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x WASHINGTON. Another Plan for Paying Ar- rears of Pensions. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL SUBSIDY. Passage of the Army Bill by the Senate. GREENBACKERS ORGANIZING. A Brilliant Social the Capital. Event at FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasutncron, Feb, 24, 1879. SECRETARY SHERMAN'S PLAN FOR THE PAYMEN’ OF ARREARS OF PENSIONS. Mr. Monroe, of Ohio, will bring forward to-morrow in the House, at the request of Secretary Sherman, & plan for paying tho arrears of pensions which the Secretary thinks will produce, at least, $20,000,000 up to July, 1880. It is to authorize the Secretary to pay the pension claims from the fund which will accumulate from the receipts on account of the ten dollar certificates of deposit which Congress has authorized the Treasury to issue, and which are to bear four per cent interest. The propo- sition of the Secretary is so worded that if pensioners should prefer to receive their ducs under the bill in the certificates rather than in money he will have authority to issue these to them PASSAGE OF THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL-—AN HONEST APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE. The passage of the Sundry Civil bill this afternoon by @ large vote, without discussion, was.a great disappointment to a numerous lobby which stood ready, in case the bill was discussed at length, to try desperately to fasten down liberal appropriations on it. It is a well deserved tribute by the House to the Appropriations Committee, which deserves the trust and confidence shown in its re- ports and bills, for no more careful or honest com- mittee ever sat in the House. Tho passage of this bill, it is generally conceded, makes an extra session needless and puts it out of the question. The House bas now but one appropriation bill remaining. THE BRAZILIAN SUBSIDY SCHEME. A number of telegrams received here to-day by members of Congress from New York seem to show that the Brazilian subsidy scheme, which has had considerable support in New York, is now discovered there to be not all they, thought. One of these despatches from a prominent firm say: “The New Orleans clause in the stoach subsidy will kill New York Brazilian trade.” Another protests in these words:—‘‘The New Orleans Subsidy bill will seriously affect New York coffee business.”’ It is not believed, however, in well informed quarters here that the subsidy will pass. GREENBACKERS ORGANIZING FOR THE CAM- PAIGN. A report, resting on what appears to be good authority, says that the greenbackers assembled here sre planning to raise a considerable campaign fund to defray the expense of a vigorous canvass of the ‘West and Nouth in favor of their doctrines, and that they are endeavoring to secure the services of promi- nent men as speakers. It is said that ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, has engaged himself in this ‘work among others. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ‘Wasninotom, Feb, 24, 1879, SENOR ZAMACONA’S RECEPTION TO SECRETARY EVARTS—A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT The social event, not only of the week but of the whole season, is the reception to Secretary Evarts this evening by the Mexican Minister, Mr. De Zama- cona. Itisin every way the most brilliant and re- markable event in Washington society in a number of years. The family of the Minister are deservedly great favorites in Washington, and they have summoned this evening, to receive the Secretary of State, all the beauty, dignity and fashion of the capital. Two spacious houses were thrown into one to prevent the uncomfortable crush which sometimes mars the pleasure of such occasions. The front of the Minis- ter’s residence is brilliantly lighted with tiers and rows of gas lights in red, white and green, the Mexican col- ors, the whole surmounted with the word ‘‘Mexico” In colored lights. The interior is tastefully deco- rated with agreat profusion of flowers, and at mid- night the rooms are still full and the reception is declared by all to be # delightful success in every way which will long be remembered with pleasure by the society of the capital. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasurncton, Feb, 24, 1879, PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS—THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION-—PASSAGE OF THE ARMY BILL BY THE SENATE—THE TOBACCO BILL IN THE HOUSE. In the Senate to-day the Vice President laid before the Senate the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept for the purpose of a voyage of exploration, by way of Behring Strait, the ship Jeannette, tendered by James Gordon Ben- nett for that purpose. Mr. Sargent, of California. said considering the near close of the session, he would be glad if that bill be put upon its passage, as it was for ascientific exploration, the expenses of which were to be paid by Mr. Bennett. The object of the bill was to allow the Secretary of the Navy to accept and take charge of the ship and to enlist seamen for her, that there might be