Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-25
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
The Chlnese Immigration Question.

WASHINGTON, January oath. = Senators
Miller, Edfaunds, Pendleton and Hill O.
Georgia, the subcommittee on the subject o.
Chinese immigration, to-day completed theil
consideration of the subject, and reported 6
bill to the full Committee on Foreign Rela
tions. 1t was partially discussed by the ful
committee up to II o'clock, when the Senate
assembled and the committee adjourned unit
Thursday morning, at which time measure
will doubtless be agreed upon for report tc
the Senate. The subcommittee, as hereto
Senator Miller's bill. They have made 9
number of changes in its phraseology,
in order to keep strictly within the
letter of the treaty, and some of the
details of its machinery are altered, but its
general scope and main features have not
been materially changed by the sub-commit-
tee, and from present appearances their re.
port is likely to be accepted by the full
committee with very few additional amend.
ments. The Chinese immigration bill intro.
duced in the House of Representatives yes.
terday by Willis of Kentucky will probably
be adopted in most respects by the COMMITTEES
on Education and Labor, which meets
tomorrow to take action on this sub
jecs. 1t was framed by Willis
after a careful study of the bills previously
treaty and the documents which accompanied
the treaty when it was sent to the Senate for
ratification. Willie, in order to conform to
the treaty stipulation that the immigration OF
Chiness lsborers may be regulated, limited OF
suspended, but not absolutely prohibited,
inserted provision in his bill that
not more than five Chinese laborerg
should be admitted on any one vessel
He has to-day, however, concluded that this
might open the door for fraud. and will to.
morrow ask the committee to strike this
out and provide that the coming Of Chinese
laborers shall be suspended for period of,
say. twenty-five years. His idea is, of course,
that by thus keeping within tbs letter of the
treaty there will be no chance for disputing
the validity of the proposed law, and that
before the period of suspension expires il
may readily be extended. The bill includes
the main provisions of Miller's bill in regard
to the requirements for certificates from the
Government of China and from cur Consuls
at ports of departure, identifying the Cal.
nese immigrants and showing that they be.
long to the excepted classes; but in regard
to registration and inspection in this coun.
try, he proposes to leave the details to the
Secretary of the Treasury, under certain
general requirements, and specification that
oaths must be exacted and So charged fol
each certificate of registry.
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, January 24th. - The bill
passed for the relief of Mrs. Lincoln. TThe
bill appropriates $4,000 fer immediate re-
lief, and increases her pe1sion to S., ,00G pc,
anpum from the passage of the bill
Teller introduced ioint resolution declar-
ing forfeited, SO far as the same have not been
earned by the fulfillment of their conditions,
the land grants to twenty-five railroads, emu.
merated as by bill, including the Northern
Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific and Texas Pa.
ciic. The estimated quantity Of lands
granted to each of these is set forth in the
bill, respectively 100000, $4,000, 600 and
Is, ,000, 900 acres.
James w. McDill, of Iowa. as Senator fol-
the unexpired term, was sworn in, and the
credentials of James +. Wilson, Senator from
Iowa for the six years beginning on the 4th
of March, 1888, were placed on file.
Consideration of the three per cent. bond
bill was resumed.
Call opposed the bill.
Bayard regarded Vests amendment unwise
and unnecessary, in view of Secretary Win.
dom's successful operations, which he re.
garded legal.
Beck favored Vests amendment, and
Plumb's, limiting the greenback redemption
fund to S100. 900, coo, but would prefer to limit
il to half that amount. If the revenues sc
greatly exceed expenses the tariff should BIZ
reduced.
Adjourned.
Appointments by the President.
WASHINGTON, January 24th.-The Presi
dent to-day appointed the following Louis
T. BARN. to be Receiver of the Land Office
at Oregon City, Or, and George B. Cuny, to
h., ~ prhlio Mopax-, l.
Or.
WASHINGTON, January 24th.-Manfred d
Burrel has been appointed Storekeeper for
the First District of California.
The Dakota Delegation.
WASHINGTON, January 24th.-The Dakota
delegation has arrived, and find the prospects
for her admission as State good.
The Last Attack on Sargent Disposed Of.
New YORK, January 24th.-The CONNER.
cial AdrertiSer prints letter signed by w.
Fl. Buckley and P. 81. McGrew, in reference
to the attacks on Senator Sargent which ap.
peared in San Francisco paper Sunday, and
editorially mentions that they so completely
dispose of the last attack on Sargent that the
paper which started it is rendered silent.
The persons who have sustained Sargent have
succeeded in putting him SO straight on the
record that many who formerly believed in
some OF these inventions are now undivided.
The Commercials Washington corresponds
ent Gays: It has been known that the Presi.
dent several weeks ago invited Sargent to ac.
cept the Interior Department, and that a
favorable answer was returned. Since that
time strong efforts have been made 90 induce
the President to change his mind in the in
terest of other candidates. but without avail,
and he still aaheres to his intention of nom
mating Sargent, and will shortly send his
name to the Senate for confirmation.
The Movement Against Polygamy.
New YORK, January 24th.-The Posts
Washington special says: Representative
Haskell, of Kansas, who is one of the leaders
in the House Of the movement against
polygamy, in speaking Of the different bills
before the House relating to the subject, says
he considers them valueless, because of the
imp cssibility of proving polygamous rela.
tious, owing to the secrecy with which the
marriage service is performed among the
Mormons. The bill introduced by Willetf
of Michigan provides for the abolishment oi
the Territorial Legislature and the substitu,
tion of Board of Commissioners, and this
bill meets with his favor. He thinks it the
Only solution of the difficulty.
Intensely Cold Weather.
NEWPORT (R. II, January 24th.-The
schools are closed. 1t is so cold that it is
impossible to heat them.
BOSTON, January 2ith.-The cold in New
England is from 10' to 81 below zero, and
high winds continue.
TORONTO, January 24th.-The temperature
throughout Canada is from 16o to 3S' below
zsro.
NEW YORK, January 24th-Midnight.-
Temperature-Highest, 10o; lowest, %
Average for the day, 44'-said to be the
lowest in years.
CHICAGO, January 24th.-Thermomete
Highest. 33' lowest, 1S'.
Descendant of an Historic Ancestor.
CHICAGO. January 24th.-Dr. Boone, who
died here to-day, was a granddaughter o.
Daniel Boone, and was born in Kentucky
ans Ho moved to Illinois in 1929, served il
the Black Hawk war, and was connected will
many local interests and enterprises.
Fire I'm Railroad Shops.
AURORA (Ill.). January 24th.-The fire al
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
shops this morning destroyed $50, 900 wortt
Of property, including the Directors car, val
ued at Sl4, 1000; dining car, $4,000; tive
smoking cars, wrecking car and severa
coaches. There was no insurance. The sup
posed cause is incendiary.
Rough on Reporter.
LOUISVILLE. January 24th.-The reporter
who telegraphed hence reports of thirteer
cases of smallpox which were undiscoverabls