Connecticut western news., 1882-03-08

chFbu UldG u0 pl0HSeS. III 1SSU Ill total immigration of 593, 900 persons there were but 582 Chinese, and in 1881 there were 10000 in 72O, ,O0O inn migrants, while in the same year 10000 Chinese went back. The advocates of this legislation invoked the old race pre- judice which had so often played it's hateful and bloody part in history. Dennis Kearney s constitution, the queue ordinance, held invalid by Judge Field, the crimes and extortions committed upon the Chinese may we'll explain the unwillingness to acquire Christianity represented to them by such examples. The dread of an injury to our labor from the Chinese rests on the same fallacy which opposed labor saving machinery and the coming of the Irish man, the German and the Swede.
 The Chinese treaty question being before the Senate, Mir. Farley replied i Hoar, challenging the production of 8 tors assertion that the treaty had been wrung from China unwillingly. He asked MT. Hoar to state square]y wheth- CT he favored the enfranchisement and naturalization of the Chinese Mir. Hoar
 
 to citizenship all foreigners who re- nounced foreign allegiance and who were l fit for it in character and intelligence and were attached to our Government.
 Mir. Vance offered resolution recit- ing that the cost of collecting the inter nal revenue fax in the sixth collection district of North Carolina is nearly sixty per cent, being greater than that of any other district in the United States, and demanding committee of investigation. .s. ....-..
 MT. Ferry introduced bill to grant additional pensions to those who have lost an arm or leg in the service of the | United States. ..
 During the discussion of the Chinese Bill, MT. Bayard, in opposing the amendment, said he thought full signifi- canoe had not been given to the almost unanimous California vote against immigration, and commented upon it as unanimity of popular senti- ment without Q precedent. Those who felt and were confronted by the danger were the ones, he thought, to instruct the Senate as to the relief. They were threatened with Mongolian overthrow of every thing recognized as Christian civilization. The brotherhood of humanity was 8 good idea, but the instinct of national self-preservation was stronger than that. A nation must be true to it's own people before it expended its energies for strangers. Humanity, jus tice, and our duty to republican institu- tions compelled us to consider the char acter of our population. "Sooner or | later, Senators" he exclaimed with great emphasis, "you are to choose, and better soon than late between the civilization of our own country and that of China. He spoke of the peculiar marital and other relations of that people, as show ing the impossibility of their assimila- tion with us, and of their mighty and inexhaustible numbers. s'To use an expressive metaphor" he added, s'the Chinese write us backward that is to say, they make virtues of what We con- sider vices."
 1 MT. Robinson, of New York, by re- l quest, introduced bill to organize the National Labor League Railway Con- pany of America, for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintain ing 8 railway from the Atlantic sea- board to Chicago, St. Louis and Coun- cils Bluffs. It provides that, for the purpose of establishing equal rights in the commerce among the States, and for the purpose of securing & railway highway under such civil con- trol as to prevent combinations against the public good" certain gentlemen shall be appointed commission under the name of the National Board of Interstate Transportation. In the list of names appear these Fran cis B. Thurber. Thomas Kinsella, A. B. Mullett, J. B. Ecclesine, J. Pope Hodnutt, Nicholas Muller, and William R. Grace, who with their col leagues are authorized by the bill to carry out it's purposes by determining upon the terminal points of the railroad to be constructed and to issue capital stock to the extent of $4O,OOO,OOO. The bill further provides that when the road has been constructed to Council Bluffs, it may be continued to San Francisco, and in aid oi its construction grants to it every alternate section of the unoccupied public lands through which it may pass for fifty miles on each side of the track. In order to relieve the wants of labor, depressed by 8 contraction of the currency" the work men employed in building the railroad shall be paid by the Government $1 g day and the remainder of their wages in certificates of the indebtedness redeem. able in 3.65 bonds. The bill was re. ferred.
 The House, in Committee of the Whole, passed the Military Academy Appropriation bill, which appropriates $318,857. .'
 A number of members indignantly denied the charge made against them in the Times that they were attorneys for the Star route parties.
 The House in committee of the whole took up the Indian appropriation bill. The total amount of appropriation re. commended by the bill $4, 92O, 2O3-an increase over the bill of last year oi $351, 600 and decrease of $921, 1000 from the estimates.
 ] MT. Pound introduced bill to estab- , fish board of review of pension and bounty land-warrant claims which have been disaliowed, and to prevent frauds in the granting of pensions. Referred. MT. Dezendorf introduced bill ap. propriating $5OO,O0O for the purchase of movable torpedoes by the Secretary of the Navy. Referred.
 In the House discussion on the foreign policy of the United States Gov. ernment arose over the Diplomatic and Consular Service Appropriation bill, Mir. Whitthorne making speech, in which he said that the United States should regard the construction of an Istnmus canal as menace to it's power