The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-28
w ashington Letter.

BIER TO THE COMMITTEE RooM-CENsUs
SUPERVISOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TIMES
ON NEWSPAPER Row-THE INDIAN AND
THE CHINAMAN.
WASHINGTON, D. c., January 10th, 1880.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette;
The Senate has not been in session
since last Thursday, but it must not be
supposed that our venerable and digni-
fed upper house has been idle for three
days. An adjournment from Thursday
to Monday does not necessarily mean
rest and recreation to our legislative
salons. The toll of Senator does not
onsistexclusively in making full speech
es to his listless and christening broth
ers. There is committee work to per-
form; knotty questions of law, of finance
and of all the multifarious questions
that come within the perview of nation.
al policy are discussed and partially di-
gested before they are reported to the
To-day it is understood that the Presi-
dent will send in a long list of nemina-
tions of Census supervisors and it is pro-
ba5le that much of the time of the Sen
ate during the present week will be &C
cupied in the consideration of these
nominations.
In matters of political intelligence of a
sensational character, this is the dullest
winter in the memory of the greyest
haired denizen of Newspaper Row. Con
gress will not be agitated. The warfare
of sections seems actually to be over.
Whether this state of things has been
brought about by an exhaustion of the
question, by the return of prosperity, or
by the countr-irritant in Maine, it is
impossible to tell, but peace in our large
domestic heterogenity, or something
like it, has come at last.
The House Committee on Education
and Labor discussed for four hours Sat-
urday morning Representative Goodies
bill prohibiting Chinese immigration,
and finally decided to report favorably
upon it, striking out the section which
provides for the abrogation of articles
five and six of the Burlingame treaty.
The bill prohibits the landing within the
Jurisdiction of the United States, or TAX
ing on board at any point in China or
any foreign port for the purpose of land
ing in the United States, greater num-
Der than fifteen Chinese passengers upon
any vessel, under penalty of 500 fine,
and Imprisonment not exceeding six
months for each Chinese passenger above
the number of fifteen. 1t requires the
masters of vessels to accompany their
manIfests of cargo with a sworn list of
Chinese passengers. 1t also provides
that the penalties imposed for the viola
tions of the provisions of the bill shall
be liens on the vessels violating them.
It excludes from the restrictions of the
bill persons officially connected with the
Chinese government or any embassy
thereof, or to persons rescued from ship
wreck during the voyage of and by the
vessels bringing the same within the
jurisdiction of the United States.
The Ute chief Ouray has been in the
city for some days and has had frequent
conferences with the Secretary of the
Interior. He has confessed his inability
to deliver over to justice the murderers
and ravlshers of the Meeker family, but
proposes to select a band of his own tribe
and hunt to death the malefactors. He
deprecates the idea that his whole race
should suffer for the ourrages committed
by few. 1t is not the policy of Secre-
tary Schurz to hurry the matter, but to
delay, if possible to secure a surrender
of the guilty Indians, until the weather
shall favor military operations.