perfect discipline on board, the men to be under naval regulations. The bill was passed without discussion. The House clause in the Army bill allowing: rail- road companies to use the telegraph lines for com- mercial purposes, as amended and returned by the Benate, is as follows:— And telegrams are authorized to be transmitted by railroad companies which have telegraph lines, and which shall tle their written acceptance éf the re- strictions and obligations imposed on ee companies by title 8 of the Revised Statutes for wernment and for the general public, at rates to be xed by the government according to the provisions of title 65 of the Revised Statutes. When the Army billcame toa vote the House clause forbidding the use of troops at the polls and pun- ishing officers for @ violation of the section wus dofeated by a strict party vote, the republicans vot- ing against it. ‘The bill was read a third time and passed, The House resumed the consideration of those smendments to the Tobacco bill upon which separate votes wero demanded. The following amondments ‘were non-concurred in:— Providing that retail liquor dealers shall pay $25 and wholesale dealers $100; retail dealers in malt liquors, $20; wholesale dealers, $50. This leaves the section as it was passed by the House, providing that rectifiers rectifying loss than 500 barrels of spirits a year shall pay a license of $100, Striking out the clause which abolishes the tax on matches, Providing that when any bank ceased to do busi- ness by reason of insolvency or bankruptcy, no tax shall be assessed or collected on account of such bank which shall diminish the assets necessary for the full payment of ite depositors. The amendment further provides that provident institutions, savings banks or savings inetitutions shall bo exempt from tax on #0 much of their deposits as they have invested in United States securities, and on $2,000 of each deposit made in the name of any ono firm or person, and this exemption shall apply to all savings deposits in any logally organized bank what- ever. H Other amendments were concurred in, and 8 Com- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESD mittee of Conference was then ordered on the dis- agreeing votes of the two houses. PAYMENT OF ABRBEARS OF PENSIONS -— THE HOUSE BILL IN SENATE COMMITTEE. The only material amendment made by the Senate Committee on Appropriations to the House bill ap- propriating $26,800,000 for the payment of arrears of pensions under the recently enacted law, is to strike out the clause which proposes to extend that law to pensions granted by special act of Congress, The committee was favorably disposea toward the amendment proposed by Senator Ingalls for the crea- tion of a commission of pension surgeons to make examinations and take testimony throughout the United States in regard to pension cases, and for the amendment of the existing law in other particulars, but concluded to ‘leave this and all similar proposi- tions for the decision of the Senate without action on the part of the committee. THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION—-MAJORITY AND MINORITY OF THE COMMITTEE ACTING SOLELY IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PAR- TIES, At the meeting of the Teller Committee this morn- ing Senator Teller said that if it was desired to in- vestigate the manner of conducting elections in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Colorado, where it is alleged trauds were com- mitted, it would be necessary for the committee to sit during the recess of Congress, and to do this it would be necessary to obtain the authority of the Senate; and as these charges came from the minor- ity of tho committee. they ought to designate as to what States they should continue the examination. Senator Garland replied that the minority would do this at the next mecting on Thursday next, and they would then be prepared to agree upon the terms of a resolution to be offered to the Senate, with a view of conducting the investigation during the recess. The sub-committee of which Senator Hoar is the chairman, to examine into the matter of assessments for political purposes, have not yet taken any testi- mony. They say they are waiting for the democrats to send their witnesses. The last testimony taken by the Teller Committee was that of Alfred Fairfax, colored, a citizen of Louisiana, a minister of the Baptist denomination anda member of the republican party. He testitied to the circumstances of the difficulties at his house last October, occasioned, as he said, by the demo- crats, and which placed his life in danger. CONFEDERATE FUNDS IN GREAT BRITAINg—RESO- LUTION OF BEPRESENTATIVE JORGENSEN, OF VIRGINIA. The joint resolution introduced by Representative Jorgensen, authorizing and directing the President to cause an investigation as to the funds belonging to the so-called Confederate States on deposit in the Bank of England or in the hands of private citizens in Great Britain, in its preamble recites that it is. believed that the so-called Confederate States, while exercising authority and holding commercial relations