The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-08
THE DAYN CONGRESS.
Debate on Chinese Bill in the Senate and
InFIH Commission In the Honae.

1uFlH commission IN the House.
WASHINGTON, March AFTER the trans
action Of some preliminary business The
Chinese bill was again called up, and Mr.
Miller, Of California, called attention to the
recentpopular demonstrations in California
and Nevada on behalf Of the bill. He had
received dispatches from the mass meetings
(the largest, he said, ever held in Calilor.
mia, at San Francisco, Stockton, Los An.
geles, Santa Cruz, Nevada City, Sonora and
various other points, reciting their pro-
ceedings and the resolutions they adopted
in advocacy OF the bill.
Mr.. Farley said he had also received a
number Of dispatches Of similarimport from
meetings at Sacramento City, Oakland and
elsewhere.
Mr. Fair had received a dispatch from
the Governor OF Nevada, dated March 4
stating that the mass meetings for restric-
tion, then in progress in all the prominent
towns Of thestate, were unanimously in "a.
yor Of the bill.
Mr.. Dawes being entitled to the floor,
said: the dispatches Just read furnished
ample proof Of the blind furies and dark
ening passion which threatened to swallow
up every effort to deliberately consider the
economical, or what might be called the
sentimental objections TO the bill. He de-
precated the policy Of moulding legisla-
ton for the whole. country upon the die
tates OF locality, and commended that re-
strictions upon permitted classes as well as
the practical prohibition against Chinese
laborerS for twenty years, contravened not
only the late treaty but the former treaty.
The bill, drawn IN spirit OF hate, and
supported by the same sentiment which
actuated the land letters OF San Francisco,
made distinction in the Chinese already
here against the poor laborer and in favor
the aristocrat. He charged that the meas.
ure was based upon this discrimination;
while it assumed not to prohibit the labor.
ers it threate9ed with the penitentiary
those who might be found without pass
ports, which it required. He believed that
this country had gone too far to admit Of
the retrogade step which it would take in
the declaration Us to certain immigrants:
that they shall remain, and as to Others
that they shall be banished or 90 to the
penitentiary.
8Ir. Edmunds defended the principle
upon which the bill was based. He said
the fundamental prosperity OF the republic
consists ofthe homogensity Of its people:that
Cinnamon here did not assimilate, socially
or politically, and were not homogeneous
with our population, and it did not now
appear that they could assimilate: He ia
yored limitation Of the period OF suspen-
sion to ten years, as conforming but more
directly to the spirit Of the treaty. Asthus
modified, this legislation would be eQuiva-
lent to saying, not that We deny assimila-
ton with the Chinaman. il he is capable
OF that, but only that We shall suspend the
immigration OF hundreds OF thousands OF
this race until we have tried the expert
ment as to compatibility with the Chinese
already here.
In the House to-day the bill creating a
local board Of inspectors OF huIls and boil
ers at Gallipolis, o., was passed.
After the transaction OF some miscella.
neous business, the House went into Com.
mittee Of the Whole on the State of the
Union, and Mr.. Kasson called up his tariff
commission bill.
order that the bill was entitled to no special
privilege, as it was not bill to raise rev.
enue. There was very general discussion
as to whether the bill was or was not
revenue measure, and finally the Chair de-
livered his decision, stating that the point
was well taken.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
then taken up, Mr.. kasson (of Iowa.
stating that though he would moi
now antaGonize that bill, he would,
when its consideration was COM
pleted (unleSs otherwise instructed by the
Committee on Ways and Means), attempt
to reach the tariff bill by moving to lay
aside every bill before it on the calendar.
The amount appropriated by the agri-
cultural appropriation bilr is $396, $50,
an increase Of S7l, $50 over the appropria.
ton OF last year, and reduction OF SlOC,-
100 from the estimates.
Mr.. Aiken (of North Carolina), after an
appeal for an appropriation for the encour-
agement OF tea culture in this country,
branched of to general discussion OF the
tariff, advocating revision Of custom
duties, and especially reduction of the
duty upon iron.
Mr. Turner, OF kentucky, also made a
speech in denunciation Of the present tariff
system, and rs an example OF the hardships
created by it followed in Imagination the
daily life OF the farmer from the hour he
put on his flannel shirt taxed IS per cent 10
the moment he covered himself in the
evening with q blanket taxed over 100 per
cent, asserting every article he made use OF
in his agricultural pursuits, were heavily
taxed for the bueft OF the manufacturers,
He was opposed to tariff commission, re.
garding It merely as q continuation OF
the bad cause. He did not believe Con.
gress should delegate its powers.
Mr.. Dunnell (Minn. dryly inquired
whether the Democratic caucus had voted
not to change the rules.
Mr.. Turner replied that he did not
understand him, and upon suggestion Mr.
Atkins Tenn sent to the Clerks desk
and had read the resolution adopted by
the caucus and published.
The committee then rose.
The Senate bill passed authorizing the
Secretary Of War TO use the hospital tents
for the relief Of the sufferers from the
overflow OF the Mississippi river.
Horrible and Mysterious Murder.
BosroS, March This morning as Mrs
Harriet Bell was walking in Kirkland