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4 DELKNAP'S IMPEACHMENT Another Day’s Struggle Over Pre- liminary Questions. ARGUMENTS ON THE ORDER OP ARGUMENT. ia Anxiety Manifested Over Pre- rogatives and Precedents. } how insidiousty precedents came to be law. A VICTORY FOR DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL. | Wasuixctox, May 1, 1876, In the Senate Mr. Hamuin, of Yaine, called up the Fesoluiiou submitted by him on Friday last, to amend the rules relating to impeachment trials so that the de- Liberations of the Senate on questions submitted be in public, He said that his parpose in offering the amend- ment was that the public should have the reasons for the ate’s reaching its conclusions as well as the conclusions themselves. He thought the whole trans- action under the present rules had close connection with a star chamber proceeding. He had been told by ove Senator that this was the first attempt to make the deliberations of a jury open, He (Mr. Hamlin) thought the Senate was a court, and the deliberations of courts were oftentimes public. Mr. Mornut, of Vermont, said he supposed the ob- Ject of the Senator from Maine was to shorten the time for deciding these questions, and he (Mr. Morrill) would be glad if that could be done, but he did not think the Proposed amendment would accomplish that purpose. Mr. Epmunps, of Vermont, said he would regret to tee the amendment adopted. Ji such a practice pre- vailed in courts the whole administration of justice would soon run wild, If the Senate should have its feliberations in public it would be patent before the tral s half through what the result would be, The hewspapers and the public could tell from what Sena- Ators would say in argument just how they would vote, Asto himself he almost felt as if he ought not to take part in atrial where he could not consult with bis brother judges without having harangues for the edifi- cation of the galleries and amusement of counsel. Mr. Coykiina, of New York, favored the amendment, and saw very little reason for the Senate making a mystery of questions submitted to It, Without action the matter was laid over until to- morrow. ‘THE IMPRACRMENT PROCEEDINGS, she Cua announced that the hour of twenty-five Minutes to one having arrived, the Senate would sus- pend the consideration of legislative business and re- sume the consideration of the articles of impeachment against W. W, Belknap, late Secretary of War, The Sergeant-at-Arms made proclamation in the asual form. The respondent, with Messra. Carpenter and Blair, having entered the Chamber, tho Secretary was di- rected to notity the manugers on the part of the House that the Senate was ready to proceed with the trial. The managers soon after entered the Chamber, and the proceedings of the session of Friday last were read. The Secretary then read THE PENDING QUESTION, being the motion of Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, sub- mitted on Friday iast, ‘that the vote, by which it was ordered that the argument upon the question of the Jurisdiction of the Senate to entertain the articles of impeachment against the respondent, .be reconsid- ered.” Mr. Epucnps, of Vermont, moved that the Senate withdraw for consuitation. ARGUMENT OF Mn. BLAIR, Mr. Bar, of counsel for the respondent, said since Friday he bad examined care‘ully the authorities cited »y the House managers in the Barnard case; throagh- | aut the same rule obtained which obtained in ordinary | sourts of justice, that counsel who maintain the afdrm- | ative of an issue had the opening and reply, and on | what principle the defence were entitled in this éase to the opening and reply, because, substantially, they had demurred to the articles presented by the House. Every lawyer knew that in a proceeding like this the | articles should allege and prove Jurisdiction, and the | defence demurred on the grounds that the present ar- ticles did not show jurisdiction, In a matter of im- peachment the court which sat in it was a court of limited jurisdiction under the constitution, and in every court of justice of limited jurisdiction the matter of fact upon which that jurisdiction rested must appear upon the indictment. Every demurrer had the open- ing and closing, avd tho argument by the managers, that as they had the aflimative of the generel issue, they should, therefore, have tne open- ‘ng and reply in all of the interlocutory proceedings was to him a strange claim. The defence said that assuming all the facts alleged in these articies of impeachment the mavagers had made no case, That was an affirmative proposition and, therefore, the defence, the opening and the cose. It was a mistake to sup- pose that these preceedings were ever regarded as Standing on a different footing in the general principles |MR. CONKLING AND THE PRESI- | who mude it, were entitled to | that governed them to any other proceedings at law. | Chere was this great distinetion between impeachment proceedings in England and in this country that, while in England the House of Lords finaliy disposea of the | case, in the United States a defendant might, after the judgment of the Court of Impexcument, be further prosecuted in the courts Mr. Blur closed by again king thot the Senate wonla, if possible, grant a httle further time to the defendants to prepare their case. These were proceedings with which American lawyers were not very familiar, and he scarcely thought that, is the matter now stood, they had a fair amount of time in which to read up the necessary authorities, ARGUMENT OF MR. NOAR, Mr. Manager Hoan said :—What was the fundamental proposition upon which the managers rested the claim presented to the Senate on Saturday? it was that a fourt of impeachinent—a parliamentary process for Investigation into the guilt of yrest pubite offenders— hal enjoyed from time immemorial, both in this coan- try and England, its own rules of evidence, its own rules of pleading, {ts own method of ' practice, settled by a uniform usage and adopted our constitution when it used the word ‘“im- peachment” ns one of the the Senate was clothed. Those rules of evidence, practice and pleading were not the rules which obtained im the courts of common law. All rales of pleading, however, which were based upon commov right and which were intended to secure to a defendant atair and impartial trial and to be bis protection against oppression—such, for example, as the pre- mpuion of innocence—upplied . This court of peachinent sat to apply in Its procecdings the rules o mon Justice to this class of exceptional offender but it applied those rules by its own methods, If in any respect the rule of order existing im a court of im- peachment were less favorable to a defendant at its bar than the process ina criminal court im an anslogous case Senators would remember the iminense