with the government of England, collected largo sums of money from certain citizens of the United States and deposited the same or some part of the same in the Bank of England to the credit of the so-called Confederate States, and that a portion of said sums of money still remain in said bank. The reso- lution authorizes the President to take action to se- cure the same wherever it may be found, to the end that it may be refunded and paid to citizens who served as soldiers or colored men who worked on fortifications or served as teamsters in the so-called Confederate armies and who were disabled in such service, and who are now in indigent circumstances and are dependent upon the charity of the com- munity for a living. FIVE-TWENTIES—NINETIETH CALL FOR REDEMP- TION. The Secretary of the Treasury this afternoon issued the ninetieth call for the redemption of five-twenty bonds of 1865—consols of 1867. Tho call is for $20,000,000, of which $13,000,000 are coupon and $7,000,000 are registered bonds. The principal and interest will be paid at the Treasury on and after the the 24th day of May next, and the interest will cease on that day. The foilowing are_ descriptions of the bonds:— Conpon bonds dated _July 1, 1857:— $50, No. 90,001 to No. 100,000, both inclusive. $100, No. 100,001 to No. 180,000, both inclusive. $500, No. 93,001 to No. 100,000, both inclusive. $1,000, No, 158,001 to No. 176,000, both inclusive. Total coupon, $13,000,000. Registered bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after the Ist day of July, 1872:— $50, No, 3,221 to No. 3,240, both inclusive. $100, No. 23,501 to No, 23,620, both inclusive, $500, No. 11,451 to No. 11,520, both inclusive. $1,000, No. 44,201 to No. 44,400, both inclusive, $5,000, No. 14,001 to No. 14,850, both inclusive. $10,000, No. 26,301 to No. 26,950, both inclusi Total registered, $7,000,000; aggregate, $20,000,000, THE POTTER INVESTIGATION. WOOLEY’S DENIAL OF COYLE’S TESTIMONY-—HOW FALSE PROTESTS WERE MADE IN NEW OR- LEANS—A SECRET MEETING IN THE POST OFFICE—NEWSPAPER CHARGES AGAINST THE COMMITTEE TRACED TO THFIR SOURCE. Wasurnatos, Feb. 2 The Potter Investigating Committee met at twelve o’clock to-day, when the chairman read the follow- ing letter, which had been received from Mr. Wool- ley:— Cixcrsnati, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1879, To Hon. CLarxson N. Porter, Chairman :— Your afflant, Charles W. Woolley, says he is forty- seven years of age, acitiz.n of Cinciunati, a lawyer by protession and a taxpayer by occupation; that he never indulges in alcoholic drink nor does he ever engage in games of hazard. Affiant has been ill for more than a week, is now confined to his bed and cannot leave it without probably en- dangering his lite. AfMlant has read the evidence of one John F. Coyle betore your committee on the 1ith inst., as published in the New York Zribune on the 18th inst., and swears without condition, equivo- cation or exception that so far as the statements of said Voyle purport to refer to him (the afiant) the same are utterly false; that he cannot otherwise Detter describe his estimate of them than by simply saying they are absolutely untrue. As affiant is un- able to go to your committee, and the committes cannot come to him, he respectfully asks that thia affidavit be allowed # place with the records of the committes. Affiant says, if your committee will receive and file asworn statement from him as to all his transac- tions in political matter, in the States of Louisiana and Florida in 1876, he will have his amanuensis pre- pare the same at once. The afiant cwy that in such statement be will respond tafly and fairly to ovety point of attack made Wpon hit-eonduct from any every responsible source so far as the same has come under his observation. Cc. W. WOOLLEY. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence, by Charies W. Woolley, this 22d of February, 187%. Fnep, A. Jomnson, Justice of the Peace, Mr. Hiscock moved that tho affidavit be not ro- ceived, and this waa carried. The Chairman he wonld commanicate with Mr. Woolley and tell him he was to attend as carly as possible. Chairman also read a letter from Mr, Alex- ander Thain, tho gentleman who, according to Coyle's testimony, offered to sell the Florida Return- ing Board for $100,000, He asks permission to come before the committee and refute the charges against him. No action was taken upon the letter. LETTERS OF GENERAL HARLOW, Mr. William KE, Chandier avked to place in the hands of the committes some papers in the hand- writing of General Barlow. One was a letter written by him to James Bell, Monticello, Fla., introducing . ©. Hopkins, of the Post Office Department, as a man fit to be trusted. Tho other paper was a memo- randum, dated December 5, 1876, to Mtr. Milos, one of the republican electors, These letgets were put in evidence to show that at the time they were written General Barlow was acting in “the republican” in- terest. Mr. Chandler said he desired to make a further statement. About three weeks ago he received a let- ter from Mr. Geot Bliss, of New York, stating that he had learned