Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-17

WASHINGTON, March 16sh.-After afford
ing Minister Seward ample opportunity to
retire from the diplomatic service Voluntarily.
and, as stated in these dispatches several
times during the past few months, has been
confidently expected, the President has en-
phatically requested his resignation as Minis.
ter to China, and there is perfectly reliable au-
thority for stating, in addition to his views,
that if the resignation be not forthcoming
very soon Mr.. Seward will be removed.
The selection of Stewards successor is not
yet made, aud it seems likely to be trouble
some question for Secretary Eyarts and Pres
ident Hayes to determine. They would,
under ordinary circumstances, be quite will
ing to appoint John Z. Swift, in compliance
with the recommendation of the California
delegation, and in accordance with the almost
uniform custom of giving this appointment
TO o Pacific coast man, but they are wholly
unwilling to brave the Eastern sentiment by
intrusting the conduct of the negotiations on
the Chinese emigration question to a Cali
fornian exclusively, whose views upon the
subject are known to be at variance with the
prevalent Eastern opinions and prejudices,
both of commercial and so-called humaui-
tartan nature. This embarrassment has given
rise to some talk of asking Congress for au-
thority and an appropriation to send out some
Chinese Government for modification OF
the Burlingame treaty, our new. Min
lister, Swift, for instance, to be one member
of the Commission, and some Eastern man
to be the other. This anomalous suggestion
may perhaps be qualified so as to provide for
detailing some one already employed in the
diplomatic service elsewhere to accompany
the obnoxiously anti Chinese Californian TO
Pekin and serve as a balance wheel to him,
but as yet the whole subject has not passed
beyond the domain of inchoate suggestion
and timid speculation.
Two Leng Pending Matters disposed of.
WASHINGTON, March 16th.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affails have disposed
of two long pending matters, one being
known as the "Chinese indemnity fund"
Representative Wilson was authorized to re-
port to the House for passage his bill, which
provides that the Chinese indemnity fund"
now under control Of the Secretary OF State,
be paid over to TIE Government of China,
except that sum shall be retained sufficient,
in the opinion of the Executive, to pay the
amounts which may be awarded by the Court
Of Claims to owners of the bark Caldera, aud
such further sum as may be necessary to in
demnify the owners of the ship Forest Belle
for the plumber and destruction of said ship.
Representative Cox was also instructed To
report his bill to the House with favorable
recommendation. The bill directs the Presi-
dent to pay to the Government of Japan
$685. coo in gold coin, ROW under control of
the State Department., with interest. The
bill further directs the President from the
increase and accrued interest upon said
Japanese fund, to pay to the officers and crew
of the United States ship Wyoming S125,-
600, Tor their meritorious services in the
destruction of hostile vessels in the straits of
Shemonoseki in July, 1868, and to the
officers and crew of the steamer Takeane for
similar services during September, 1864 The
President is directed. after the payment Of
the sums thus authorized, to cause the
amount remaining of said fund to he con-
verted into the Treasury of the United
States.
The committee also agreed to report favor.
ably to the House of Representative Meals
bill, which provides that any person.
originally citizen of the United States. who
has been naturalized British subject, may
be restored to citizenship in the United
States by publicly subscribing to a declara-
ton Of Remuneration Of his British naturaliza-
ton before any Court authorized by law to
admit aliens to naturalization.
The Invasion of the Ute Indian Reser-
walton.
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of the Interior to-day received a telegram
from the Los Pinos Agency, dated March
18th, stating that a number of parties had
already started placer claims and taken up
ranches on the Ute reservation, and others
were preparing to follow The telegram
says ''rhe next two weeks will see the reser-
walton swarming with trespassers, and con-
hict ia inevitable" The Agent concludes
with request that troops be ordered to the
reservation, for the purpose of protecting the
Utes. This matter was the subject of con-
siderstion at the meeting of the Cabinet to-
day, and later Secretary Schurz had a con-
ference on the subject with Ouray and the
Ute chiefs now here awaiting the action of
Congress on their agreement with the Gov
eminent as to ceding their reservation. 1t
was decided at this conference that in order
to influence their nation against hostilities
the Ute chiefs should leave at once for Colo
RADIO. This afternoon the following order
was issued:
DEPARTMENT OF TUE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON, March Is. 1880.
It having been brought TO the attention CT the
Interior Department that persons are now entering
the Ute reservation, in the State of Colorado, for
the purpose of locating ranches and mineral claims
notice is hereby given that such locations and claims
will not be recognized by the Interior Department,
as the lands embodied within said reservation are
not now public lands of the United States, and no
location made thereon can or will be recognized as
legal, except those made after the lands shall have
been regularly restored to the public domain.
c. SCHURZ, Secretary.
The Secretary has also addressed CON-
munication to the Indian Committees of the
Senate and House Of Representatives, in
forming them of the threatened difficulty,
and urging prompt action upon the pending
agreement. 1t is said at the War Depart
meat that troops are now stationed at con-
.yenient points near the reservation, and if it
is deemed necessary can be readily called into
service to keep of invaders and preserve the
peace. 1t is understood that a proclamation
will be issued it the invasion continues
Chicago Socialists Against the Chinese.
CHICAGO, March 16th.-In the speeches
last night at the Socialist Anti-C Chinese meet
ing, Kearney was Landed to the skies by some
of the speakers. A. B. Adair declared that
the Chinese question would be one of the
paramount issues of the coming year, and
there was no halfway about it. The Chinese
must co. That would be the effect 1t had
been demonstrated in San Francisco that
white men could not live on what Cinnamon
could; that white laborer had no show
alongside of a Chinese laborer. Therefore.
either the workingmen of Chicago or the
Cinnamon must go. The working classes of
this country had built it up, and made it
what it was. Should they be driven out by
a mongrel race that was hardly fit to live un-
der the sun at all? [Applause.] The Chi
nese would soon be here In force if the work
ingnen didn't say emphatically that they
should not come. They must take a firr.
stand. protest vigorously, and give the
authorities of Chicago to understand
that the Chinese coolie system could not
find habitation in this city; that if they
persisted In encouraging them to locate here
the workingmen would not wait six months
or a year to erect gallows on the sand-lot of
Chicago. but would do it the very first day.
fCbeers.l They did not want to retard the
business of Chicago, TO bring the wheels of
Industry to a stand-still, as they had been
brouphS in San Francisco-but before Chi
rose coolie labor should come here they
a'o,,ld stop the wheels of industry from the
Atlantic to the Pacific lCheers.l They
want to live and let live. He did not oppose
Chinese immigration to this country, but
tbay could come as other foreigners come,
seeking a livelihood as freemen. Applause
tn resolutions say that well founded reports
;,d;cate that the San Francisco Six Com
,,an;ss as matter OF expediency, are dis
tr;hnt;no their chinatown poems among
tba Iarge Eastern cities, particularly Chicago,
g. I on;s and New York, and that this class
~ slaves. bound by law, caste, ignorance,
,raindice and superstition to their masters,
Iii h. welcomed by Southern planters
and that for these and other enumerated
reasons. they protest against these slaves and
criminals. They call upon every man and