constitn- tional equivalent enjoyed by the defendant arr: before it—that of having as judges and jurors se four Senators, representatives ot the wisdom, integrity Aud learning of the several States. Mr, Hoar proceeded to again discuss the Bernard case and referred at gr th than on Friday to nu- merous English P cedents, all of whieh, he claimed, iy powers with which ailirmed upiformly the doctrine that to the Hon: agers belonged in all cases in such proceedings the right of of reply. Mr. ConkLing asked the House managers to read from Biount’s case the passage wach they claimed affirmed that the principle held by the Senate was that the affirmative invariably was with (be managers regard- Jess of nature of issue, Mr. Hoan, in reply, admitted that in the Blount case the decision that to the House belonged the opening and reply was, on a demurrer, taken by the House, and y. in an oFdinary court they would joy the same privilege, Mr. Sanornr submitted a point of order that all inter Managers oF to a witness by Senators under rule 18, adding that he could jenators and counsel would consumo bee that indulgi considerable time, The Cram ruled that the point of order was well taken. Mr. Eomenps asked if there was any allegation tn the articles that Belknap was Secretary of War down to the 2d day of March, 1876. Mr. Hoar replied that it was alleged in tt Mr. Betknap was Secretary until that day, Mr. SHERMAN asked if it would meet the convenienco of the managers and counsel if a liwited number of rs for argument on the question as to the jurisdic- tuon of the Senate were fixed, such time to be appor- amonx the managers and counsel as cach side re, and if so what number of hours was desired. Mr. Brain said the detendants could not answer the jestion without consultation with their absent col- Mr. Binck. if. Manager Loxp said that he must make the same iy. an conference would be necessary among the so Mapagers. ARGUMENT OF MR. CARPENTER, Mr. Canrryren said so far as the question as to whien side the right 0 opening and cio: belonged was conceded in this particu: e, it practically of Hittle 1 tance. If he could seitie it for twen- ve cents ted with the Secretary of the Sen- ate he would not do 50, because he did not care a tig about it But counsel who appeared in a case like this owed something not only to their client, but also to the law, whose ministers they were, and to the Whole population of the United States, We ail kuew 0 article: Tf it were law tbat every man in offlee or out brought to the office —_ could be var of the Seuate and tried, he expected that the Senate Chamber would bea rich fleld of profes- sional profit and emolament, lawyers owed it to their profession to conte: y point which might form a precedent in the future The House of Repre- sentatives now practically claimed prerogative of opening and closing all arguments. He beheved that in ail debates between a man and a woman the woman was entitled to the last word, but he was not prepared to hear the honorable Board of Managers claim the | beneilt of a priviiege which gallantry conceded only to the weaker sex, Mr. Carpenter then discussea at length the pane in the Johnson case claimed by the managers to e: lish their right to the privilege claimed, and said, in bis opinion it est exactly the contrary doctrine. Mr. Carpenter also read from ‘Cushing's Practice of Parliament,” and asked was justice to be beld to be one thing when it was invoked in a court of law and an- other thing when invoked in a political tribunal? Would any one be quite willing to have that sanctioned recendent, especially when it was remembered | doctrine enunciated was that when a man of office and his enemies in they could sit on | id that no limitation whatever but the dust of the grave could seve him from impeachment during his natural life. It was impossible that justice could be one thing in the Senate Chamber and another thing in tho Supreme Court, m the centre of the Capitol. ‘The principle claimed by the mun- agers was one which no free man anywhere could endure. It reversed all our theories of justice and all the charitable presumptions of the law ‘and put men who come there for judicial examination at the absolute mercy of a political majority. He mae | no imputation upon anybody in that chamber, but he felt that he must tell them the truth, and (hat was that the members of the present Senate were all men, ule though they were very great men. It might be pos- sible for them, eVen under the methods pro- posed by the House managers, to avoid doing injustice to his chent, but Senators should remember that they would be followed by successors who in intellectual stature would not, perhaps, reach their knees. Putting uside the mystery and inajesty that belonged to the word “impeachme nt,” and treating this case like an ordinary lawsuit, the case was very simple. The people | cume bere with their complat The defence putin their plea and specifically alleg First—That W. W. Belknap was not Secretary of War at certain times, and ‘Second—That he was not holding any office at those times, ‘To that the House of Representatives put in a double replication, which they now claimed was a demurrer. Mr. Menninos, of North Carolina, asked if the man- agers claimed the reply im this particular case as a matter of right, or only as a matter of practice, which the Court might change ? Mr. Hoax said the House managers did not conecive that a constitutional and lawful prerogative of the House of Representatives could be rightfully charged without the consent of the House, The motion of Mr, Edmunds to retire was carried, yeas 40, pipe 18, whereupon the Senate retired to the reception chamber, DECISIONS OF THE COURT. The Senators returned to the chamber at five minutes to three . M., and the presiding officer said he was directed to state that the motion to rescind the vote by which the order of argument was made had been over- ruled, also that the request of the Board ot Managers that four managers be permitted to address the Senate on the question of jurisdiction was granted. On motion of Mr, Thurman the Senate, sitting as a court for trial of articles of impeachment, adjeurned until Thursday, 4th inst., at half-past twelve P, the DENCY. [From the Buffalo Commercial.) | The people of New Yerk are neither ungrateful nor | unappreciative, They know that Roscoe Conkling has been their stanchest champion for reform and honest government in every one of the many heated contests with a powertul and unscrupulous party whose leaders formed the most corrupt political ring that the world has ever seen, At the sacrifice of personal comfort, | disregarding the strongest temptations to abandon the political fleld for a sure and lucrative professional carcer, even putting aside the very highest bouor a lawyer can gain in this country, the Sonator has preferred to stand out asa republican, He hus always taken the party’s banner and carried it into the thickest of the ight, He has led that army to victory when others would haye failed. He has jnspired the forcesto make at least a splendid defence, under adverse circumstances, when, | without bun, the result would have been iguominious | defeat, All these are matters of history, and they prove him to be the strongest republican in the Em- pire State, if not in the nation, named in connection with the Presidential nomination, | by either party, can present such abounding and con- vincing testimony of popularity with the people? {From tne Chicago Inter-Ocean.)