that John I. Davenport had the original cipher given to him (Mr. Chandler) when he started to Florida on November 8, 1876, together with numerous telegrams sent by him to Florida, He had replied to Mr. Bliss, asking him or Mr. Davenport to send the cipher and the telegrams, neither had replied, He mentioned this in that the committce might send for them if they saw fit. TESTIMONY OF MR. JEWHTT. Mr, D. J. M. Jewett, who acted as secretary to the Republican Campaign Committee of Louisiana in 1876, was then called and gave evidence with re- spect to the false protests that were made from sey- eral parishes in Louisiana. In the course of his ex. amination by General Butler he testified that Blauchard had nothing to do with the second set of electoral certificates. that were forged in Louisiana, He and his committes learned that the State had voted adversely so far as was shown by the returns trom the Dallot officers, including the bulldozed vill . four or five atter the election. were takon be- fore Ths elersion for getting evden trom thé butl- dozed villages, he having sent out @ circular in reter- ence to the matter early in October. After the elec- | tion evidence began to come in and subpenas were sent out by the chief supervisors of election. ‘One evening he was usked to attend a meeting in the private office of the Post Office Department, and he did so. He met there Mr, George L, Smith, member of Congress for that district; Mr. Ferguson, supervisor of De Soto parish; Mr. Hutton, supervisor of Boisier parish; Mr. Cornox, supervisor of Red Kiver parish, and one or two others. Mr. George L. Smith stated to him that they wished him to draft the protests for one or two parish ‘The vault in the Post Office was unlocked and a number of packages taken out, which proved to be the consolidat statements and legal endor- sures of De Soto, Webster, Boisier and Caddo par- ishes, The several supervisors from these parishes wero present. Witness drew up the protests; they were atterward copied by the supervisors and in- serted in their proper phenol with the other docu- meuts. The protests, witness continued, were drawn up upon the evidence and affidavits of the supervisors, aud they were obtained in some instances only by dint of considerable “sure. Mr. William E, An- derson refused to make his protest when he arrived, but subsequently on the same day he made one. On the following he repudiated it. On the 17th be readopted it, and on the 23d it was transmitted by letter to the Returning Board, Q. Have you got the original draft of the Richland protest? A, Ihave. Q. Is it drawn by Mr. Kell 2 A. Yes, it is in Kellogg’s handwriting; he di it himself. General Butler said this covered his part of the case, and the committee took a recess ot half an hour. CHANGES AGAINST THE COMMITTEE. Upon reassembling Mr. F. T. Bickford was called. He stated that in September last he was connected, with the New York Tribune, and about the 5th of that month he had charge of the reports sent to that journal from this city. The chairman handed witness a copy of the New York Tribune of that date, and, drawing his attention to the report of an interview with Secretary Sher- man, in which the Potter Committee was charged with intending to utter a false Sherman letter, asked if he had any knowledge of it? Witness replied that the report was an incident of their summer's work, but he did not remember the details of it; he was responsible for its passage through the Washington office—that is, he only knew of its being one of the Washington despatches of the Tribune. i @. Did you see Mr, Sherman’on the subject? A. I don’t think I did. Q. The despatch contains a statement of what Mr. Sherman said? A. Yes. Q. Did he say it? A. I havo every reason to believe e did. Q. Did you ever receive any communication from him contradictory of it? A. Not a word. Q. You did not see him yourself on the subject? A. My impression is I did not. Q. Did you receive any communication from him about it? A. Not a word. x Then how are we to verify that he said it? A. I don't know of any other way excepting calling Secretary Sherman. Q. Do'you mean to say that you published state- ments like that without verifying them? A. We do not. Q. Can you state on what authority you sent it? . Lean give you my recollection; I think that that was a despatch brought to me by a young man—as- sisting us at the time—a journalist and a very relia- able man in his profession; it Iam correct in this his name is Edwara F, Peck. i x You mean to say you sent this upon his report ? . You. Q. You had every reason to believe it was genuine, and Lead have received no complaint since? A, Not a word. The chairman then called General Sheldon, who testified that before 1870 supervisors were often can- didates at the samo time, but since then the State Legislature had prohibited it. MR. JEWETT AGAIN. ‘The examination of Mr. Jewett was then continued by the chairman. Referring again to the second electoral certificates the witness stated his beliet that Blanchard had no complicity in it; he (the witness) received a letter from H. D. Clark during last