Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-04-27
GENERAL NEWS.
The Chinese Bill in The Senate-Blaine
Continues His TestlmOny-The Indiana
State senate-Destruction by Fire-A
Colorado Sheriff Murdered-RaiIroad
Bridge Burned-Etc.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To TIE RECORD uSlos.I
WASHINGTON, April 26th.-The debate on
the Chinese bill was continued to-day by
Slater of Oregon, who sharply criticised
Hoar's speech, and contrasted the records of
the Republican and Democratic parties on
the Chinese question, to the advantage of the
latter. He also argued against the proposed
omission of the fifteenth section from the
bill.
Hawley of Connecticut followed in opposi-
tion to the bill, attacking especially its pro.
vision against Chinese naturalization and
sundry penalty features, which he ikened to
the machinery of the fugitive slave law.
Edmunds moved TO substitute for the IF
teenth section the following: "That the
words Chinese laberers, wherever used in
this Act, shall be construed to include persona
who are usually engaged in manual labor"
Farley took the floor in opposition to the
amendment, and after showing that Chinese
skilled labor is precisely the kind which is
most injurious to our interests, he became
engaged in long colloquy with Dawes about
the labor experiment of Chinese in Massa.
ehusetts, and at 4 o'clock yielded to motion
made by E3munds for an executive session,
which was agreed to.
Inc ell accordingly goes over until to.
morrow.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
WASHINGTON, April 26th.-The general ex-
pectations that the Senate would reach
vote on the Chinese bill this afternoon failed
of fultillment, partly because Senators Slater
and Hawley made longer speeches than were
looked for, but mainly on account of the ILL.,
ness of daughter of Senator Eimunds,
which required him to leave the Capitol
about o'clock, and induced the friends of
the bill to allow it to go over until TO morrow,
in order to afford him an opportunity to par
ticipate in the closing discussion. 1t was un-
derstood also that he desires to reply speci6-
cally to some of Hawley's criticisms upon the
machinery of the bill, which as a member of
the Foreign Relations Committee he largely
assisted in framing. and which he is fully
prepared to defend. The debate to-day was
not exciting, nor for the most part especially
intere restipg.
The Shipherd Inquiry-ContInuatiO of
Blalne's Testimony.
WASHINGTON, April 26.h.-Blaine said to
the committee this morning that he had ex.
amined the diary of the late President in
which he had been in the habit fer years of
keeping minute account of his daily trans.
actions, and found neither Shipherd, nor the
Hurlbut, nor the Cochet claims, nor the Pc
ruvian Company mentioned. Neither does
his private Secretary remember ever having
heard him mention them.
THE "FoREIGN POLICY MATTER.
The Chairman-I would inquire if any of
the important dispatches pertaining to South
American affairs were prepared during Presi-
dent Gar6eld's sickness.
Blaine-No, sir. am very much obliged
to you for asking that question. There has
been no Misrepresentation in the press more
widespread than that l had assumed the
right, acting as President de facto, to plunge
the Government into certain policies while
direct its affairs. So far from that, the
diplomatic correspondence, when fully pub
lished, will show-as that which has been al
ready published does show-that there was
no decisive action whatever taken during the
Presidents illness, in regard to any other
field where the diplomacy Of the Administra-
tion was called into action. There was pos
sibly one exceptions grave and important
one-that will be forthcoming in the publica-
tion Of the dispatches relating to Venezuela.
These dispatches, although written during
the Presidents illness, were already talked
over, and talked over several times, between
myself and the President before his assassi-
nation, and knew that in what did 1 was
carrying out, with great exp'icituess, the
views of the President. In order to Illus
trate this question, l desire to make state
ment.
THAT CIRCULAR LETTER.
On the 24th of June, 1881, the State De-
partment issued circular letter to our Min.
listers in Europe touching the policy of the
United States in relation to the interoceanic
canal. That letter. being addressed to all the
Governments of Europe, did not afford scope
6. IS H., Nl,akoa ~, L.
the plan Of our policy, which was the Clay.
ton Bulwer treaty. That related especially
to England, SO it was not deemed wise or
proper to make any allusion to it in the cir
cular letter to all the other powers as well as
England, but practically both papers were
prepared at the same time. The one relating
to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was blocked
out, and 50 far blocked out that the President
and myself had gone over the points to be
presented, and the notes were full upon it.
But that paper, when the President was shot,
was laid aside and never Withdrawn from its
pigeon-hole until President Arthur had been
thirty or forty days in the exercise of the
Presidency, and was sent weeks afterwards
by reason of the Presidents authority to do
il. give that as an illustration of the very
important part which l took in the Peruvian
and South American question, and which is
that no important action was taken upon any
material point whatever without the direc-
tions and knowledge of one or the other of
the two Presidents. want to make that
statement as brief as language can make it.
GARFIELD's VIEWS.
In explanation of President GarGeld's views
upon the subject, Blaine said " President
Garfield, in conversation with me, said Mr..
Lincoln directed Secretary Seward to bring
all foreign dispatches to him and not to the
Cabinet unless he desired it,"
Continued Blaine: From that time for
ward | never submitted anything to the
Cabinet which involved permanent policy.
or change Of policy, and no step which would
involve change of policy on the part of this
first showing the President and receiving his
entire approval and direction"
Blaine alluded to the efforts which had
been made to fix upon him (Blaine) the re-
sponsibility for certain policy toward the
South American States which was calculated
to involve this country seriously, and he con-
tinued: II don't desire to assume that
President Arthur is responsible for any such
effort. acquit him entirely, but desire at
this time to place this matter upon a true
basis"
THE TREsCoTT INSTRUCTIONS.
Blaine then produced the original draft of
ihotf "AiCu WCE0 gwen W IfccSObSI
which he read, and pointed out the correc-
tions which had been made by the President.
Some of them were at his (Blaine's) sugses-
tion. He commented upon the corrections
and their merits and demeIits. He added:
" do not by any means find fault with the
President for changing bis mind, but this is
the original draft of the instructions to which
President Arthur gave his assent, and which,
following precedents. kept 1 desire to
! II
ever interpolated a line or a syllable in a
dispatch after it was agreed to by the Presi-
dent is as false lie as that which was circu.
lated over the country that was during the
Presidents sickness blocking out a foreign
policy of my own."
At this point Belmont proceeded to pro-
pound series of prepared questions, mainly
directed to inquire into the policy of the De-
partment in the Chile-Peruvian trouble and
the instructions given to Trescott.
The witness. in reply to question, stated
that he had never made an examination into