Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-27
EASTERN NEWS.
DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CHINESE QUESTION
California senators and RepreSen.
tatiyes Dispaessea->iftinx Balls
Pespie-BuyfnS silver Her
ALI Relief Commfts~e-An
E9ors To Restore Pay.
master SpaaidinS.



WASHINGTON, March 26.-The Senator's
and Representatives from California are not
at all pleased with the selection Of the Com
missioneFs to negotiate 3 new immigration
treaty with China They claim that they
have been badly treated. because it il a sub
ject that their constituents are interested
in slnost exclusively, and they have been
given but one member of the Board, while
two have been selected who know nothing
Of the situation and needs Of California.
They insist that no man can understand the
tact with that race; that learning BY expe-
rience Is vastly different from learning from
theory. 1T Is a beautiful theory that every
n il welcome to come to our hospitable
shores. remarked one to-day. /" but It is q
~dreadfnlly disagreeabie one for Cslifornians
when applied to the Chinese" 1t is be-
lieved that Angel and Trescotf have their
minds made up. and the result II the Com
mission will, therefore, not change the
present situation. President Angel has
accepted the Chinese mission, md il is I'M
derstood here that he will be granted two
years leave Of absence from his duties as
President Of the Michigan University. The
nomination Of the Minister to China and
those Of Commissioners Swift and Trescott,
were taken up during to-dAy's executive
session Of the Senate, and referred TO the
Committee on Foreign Relations, which
viii meet next Tuesday. 1t ia understood
that the Commissioner are not to enter
on their mission until Congress shall first
have made An appropriation to defray their
expenses. This. il Is believed. viii be read
lily granted. There seems to be little or no
doubt VI their confirmation. That Of Mr..
Angel Is universally conceded
Secretary Ramsey says the Government
can only receive Sitting Bulls people as
prisoners Of war, to be held until the Gov
ernment provides for their maintenance.
General Sherman regards them as British
subjects.
The Treasury to-day bought AZ, 900
ounces Of silver for San Francisco and
New Orleans
Secretary Thompson to day ordered Com
mander Potter. Of the United States ship
Constitution. to deliver her cargo to IL
Herald Relief Committee in Dublin, and
~ explain that ii was donated by . few gen.
erous-hearted Americans ont Of sympathy
for the suffering Irish. He expresses salts
faction ct the peaceful character Of the mis-
sion.
Judge J. d. Latimer ia here to try to get
Paymsster Spaaiding restored to the SER
vice. He was suspended on account OF his
being connected with the transactions Of
his clerk. George N. Pinney. by signing
bank vouchers. etc. Pinney having been
acquitted by . civil Court. and Spauiding
having done no more than other Paymas-
ters had done previously. it is claimed that
he should be relieved from suspension. 1t
il also asserted, that il the law had allowed
hin to testify in his own behalf upon his
trial. - the subsequently, enacted statute
now permits in similar cases, the result
would have been different.
Confessed Her Crime.
Dies MoISEs, March 26.-A girl. II years
old.-named Mary Henderson,, who was for
merly d~ining-room girl at the Tabere
House in this city. gave birth last week in
Hartford. Warner county. to an illegiti-
mate child, which the mother Of the girl
cut to pieces and burned in the stove. the
cinders being thrown into . privy vault.
fouy months ego the girl lets this ity. snd