The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-17
SENATOR MlLLEE.
Hs Talks California Politics
20 a Chicago ReDarTRr.

TO n Chicago Reporter.
Chicago. 1e-United States Sena-
tor John f. Miller, Of California, ar
rived in the city yesterday evening
from the east, on his way home with
his family. not having been in Cali
fOTnia since November, when he
left 10 attend the session of the Sen
ate. He left at noon to day. A re-
porter called on the Senator and had
an interesting talk on California
| politics. have been away sc long.
said the Senator, that / DO not know
as l can tell you anything Of general
interest. We have a state election.
eleeting governor, state officers,
members Of the two houses, and two
cOngressmen-at-large. The legisla-
ture failed to redistrict the state,
and the two new representatives we
have to elect at large.
What are the prospects for the
election?
Well, that is rather hard to say.
California, as you know, is very
close. was defeated for electOr in
| 1874 by only seventy-four majority.
AT present it is hard to give any
prophecy. The First district, where
ROsecrans is running, is demOcratic,
but republicans have a good candi-
date, and the district may be called
doubtful. The Second district
(Page's) is overwhelmingly republi-
can, and he ought to come in with
5000 majority. The state was dis
tricted in that way. The Third dis
trict is largely democratic, and the
Fourth is doubtful. Pacheco has
not been renOminated, but re-
pubiicans have put up
Mr.. Woods, a good candidate.
The result there also is aOVbtful.
Although there are two republican
> districts you see there is one dem
ocratic and one republican district,
J and two doubtful. The Congress-
men elected ct large will naturally
. go with the state ticket, which is
: liable to go either way.
How is the legislature?
l was elected by a majority of
J Is on Joint ballot. There are 40
senators to be elected now, who
viii hold over and have q voice in
: the election of the next United
? States Senator. OF course there is
a fight over these on the senatorial
: question. The asSemblymen viii
be elected from their districts on
lpurely party issues. / believe the
republicans viii have majority.
Then the republicans viii DO the
a iresiistricting
3 Tho Srdicarionc ,,oiY,t tbat vvay
I The state at present is Gistricted IN
S the interests of democrats. Whether
lit only happened so or was done
l purposely l cannot say.
is prohibition cutting much Of
: figure in California politics!
al Well, there is some little question
l over the Sunday law. There is no
5 third party in this question on the
state ticket, and what fight there is
e is being made on local candidates.
: l don't think it will amount to
e much. Sunday is as well observed
Q in California as anywhere else, and
: I cannot see how the question can
amount TO much. Both parties
have touched upon it, and il viii
cut into both about evenly.
Is your Chinese bill working satie-
c factOrily?
g 1t seems to be. The object was to
/ keep out Chinese labor, and it is do
. ing that. OF course some Of the
people are still arguing against en-
|, ploying Chinese labor, but the i'm
e pOrtatioD of Chinese has ceased,
and the evil will decrease.
{. Are republicans getting any
:, benefit from having passed the bill !
Well it is not doing US any harm.
Both sides claim the credit for the
u measure. l introduced the bill, and
q my colleague, Senator Farley, had
q not introduced bill in spite Of the
fact that he had been in the Senate
two years. got the bill introduced
d in the House by Congressman Page,
e one Of the California representa-
I tiYes, and myself pushed it in the
Senate. Then l modified it to suit
the President, and it was passed by
a republican Congress. We point
to these facts, but democrats say it
q could not have been passed without
e democratic votes. 1t at least does
o not hurt us, if it is not a positive
e benefit.
Does the river and harbOr bin en-
a ter into the eOmpaign at all?
e 1 hardly think it does. In fact 1
IS believe our people are satisfied with
Z, it. The Pacific Coast got about
q 81 100000 out of the S19,O00,O00,
q and we have about 100000 people.
There is a good deal Of selfishneSs
in this thing, as in all others. Other
sections of the country oppose 1t
because it does not benefit them.
p [ know that in our section improve
> ments are needed, and | presume
le some IN other sections. / have only
le the reports Of the engineers, and
1 presume they are correct.
IL think, myself, We are
spending too much money! but stlll
lit seems as if this money Wo1ld be
N | iudiciously expended. ! know diff
a. | ferent localities often did notsre.
s. ceive half what the engineers called
for. Then again the items Tor the
n Mississippi improvements amount
ing to S5,0OO,OOo; the Potomac
flats and others were moi
properly in this bill. They were
outside matters. On the whole
~ can say that I don't regret haYinE
~ voted for this bill and would YotI