The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-08
THE PACIFIC
Our San FIR ,neisoo Correspondence.

TFRoM OUR SAN FEAScrsco CORRESPONDENT
SAN FRANcIsCo, MARCH -, 1882.
The Chinese Bill has passed and from Siski-
YOU TO San Barnadino and from the Summit to
the Coast-line, the State has heaved one great
sigh Of relief during the last twenty-four hours.
At least IL would appear 50, for all the papers in
dulge in giaring headletters, headlines and as
sumo to be famously jubilaut. The bill passed
the House OF Representatives at a late hour du-
ring yesterdays session, precisely As II came
from the Senate. Every amendment was voted
down. and every objection over-ridden by the
Pacific Coast members, who We're champiOning
the measure. and finally. when it came to a final
vote the bill passed by a vote of Ia to %. Both
those in favor, and those opposed, represented
both the national parties, though oaly four Dem
ocrats voted against the measure as compared
with 50 III favor. The Republican vote was 50
for. and 81 against, so the Democrats gain the
credit. The treaty, which now only awaits the
Presidents signature To become n law, provides
that for a period Of twenty years after it becomes
operative there ~hal De no immigration of Chi
nese laborers iu-a th= United States. Amy mas
ter of u vessel which shall bring them is made
liable to a fine OF 500 and a years Imprisonment
upon conviction. Merchants, teachers, students.
travellers, diplomatic agents and Chinese labor
ers who were IL the country previous to Noyem-
Der II, 1880 are excepted and these must have
regularly made out passports from the Chinese
authorities. countersigned by the representatives
of this government in China. The bill docs not
take effect for ninety days. As 1 before wrote
You its immediate effect will be slight. The Ia
Dor market is overstocked with Chinese and it
will be along time before anything like a scarcity
will prevail. The bill suits the six companies,
for the time being, perfectly, as well as the ser
want class and wage laborers generally. The
State however, will have no other reaeon to com-
plain either through the protest of the intelligent
or the cutlery of the demagogue. Everything that
was demanded or hoped for has been granted by
Congress, and granted in such a hearty fashion
that the relief measures promise 10 be rigidly ex-
ecuted. There is some little talk of the Presi-
dents withholding his signature but it amounts
to nothing.
THE PERU SCHEME.
The sensation Mt present occupying the nation
If an investigation by IA House Committee, of the
grandest and most unprincipled scheme that ever
occupied the grasping spectators of two nations.
Having Peru completely in her power, Chile in
stead of demanding $50, 900, 900 of property,
which, according to Blaine, would have amply
Unidentified her for her war expenses has seized
upon about all the revenue producing property
that Peru possesses, including the Tarapaca dis
trict, which includes all the valuable nitrate beds
and all the guano islands, the aggregate value of
the property seized being at least 81, 500, 900, 900.
1.-THE Peruvian Company, which is made up
of English and American spectators and the
Chilean government, and which assumes to own
the Cocket and Landreau claims against Peru,
amounting to nine hundred millions of dollars,
has for its President one Jacob R. Shepherd, an
American. and the Investigating are
endeavoring to make him tell what he knows and
reveal his agents among our statesmen, but thus
far with little effect. The Company proposes to
assume possession of the guano and nitrate
lands, and administer them for the benefit of the
creditors of Peru. The manifest outrage con-
templated against Peru is as evident as it is pro-
digious, and through Secretary Frelinghuysen's
instructions to Prescott, L. S. Minister to Peru,
our government has taken a neutral position,
which is precisely what the schemers most desir-
ed. Now it is that Blaine's action shows forth
as the most wise and statesmanlike that could
have been conceived, and the cutlery raised against
him has faded away and given place to a nation
al murmur of praise of his foresight. The Com
pany bases its claim to 81 900, 600, 600 from Peru
ON the grounds that the Peruvian government
is indebted to the original discoverer of the qua
no beds, in that amount. They propose to take
charge of the guano and nitrate beds, and work
out their own claim, besides assuming a debt of
$500. 900, 600 to English bond holders and give a
.sfnir" indemnity to Chile. The fact is, that
between the spectators and Chile Peru has a
fair chance of being wiped out of existence, com
pared Will its former position, and the United
States through its new policy in the matter poses
as the idle spectator of a national outrage.
DELoNG AND HIS CREW
Are given mp. The search party IT. Siberia
under Lieutenant Melville have found numerou
traces OF them, dating back to September last
after their arrival on the Siberian coast, but tn
long lapse of time during which nothing has beef
heard from them. tIne statements in their MESA
I'D recnr.ds, that they had only a few day
-sions, and the rigor and barrenness of eli
mate and country, make their loss almost a cer
tainty. The last record found is
IA a hut, Lena Delta, about u miles fror
the head of the Delta.
September u 1881.
, Fourteen officers and men of the U. S. Arcti
Steamer Jeanette reached this place last eve
ming and are proceeding to the southwark thl
morning. A complete report will be found in
; finder case hung up in a hut fifteen miles farthe
up the right bank of the stream.
GEO. W. De LONG.
Lieutenant Commanding.
Surgeon Amber, J. J. Collins, A. Gartz, "
= F. c. Nindermann, A. Dressler, H. H. Erickson
= A. H. Law, H. H. Jof, Alex. Y. g.. H. Boyd
L.. P. Noros, w. Lee, L. Jurson."
Following is a record of the crushing of tn
> Jeanette and other information made public b
the survivors in the other boat.
A Boston dispatch Of March goth says
The father of S. p. Noros has received a LET
ter from his son, dated Iakutsk, Siberia, Janua
~ eth. Noros was one of the men selected b
Lieutenant belong to go ahead for relief. l
his letter he SAYS W had travelled abou
three weeks when the Captain decided to sen
t Ninderman and myself ahead to look for assist
ance. We walked 100 miles without anythin
to eat. For six days we had not had a mouthfu