} | Mr. Conkling is advancing rapidly to the trontas one | of the most prominent candidates at Cincinnati, and | it is well that the people should become familar with his character and ability, One thing can be set dowa ascertain: if he shall be selected as the republican | standard bearer the bannes of the party will not be trailed in the mire, nor will the tongue of slander find | in him avulnerable foe. He isone of the fow strong, consistent, untlnehing republicans who can be nomi- nated with credit to the party; and, though the Jnter- Ocean might select as ity individual preference some other in the list, 1t could not select one whose political | and moral record would better stand the test of | scrutiny. {From the Troy Times.) The point is sought to be made against Mr. Conkling by Mr. Curtis and others that he should not be nomi- nated because he has been a friend of President Grant and his administration, This is met in an overwhelm. ing manner by the Journal, and disposed of in almost asingie sentenec. True, Mr. Conkling hus stood by the administration im its geperal policy. It 1s barely possible that sometimes ho should have spoken out publicly and warned the President against the course he was porsuing, and especially against the character of some of the men who have been the pittalls of his administration; but who knows bow much we owe to Senator Conkling’s private councils for some of the many excelient ucts tu be credited to the administra- tion, or, as the Journal aptly puis it, from how much we have been saved by his timely interference and ad- vice? [tis little short of shameful that a man of Mr, Conkling’s irreproachable record—one who bas held 80 tenaciously to republican principles, aad who has done so much to promote tbe wi fe of the country, Whose personal churacter is 80 auspotted, and Whose abilities even bis enemies admit are so pre-emi- bent—should be made the victim of such an insidious aud unreasonable warture as that waged ogainst our distinguished Senator. The special inends of Mr. Blaine say that he is to be exempted from all reproach because be has not been so warnest m his sympathy nor so active in bis support of the administration os Mr, Conkiing., Mr. Blume may have fatled once or twice in his devotion to the meusures that were sustained by the President and other recognized leaders of the party, Ho may boi bave been as tirm in ois allegiance to the party, or as clivairic ip his defence of it, but we who believe that the republican party bas been hearer right than wroug every time u question of prin- ciple or policy has been raised between it und 1s ad- Versuries; Who believe that they who bave never lale tered ju their devotion to deserve greater praise than they who quatied when the hour of contest came, we Deheve that as the true exponent of the faith of the and the hovest guide in the administration of its principies Mr. Conkling 1s greatly to be preterred to Mr. Blaine, though we are ready to accede to the latter ali the Virtues that are hisdue. 11 the republican party has been tu the wroug, then Mr, Conkling has been im the wro led, then he has fied, Butif ling hus bee ds, 100, of Mr. Bristow claim that he is in President Grant, Being part of it, be 1 But there is no proot to show that Mr, Bristow has not stood by the administration in all its acts, nor anything to indicate that jm the great work he has accomphshed in breaking up the whiskey ring he bas not been most heartily sustained by the President and Cabinet from beginning toend. ‘ihe most excellent gentiemen who are undertaking to ran (ms campaign without Mr. Conkling because he anu his trieuds are not good enough to be cousidered are doing both themselves and the man they would strike dowa great inj Tne people are beginning to see that Mr. Conkiing docs not deserve the treatment he is receivmg; but, apart from that, be is the last man who can be snecred down by any set of men in this country. TAMMANY SOCIETY. The regular monthly meeting of the Tammany Society, which was to have taken place last evening, has been postponed until the 12th inst, when the Sachems will be formally installed with the ceremonies peculiar to the Wigwam, It is understood that Mr, Augustus Schel! will boid over as Grand Sachem. SILVER CURRENCY. SLOW TRANSITION FROM PAPER TO COIN—A | HARVEST FOR THE EXCHANGE BROKERS. The usual crowd gathered at the Sub- Treasury early yesterday moruing, carrying with them their lite bundles of groasy cw to be exchanged for jngling new iver. facilities for effecting the exchange are at present entirely unequal to the need, and unless some provision is made for carrying on tho’ work more speedily there Will be a dearth Of small change for some time to come, ‘The total amount of ‘er disbursed during last week, as reported irom Washington, amounted to nearly $1,506,000, The fractional curreney in circulation ts in the neighborbood of $40,000,000, sv that me the present rate of making the exchange ube currency would not ail be Withdrawa within six months, The amount of silver paid out at the Sub-Treasury yes- terday was $44,855, of whieh $16,855 was paid to 206 ap- ieants im sums of $100 and under, The balance, 28,000, Was paid of dratts from Washington tor sums over $100 ! | is asserted in elauses of the treaty objected to, What othor candidate | P NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. THE HEATHEN CHINE. Effects of Chinese Immigration on the Pacific Coast. THE POISON OF THE UPAS EXEMPLIFIED. A Race Whose Presence Breeds Moral and Physical Pestilence. —__+ THE STORY OF THEIR COMING TOLD. Disastrous Results to Follow a Continuation of the Existing Treaty. Wasmxarox, May 1, 1876, In tho Senate to-day Mr. Sargent, of California, moved to take up the resolation recently submitted by bim recommending to the President to cause negotia- tions to be entered into with the Cuinese government to effect a change in the existing treaty so as to. pro- vent the great influx of Chinese immigration to this country. He said:— SPRECH OF MR. SARGENT. A question of serious discontent in a communily im- poses upon the government the duty of inquiring into the causes which produce it, This