, 1882-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC.
CsaklinG Declines.

tluX hOWc W INC lutciiof ucpAt tuicntr
when Hiram Price and other Blaine men
will give place to stalwarts- Secretary
Hunt has never been certain of remaining
In the cabinet
New Phase Of the Situation.
1t is generally believed at the capitol
that Conkling wrote the presiden. this
morning declining his appointment. The
general talk is that Conkling's declination
will be made public to-day, and that Sec
retary Folger viii be nominated to the
supreme bench and Conkling secretary of
the treasury.
Opposition Ia Ingalls,.
4 vigorous fight is being made against
the confirmation of Rufus Insalls as quar-
termaster general, bringing to light all
charges made during his services under
Grant.
Nominations Made and Withdrawn.
The president has nominated Charles
Twess, of Michigan, consul at Windsor,
Canada, and withdrawn the nomination
of Jas. F. Swords, of the District Of
Columbia, as consul TO Cadiz
Sergeant Mason's Punishment.
Sergeant Mason will either be acquitted
ty court martial on the technical ground
that he had not actually entered ON dnty
when he fired at Guiteau, or will be given
a short sentence.
New Bankruptcy Bill.
The bankruptcy bill reported to the
senate provides that when any person
without fraud shall become involved in
debts beyond FIVE hundred dollars and
upwards, which he could not ay. he may
apply by petition in equity to the United
States district court, setting forth the
cause of insolvency, etc, scheduling la
bllities and assets, and may surrender ms
estate for the benefit of creditors. except
such as may be exempt from execution,
and the court shall adjudge him hank-
rupt if good cause appear, and appoint a
receiver and serve notice TO all interested
and distribute the estate according
rules of equity, and if there was no
fraud, prisoner shall be discharged as a
bankrupt When a person absents or
conceals himself or otherwise attempts to
defraud creditors, the latter may petition
against him that his insolvency had ex-
isted only when the debtors liabilities ex-
ceed The value of his property and court
may extend or stay proceedings. Pre-
ferred creditors may be made OF those
who loaned bankrupt money for sickness
or in good firth to avert bankruptcy or
other adversely Ii any creditor has op-
pressively sought to4force debtor into
bankruptcy or obtain any fraudulent ad-
vantage over other creditors, court may
deny his participation in the estate.
Slater on the Chinese Bill.
Senator Slater spoke as follows on the
Chinese bill in the Senate on Monday:
"The coming of classes other than
those specified as Chinese labor are un-
restricted, and rights which they may en-
Joy here are even greater than they were
under the Burlngame treaty. They may
come as officers, teachers, traders and
merchant $, and thequestion arises whether
after coming here they may change their
avocations and become laborers as sub
iects OF other nations. They would have
this right, although possibly the treaty
carried with it power to legislate SO as to
prevent this; but the difficulty of EN-
forcing such legislation would render it Of
little value in failing to negotiate for dis
tinct prohibition against resident Chinese
engaged in other labor ayocations. Our
commissioners TO China showed they were
unequal to the duty assigned them. If
We had foreign policy that WAS worthy
Of fifty millions of people tins would
have been exacled, not as concession 20
the United States but as something which
Of right belonged to US as nation. 1t
was humiliating for Americans reading
the treaty to find this country placed in
the attitude of receiving favors from
China instead OF being accorded tie rights
essential to self-preservatiOn. Under the
Burlngame treaty Chinese could pass
free through every part of the United
States, while our citizens were not per-
mitted to enter China except at prescribed
points, and were not allowed to engage in
industries or the internal trade Of the
country. In the cities they entered, if
they ventured out of prescribed limits,
they did so at the peril Of their lives.
Our commissioners were so thoroughly
imbued with that theory of modern phil
antrophy which takes to its bosom all the
world and mankind, that the most i'm
portant part of their mission, the asser-
ton OF the inherent rights of a nation TO
control in its own way the admission
among its own people Of foreign elements
incongruous and dangerous to the peace,
happiness and good order of its communi-
ties, was overlooked and subordinated 10
mere idea. Slater then argued that the
principle of extirpation could have no
application in its relations to Chinese
otherwise than in this country. The
very statement of principle, he thought,
carried with 1t its own refutation, because
the right to come at all is derived not
from the alien himself nor from the cUun-
try whence he comes, but from the peo-
pie with whom he would form new
relations. The pursuit of happiness,
the inalienable right Of every human
being must be regulated by human Sc
curity and Law Hunger may impel
highwayman in the pursuit of happiness