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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
A QUICK SOLUTION.
TIE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE DISPOSBs OF THE
CHINESE QUESTION
In Short 0rdsr-Ths Bill Sent 10 the Senate, Where
il is Debated and Goes 0vsr-ChineSs
Labor Rigidly Excluded
from the Land.

WASHINGTON, September 3. - Mr..
Scott, of Pennsylvania, asked unanimous
consent to introduce for present coDsidera-
tion, bill supplementary to an act to ex-
ecute certain treaty stipulations relating
to Chinese, approved May 9th, 1882. The
bill passed without objection or division.
Section provides that from and after
passage OF this act it shall be unlawful for
aAy Chinese laborer who shall at any time
heretofore have been or who may now
or hereafter be resident within the Uni
ted States and who shall have departed, or
shall depart therefrom, and shall not have
returned before the passage of this act, to
return 10 the United States.
Section provides that no certificates OF
identity provided for in fourth and fifth sec
tious act to which this suppliment shall
hereafter be issued; and every certificate
heretofore issued in pursuance thereof is
hereby declared void and of no effect; and
Chinese laborers claiming admission by
virtue thereof shall not be permitted IN
the United States.
Section 3 provides that all duties pre-
scribed and liabilities, penalties and for
FIXTURES prescribed by second, tenth, eiev-
enth and twelfth sections act, to which
this is supplementary are hereby extended
and made sppliable to provisions in this act
Mr.. Scott stated that the
proposed legislation was the only
means by which Chinese laborers
could be kept out of the country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
IMMIGRATION FOR SIX YEARS,


This great addition to our population
includes an element that is being i'm
ported for the express purpose of. cheaper
ing labor, and the capitalists who have
been engaging in that work are the men
who are the beneicisries of the tariff sys-
TEN.
A canvass of the anthracite coal regions
shows that native labor has been largely
supplsnted within recent years, aud that
at the present time there are over 81, 900
Hungsrians, Poles and Italians employed
in and about the anthracite mines of
Pennsylvania.
The Hungarians have almost entirely
overrun certain sections of the Connells-
vile coke region and the Clearfeld coal
region. They are supplying nearly all OF
the unskilled labor for railroad construc-
ton, for iron-ore digging, for iron works
like the Pencoyd and Pheuix and for tex
tile mills like Sevill Schofield's.
In every branch of the protected indus
tries where unskilled labor can be utilized
they are making rapid encroachments. In
sugar refneries, in cigsr-making, in cloth
ing, and even in those occupations which
have been filed by females, the hordes Of
Southern Europe have invaded. All this
supply of cheap labor has been brought
about by those employers who asked that
the tariff taxes he retained upon the false
representation that they would pay higher
wages to their workingmen.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
PROTECTED LABORERS PAID LESS
Than Their Unprotected Brsthren-Paupsr
Competition Increases Profits and
Reduces Wages.
66,OOO,OOO OF OUR POPULATION
Taxed Upon the NecaSsariss Of Life in Order
to Foster Trusts and COmbinss---i4-15
of Our Workers not Sub
jeet to Foreign
Competition.

PHILADELPHIA, September s. The
Record says A distinguished protection
ist has asserted that the presidential con-
test might be fought upon the question Of
wages. Let the challenge be accepted.
Show the voters of the United States
that only one worker out of Is is engaged
in an occupation that could by any possi-
bility be subject to foreign competition.
Show them that 10 ont Of every 20 work
ers are forced to pay higher prices for the
necessaries Of life in order that the en-
ployer OF the fifteenth man shall be given
au opportunity not only 10 rob the con-
Stunning classes bat to cheaper the labor
which he employs
Show them that of the entire population
of this country, estimated at 10000, 900,
over sc, 900. 900 persona are supported from
occupations that are unprotected. The
clothing, the food, the iron and other ar
ticles which srs used in providing for the
comfort of those 56,OOO 900 persons are
taxed for the benefit of trusts, pools and
combines.
Show them that there are twice as many
wage earners and wealth producers en-
ploysd in agriculture as in manufactures
Show them that the lsborers employed
in protected occupations are paid less by
their employers than the workers in those
occupations which are not protected by
tariff laws.
Show them that nearly all of the pauper
labor imported into the country has been
employed in those industries that have re-
csived legislative protection.
Show them that strikes of workingmen
are more frequent and less successful i'll
protected industries than in unprotected
occupations.
Show them that the combined influences
of tariff laws and corporate aggressions
have tended TO concentrate capital into
few hands, to drive out small operators, to
foster monopolies and to lessen the rewards
of labor.
Shew them that the issue before them is
solely one of wages.
THE WORKERS CLASSIFIED.
The total number Of persons engaged in
gainful occupations ~ shown by the CEN
sns of 1880 was II, 1872, 099, being "a per
cent. of the entire population and AZ per
cent of this population ten years OF age
and upward. These workers were divided
into classes a. follows:
AGRICULTURE. ........... 7.67O4os
PROFESSIONAL AND PER-
sONaL OGUUPaTIONs........ 4,O7I.ass
TIoN...... -. I,slo. s58
M MANUFACTURES, MECHANICS
AND MiNISG 3,ss7,IIa
Stated graphically these claims are as
follows:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
THE SENATE DALLIES.