duty is not con- ditioned upon the soundness of the reasons for tho dis- content, because the disorders which may follow in any case must be injurious and may be disastrous to the welfare of the community. When the question is ‘as to the introduction of large numbers of people into the country, whose admission is not a matter of right but of pohcy, we ought to consider whotber they are a disturbing element and whether exclusion 1 the surest and best proventive against the disorders which are difficult to cure when once fastened uponus, Is the prejudice against the Chinese based upon the same reason? I intend to state some objections ngainst them which account for the bitter opposition shown in California and clsc- where, whero they havo already appeared in numbers, Are tho peuple of the East quite certain that if the Chinese were to land in thoir midst. in the proportion of one in every eight of the population of the several States, they’ would be as easy of the fature as now? Tbe importation of coolies and of females for immoral purposes is now forbidden by law, But the | 18 adead letter, Nine-tenths of the Chinese male immigration and PET pie one hundreths of the female immigration is in violation of law. From | the difficulty of procuring evidence there 1s no remedy but general exclusion. The resolution before the Senate looks to a modification of certain provisions of the existing troaty, so that the immigration ot Chineso may be restricied. Californians ate not always wise and deliberate in their treatment of the aypiect, and their irritwbility often leads to extray: if speech and exhibitions of heated prejudices, which produce an effect at the East the very opposite of what was in- tended; but the East must put itself in our place, and endeavor to understand the evils of which we complain and which are manifold, THE RIGHT OF EXPATRIATION That right had been insisted upon with the European nations by the government and secured by treaties, but that was with cognate nations and not with au unas- similative people. The Chinese are not republicans, are not attuched to our institations, but use us for their own convenience temporarily, hot intending to makethelrhomeshere. To sucha peoploand for such ur; the right of expatrjation canuot apply. He oi that in every form of government the rulers are trastees for the happiness of the nation, and “cannot, consistently with their trust, follow the suggestion of kindness or humanity toward others, to the prejudice of their constituents, and quoted Alexander Hamilton's fourth letter, signed ‘Paciicus,” relating to Wasbing- ton’s treaty of neutrality as an authority upon this olnt. Continuing his argument, he said, if the Chincse are not fit subjects for naturalization and do not come within our political dogma as to the ripht of expatria- tion, apd if a wise self-interest may be made the basis of our deal! with all nations, it remains to be shown why the 1mmigration of these people at the present and probabie rates wiil work harm to thiscountry. The difficulties surrounding this problem of Chinese popu- lation are continually present to the people of the Pa. cifle States. Experience has shown that Ghipese popu- lation expels all other, as inferior currency expels all other kinds. The process bas been going on for years in San Francisco, as wellas in other Pacific communi- tes. THEIR PRESENCK A PLAGUE. A landlord will rent asinzle house im a stroct toa | Chinaman, who at once crowds it to repletion. They jake ordinary rooms, say of ten feet in height, put in a ise floor half way up to the ceiling and crowd both floors; thus made, with bunks, and as many human bemgs as may be pressed into the space slecp therein, atmosphere becomes fetid a sickly smell per- vades the neighborhood, which causes the tenants of the houses to the right and left to vacate. These houses cannot aguin be rented to white persons; the rents fall, and, finally, the Chinese get possession. ‘This process goes on in each direction until the whole street is abandoned to the Chinese. The property bas fallen in value, becomes. dilapidated and offensive, and the street is us much dedicated to Chinese uses and lost to other residems, as if it were a street in Hong Kong. Hotels and churches share the same fate as ordinary dwellings and stores. He said in bis excursions in the Chinese quarter in San Francisco, under the protection of the police, he had penetrated two stories under ground into the opmm and gambling dens, where the stench was almost unendurabie, reached by 3a where a maa cannot walk erect, beween walls drip- ping with the exhalations of neighboring sewers, and where the filthy waters at the bottom was ‘onl: avoided by carefully stepping on the narrow, broken planks laid down, Here were swarms of Chinamen, thick as maggots in cheese, smoking opium, &c. No class of population known to the United States can en- dure contact with these squalid denizens; the white and the negro, the American, Frenchman and Span- rd all seek places of business elsewhere; even the jowest classes flee uway. Tho whole street is absorbed and doomed, This process has already gone on until six large blocks in the business heart of San Francisco have been eaten out, and still the work goes on; and the future will sce San Francisco A PURELY Asiatic cry unless some means are devised to avert this calamity. A legislative commission is now sitting in San Frap- cisco taking testimony on this subject. He quoted the testimony of Rev, Otis Gibson, a missionary of the Methodist Church for ten years in China aod for ten years among the Chinese of San Fraucisco, to the effect that the number of Chinese on tue Pactic Coast i 150,000; of this number 60,000 ure in California, 90,000 being io San Francisco alone; and said:—**In atl this great number there are not 100 families.” But the flood is not confined to the Pacitic States and Tetritories, The Chinese foliow lines of travel every- where, aud have reached the Atiantic States in smal Dumbers, but yet numerous enough to excite local comment and alarm. He read trom the New Yor« Henan a description of Donovan's alley, kept by the Chinese as a place of grief for its immoralities and de- grading exhibitions, and, continu ng his argument, Said:—Only a few trickling streams have leaked out from the Pacific Coast, but as the reservoir there fills rss these streams will swell and Donovan's alley will not bo singular im iis disgusting characteristics. Avother evil of Chiuese emigration ts its injury to white labor. “By it white labor is entirely supplanted and the growing young men and women in San Fran- cisco find scant employment and in ‘ew avocations, Decause cheap Chinese laver is twken in prefer: ence by employers, and if the community is bul up by such industry it is wot as a New England or Western village is built op It