The herald., 1893-05-08
SENATOR STAMFORD.
He Taiks About the Chinese and Rail


Senator Stanford was interviewed in
Saturdays San Francisco Chronicle. the
substance of which is as follows:
The senator's attention was called to
the following paragraph printed in yes :
terday mornings Chronicle giving the
proposed plan Of procedure.
Early tomorrow morning an unregis-
tered Chinese will be arrested In New
York. His case will be heard, and if
the circuit judge orders that he be de-
ported an appeal will be taken to the
supreme court. This tribunal has
agreed to make this case matter of
urgency, and advance 1t on the calendar
80 that final decision may be handed
down about May 10th.A II the supreme
court holds that the law is constitu-
tional the government officers all over
the country will proceed with the work
OF deportation.
II would like to know how they will
do it, said Senator Sanford. Congress
has made no appropriation for paying
the passage of theee people back to
China, and transportation companies
are not going TO do it for nothing. 1t is
estimated that of the 100. 900 Chinese in
tho OAltSQ Ct&bch, fUtOUu VI bupAn nAO La
California. 1t costs $50 apiece in fare to
send ihem back from here. You see
what sum of money it will take.
They cen talk about deporting them
but, as | said, the steamships will not
do it for nothing. l know one steam
ship line, the one / am president of, the
Occidental and Oriental company, that
will not do it. There are good many
things to consider in this. apprehend,
too, that the Chinese Six companies has
good talent advising it. The men in it
know what they are doing"
Turning from this to subjects analo-
gous to it, Senator Stanford said that
this was state OF wonderful resources,
and that there was room and work to
do for all who we're here, with thou
sand industries lying dormant.
'In one year" said he, "these so 600
agricultural laborers in California
spoke OF produced, as a part of their
labor, IL 900 tons OF wheat, enough to
make bread for 10, 900, 900 people"
He said the opportunities for
making money were increasing in
stead of diminishing, and that
with the immense amount OF
raw material OF all kinds, and with
cheap power for removing them, we were
entering such an area of progress as had
never before been known. The cheap
power he alluded to, he said, would soon
enable the railways to carry freights for
but fraction more than the cost of the
oil, coal, or whatever was used in its
stead, the labor used in the trains and
the ordinary wear and tear.
II remember when we started to use
b6 pound rail-" he said, ''and then we
increased it to 90, and now we are using
20.pound rails, and shall soon be using
those weighing 150 Freight cars used
to have capacity of but 10 tons, and
now we are building them to average 40
tons, and the dead weight is not much
greater than it was before. Besides this
we are carrying freight at rate not
deemed possible while ago. The trans-
portation companies find that low rate
ment. Now, the amount of the product
OF raw material depends on the market,
and low transportation enables it to
reach the market. The time is coming
when we will remove the alkalis of the
desert to the east and use them as fer
tilizera."
The senator talked of Pslo Alto uni
versity and what he hoped to accom-
nlish. If il was TO be like any othcr
school, be said, there would have been
no use In establishing it. II would
have done better" said he, "to have
aided those already started. But
wanted something different. To begin
with. wanted the idea of Benefcent
Creator taught in it. That 10 one OF my
great Objects"
In talking of the uses Of drink in
Europe he said that country was IN
some respects the same as America in
its habits, but that usually what was
drunk was in the form of wine. and
| that used in this way it WAS an excel
lent diet. He said that wants grew
/ Just in proportion to the ability to graz
tify them, and that when a man ac-
| quired money he wanted steel epgrav-
| ing; if he continued to prosper nothing
would satisfy him but the finest paint
ings. Because of this the rich OF the
country spent much money, and this
was benefit to all.
81 am here to build myself up" said
the senator. 81 find that this air on my
farm is q little better than / have been
able to find anywhere else, and here
shall remain all the summer. Yes, IN
regard to that proposed deporting of the
Chinese, it is just as well to consider the
matter very closely. because it is q seri-
GUS thing. The transportation itself is
very important question. 1t is only
one of the many which must be laced"