summer, who was also charged with being guilty of forging the names to those certificates; he assured General Sewell, the young fellow’s father-in- law, that the forgery was not dono by him, but that it was his impression it had been dohe by Thomas 8. Kelly; he had not a copy of any of these let- ters. Being again asked what persons were in the Post Office at the time the returns were opened and the protests put in, witness named the following :—E. D. Smith, ‘Rishior of the Post Office, who had asked him to be present; C. L. Ferguson, of De Soto; F. H. Hut- ton, of Boisier; J. W. Morrow, supervisors; Fred G. Heath, candidate for the Legislature, and General Gardiner. Percy Baker, State Senator for Boisier, was also present; he remembered meeting with Weber and asking him if he had filed his protest. The reply, in substance, was :— My head is a damned sight more important to mo than Packard being returned.”” ‘The chairman then produced the Jewett-Kellogg letter, but having asked the witness if it was his handwriting, and the witness having replied in the affirmative, the document was laid on the table with- out further questions being put in regard to it. At six o'clock the committee went into secret ses- sion, during which it was resolved to take no more oral evidence with the exception of Woolley and Solo- mon, it they can be brought here. To-morrow the committee will meet for a long secret session, at which cortain documentary evi- dence will be produced and, the question of the com- mittec’s report upon the testimony collected will probably be discussed. RENO EXONERATED. Wasuincton, Feb. 24, 1879, It is understood that the Court of Inquiry convened at the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, of the Sev- enth cavairy, to inquire into the charges that Major Reno had, at the battle of Little Big Horn (the Custer massacre), been guilty of cowardice and remissness in the discharge of his duty, will report that the ix- quiry has not deduced evidence against him which would warrant a trial by court martial. CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL HAZEN. WasutnoTon, Feb, 24, 1879. c. K. Peck and William Harmon, government con- tractors on the Missouri River, to-day filed with the Secretary of War a communication charging General William B. Hazen, United States army, with unofficer- like conduct. It is understood that they offered to substantiate their statements with testimony and to appear before the Judge Advocate General. CAPTAI ~ BLAIR'S CASE, Wasutnetox, Feb. 24, 1879, In the case of Captain Blair the sentence is dismis- sal from the service. The case will go to the Presi- dent for his approval. A COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION. FIGHTING IN THE STATE OF ANTOQUIA—THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT CALLING FOR TROOPS. Panama, Feb. 15, 1879. A despatch from Buenaventura, of the 6th inst.. say “A revolution has broken out in the State of Antioguia in the interest of the conservative party. There has been ono fight already, close to Manizales, at a place called Oli- vares, resulting im some twenty-five killed, and.the revolutionary party is stated to have had the worst of it. The general government has declared public order disturbed in the State of Antioquia (this is officially known to be the case), and is said to have decreed a levy of, 8,000 men to march upon the said tate. The goyernment of the State of Vanesa ig get- ing 3.000 men ready to send to the frontier of the neighboring State, and the battalions Fourth and Fitth from Cali, and Twenty-first trom Palmira, havo gone to the front. INVASION OF CAUCA. Later advices are to the effect that 8,000 men from Antioquia have invaded Cauca by tho Valle de Sapia, ‘on the west bank of the River Cauca. This is a seri- ous piece of news, which comes signed by General Francisco A. Escobar, Jefo de Estado, Major General, As there is no news of any kind from or of General Renjifo and his liberal goy- ernment in Antioquia this looks worse still. Rumors are afloat of active to be taken by Vientemilla on the Equatorian fronticr, and one Colombian battalion has already passed through Popayan to that destination. The cali tor 8,000 imen by the national government has been sup- plemented by appeals from the President of the State of Cauca to the neighboring States for men and arms. The State of Panama has been asked to furnish 1,700 men, but as yet no movement has been made to respond to the 5 GRAVE SITUATION. ‘The situation is considered to be very grave. Some hard bp oe and the expenditure of a million or more of money will be necessary to restore order, So the conservatives have the advantage of the situa- n, but General Trujillo is exceedingly active and energetiaand will hardly permit thom long fo retain that advantage. The national troops in Panama are to be maintained at an effective force of 200 men, in order to preserve the integrity of the transit, which, in the opinion of President Lrujillo, is menaced by the revolutions so frequently occurring here, Another shock of earthquake is announced as hav- ing been felt at Arequipa on the 