is Foo Chow, and not Cedar Rapids; it is Donovan’s alley, and not Broadway; it ts the hovel, and not the house; the Joss House, and not the chu: pablican; it is not civilizatio rowth of & community, with the elements in it oniy of civilization, wouid be preferable to rapid development by an alien heathen population, White laborers sustain tamfiics and educate their children. Europe offers to us every year bundreds of thousands of emigrants, of cognate languages, religion, civilization and hopes, A PLEASING CONTKAST, A population easily resolving itself into the mi American society, readily acquiring onr language, honoring our institutions, worshipping our God, excelled in industry and skill, spreads like a flood over the Western prairies, fertilizing like the the sacred river, This gives health and ld political and Christian civilization. This is healthy development. lowa, for example, has been built up by suel means, Would it not be undesirable to have its = population retrograde to the level of Chinese, however industrious the later may be? There jy no practical difference in the resalt between the recession of an American community buck to the level of the Chinese and the bene og og anticipation of such a commun} by Chinese. In San his tamily for jess then $2 or $2 50 per day, Chinaman will work for $1 nod monopel ket. The white laborer mu: Chinamat constant threat to labor, skilled or un- skilled, He ts very imitative and soon acquires suf- ficient art to compete with the best work- man and to supplant them. ‘The operation of these principles bas been scen on a limited scale in Maseachusetts on the occasion of a “strike,” where an employer at North Adams imported a sufficient num- ber of Chinamen to carry on his estaviishment, and sinee that time bas refused to employ white men. He has gro h; it is not re. emigrate or starve, The was bot submissive. That which has been seen at North Adams on a sinall scale, and under tne least re- pulsive conditions, goes on in California upon a large and increasing seal, With surroundings of squalor and misery, When Chivamen become beter | 19 Massa- chusetts, a8 they will in time, Massachuseit¢ employers: will ase them, as they do in California, to the exclusion of whites, and the latter will be expelied. But the disastrous effects are not lavor, Cadmus sowed dsagons’ teeth, and they sprang Tich by the operation, but iabor has been | overawed, becanse tt learned what could be done if it | | up armed men and destroyed him. Mr. Sargent then { quoted from the testimony before the Legislative com- | mission in San Francisco, to show bow the manulac- | turers in California bad employed Chinemen because | they would Soe en letting their white la- | | borers go, and a8 80m as they were taught the Chinese set up for themselves and undersold and bankrupted | | their employers, and were getting large branches of | business into their own ha The whole advantage gained by or obe uccrues to the Chinese slavemaster, who utilizes his coolie labor, ‘THR EMIGRATION OF CHINESE is not like that of Et 1s, who seek our shores voluntarily to become eitizens. The are quasi slaves. He quoted from the despatch of Mr. Bailey, Consul at Hong Kong, dated April 25, 1871, to the State Depart- | t, to show the slavery of the emigrants, the manner in which they are decoyed on board ship by all sorts of tricks, opiates and promises, and when once in the clutches of the men dealers, by a system of treachery and terrorism, counived at by the local Chinese authorities, whose chief business in hfe | is to squeeze tho people, the tied | coolie is overawed into making a contract ander such Chinese influences and surroundings as give it a sac | redoess of character no where else known in the world. From that moment be is the mere tool of the unscru- ulous dealer wherever he may go. Nine-tenths of the imamen who come to San Francisco are brough' siaves, He also quoted from a Ictter published in the | New York Tribune on June 7, 1870, snows the manoer in which the coolie sells imaelf ito slavery for the price of his passage at an exorbitant rate and mortgages his fam- ily at home, When the mort es due the family is sola off, commencing with the daughters | and the coohe sometimes returoing fuds a portion of | the claim atili unsatisfied and 18 himself ld for it, Mr. Builey’s despatch says the entire contract system is full of fraud and corruption and the most brutal in- bomanity, Mr. Sargent argued that our tolerance of this emigration is araging the dark crimes ugaivst hymanity rather than opening our portals to the distressed of the earth. Iti more a volun and bealthful emigration than that of the African slave trade, He quoted trom Chief Just.ce Small, of Hong Kong, in the case of the coolie who had assisted in the er of the cuptain and crew of tug Penelope Nouvelle, acoohe ship, Who was claimed by the Chinese govern: ment asa murderer, and who was released by the Court on the ground that he bud a natural right to re- gain his hberty, evem by taking the lives of those who held bim in slavery The Judge says that m a short | tume there will be seven coolie slips burned or sunk with all on board, containing 3,000 coolies. Mr. Batley speaks oi the cuse of the Doiores Ugai hatches were battened down on the cool took fire and they were all burned to d 5 ‘gent | jain quoted from the testimony of Captain Joy, of e uy the sbip Crocus, betore the Legislative Commission, wi vesec! has just lauded a cargo of Chinese ut San Francisco, showing that they had to diseharge firearms over the heads of the passengers to show them that they were armed, and the declaration of the captain that such people would not be allowed to lana at Liver: pool; and resuming bis argument said the result of the traffic is what the people of the Pacific coast depre- cate und deplore, and ask relet from a condition of things degrading to free labor while peopling the na- tion with slaves. Statesmen must see these things, must heed them, or the people will remove them and send men there Who will, Mr. Sargent then calied at- tention to the paculiaritios of the TRAFFIC IN CHINES FEMALES and said young gitis aro bought of their parents or owners in China and sent from thence to Fran- cisco under contracts ior continuous prostituti made nominally with themselves; really they af 14 paasive victims, The girls are virzins when pu ed, and first prostituted in Sun Francisco, ie sue translation of a contract for prostitation, givayin evi- dence belore the Legislative Commission, in which Ab Ho binds herself jur the sum of $630 paid to her mis- ices in prostitution for four years; and, resuming his argument, said the Cninese|fenales, wien lauded by the hundreds from sho ships, aro put in barracoons, as in the old slave days, and there Kept until distribu: | tion by their masters. After distribution