The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-21
A VARIED STORY.
The Various Haps and Mishaps Which
Have Occurred in a Day.
Washington Gossip, Fiery Elements,
and Other Casualties.
WASHINGTON NOTES

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Mil
Ter, of California, will to-day or to-
morrow call up from the calendar the
bill regarding the Chinese immigration
treaty, and press it after it has been
discussed a reasonable length of time.
Several senators desire to speak on it.
Representatives. Page and Pacheco in
tend to press it in the house in a few
days. The Pacific coast peouie are not
as radical in this matte ~ they have
been; they do not demand tnat ''the
Chinese must 60" but they want white
labor protected from the Monaghan by
restrictive legislation. There is no pas
sion exhibited in the matter this year
at Washington, but on the contrary the
Pacific coast people talk plain COM
mon sense in their arguments.
Senator Rollins to-day reported fav-
orably as TO the amended bill for a pub
lie building in Carson City, Nevada.
Senator Plumb reports f~avorably the
bill granting to California five per cent.
of the net proceeds of the sale of pub
lie lands In that state.
The circulation of the standard silver
dollars for the week ending February
18th, was S135, 495 against S92, 495 for
the corresponding period of 81.
The director of the. mint, Burchard,
has decided that mutilated coin should
be considered as bullion only, and that
reflling with gold or silver does not
make the coin fit for circulation as legal
currency. Many coins have been so
filled. The decision is approved by
Secretary Folger.
Sec'y Folger says he has not yet heard
whether New intends to accept the
assistant secretaryship OF not. New is
in the city, and has been in consultation
with some of his Indiana friends about
the matter. He has not called upon
Folger yet, and this fact has caused
some people to believe that he.does not
intend to accept the position if con-
frmed by the senate.
Senator Mcpherson is preparing a
bill in regard to the navy, which pro-
vides for the abolition of all navy yards
except those at Brooklyn, Pensacola
and Mare Island, on the ground that
when we have no navy the others are
not needed. The bill will also provide
for a large reduction of the pay corps,
the medical corps, and other branches
that establishment, because of the great
number of commissioned officers in pro-
portion to the number of seamen
The hearing before the house commit
abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty, was
continued this morning. Allen, the
Hawaiian minister, reviewed the histo-
ny of the affairs which had led to the
Seward, Sumner, Gen. Grant and 9TH
ers, as to the Importance to the govern
ment OF the United States that the Ha-
waiian islands should not fall under the
control of any foreign power. He con-
tradicted the assertion made on the
other side that the labor engaged in
sugar culture could be called in any
sense slave labor, but that the wages
paid are very high, and that the inter-
ests and welfare of the laborers are
thoroughly protected by the Hawaiian
government. He also showed that the
allegation of smuggling sugar into this
country under the name of Sandwich
Island sugar, was entirely without any
foundation; and in proof of that he
read a letter from Cornley, United
States minister at Honolulu. George
S. Boutwell, addressed the committee
on the same side of the question, con
fning his remarks chiefly to tie sIeaJ
Importance of the United states gov
eminent retaining its influence in these
islands in view of the great trade of the
future with the population of the
tries on the Pacific. Further hearing
in the matter was postponed by the
committee until Monday, March 9th.