Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-08
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The TREASURY DEPARTMENT WITH
GREAT PROBLEM.
Can !. Enforce the Law Restricting CHI
aese immigration?
A SPEEDY TRIAL 70 &c URGED FOR THE
AMERICAN PRISONERS.

SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
WASHINGTON, Aug. THE Treasury
Department begins to see that it has q
grave problem on its hands in secur-
ing the proper enforcement OF the law re-
stricting Chinese immigration. The point
TO which attention is now being chiefly di-
rected is the extreme northwest frontier Of
Washington Territory, as it impinges on
British Columbia, and by and by it will
extend over the whole frontier line to be
affected by the construction Of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. At present the
point Of vantage fer dealers in and man
ayers Ct Chinese labor is where Vancou-
YER Island touches the waters of Puget
Sound by the Straits Of Fuca, and the
shores adjacent thereto. There are, it is
said, about 1900 Chinese in the colony
of British Columbia, 5000 of whom are
employed in the construction of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. while the popula-
ton docs not exceed % coo, At Victoria
middlemen among the Chinese have al
ready associated their class by an organi-
cation u as the Six Companies of San
l. IGANtSIOs IL 10 UNtIIGt ludI SLlItN u
managers Of these companies have for q
long time been represented at Victoria.
The Gazette says: The frontier now to
be watched against the illegal entrance of
this alien population is not very extended,
but the work OF d~evising plans and exc
cutting them will require activity and sa-
gaclty. In this matter what does not seem
to be apprehended, even fractionally, is the
fact that there exists a rich and powerful
combination Of alien dealers in alien labor,
not to preserve interests in the land they
seek to occupy, except only in so far as
there exists any accruing profit to them.
b only purpose there is is in the encour-
agement and transhipment Of Chinese
laborers to make a profit for the labor
dealers, and not to give the Chinese labor
er any chance. We are outside barbara
ans, TO be despised with our civilization
and system, and to be cheated whenever
1t Is possible to do so. The capacity Of
their masses to drudge unremittingly,
makes them valuable in two directions
industrially-one is in domestic employ
ment, such as service and smaller traffic,
trades easily learned, and all light oceupa-
t.Ons in which boys and girls ere commou-
ly employed. The other is in the labor Of
great works, such as railroad construc-
tons and land reclamations. In the
first they are their own managers, and
where they have a foothold they shape and
direct their own affairs, as in the case of
Chinese washhouses everywhere seen in
our cities. As to great works the Chinese
are practically locusts. They Swarm" and
leave. Chinese railroad navvies build no
villages, make no farms, create no towns,
require no stores. When their work is
done the road is bare. If built with white
labor the converse is true. We recite these
points only to point out the fact that Chi
nese labor is alien and foreign. This la
Dor migration is conducted wholly through
the British colony of Hongkong, 1t is evil
dent that labor dealers propose to make
vancouver Island their Hongkong of re-
ception. Take a map Of the world and
it will be seen that Hongkong, Vancouver
Island and San Francisco make three
points of an irregular triangle. Chinese
labor is TO be driven from the lower point,
and proposes to assault its base from above
by turns in flank from Vancouver Island
through Washington and other northwest
Territories. We shall have something TO
say az to the design of the labor dealers in
Mexico aud their thanking in that direction.
The of Nevada.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Representative
Cassidy took occasion in a speech satur-
day, on a bill to provide for the erection of
a public building in Carson, to give Con.
gress some information as to the resources
Of Nevada, and TO reply to some of the
structures on that State and its i~nsignif-
can't voting population made so often in
the course of debate in Congress. He
said Nevada had been admitted to the
TTDiOD m aid in snppraaciur +ba ra6alI;,p
and to give the Union party the aid Of two
additional members in the Senate, as we'll
as to exemplify the indissolubleness of the
Union. The State was not admitted on
the basis Of population. Since its admis-
sion the population has increased from
$1,000 in 1864 10 90, goo in 1880, under
adverse circumstances, including a severe
blow TO the principal industry Of the
State by the demonetization Of silver in
1873. The General Government, he said,
had done practically nothing for the State,
which had neither rivers nor harbors, and
which had not received a dollar for public
improvements, except the United States
Branch Mint, which is run at a profit to-
the Government. In 10 wears the State
had paid into the Federal Treasury five
millions in Internal Revenue, and had
contributed millions more in payment for
ldll5 Nd4uGItes w ZIG dONGTHIltub uuIll
operations on them had made them valua-
BILE. Hardly a dollar of this money had
found its way back to the State. Against
this sort of treatment he protested, He
showed by figures that more than 40 mem
bers Of the House represented districts
containing as small a voting population az
the one he represented. After going into
at length a discussion of the silver ques-
ton as affecting the interests Of Nevada,
he spoke of the needs Of the State, the
principal of which was, he said, more
water, and made a vigorous argument in
favor Of sinking a~rtesian wells, a work
which he wanted carried on by the Gov
eminent through the Geological Survey.
The American Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, Aug. AFTER the recess
on Saturday, the Speaker laid before the
House a message from the President,
transmitting the report of the Secretary
of State respecting the American citizens