they are kept | at their degrading work by fear, ignorance and super- | stition, The police testified betore the commission that it is notorious to them that women are bought and sold, When a Chinese woman escupes trom her servi- tude she is brought back by persuasion or force. Rev. Mr, Gibson testitied that the women are slaves; ure bought orstolen and brought here as slaves. They contract, ostensibly to repay alleged borrowed money, to prostitute their bodies for four or five years. At the end of that timo they are retained still longer and indefinitely, under pretence of debt, but are m reality owned by certain men or women, and are in a slavery harder and more miserable than existed among the white races. As long as they are fit to earn any moncy they are kept, but as soon as they give out they are | TURNED OUT TO DIE, Policemen also testified to this latter fact and that they often found the dead bodies of Chinese women in the morning in the streets, where they had been left to die by their owners. Charles Wolcott Brooks testified that those who come are the skum of China, and the women are more dan- gerous than the me:i, being afflicted with syphi- luc dtscases, which they communicate to the boys of the land. Dr. J. Toland, an cminent physician of San Francisco, testified that he had known many boys of eight or ten years of fige to contract a loath- some disease in the Chimese quarter. Mr. Sargent said this showed what horrors exist where solicitation and temptation reached youths of such tender age. Was it any wonder that parents were angry and indulged im threats of violence and disorder? He b- ject, and said ;—' he Chinese than dogs are by the Americans. These peopie make lazar houses of our cities; they oring pollution and spread corruption. Shall we treat them as | Standing on the footing of emigrants, ich as we invite to our country? He referred to a statement made m a New York paper to the effect that the Chimese are neither criminals nor paupers, and stating that there is not an almsbouse or prison in the whole length or breadth of the Republic that shows a marked infasion of the Chinese element, Continuing his arga- ment, he said it was not surprising that there we: Chinese in such institutior Chinese are yet unknown, but the assertion was ridicu- loasly false of the Pacific States. By the State Prison returns for California tor 1873—!he last accessibie—it was shown that out of 931 convicts 150, or ly seventeen per Cent, were Chinese. Supervis’r bs recently testified tbat there are thirty-eight Chinese in the county pest house, cight of whom have leprogy and all loathsome diseases. Dr. Toland testi- fied that the Chinese filr the hospitals. Panperism 1s | the normal condition of the coolies and prostitutes who sell their services and bodies to hard masters to | get to this country. In regard to the | ARRIVALS OF CHINESE j in this country, be said accouuts trom San Francisco show that they are arriving at the present time at the rate of 1,000.0 week. The trade 1s very profitable to the ships, and the supply of coolies is ample where _ 400,000,000 tion can be drawn upon. The danger, could not be averted by belittling it The Chinese, when numerous, so as to give each other countenance, are dangerous infrac- tors of the peace and violators of law. He cited in- stances of deadiy quarrels and pitched battles between the different clans ot Chinese occurring in the Calitor- nin and Nevada cities, and read from vurious works to ; show that the Chinese aro cruel, savage and revenge- ful, Resoming, he said the degree of enlightenment of @ poople, and their amount of uncorrupted humanity, | mizht be best found by an insight into their conris and | Wes He then read from auchoritivs io show the _ horrible torture which precedes an execution in China He also referred to the massacre of the foreign resi- dents at Tien-Tsin in 1870, when the French Consul, ail the foreign merchants, their wives and children, the Catholi¢ priests and the Sisters of Mercy, and about 109 orphan children were cruelly murdered ‘under circum: stances of revolting barbarity, and said this isa most eligible race for American citizenship. Althouzh the Chinese fill the prisons of California, a ‘urge u escape conviction from the quantity of testimony which is produced to order in favor of any one whom they wish to shield. He referred to the tes- timony ot the District Attorney avd police officers to show the utter unreliability of the Chinese oath, and said California had exhausted all measures of legisiation in order to remedy these evils entailed by these immi- rants, The measures may not have been wise, and the jupreme Court now says any exercise of power by a Stace is unconstitutional. The only resource ot his people was the general government. The government must act. To, allow this inordinate immigration of corrupt humanity 1% to impart leprosy into the body politic. Every attempt to civilize Chinese hus been a failure. It is hecessariiy a failure because they do not come hero for homes aud seldom remain longer t fe! way to fresh and larger hordes. To civilize them toroil the stone of Sysipbua’ The basis of our | civilization =i labor tairiy rewarded. The great body of our people toil with their hands and rates of Waves prevail under which they can rear families. If the sole object of civilizgtion was to enable the wealthy to accumulate more wealth, re- gatdless of the comfort and cultivation of the common People, he (Sargent) would still doubt that wealth itself could aiord to destroy the character of the nation in its greed ior inerease, Li capital could 1 itself of Chivese labor exclusively at hall price, tue impoverish- ment and final extinction of the great middie class of | our country would leave a nation of lords ferts in which property itself wouid be a sort o! adversity. | It is not sufficient to reply that the absorption of the country by Chinese will not occur for a century. It is our duty determine whether this is de- sirable at the end of a coniury, It not then we must act for those who are to come after us m away to avert the calamity. The moditication of our treaty with China in the respects called jor will not be distastetal to China. The established policy of its Serena: ie 0 yeaveat emigration ot its people, jut if this is otherwise self-protection and the highest considerations of the present and the future entorec our demand. The Chinese government bas not the disposition or strength to enforce the rights jaranteed to Americans in the treaty, for an mMerican cannot travel in the interior of China without a strong guard, and cannot open a shop tn any village outside certain boundaries without certainty ot pillage and murder, The disabilities of the treaty are all on our side, and it is only by tear of punishment that the Chinese are made to pay