The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-26

TO VIEW THE CHINESE QUESTION


THIS morning tney START i0f 4p0k40o E04iA
Senator sqaire. in telling of the work Of the
committee, sid last evening: The joint con-
gressiCnal committee on Immigration was given
the Work last session Of going over tho whole
bOdy Of the Immigration laws. Testimony Wa
taken By subcommittees In New York. Boston,
Chicago. Cincinnati and 81. Louis There Ne
looked fnto matters relating 10 alien contract
labor. panper labor, the Italian padrons system
and the ike
I'm order that the Pacise ooass might not b
neglected urged that . suea,ommitsee b ap-
pointed 70 come out here to fnvestgate the mat
ters concerning immigration which specially
c0ncorn N This subcommittee was accord
fngly appointed sud was made chairman An
appropriation OF $1,000 was also made - defray
expenses We were 70 have been out here dur
ing the summer but the long session kept ~ at
Washington City.
Finally it was arranged that We meet Ct
spokane Fal!s last Friday. ! went there. but
the committee came over the Union Pacific In
President Charles Francis Adams private car,
and did not arrive till Saturday night senator
i. Q. Power. OF Montana, was asked TO be pres
ent at the heaSingA bur he could not come. Rep
resentetive Brewer had work with some
appropriation matters which he could not
leave. and Judge Covert. Of New
YORK could NOD get away. But our sub-com-
mtttee has two excellent men IN Congressman
LehIbach, Of New Jersey. and Colonel Stump.
of Maryland. We three form : quorum. They
are accompanied b. NJ. Charles B Reade, ~
sisant sergeant-asAxms Of the Senate, stenog-
rapher and othera
1--WE were very cordially received &C Spokane
and had some interesting hearings there Ne
Patrick Henry Winston, the United States dis
trict attorney. several Of the customs guards
and inspectors. Representatives Of the labor or
gan!xations. and theseditors Of the Review and
the Globe gave testimony before N. The Chinese
uno sSf Nf o1.x ~ In
terest. We inquired ~ to the character Of these
immigrants, whether they are desirable citi-
Gems, and II not, why; what employments
they follow; whether they interfere with
American labor; what have bean the
results of the exclusion act; whether the act has
been evaded and in what manner; how can il
be enforced, and what further legislation il de-
sirahle or what changes In the lava These and
Kindred topics were oiscussed, and we gatzedeh
. large body Of Information, which while not
startling here, IL mot in the possession of good
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civ recalls the story currant thA,a conceruinv
the origin of the family. The authorized ver.
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