Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-04-20
Judge WyIie Again Heads off
the Defendants in Star
Route Cases.
Further Particulars from the Devs..
tating Cyclone Of Yes
.s@-sss terday.
A Serious Indian O.tbe.ik Re.
ported from the Pacific
ex. Secretary kirkwood ceaes out Flat, Ia
an Interview, Against Chinese
immigration.
Ex-secretary Kirkwood In tsrviewsd.

Chicago, April 2O.-Ex-Secretary SAM
nel j. kirkwood, of the interior depart
mcnt, arrived in Chicago yesterday on
his way to his home in Iowa City. where
he intends to remain permanently. he
said that he had no regrets because of
his retirement from the public service.
and that the posltlon of head OF tho in
terror department involved very much
greater work and responsibilities than he
had any conception of before his intro
duction INTO that Office. In answer to a
question whether there was any topic of
unusual interest at the capital when he
left, he said the one Of most interest was
that Of the anti. Chinese bill; that the bill
which passed the house on Monday
would, in all probability. pass tho sen
ate at an early day, inasmuch
as there WAS more oppssition to the bill
vetoed by the president in the house
than there was in the. senate, and that
there were no arbitrary rules in the sen
ate. such US the prsvious question and
limitation of debate. In other respects
the bill would not be killed easily by an
opposition minority. In snswsr to. the
question how the present bill conformed
to his own ideas Of tho policy Of the gov
ernnent in regard to the Chinese lmmi.
grafton question, he said. that in his
Judgment, the difference between twenty
years exclusion and ten years was alto
gether shadowy; that he did not see what
the president meant, as expressed in the
late veto, and that even period of
twenty years did not violate the treaty
of 1880. Indeed. In his judgment, q lon
ger period than twenty years, if possible.
exclusion was contemplated by the Chi
nese authorities. He said that the Uni.
ted States constitution undoubtedly con.
ferred on congress the power to regulate
the admission OF immigrants to the ex-
tent of admitting some and excluding
others; that all nationalities, except the
Chinese, bring with them their wives
and children with the expectation Of
making this their permanent home. In
case OF war, the other nationaitiss fur.
nish their quota of troops to fight the
battles of the government under which
they live. Now, said he, suppose that in
Iowa. when the late war broke out
the Chinese had constituted 9
large portion Of tho population
as they now do constitute Q large portion
OF the population Of California, how
many of the $4,000 Iowa soldiers who
went to the field would have been Chi
nose? There would not have been .
corporal. guard furnished from their en-
tire number. This is one reason why
Iowa is opposed to unrestricted Chinese
immigration. Another reason is that in
asmuoh as the Chinese, who come here
do not bring their wives and children
and have only themselves to support
and that support being OF the mos
niggardly and un-American kind
they can offord to labor for sal
aries at which other laborers in
America would starve. l believe tina
we, as American citizens, have the righ
to determine what elements of foreign
population shall be incorporated int,
our ranks rs citizens Just as much as VI
have the right to discriminate amonl
our neighbors as to who shall be admit
ted to our homes to associate with oul
families. Some of these neighbors ",
admit and some We exclude. according
to our notions of the fitness 81 things"
Another Indian Outbreak.
San Francisco, April 2O.-A Tucso
dispatch says that in view Of the receu
outbreak BY Indians, Gsn. Wilcox ha
ordered two companies Of cavalry {
scour the Dragon mountains. A d.
taohment will also b sent TO Dragoo
and Mule mountains to look for rsns6ad
Indiana.
Gen. Wilcox, in . dispatch to Go,
Trittle. says: II do not know how 70
this outbreak will spread, but would I'd
VIA thu militarv 70 ha notified avArv