any respect to the = ot foreigners in China, iu conclusion he made an earnest appeal tor the gov- ernment to take some steps to stay the sorrowful scourge. | Pending discussion, and without action on the reso- | Tution, the Senate went into executive session. THE WAR OF THE BOARDS. At a meeting of the Board of Police yesterday a reso- lution was adopted ordering tho janitor to stop the sup- piying of gas, fuel and water ty the Board of Health. ‘The i’olice Commissioners say that their Board has paid for the same out of their ee Jong enough. Tho right of the Board of Health to their occupancy of the apartments they now hold in the Central Office ‘will be decided in the Saperior Court on Thursday next. | In the meaatime the Board of Health retam possession. THE BLAINE SCANDAL The Maine Statesman Once More on the Floor of the House. THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS Oral and Written Testimony in Denial of the Slander. | | HOW THE STORY ORIGINATED. —_—_—_—_——— Wasutvatox, May 1, 1876. In the House to-day, Mr, Blame, rising toa personal ex- planation, sent tothe Clerk’sdesk and had read a Wash- ington telegram in Taz Naw York Hxraup of yester- day, reflecting upon him in the matter of certain bonds of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company and suggesting that ip bis explanation tast week he bad tound it too ombarrassing to be answered and had, therefore, taken refuge in silence. ‘The paragraph having been read, Mr. Buarsesaid:— a2q MR, BLAINE'S SPERCH ‘This story ts an old one, and though I was perfectly aware of its industrious circulation in many quarters I did not refer to it when I spoke last week of the $64,000 slander because I did not wish to confuse the two in the mind of the public. Being in possession of all the facts necdful for the complete refutation of this second siander, I desired to wait until I could see it fully and connectedly stated in print, Tho story con- sists Of two parts—one as to my having a certain in, terest in the Kansas Pacific road, and the other as to my receiving coin bonds, of that road from J. B. Stewart, in the law office of Stewart & Riddle, in this eity, several years since, When the circulation of this story was attempted, some three years ago, the Hon. | A. @ Riddle, who was then as now relied aponas a witness by those who concocted the slander, mado the REAL ESTATE. The sales at the Exchange yesterday were as feb lows :-— E. A. Lawrence & Co. sold under Supreme Court foreclosure decree, Menzo Diefendorf referee, the five James M, Miller sold in foreclosure, by order of the Court of Common Pleas, E. I. Dakin referee, the lease hold premises on Greenwich street, southeast cornet of Burrow street, em! ng @ plot of land 50. 2x1¢ with two three s1 per ha brick bui nit peat ae ap a brick stable thereon, 4 church lease, term twelve ‘4, ground rent per annum, for $5,900, to dooree Starr, be SALE IN BROOKLYN. V. K, Stevenson, County Court House fifty. o L. L, Jor $12,888, to John Robinson. 25.0 fe, «of Sth ate 20x75: Mary J. Bu 2 x75: . 24 heii nui bushand to Bridget: Flannell ots . 11,500: 18.4 x102.2: seat tee 25x102.; . Springer S2d'str nme MLB Te G, Lynd to Hannah following statement in writing, which has never before | Lai been published :-— STATEMENT OF ME. RIDDLE, Wasuinoron, D. C. Thave not the slightest knowledge of th forred to in any shape or form: and T ne 3 in the oiice of Stewart & Riddic trom July or Augast, 1864, Colonel Stewart and myse! re law partners, and bad our office in the Colonization liding, at the corner of Four- and-a halt street and Pennsylvania avenue. The company ally dissolved, aud was an active conesrn for several yoars. have no knowledge whatever f any bonds having been delivered by Colonel Stewart to Mr. Blaine, oF anything else of value belng paid to bint by Mr. Stowart, ‘A. G. RIDDLE. J. B. Stewart also wrote me a square denial of it at the same time, and within a fow weeks has written me the following more complete and detaifed contradiction of the falschood in all its phases;— | LETTER OF J. 8. STEWART. | | April 2, 1876, false report in rej Pacitle Rallrond Compan me certain bonds of that compan; deliv. ight &, SAME pI snd wife co Walter C. Sth ste. &, 270 Tt. 6 shall and wife to Dot ‘Corner 120th st, 25x106.9:" Hiram Ray- jd others (exceutors) to Moses If, Moses... 2 MVouitutf and wits wo Joli McGolgau scr ses-ssrtse 16,780 M ruff and wife in McCol me * i a, 12M, n. of Old spy 26x95 Fol others, trustees, to Joseph J. i: Lali 4 wile to Regia 18,000 6th een nes Te wot th ee. 168 Gensel vo Hermann Abelin 2 -desheimer. x08.9; Maria pred to you by myselt in the Law otive 0 art & Riddle, 370.7 fi. 0. of . in the clty of Washington. Let me repeat then that, so far ‘with ‘water frout; JohnH: Stevens’ and asl have avy knowledge. you never had, at any time, any (exeentors) to Moses Taylor sggeas« 28,000 interest whatever in the company referred to, and my Broome 4, 150 ft. ¢. of Sullivan, 20x60; Philip means of information ax to those who were so interested | Frank to’ Leopold Xanker... 8,000 were very extensive and complete, | TOth it. my 100 fhe. of Ath’ a Asto thestory of my | aving delivered to you in my law office certain onds of the company, let me sity azain that it without the slightest foundation, in fact, false in whole i Tnever saw you ‘and have no knowledge or belief thi 1 delivered to re ‘my law office in my Hi ‘you ever where there: i or elsewhere, any bonds of ‘ansas Pacific Railway or any other raliroxd company ; Tnover had @ business transaction of any name or nature with you in my whole life. ‘The young man, Mr. Knowton, a former law student in my office, who soems to have innocently or carelessly been the author of « story in rezard to the delivery of bonds to you | which found its way into the press was swift to retraet it, and | expressed great regret to me for the publication of that which be hud only uttered as w jest und was used without his knowledge ur xpprobation and should be, instantly voked, which was done, Your brother, Joba Ewing Blain of Leavenworth, Kan. Ry ration. known as th ‘ailroad Compuny, ehi im th artered islature of Kansas ubout the year 1856, and which the evidence that | came into my hands showed he acquired very early in the history of the enterprise, ‘This rond, by snecen: mergers became the Kansas Pacific und his interest was served throuch all there charges of 01 ‘As early as 1-63 and vefore I had even seen you soveral ‘who ble, above board. and free from all grounds of imputation as to any party connected. Tf without my Roane you ever had an juterest in the Railgoad it must have prejudiced you ve strongly against that corporation, for in 1808, when the bil Was pat by Congress giving the company additional lands with enlarged powers to swing its line southward and build to Denver, I remember you