19th ult. Fortu- nately it was not nearly so severe as the one reported a few days previonsly. There have also beon sundry shocks felt at Iquique, all very slight, however. LOCAL OPTION IN PENNSYLVANIA, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Hanniwavne, Pa., Feb, 24, 1879, ‘The Local Option State Convention will be held in this city to-morrow. The primary object is to urge the passage of the bill before the Legislature per- mitting all counties inthe State to determine every three years whether mtoxicating liqnors shall be sold in them, In the Senate Chamber to-night several ministers delivered addresses in favor ot the proposed Local Option law. One of the speakers asserted that the prospect for victory over whiakey trattic wae never better, and that if the question of “License or no license’ were submitted to the people every county except Philadelphia would record itself in favor of prohibition, THE CHINESE Excitement Throughout the Country on the Anti-Immigration Bill. CALIFORNIA DIVIDED Clergymen and Legislators Petition the Presi- dent to Velo the Measure. - ne YALE COLLEGE SPEAKS. President Woolsey and Professor Williams “Go for” Seymour and Blaine. San Francisco, Feb. 24, 1879, The Metropolitan Baptist Church was densely crowded last night, and the following was adopted by @ unanimous rising vote and will be telegraphed to the Prosident:— ' San Francisco, Feb. 24, 1879. To R. B. Hayes, President of the United States :— Two thousand Christian citizens, assembled for their ordinary service in Metropolitan Temple last evening, by a rising vote petition you to sign the bill restricting Chinese immigration as @ measure vital to our civil e, our business prosperity and our Christian civilization. ANTI-CHINESE RESOLUTIONS. The delegates to the Pacific Turnbezirk of the North American Turners’ Union, in convention as- sembled, to-day passed unanimously the following resolution :— Resolved, That the thanks of this body are due to those representatives and Sonators who so nobly stood up and voted for the anti-Chineso bill. ‘The Constitutional Convention tu-day adopted this resolution :— Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to the Congress ot the United States for the triumphant passage of the bill restricting the immigratiov of Chinese to this country, and that the members of the Senate and the House of Representa- tives who supported that vital measure merit and will receive the lasting gratitude of the people of California. ACTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, At aspecial meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon the following resolutions were adopted and ordered to be telegraphed to President Hayes :— ‘ Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of tho city of San Francisco, as a commercial body, and understanding, as we necessarily do, the scope, object and purport of the Dill which has just passed Congress, known as “The Bill to estrict Chinese Immigration,” and which bill is to be or has been resented to the President for signature, earnestly, dispassionately and deliberately recommend his approval of the biil in the interests of American territory, American labor, American peace, American commerce, Ameri- can home philanthrophy, American protection to the most valued social interests of the Pacific coast, and on the broad ground of wise and timely guard- ing of modern civilization ahd Christianity against social contact with overwhelming numbers of ancient and incorrigible social barbarisms upon American soil, Our language is concise. We mean it to be compre- hensive to the last degree, and when we recommend approval of the bill in the interest of American labor we mean protect it from the descending grade toward squalor and want, and when we refer to American e we mean protection from @ war of races and the calamities that follow in the train of race preju- dices where no assimilation is possible and no social sympathies exist incommon. The judgment of the ‘est on this subject, which is overwhelming, should be regarded by the East as conclusive. We are on the ground and know whereof we speak. GEORGE C. PERKINS, President, Monrts Mancvs, Secretary. The question of calling a public mass meeting was referred to the Mayor, with the request to act with- out delay. The San Francisco Journal of Commerce, in an article favoring the restriction of Chinese im- migration, gives some carefully prepared statistics of the balance of trade between China and the United States, showing that the total imports and exports to and from China, as entered at the Custom Houre in this city for 1877 and 1878 are as follows:—Exports, $35,926,812; imports, $14,804,017. Of these exports $28,592,236 represent coin and bullion. The export trade, such as it is, is mainly in Chinese hands, while the import trade, when we exclude goods ‘used by our Chinese population, is a mere bagatelle. A CLERGYMAN'’S PLEA, The Rev. Allan Carr, who has been visiting this State for the last four months, 1n his farewell lecturo at the First Baptist Church iast night, touched for the first time on the Chinese question, He