And the Chinese Bill Goes Over Another
Day.
WASHINGTON. September 3.-The House
bill excluding Chinese immigration sbso-
lutely, having come over TO the Senate, it
was taken up for action. At first Mr..
George moved its reference to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, but that
course was resisted by Senators Stewart,
Mitchell and Dolph, and Mr.. Vest declared
himself prepared to vote for the bill i'm
mediately. Under these circumstances
Mr. George withdrew the motion 10 refer
Mr.. Sherman made statement as to the
course of the committee on foreign rels-
tions on the subject, ami advocated the
passage of the bill on the ground, that
every Nation had the right to provide for
its own preservation, even in contraven-
ton of existing treaties. Mr.. Sherman
gave detailed statement Of the course OF
the committee on foreign relations in re-
gard to the treaty recently ratified by the
Senate with amendments, including an
interview with the Secretary of State. No
one doubted the power of the United
States Government to make the exclusion
of Chinese absolute, even without negotia-
tion, even in violation of existing treaty.
Every nation had a right to provide by
law for it's own safety. But it had been
the general desire of the committee on
foreign relations to have the Chinese gov
ernment assent by treaty to the absolute
exclusion. If the object could be accom-
plished in that way and without direct
act of congress not In harmony with the
treaty the commission preferred to have 1t
done in that way.
A subcommittee OF three had talked the
matter over in most friendly manner
with Secretary Bayard, and the Secretary
had entered into negotiations with the
Chinese government in view of the pro-
posed notifications of the treaty. The
new treaty had been negotiated and had
been ratified by the Senate with amend
ments to make it clear, and which amend
ments it was supposed the Chinese minis
ter would have agreed to.
Mr.. Butler inquired if the act was not q
violation of the Chinese treaty.
The debate was continued at much
length by Senator Gray, who deprecated
the action of the Senate in putting unnec-
eseary amendments on the treaty, which
would have fully accomplished the pur
poses of the pending bill, and by Senator'S
Stewart, Vest, Dolph, Mitchell and George.
The letter made long argument to prove
that the Republicans were responsible for
the Burlingsme treaty and for the
rejection of various measures to restrict
Chinese immigration. This argument was
traversed by Mr.. Mitchell. He declared
that Mr. George in asserting that the Re-
publican party was responsible for opening
the door to Chinese immigration was as
serting his own ignorance Of what he was
taking about, and that the door had been
opened by the Democratic party of Cali
fornia.
As Mr.. Morgan desired to speak on the
bill it went over till tomorrow. Ad-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
CONDEMNED TELEGRAMs.

At Circleville, O., an unknown assassin
shot dead Mrs. Maggie Collins, an aged
colored woman.
Thomas McKenny fell out of q third
story window at Youngstown, O., and was
instantly killed.
Dana Agnew, OK chief justice Of Penn
sylvania, is seriously i'll with erysipelas.
Britannia. Frank Ward, Egmont, Proc
tor Knott, Niagara and Studeaway were
the winners in the Coney Island races yes
terday.
George Saald has been made happy
father for the second time.
Thirty seven new cases of yellow fever
and two deaths was the record at Jackson
Vile yesterday.
A circular has been issued from the
G. A. r. committee asking for subscrip-
ton of ten cents from each member for q
fund to erect an equestrian statue to John
A. Logan.
George Clark, the Waynesburg murder
er, has been sentenced to be hanged.
The famous Hill-Sharon divorce case has
been decided against the plaintiff BY the
Supreme Court of California. The fair
plaintiff was sent to jail for thirty days
for contempt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04

Special 7sLeorGm TO the Register.
PIEDMONT, September 3.-Friday even
ing, Freddie Combs, aged II years, son of
p. p. Combs, and Charles Cridler, aged 8
years, son of Constable G. @. Cridler, went
after cows and got lost, and twenty men
with lanterns secured the mountains all
night looking for them. They were found
at o'clock, three miles from town. They
had fixed bed of leaves and were asleep,
under some projecting stone, 1t rained
the entire night and the fog was so dense
that it was almost impossible to see to
walk by the light of lantern. Several of
the hunting party did not get back to
town until after o'clock Yesterday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
WHEELING CREEK.
The "Register's" Proposition Provokes .
Large Amount Of Discussion.