was one of its most stubborn op. You Dill in all its staves, and in, ‘ours ver; gral, jate of Stewart & Riddle, of General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, who is always quoted in this matter as a witness having a knowledgo | of some fearful facts, wrote me quite recently the fol- | lowing letter :— JOSEPH B. STEWART, | Washington, D.'0. | LETTRR OF MR, EWING. Laxcaster, Ohlo, March 20, 1876, Hon, Jauxs G. Buatxs, Washington, D. C.:— i DXA Sin—I am surprised to Jearn that some persons are reviving the long since exploded fg Aah ny aving Ac- quired an interest in the Leavenworth, Fawnge the Union Paci Pacific. ‘ars ago this ch ‘asset afloat, and I published nying it. I was a director of the compauy at the time when you are accused of having acquired au interest and until some time in 1863, and I knew that you had no interest whatever ii e Wee ogo The report referred to seems to have orii the faet that your brother, John E. Blaine, one of ti settiors of Kansas and clerk of at Leavenwort! stock im the company, | properly Acquired, long belore you were "Tor Congress, and with which ‘you hea F todo. Besond this there was no interest held: directly ‘or tnatreetiy by any one ot The similarity betwe the names of J. J. G. Blaine must have led to the confusion on whieh the ion is bused In that possible mistake I een see some excuse for the origin of this misstatement, ont 1 can see for the persistency which urges it after frank and tuil dei Very traly yours, THOMAS EWING. Three years ago ed Knowlton story was told in the New York Stn. r. A. M. Gibson, then as now the well known Washington correspondent of that paper, wrote me a few weeks since the jollowing letter:— A CORUESPONDENT'S STATEMENT. Wasnixatox, D, C., March 17, 1876, our eon legitimately and even a candid, your name, Bialoe wnd Hy bruary, 1873, @ telegraphic. despatch ‘hom, Washington was tablet ESew York Sur in the New York Sun. charging that you had recoived, in some secret manuer, so! bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division, from Joseph B, stewart, at his law office. in the Colonization Building, Pennsylvania aver ‘The man who was und stood to be responsible for 1! harg> was James W. Kuo: ton, the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, and who bad been 8 | law = student office of ste’ rt Riddle. On the ening of the same day the despatch in the Sun, a 1e Knowlton. called upon me” to disclaim. all responsi bility fort, and said that there was mo ground for aking the charge ngainst you, ind that he was sutletied that he had been entirely’ m y + that he had even so much as seon. you in Stewart & Riddle's office, and if culled Upon would have to testify to that effvet, I was so well xat- isded that there was no foundation for the statement made that I at once vised Mr. Kao told me he had done. Mr, James MeParla in newspaper circles, ‘this time I rogret to hi Phitadelpt 3 correspondent of ri ne, - ceased, vecupicd the same office with me. The day after the article appeared in the Sun, with Mr. Knowlton as its 1 Presuwed authority, he came to we and ue would xecompany’ him to Speaker dence tr intenduce him. as he had tion presence great rogret that such a report sh IAtion on his apparent respon sibilit; diate it and to assure M ing M prevent as far ashe even referring to it Mr, Ki omptest me: ‘uy other papers publishi Ido not think any further contradiction is needed of peg Eg hever had the slightest foundation m trath, bat which has been most eagerly and industriously cir: culated as w twin scandal to the $64,000 falsehood. Mi excuse for trespassing even thus briefly upon the ind. ness of the House is the tact that I ire to give widest possible publicity to my disproof of a siory that has been circulated fur’ and near, and yet mostly in secret and never wit 1 now discuss it with a ible author, Dosaibly grouudiess hope that those who have sought to injure me by ing it will make the proper and the hi am One word more, Mr. Speaker, believe the country t will understand and ay the motives that sug- geet these untruthful accusations, Having now noticed the two thathave ‘been #0 extensively circulated, hal refrain from galling the attention of the House to ony others that may be invented. To quote the lan- bop of another, ‘1 do not propose to imnke my pub- vc lite a perpetual and ancomiortable flea-hunt in the vain effort to ran down stories that have no basis in trath,’’ which are usually anonymous and whose total explosion brings no punishment to those who have | been guilty of originating them, KASKS. Hl a st., No. 43, 5 years; Anna Horn to Dennis | Williams, Mary M,, and husband, | Same to same, w. ». of Iet ave. | Combes, Joh hi the local agents they di | duction saan wotumubiaed tase” ©? 1334 st. 200 Patrick ff, Geady and'wite to Wi 2d ay, w. 6. 50 It. n, SUth st., 25x75; Dorothea Kobl- miser to Gustuve Secyers. shag «+ 22,020 "Hrd and “others. (executors) to Mary Wilfisms., 22,000 re rs (0: rs) to ms... 8 8, 170 ft. w, Ist. mv., 22.0208.93 Rosalie bal er and hasband to See; -. 18,000 22.2 f., min ¥. Rayoor ih wy., 75: nd to Rachel ‘A. Ryerson... 9,000 #. &, 23.11 ft. ¢. Elisnboth st. (No. 225), .8x50; Joseph Bernhard and others (executors) to Joun Wandoll.. u 2d_av., e. s., 50.2 s. 37th st., 19.7%78; Richard M. Henry (referee) to Henry Faubel.. “ CJ if Thomas and wife, tv Walter Concklin, w. s. of ¥., n. of Mott st. (23d ward) to same, w. & AY. Be +3 years , Leonard and witt, to Sar w. of 3d ars. - $ jvabsthe Hand husband, to Richard if: & of S8th st., @. of 2d av. ; 2 a “3 Cornwall, & Nathaniel, to dwatd Ferguson, a. 3. of .d wt., w. of 7b av. King, Vineent C , and wife's bavi Bank, a. of your. lerck| ‘hrit to of 4th st. : 3 years... nase fo ren, John L., aud “wife to Coraline J. 219 William st, and 95 Madison at. to and ethers, easeniors, #6, of 17th st, w. of av; ‘and wife to w. of Oth av.: 3 years, ri tem aia Kngert, & & of 6th st., @. a nis. secssersee 1,000 Caroline, and busi, iia B. 8. of 40th st... w. of Sth tes E., and others, to Ors, & Ww. COF. ame. 8.6. of 76th st. i Tat avn of Both sk 8 of Ist av. n. 0 s ¥ St. Mares chareh, Moet Haven, ti ‘Of Alexander aves & Of Blote. Daui of Wili! to is lian st., n. of John st. ; Lt es . igre tg “foie of S are and Lauh sty 5 btn 22; Syeurs...... + 20,000 Wee (executor), 3.000 aim Chis 9,000 B, Unde Se Broome st., w. of Foraytit ot WAN Yaseen decent tae yi REDUCTION IN PASSENGER RATES. It was currently reported yosterday among the dif ferent ratiroad oifices of this city that on and afer the 10th inst. there would be a reduction of the passenger Tates from the interior of this State and algo the West of from Sfteen to twenty-five from the resevt tari. Upon iaquicy atl ro Coutral and «tiroad offices iniormation confirmatory of the ‘was received, but ax no official notice had been oS Mae ws oe