said he had made it a careful study, and he had no hesitation in saying that the Chinese who are in this State have a perfect right to stay and be protected, as any other people are, under the solemn rights of the treaty. At the same time he was satisfied it would be better for the country if they had never come or if they should go away. He thought the President should sign the ‘Anti-Chinese bill. If he did not the people must wait patiently until laws are passed which will re- lieve them of the presence of the Chinese, METHODIST CLERGYMEN OF PHILADELPHIA WANT THE BILL VETOED. Purnapecruta, Feb. 24, 1879. Ata meeting of the ministers of the Methodist Fpiscopal Church, held here to-day, an appeal to the President of the United States was adopted request- ing him to veto the Chinese Immigration bill re- cently passed by Congress. Similar resolutions were passed at a meeting of the Baptist clergymen of this city this morning. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATORS SEE THE EVIL THE ANTI-CHINESE BILL WILL WORK TO THE UNITED STATES, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERAT. ‘Trenton, Feb. 24, 1879. In the Assembly to-night the following resolution, offered by Mr. Vernon, republican, was defeated by a vote of 24 to 38:— Resolved, the’ Senate concurring, That the provi- sions of the bill festricting Chinese immigration which has passed both houses of Congress and has been submitted to the President for his considera. tion, are at variance not only with the terms and spirit of our treaty obligations, bat with the princt- ples of liberty, justice and humanity upon which our republican institutions rest, Resolved, That should this bill become a law it will threaten our commercial relations with the vast empire of China, will invite retaliation, and will violate the wise and Christian policy which has uni- formly charactetwed our government in its dealings with foreign nations, requested to Resolved, That the Governor be transinit a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States and to each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from New Jersey. “Both parties divided on the question. Deacon, a republican, and Dewit, a democrat, opposed the resolution, and it was advocated by Vernon and Robinson, republicans, OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY EX-PRESIDENT Woot SEY, OF YALE COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR WIT- LIAMS, THE CHINESE | SCHOLAR—GOVERNOR SEYMOUR'S ARGUMENT ANALYZED. : {From the New Haven Rogister, Feb, 93.) Arcpresentative of this journal visited ex-Presi- dent Woolsey, one of the foremost exponents of In- ternational law, to secure his views on the Chinese question. The yonertable scholar received the visitor graciously, and began by speaking of the rights of Americans in China under the treaty. “The United States,’ he said, “has con- sular jurisdiction in China, All Americans are judged by tho United States consuls, and therefore ‘ried by our own laws, This act is known as the ex-territorial act. The moment the act restricting Chinese immi- gration goes into effect, if it ever does, the Chinese overnment will complain that the treaty ia broke: Vi territorial act will then be no longer of fore: ‘hinese have been wanting to get rid of this fé some time; they have been chating under it. Part the rights Americans have were granted in 1868 and part beforo, There wasatreaty in 1858 and the: wore also oarliet treaties. Under these Chinese w permitted to come and yo as they chose; they were Al rights. If wo should make any such reg sis proposed in regard to any othe country, the country would retaliate and T thin the Chinese will That moment the com- mercial relations *between this country and China must go. The other nations occupy a rablo position in regard to China The Chinese are bound to reapect their citizens, but not so with Americans. This is the one ides in the whole matter; there is very little else connected with it, Ihave no idea that coolics, in any proper senso “it is, they are AY, FEBRUARY 25, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. of that word, have ever been brought to this coun- ! CONTRARY TO INTERNATIONAL LAW. “Is the proposed anti-Chinese bill,’ asked the representative, “a violation of international law and treaties?” “I think itis. It is contrary to the spirit of the treaty. ‘Tho treaty implies that there shall be no re- striction upon the Chiuese entering into or going out of the country.” “Is not the large Chinese immigration to the Pa- cific slope a serious danger to the Pacific States 7” “I think the question is one of honesty and public policy only, The proposed bill is likely to drive out Chinese students that are studying in this coun- try, There are @ uumber of them in Massachusetts and in this State. Wedo not care anything about the money they bring wu but we had made an impression upon them and they take our customs home with them. They are learning some- thing of great importance. They carry our arts and our religion home with them. It is not a hopeless task to try toconvert them, All the Chinese come by the