Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-12
CHAT WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Chinese Immigration = Offering OF Re
Mards-The Fish Commits sioners.

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and finding the latter alone, entered into q
general conversation. The Governor said
that the Chinese question seemed to be the
principal topic of conversation throughout
the coast, but he did not apprehend any
general uprising, and did not think the
militia would be called upon in his State
| to quell disturbances arising from any COM
| plications resulting from a discussion OF
| the vexed question of what shall we do
/ with the little brown mani? The excitement
| in San Francisco last Saturday night, when
| certain companies of the National Guard
were ordered to meet at their armory, was
not caused by any actual emergency,
but was the result of a hoax, indusuiously
circulated by party or parties who would
like to excite the public, and cause more
prominence to the veXed question than the
actual state of affairs warrant. be said
the citizens of Pasadena, instead of Kidding
themselves of the heather, had actually
ACCOMPLISHED nothing, but on the contrary
had placed themselves in worse condition
relative to the Cinnamon than they were
before Johns expulsion from within the
city limits. The Cinnamon had located
just outside the city, on land rented to
them by Assemblyman Banbury. They
dena, lust as much as before and being Just
beyond the town limits, are not under the
control of the town authorities. The Gov
ernor said | see by dispatch in the
RECORD I MON yesterday, that the Commits
sioners of Immigration of New York have
reported TO the Secretary of the Treasury
that during the year ending June Both
there arrived at the port OF New York
1856 906 passengers from foreign ports. OF
that number 2940l3 came as Storage
J passengers, and were landed al Castle Gar
den, where they were examined by the
Commissioners. They were of what is
called the laboring class, and were destined
to Illinois, New York, Ohio, PENNSYLVANIA,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. During the year there were returned
to the country from whence they cane
lS3 emigrants, of whom 81 were insane.
% were idiots, were blind. were deaf
and dumb, p were cripples, AIS were dis
abled by sickness and 475 were without
visible means of support The Commits
siOners recommend that the Act of Con-
gress to regulate immigration be amended
SO as to provide for adequate penalties for
all violations of the law. Here now"
said the Governor " is q solution of this
much vexed question. Let California
have an Immigration Commission similar
too, and with like powers, to that of New
York, at Castle Garden, and not another
Mongol viii be permitted to land upon our
shores unless he is an ambassador. or
same dignitary whose visit is desirable and
whose presence is needed at the capitol of
the Nation. Let the Commission be clothed
with police authority, and every steamer
from the Orient Will be compelled to
anchor in the channel, will be surrounded
by the proper authorities, the Chinese
passengers will not be permitted TO land,
and the owners of the vessels be compelled
to return the celestials to the Flswery
Kingdom from whence they came. This
would not solve the question in day, a
month nor year, but inside Of twenty
years the Mongol would become as scarce
in California as is now the Digger Indian.
They have no wives, there are not fifty
Chinese children in the State, and if they
are stopped coming from China they soon
viii cease to be troublesome in labor cir
Giles and not be a factor in over-population.
He said this was q matter that should
receive the attention of our Congressman,
and some such action should be taken at
the next session.
OFFERING OF REWARDS.
The reporter asked the Governor if he
had read the kilograms that had been sent
from HOLSTER and published in the daily
press, cOndemnatOry of the executive for
not having offered rewards for the arrest
and conviction of the murderers of DIR.
Powers. He replied that he had. and, tax
ing an envelope from a pigeon-hole in his
desk, read some letters that he had received
from the authorities in San Benito county,
asking that rewards be offered for the APP
prehension of the murderers. He then
said that every time a murder was COM
mitted in the State, no matter where how
or under what circumstances, he was i'm
mediately besieged by parties who wished
him to offer a reward. These appeals
come by wire, by mail, on horseback and on
foot and the very small fund at his
disposal for such purposes would have
been exhausted the first three months that
he was in Office if he had acceded to every
request. He said every county in the State
had good Sheriffs, whom it is fair to SUD-
pose have competent and faithful deputies,
and in nearly every case they should be
able to take care of such matters without
asking aid from the State. These appeals
for rewards come, nine cases out of ten,
from the officers themselves, who do not
bestir themselves nor make an effort to
arrest the guilty party until the Governor
puts price upon their heads. He said he
would not vouch for the truth of the state
ment, but it was reported as fact that q
Sheriff hid his man in the chaparral once
for nearly two weeks, and the poor devil
would have been starved to death had not
the Governor offered a reward for his ap-
prehension. AS it was, the prisoner was
brought into town the day following the
offer of the reward. He said " | may be
censured by some good people, but if they
knew the ms and outs of this reward bust
ness they would say that the greatest eau
ton should be used. Even now the men
who have arrested and lodged in Jail the
murderers of DIR. Powers are asking for q
reward. No reward was offered by the State;
ii proved to have been unnecessary, and
for me to pay for the arrest of a prisoner
already in prison would be unprecedented
and totally unwarranted.'
THE FISH COMMISSIONERS.
The Governor was then asked in regard
to the i'll feeling existing in the Board of
Fish Commissioners, with Joseph d. Red
ding upon one side and Judge a. B. DibbIe
and r. II. Buckingham on the other He
replied that some months ago he had re-
ceiyed letter from Commissioner Redding
condemnatory of the official acts of the
other two members of the Commission.
He did not pay any attention to it more
than to read the charges preferred, and
which he thought generally were a mis-
statement of facts. The protection of food
fish in the streams and lakes of this State
was a matter of far more importance
than people generally supposed, and
its protection requires a great dea!
of labor and the expenditure of much
time. Messrs. Buckingham and Dibble
had been most faithful and efficient officers,
and il all Commissions were composed of
such timber there would be no cause of
complaint. The Fish Commission was I'M
like the Board of Prison Directors, and he
did not consider that he had authority to
hold an investigation, and even if he did,
in his opinion it would be entirely unnec-
essary. The money expended has been
laid out most judiciously. California to-
day can boast of having the finest hatchery
in the United States, and their steam
launch has driven all the illicit fishermen
from the bays and rivers.
FIRE.-The alarm of fire at l o'clock P.
NJ. yesterday was in consequence of the
burning of a frame dwelling in Skaters
Addition, owned by Meredith Norton and
occupied by Mrs. Palm. As the alarm
came from box 12-PiOneer Mill-it ex-
cited much interest, as it was feared the
mill was in danger, and a large crowd
fastened to see where the fire was. The
railroad yard engine coupled on to the
water-cars and moved quickly to the mill,
but findirr the fire was not there hut ont