Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
The An,i.Mormon Agitation.

DOMESTIC.
The Anti-Morm0n Agitation.
PITrsBURG, January 25th.-Over 800 of
the best names in town have called an anti
Mormon meeting for tomorrow.
NEw York, January 25th.-The Times
comments at length on the polygamy ques-
tion this morning. It says that the talk will
end in nothing, and that the oft-repeated az
tempt to crush out polygamy will come to
naught, and things will go on as before.
Congress does not need to be told that polyg-
amy should be suppressed, but how to sup
press it. Out Of the debate now going on
there have been evolved one or two
expedients that are suggested for
the suppression of Mormonism. These
expedients are a hopeful indication that the
people are much in earnest, and that the agi-
tation of the subject will not cease until
something is again attempted for the cure OF
the evil of pelygamous practices. The most
radical of these measures is the repeal of the
Act organizing the Territory of Utah and
the substitution of a governing Commission.
One of the bills already in the House pro-
vides for repeal of the bulk of the organic
Act and the appointment Of Board of Com.
missioners as in the District of Columbia. The
House does not favor Military Commission
for Utah. Such an expedient as this would
be virtual confession of the inability of the
American Congress to provide for one of the
largest and most populous Territories of the
republic. 1t would be an acknowledge
ment that the polygamists of Utah,
after years of defiance, have finally
compelled the Government of the United
States to abandon the only approved
existing method of providing civil govern
ment for the people Of the Territory. 1t
would be better that some of the expedients
suggested in Congress and sought to be put
into the form of law should be tried before
| we give up the Territorial form of Govern.
ment for Utah. The Poland bill was useful,
and its usefulness was only destroyed by the
| timidity of the Senate. The impessibility of
proving polygamic relations is the main diff.
Guilty in attempting to convict polygamists,
and it is admitted that the conviction
of ten or twenty polygamist leaders
| would result in the reception Of another
| Divine revelation forbidding plural mar
riage. The restoration of those parts of the
emasculated law which related to an unlimited
challenge Of polygamous jurors might facili-
tate criminal proceedings. Bigamous cohabi-
tation made an offense, and not tie marriage
| ceremony, would be another promising device.
Both of these provisions are embodied in the
bill reported from the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee yesterday by Senator Edmunds. The
law limiting the jury list to 200 names for
the year should be so amended as to prevent
the exhausting of that number of talesmen
before jury cases can be tried. Certainly it
| cannot be said that the resources of the law
| making power have been exhausted against
| the defiant polygamist.
To Report Chinese Bill.
WASHINGTON, January 25th.-The House
Committee on Education and Labor to-day
| authorized Representative Page, of Califor.
| MIA, to report to the House for passage bill
to restrict Chinese immigration. This bill,
which is compounded of several measures on
! the same subject, heretofore introduced by
Page, and Willis of Kentucky, provides for
wholly suspending immigration of Chinese
laborers to the United States during period
of twenty-five years after its enactment,
except such as were residents of this country
when the last Chinese treaty was signed, and
such as are now here, who are to be allowed
to go and come at pleasure, if provided with
prescribed certificates, or with the necessary
Identification. The bill also provides that the
class of Chinese subjects who are exempted
by treaty FROM any such prohibitery lesisla-
ton, namely. merchants, teachers, students,
travellers, Chinese officers and their body
Gates from the Chinese Government, Endorsed
by the United States Consuls at the ports of
departure, proving that they individually
belong to one of the exempted classes. The
bill further provides a machinery Of regua-
lations, etc, for carrying its requirements
into effect.
Finances.
NEw York, January 25th.-The Times,
discussing the fact that exchange on London
yesterday was posted at within a fraction of
the point at which gold shipment could be
profitable. says: That such shipment in any
formidable amount is likely to take place
in the immediate future is not evident. A
fall in the speculative prices of grain and cot
ton, rally in the Paris market and further
decline in stocks, would check movement
which as yet depends on very delicate and
apparently transitory combination of circum.
stances. But that shipments will ultimately
be made, and in very serious proportions, we
have no doubt whatever, because they are be.
ing compelled by permanent forces. A point
which ought to impress itself upon the atten.
ton of the Government is, that we have a
strong, significant and pnmistakable warning
to that effect, and we are by no means in con-
dition to protect ourselves from certain
events which would follow such an event.
If the financial affairs of our Government
were on sound basis it would need to make
no difference what course current exchanges
might take Ii our currency were, as it pre-
tends to be, one Of gold, or its equivalent
we could safely trust to the operation Of the
laws of trade to keep or get all the gold
which was really necessary. There might be
disturbances, and serious ones, and private
fortunes might suffer, but these difficulties
would adjust themselves, and the supreme
agency of all the trade circulating medium
would be safe from any fiuctuation
that could touch public credit, or could
permanently affect the general prosperity.
But we cannot forget that there is on the
statute book law which compels the Gov
ernment to redeem its notes in coin, and that
there is another which compels it immedi-
ately to reissue redeemed notes, and that
these two laws together put the Government
reserve of gold in condition at all times un-
certain and which at any moment might be.
come disastrous. If there should be a strong
demand for gold, its first effect would be felt
by the Treasury. II the redemption reserve
were drawn down lower, the Govern
ment would be obliged either to
en'er the open market to ob-
tain more, which would be Immediately ex-
ported, to withdraw it as soon as obtained,
or to resort to the redemption of legaltender
notes in silver, which would be direct and
powerful blow at the public credit. The laws
as they stand are the work of men who would
gladly see precisely this result. This effect
has been repeatedly pointed out to Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury and his pre-.
decessor, and by economists and fnanciers of
established reputation. Two measures are
absolutely essential to the protection of the
Treasury one is the repeal of the law of 1873,
rendering compulsory the issue OF redeemed
notes; the other is the abandonment of the
coinage of silver. There is no probability
that Congress will adopt either of them, but
the quotation of the London Exchange yes.
terdav foresbadows what may be soon ex-
pected, and what we will be helpless TO resist
in our present condition.
The Nations Wards.
WASHINGTON, January 25th.-The Secre.
tary of War has transmitted to the Indian
RuraaYJ tho follnuyip0 d;cpafob from Colopa al