The "Registers" Proposition Provokes .
Large Amount Of Discussion.
The article in the SUNDAY REGISTER
upon that unmitigated public nuisance,
Wheeling creek, throwing ont some sug-
gesticns for its permanent improve
ment, has provoked q large amount o
discussion upon the practicability Of the
plan of making new outlet for its waters
into the river. Everybody agrees that Q
new opening through the hill would be an
improvement of incalculable advantage 10
the city, and there are msny citizens oi
high standing who think the matter en-
tirely feasible, and within the ability of
the city. if Council would but 70 about IL
in the right way.
Below are some opinions regarding the
matter
Changing the Course Of the Creek.
To Tie Editor Of Tie Reoiar:
WHEELING, WEST VA, September s.
Sir: In yesterdays issue of your valuable
psper the old project of turning Wheeling
Creek through the hill into the river, and
filling the present channel from that point
to the B. & o. depot with ~ siice of the
top of Wheeling hill. was revived, and
public expression invited through your
columns. The writer has heard many
private expressions Of commendation Of
the plan. It's presumed that some special
legislation would have to be obtained as o
preliminary, and also the rights Of proper
ty included in the present boundaries Of
the creek would have to be definitely set
tied before such an enterprise could be
entered upon. We will suppose that the
consent Of the National government has
been obtained, as we'll rs the necessary
State legislation. Now let us look at the
cost, and compare that with
the advantages to be gained.
To make the tunnel through the
hill would cost in round numbers $500.
600. The distance from the tunnel to the
mouth of the creek at the B. & o. depot
would probably be 2,670 yards-the aver
age width sixty yards and the depth to
which the channel would have to be filled
in order to make it available for building
purposes would possibly average fifteen
yards, which would require about 100,
900 cubic yards of earth at cost Of $40, :
600. Add to that $lOO, 900, as the cost Of
removing the water works, and you will
have the grand total Of 81 ,040, 900, as the
whole cost Of the work embraced in the
scheme.
On the other hand about 125 fine build
ing lots will have been redeemed from the
creek, having 9 value Of S400. 200, and
probably fifty more lots on Wheeling hill
possessing value Of $500, 900, making .
total of $500, 200. Add TO this $50, 900
saved in the Main street bridge and the
cost will yet acceed that cum by $3.50. 900.
But this is only q monetary view Of the
subject. Other advantages to he obtained
are numerous and obvious.
CIMoN.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Killed In q Coal. Mine.

Special telegram 10 TIC Register.
PIEDMONT, September 3.-About 2
o'clock to-day Martin Moran, aged IA
years, with eleven companions, ranging in
age from to Is, went into small vein
coal mine near town, known as ''Totten's
mine," and were riding on q mine car
when too many of them got on the rear
end, causing the car to leave the track and
hit prop, which it knocked down, letting
a large quantity of the roof to fall in, in
stantly killing young Moran. About four
teen tons of debris had fallen on him. His
neck was broken and he was so wedged in
under the timbers that it took two hours
to get him ont. The funeral will take
place tomorrow in st. Peters Catholic
Cemetery. The mine entrance hsd been
locked up by Mr. Totten, but some one had
broken il open, 80 no blame rests on Mr..
Tottcn.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
A FATAL ROW.
One Man Killed and Another Fatally
Wounded Near Parkersburg.

One Man Killed and Another Fatally
Wounded Near Parkersburg.
Special Telegram 10 The Register.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, September 3,
"A quarrel took place few miles from
here, near Washington Greek last night,
resulting in the almost instant death Of
George Johns, and the fatal wounding Of
John Willis. Reports differ concerning
the cause of the tragedy, one account is
that female relative of Johns is
the cause and that unpleasant 30
cial relations between her and
Samuel Hare, who did the shooting
engendered the bad feeling, which result
ed in the murder Another account is
that special enthusiasm by Johns for his
political party infuristed Hare so that he
killed him. The affair happened while
the parties were returning from church.
Willis, who was fatally wounded, it ap-
pears was assisting Johns. Hare is we'll
connected, quite young, aud came to this
neighborhoOd recently from Pennsylvania.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
1T LOOKS LIKE DovKNKR.

