The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-23
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Washington, 22.-The secretary of
war, to-day, transmitted to both
houses of Congress a telegram re-
ceived at the war department from
General Mcdowell, in which, under
date Of the 18th inst, and referring to
the pending bill for the confirmation
OF the Stratton survey of Pueblo, he
says: The bill asks Congress to give
certain parties lands to which they
are not entitled; that the survey
takes away large part of the
southern portion of the present mill
tary reservation aud over 100 acres
clOse to the barracks, and that he |
therefore invokes Secretary Ramsey's |
action before Congress TO defeat the
bill. The secretary, in transmitting
this telegram, makes No comments, |
but invites attention to the cOmmun
iCation forwarded from the chief of
engineers last week. in which be says
the general gives reasons why the
passage of the bill in its present form
would seriously affect the public in
terests.
Representative Berry, to-day, intro
duced a bill to rettore the lands of
the Fort Redding and Fort Crook
Military Reservations to the public
domain. 1t provides that settlers on
these reservations shall be entitled to
the came rights in perfectiDg titles
under the homestead and presumption
laws that they would have received
if they had settled on public lands,
and confirms any and ali patents
that may have been heretofore issued
to settlers on these reservations.
The report telegrsphed from here a
few evenings since to the effect that
Minister Seward had succeeded in ne.
goliatiBg a treaty with the Chinese
ia pronounced false by Secretary
EvaTts. The report was very cir-
oumstsrtial, and even purported to
give the provisions Of the treaty
among which was included an agree
ment which would make China an
ally OF this government 10 preventing
Chinese emigration to California.
Secretary Evarts says the negoiis-
tons are about where they were
year ago, when they were taken up
after and largely in consequence OF
the debate on the Chinese bill in
Congress. The secretary Of state
seems to find the Chinese IS willy
set of diplomats as any he has to deal
with. much more so, he says, than
the Japanese, who are more warlike
and lrGnker race. He remarks that
they have grown to be very jealous OF
the profits made by American and
other foreign merchants who trade to
their shores, and are really contem-
plating adopting a policy looking
to the exclusion of all foreigners from
participation in the commerce OF
China. The secretary seems TO dread
the reopening by Congress of Whist is
known as the Chinese question, and
evidently THINKS that it will be very
delicate matter to so adjust the rela-
tions of the two countries that there
may be proper regulation of Chi
neSe immigration to this country and
at the same time free interchange OF
commodities. The, he sage, is the
problem which the state department
has 10 work out. Mr.. EyaIts
says that, so far as be Knows. the
Chinese government as represented
here, is net in favor OF any such
treaty as has been published in some
newspapers. The report thus con-
tradicted, and which has also been
EXP licitt ly denied and discredited By
Assistant Secretary John Hays, aud by
President Hayes bimseli, as recently
as last Saturday, is repeated to-day
With suEdIy changes and mcdifica-
tons, which only show how Ignorant
its authors are of the existing laws.
Among the most important pro visions
OF the alleged treaty described in one
OF the Washington evening papers, tc-
day, is said to be one prohibiting the
emigration OF leWd women from China
to the United States. The Chinese
authorities are reported to have made
tout opposi;ion 10 this provision and
TO have consented to it with great
reluctance; which was somewhat
remarkable in view OF the TACT that
our Cwn federal statutes have, for 3
number of years, cover precisely the
same ground. THIS evening paper, q
few days ago, stated in the most
positive terms, that the new treaty
wss an ehectual settlement Of all the
difficulties and evils complained of
by the people of the coast.
The origin and motive OF the
original report that a new treaty had
been negotiated and the subsequent
various descriptions of its supposed
provisions, are lot yet developed, but
1t Is certain they are, one and all,
untrue and 20 far as can be learned |
from the highest official sources by
members Of the California delegation
and by other authorized inquiries,
they have nc tangible foundation what,