Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-10-20
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ia their native land who would nave | been entitled to enter this country un- der the claim of being prIor residents. | About SIX hundred have arrived in this | port since the approval of the exclusion | act. The court declares the language of the act IS capable of bearing but one | construction. It begins 70 opsrste froi- | the moment II wss approved by Prese- dent Cleveland. The court further de- olares there Is no specific contract bi tween the U. 5. government and ind yidual Chinese lsborers y which tn e latter should De entitled to return to this country after once departing from 1t. A return certificate is not con tract but only En instrument Of evi- deuce 10 establish the identity of the party as between the two governments. Treaties like ether laws confer rights as long as they are in fo-ce and the court holds ths. the right of congress so leg isla.s in such a manner Es 60 repeal treatles. has been clearly recognized. An act of congress upon sut jscts within its legislative power IS bindrng upon the courts of treaty on the subject. Both are binding, except the latter conflicts or interfefes with the former Cpon the point that the exclusion IS unconstltu- tional on account of its being eI-post facto in the law now in question. There is nothing in the nstuse ot offsnse ID 8 Ohinamsn's lesvlsg the country and his depsrtureis not made an offense. There is simply & repeal by congress of the prior law formed in stipulations of tfe treaty with China.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. l5.-Cockrel, of Missouri, warmly defended the Presi- dents pension veto messages against Blair who characterized the President as an infamous lIbeller iD having used hls great power to defsme and libel wo- man named Doherty unnecessarily. Mary Anna Doherty he asserted was woman of irreproachable character, | while there wAs no proof of the char aeter of her assailRnt. At the close ot Blsir's remarks the Presidents message vetoirR the bill granting pension to | Mary K. Richards was laid before the
 senate, the grounds of disspprovsl be- ing thst the beneficiary would receive
 under the action of the pension bureau | "A much larger sum thsn under the ac- tlon of the bill referred.
 The message from the president return ing without approval the bill granting 8 l pension to w. S, BrsdshaW was lad oe- fore the Senate, she ground belnS tnat the disability was not contracted ID military service, It was lald on the te-
 bic.
 Brown presented petition from The 1 Wouep's Chr istian Temperance Cnlo1 of Georgis for the repeal ot the internal
 revenue laws, In the course of his re- nsrks he referred 10 the fact that there
 v-ss no ouorurn of either fOuse present ia Washington, ard C i'd that COT sress | should adjourn Pt the earliest day pos
 s;ble.
 Allison in rsplyir 10 him said hs di
 not see any nossIt 'Ity ot passing the ! senate tariff b ID the senate uncef the
 preseut circumstances, and even Y It
 was passed by the senate 1t would be
 ,mpossible 10 have the Hme ndmept con | side-ad in the house before Decemte-.
 He said that congress was not res1y 10 | adjourn vet, the general deholBry bill
 had not vet received the signature of the president and WAS only sent to him
 last Friday or Saturday. The discus
 sion on the tariff bill was resumed.
 Vest. in referring to the charges ar rising under the disoussion of the tariil |, issue, said that the S600O0,0 900 which Il
 was claimed had been placed In she ns- | tioual banks for 1rposes Of tsyoritlsm | hau ueru folf.y s'rss.b1.od n'no"n - tional baaks in various cities and thai the officers of only one bank belonged 3 to the democratic psrty. On the othel
 hand he claimed the frst national oanh
 of New York, the pet of the republican party, had made s10,000,O00 clear proh' r from 1864 10 1887 on a capital of hslt
 million. Allison replied that thls matter
 mad been explained over and over agsir 2 by Mr. Sherman who vss their secrs tsry of the treasury. Adjourned. VIRGINIA. Oct 15-Yee' rr3ay the Ne g vada Rifle Association tesm of ten men e ahootiug ten shots each Et both .tO unS n and 300 yard ts-get.. with NlnCheste
 rifles pound trigger, made X total scofl of 902 points beating tine worlds record WAsHISeros, Oct. l5.-Representstiv - Wheeler today introduced ID the hous y a bill providing for the assembling O & the 5lst and subseqosnt congresses o' |. the 4sh of March when adJournmen would immediately Do taken until to
 first Monday il December following un
 less the President expresses a wlsh .
 the contrary.
 - PRRsccrT. Oct. l6-Wslter J. Maj - phy, employed as night foreman st tn United Verde Co.'S mines, 6. Jerome, miles from here, was shot at half pas six o'clock last night by Bill Harper Murphy and Harper had had quarrc d and the lstter was badly worsted an
 producing 8 six shooter shot Aurph
 through the abdomen. Harper ID b medIstely escaped. Murphy's recover s is doubtful.
 10 MATCH CHUNK, Pr., Oct 16.-A Penr d sylvanis freight ran into gravel trRl R. on inc Lehigh valley railroad this morI ing. lis reported six were killed Rn 'i twenty wounded. No telegraph st th 10 scene of accident and further psriicU D. lars unobtsinable. 10 The con struction train was unlondln
 tits at TGmond Siding on the Pottsvi! branch when the fast Penpsy lvaul l. freight train dasted in to the constru' le .ion cars, or forty Hung6riBns Rt wor k unloading the ties s'I wers killed Bu
 twenty-si1 wounded. A brakeman o Is the Pennsylvania tram was killed an twenty freigh cars wrecked. It Is fen IS ed many of wounded will dle.
 as NEsAUxcE, Mich. Oct. l6.-Severt cs miners are imprisoned ID the Brst sto to mine by fell of rock. A rescue party ,- seeking to relieve the men.
 to CHICAGO, Oct. I6.-Hon. Jobn Wen ,o worth, better known as Long John, die
 this morning. Wentworth was one Is ChIcaRo's oldest citizens and was onC a mayor of the city, congressman, and ed D. itor Of the principal daily paper her 70 He was a man of great frame, near
 seven feet ID night.
 ,e WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Gov. Ross. ;s New Mexico, in his report says that en' N less and serious friction must eusue te legislation for the settlement of the Ian xl grants is much longer delayed. He d se votes considerable space to the suole'
 of irrigation and ssys that ot the sevei '' ty-nine million sores area of terrItoi
 contained in New Mexico, sixty mlllio
 acres may be olsssed ss tillsole with l
 ri0stion. The Governor says the tv
 hundred and fifty thousand sores Tor tt or establishment of reservoirs for irrissho is as provided for in the bill for the s' ly mission of New Mexico now pending b --,l1 ha arnhly gu afar