Delegates Already Leaving Tor Clasksburg
70 Attend the Couvsntioa.
The Republican Congressional Convsn-
ton of the First district meets in Clsrks-
burg Wednesday morning and already del.
esstss are arriving on the grounds. The
Brooke and Hancock county. delegations
passed through the city Last evening,
leaving for Clarksburg on the $40 train
over the B. & O. road. Il ID undsrstood
that Brooke county In divided on Capt.
Dovener and John A. Csmpbell, tbs for
mer having four and the latter three votes.
Tbs Hancock delegation Il instructed for
Campbell, whose supporter ars RsttinE
On the grounds early In order 70 boom his
candidacy. HCsmpbell has no chauos IL
IL very probable that the entire strength
of the two counties will 20 10 Doysu6.
A great many Republicans think that
Dovsoer will 70 through like shot, and
that th9s will b no contsst, althoosh Il y
quietly Whispered shout thst the oppo-
sition 10 him hsadsd BY @. B. Han, N
planning . scheme 70 prevent THU,
and II possible secure hh dsfsst
In fsyor of any oshes oaodidats,
even though b b dask horss. Howsv@,
tbsrs II NOT nneh danger d this. - Cspt.
Dovsnef hss his forces vs,l marshallsd,
spd be will 70 into the Coovsutisa with
solid froot. which cannot bssasily bsekss.
Chairman Of ths State Exscativs Ooo-
mittss, W. J. ". Covdss, lsft . let svs.
ning's train for ths soeos q action. ns.
Hart also went cut . Che sans train, bot
be will stop Oh IN Gfsfton short time o.
State Dsvelopnsat Association baknso.
He will arrive IN Ciaeksbufg. hevsvss, In
good time 70 hAvs hi ssppsrtsn lissd sp
In good shsps for ths fny. The balk q
the Ohio county. dsasGsttea WIN lssvs Sos
the burg at $40 This evening.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
LABOR'S GREAT DAY
GENERALLY CELEBRATED IN fRH LRAD.
ING CITIES.
Immense ParaAa, Speeches and Rcaia As Ro-
sranns-Paho6e Baaass oaly Bons-
4 Few AaarsAnh Roughly
Handled q Glsvslasd.

GkvHLASD, F., Ssptsnbsr San i'm
mense blood-red fAs Wa carried throush
the leading streets Of Cleveland to-day and
behind it marched soors Of Anarchists.
To-dight the Gag ID bsdraeslsd and ave Of
the men who followed Il are in the lock
up. This was Labor Day, socAllsd. and
twelve hundred men formed in line and
with music and waving smblems pArsdsd
the downtown thoroushfares and then
withdrew to . garden In the suburbs.
The Anarchists were In lie procession and
declaring themselves 10 Be carpsntsu,
they were pefmitsed 10 retain the place
they had quietly slipped into.
At the garden they unfurlsd their flag
and refused to acknowledge tho Stan and
Stripes. The committee In charge induced
them finally 10 put their fsg away. When
the committeeman TUNED their hacks,
however, the Anarchists seized their en-
blem Of blood and waved 1t aloft trium-
phantly. Immediately thsy were attack
I'd by . hundred honest workingmen
whose indignation was beyond control.
The flag was tramplsd under foot
and one Anarchist after an
other went to the ground in tho
fight, that continued ut least ten minutes.
All the anarchists but ive escaped the
three detectives, who wers present. but
those who got away ware bleeding and
lame, and will hardly appsa. In public for
some time to come The names Of those
arrested are: Ben Hill, carpenter; Emil
Schilling, machinist; and Godfrsy Oster-
meyer, Charles Lubelin and Gustav Buoth,
carpenters They were locked up at tho
Forest Street Police Station, and charged
with riot
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04

GEN. GOFF is nothing il not consistent.
He and his friends have tacitly refused to
arrange for a Joint debate between him and
Hon. WM. L. WILSON. This, of course, is
an oh subject; but yesterday when Gen.
GoFF was face TO face with Hon. HENRY
S. wALKEG, at Hinton. he refused an
other jlint debate and the Republican
committee which had GOFF IN
charge also refused it. The General had
made socle structures on certain remarks
of Mr. WALKER previous to this, and Mr.
WALKER simply asked that Gen. GoFF be
present while he answered him-but the
Gen raj refused to he present, although he
Is on stumpiDg tour. The correspond
encs between GOFF and WALKER, and be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
committees, will be found in another col
umu r,rJdiim st Hsrdiim Between our
selves and the public, We think Gen. GoFF
was wiSe.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
P.r.dss and sp.sch n6sh,ns.

