and influence they every
where possess, and as long as the emigrants
continue to declare, throughout the several
searching examinations to which they are
subjected, not only their willingness to go,
but that they go freely and voluntarily. it
may be impossible to establish any unlawful
arrangement between them and the said COM
panies."
The bill recently passed by Congress, to
authorize attdavits in support of applications
for mineral patents to be made by agents of
nonresident applications, has been threat
ened with Presidential veto, on account of
opposition of the Interior Department to its
retroactive section but Senator Teller and
Representatives Bedford and Page have pro-
cured reference of the matter to the Attor-
ney-General and convinced him that the bill
should be approved. 1t will therefore receive
the Presidents signature.
| The latest California arrivals are Jarrett
I. Richards, George w. Porter, James Me
Kenty, G. f. Becker and Clinton Day-an
here on private business or as sight-seers.
The COI0red Exodus Investigation.
WASHINGTON, January 23d-The Senate
| NIT IN To he
examination of O.. S. B. Wall, of Washing
ton (coloredl, President of the Emigrant Aid
Society, and also took the testimony of Jas.
b. O'Hara, prominent colored Republican
of Halifax county. Wall, under cross
examination by Vance as to the basis fer his
assertion that North Carolina was ga God
forsaken country, with soil that would not
sprout black-eyed peas" admitted that he
had very little personal knowledge of the soil
of North Carolina, and personally knew moth
ing about the counties from which the present
exodus has started. He believed the exodus
| from the South was spontaneous that it
would continue until the colored people re-
ceived better treatment there, and that in
every probability there would be re-
turn drift southwark for the negro loved
the home of his parents, and would not
emigrate without some strong incentive. In
response to a series of questions by Senator
Voorhees,, witness stated that information
received by him, as President of the Society,
that employment for North Carolina colored
people could readily be had in Indiana, was
derived from circulars and a letter of }. II.
Walker, mail agent at Terre Haute, and sew
eral other persons living in that State, whose
names he could not remember, but whose let
tiers he would hereafter furnish to the CON-
mittee, and from Perry & Williams, of North
Carolina, agents of the emigrants. What
personal knowledge the latter had in regard
to the point at issue he did not know.
0'Hara (colored) the other witness, testi-
fed that he held office in Halifax for num-
Der of years as Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners, Chairman of the
Board of Education, and County Examiner.
He has also been a member of the North
Carolina Legislature and of the Constitu-
tional Convention was one of the Presiden-
tial Electors on the Presidential ticket in
| 1876, and is now contesting seat in the ma
tional House of Representatives. He
gave very favorable account of the
condition and treatment of the colored people
in North Carolina, but in regard to their in
dustrial and political status he testified that
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