CINCINNATI, O., September 3.-IAbor
Day was celebrated hero BY giving holi-
day TO the employees in almost oil the large
manufactures and by great labor parade
in the afternoon, in which various labor
organizations were fully represented.
After the parade speeches were made In
English and German, on Stout street near
where the procession disbanded. There
was no closing Of public Offices nor bua-
nesa housea
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04

Labor DAY was observed generally and
with appropriate exercises throughout the
country. Ia most of the leading cities
business houses were closed, and parades
and speeci-making were the order Of the
day. Oae day in the year given up to la
bOr is not much. IL il well that the value
OF such holiday is 80 generally appreci-
Aied
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Political Polnta

congressman Sowden, of Allentown, has
-e'urned to Washington. He says he has
~ toCu3ht of becoming an independent
candidate for Congress.
, roger 2. Mills addressed an audieuce Of
iUO" 5, people at New Haven, Conn, Satur-
= " h, DOckery, Republican candidate
oon wi Governor of North Carolins, has been
.aA salsI down by Hon. W. s. D. B. Robin
~ ~ Republican candidate for Congress in
oas 'us same State, for repeating a notorious
S,mpaign lie about President Cleveland
:, ;s'ng . negro maid, Mr.. Robinson saying
i. ,.Is = : lie out Of the whole cloth and will
'end to disgust decent voters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Father sheedy's Parochlai School.

PrrrsBURG, Pa, September S.-Father
Sheedy, who recently rented four rooms
in the First ward public school building,
from the Board of Directors, opened no his
Parochial school this morning, with four
sisters ~ teachers and two hundred schol-
AIS. At the same time the regular fall
session of the public school began in the
same building, but the attendance was
much smaller.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Brakeman Instantly Killed.

Special Telegram TO The Register.
PIEDMONT, September 3.-This morning
Patrick Flynn, brakeman on the second
division of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, fell from his train, in the Keyser yard,
and was instantly killed by the wheels
of the cars passing over his body, cutting
it in two. Flynn is single and lives at
Martinsburg, and been on the road about
eighteen months.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Senator Kenna's Speech Making.

Special telegram 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, September 3.-Senator
Kenna and Senator Butler, of South Caro-
lima, leave this evening at $50 for Hinton
where they are to address the people to-
morrow. Senator Kenna has been invited
to address the great Thurman meeting in
New York Thursday evening and the
Democracy of Rochester on Friday
evening. The Senator will meet
these engagements, returning to
Washington on Saturday. He
is overwhelmed by demands from all parts
of the country, and is endeavoring TO dis
charge his promise to the New York Dem
ocracy thus promptly in order to he free TO
pursue vigorous canvass in West Virginia.
The great ratification meeting at Mar
tinsburg on Saturday night was the great
eat demonstration ever known in that sec
ton of the State. Senator Voorhees, de-
clares that he never witnessed more en-
thusiastic or more earnest gathering Of
Democrats.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
A WOMAN MISSING.

Disappearance of Nswbury
Lady.
Special Telegram 10 the Register.
PARKERsBURG, September 3.-A man
named Dunsmore was here to-day looking
for lady named Simpson from Newbury,
who has been missing for nearly week.
She, it is said, started to attend the Graf
ton Institute, but has not been heard Of.
Her age is about twenty -four. She is tall
and was neatly clad. On Thursday she
was seen here, and went to Marietta, but
after returning was lost sight of.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04

Tae Democratic II ouse takes the Chinese
bull by the horns with marked effect. A
billsbsOlu.ely PROHIBITING Chinese laborers
from landing in this country passed with
out division IL will % through the SEN
ate, sluc9 Nc. HARRISON is not there to
oppose IL.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
Washington Notes.

Wheeler of Alabams introduced q bill
IN the House to put cotton bagging on
the free list.
Postmaster Judd of Chicago had o letter
read denying that his clerks had been
taxed for campaign purposes.
Senator Vest, exposed the political
work of Illinois pension examiners in the
last election in the Senate.