way of the Pacific States. They do not marry © any extent, and those who come here supply the places of those who go home and then they go back to China to die. The Coolie trade is absolutely forbidden by the treaty. Some of the Congressmen have stated th@t the California com- panies have been engaged in tlie coolie trade. I don’t sheve the Six Companies have been doing anything of the kind. Dr. Williams, however, can tell you much of interest about this point. He has been in San Francisco and knows much concerning the whole question “Is it wise to permit such immigration in view of the facts that the Chiuese do not assimilate with the American people, but abide for a time only and then return to China?” asked the reporter. “I should say that their failure to assimilate would be one reason why they do us the less harm. They cannot be enfranchised unless the government sees fiteto enfranchise them. The franchise was ex- pressly excepted in the treaty. There are naturaliza- tion treaties between this country and England and Germany and other countries, but none with China.” “What is the true way to deal with the Chinese question? What legislation or treaty changes, if any, would you suggest?” “Ido not know now what to suggest, but I should say that it might be well first to have the Californians suffer a.change of heart. The question ought not to be made a political one.” ‘The venerable ex-president, after alluding to some of the yarious treaties between this country and China, said, in concluding the interview, “I think that we will have to make terms with thet PROFESSOR WILLIAMS GOFS FOR HOBATIO SEYMOUR. A visit was made to Professor S. Wells Williams, professor of the Chinese language and literature in Yale College. For twenty-one years, up to 1876, he was secretary of the United States Legation in China. For twelve years he resided in Pekin. He was in California when the Chinese inquiry was made by Senator Morton’s committee. Mr. Williams is surrounded at home with almost every kind of article made by _ the Chinese, Even the parlor mat before the (ée-a-téte in the parlor bore cabalistic Chinese characters. After the object of the visit nad been stated the Professor was handed a copy of an interview with ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York. He glanced at the beginning, read some of the sentences and expressed his disgust with them. He read this:— He thinks that the preaence of the Chinese in the United States i devil. They are able to work for a ction hat will support an American, fraction.” said the Professor contemptuously, “what is the traction of the wages of an American?” He continued reading :— The Chinese women who come over are almost all aban- doned characters. “That is not true,’’ he said, and then read on, muk- the first great condition of life, tho inese are able to offer their services at aly . The thousand wants, desires, ambi- tions which are the outgrowth of European civilization are Udy those people of Asia, Ten years ago, when Governor Seymour argued against the coming of the Chi. at thery were, only. 20,000 of ; that the number would never increase to any considerable extent, und that he was simply fighting a shadow Now there are 150,000. of them. There would probably be three times that number, but for the increasing opposition to their immigration. sof working men, They are used as 8 pn the Pacific coast live in constant will be discharged ‘and their places giver This gives rise to riotous and lawles which, whilo they are always nue to exist white the provoking cause prosp str demned, will c remains. CORRECTING THE OLD POLITICIAN, The professor said that he used to go to school with Governor Seymour, and he thought the article was written for political purposes, ‘The Chinose qnestion of San Francisco is not European or American, but Asiatic. Their people are alien to our institutions. ' Their religion, their allegiance, their grave- yards, their traditions, theit ambitions are all on the other side of the world. The Professor—That is moonshine. Their presence here even in small numbers is dangerous, But if the gates were open wide they would come in u tlood. China {x overpopntons. It contains 400,000,000 inhabi tants, One-querter of them could be spared with positive advantage to thoxe who remained bebind. But their com- og would rain this country and reduce it to the levol of Asia. ‘The Protessor—China doesn’t contain 400,000,000; it contains about 300,000,000, The area of the coun- try is nearly as large as that of the United States. ‘The Indian isan Indien still, clinging to hislengnage, his habits and tastes, and resisting four centuries of European intluence. ‘The Mongolian will.continne to be a we permit him to set civilization inst ours we shall compel a conflict sooner or Inter, The Professor—The Chinese not Mongolians, ‘They are as different from Mongolians as we arefrom Finlanders, A QUESTION OF LABOR. “Our gates have been open to the Chinese for twen- ty-tive years. The total emigration has been only about two hundred thousand. It is less now than it was years ago. The treaty says nothing about nat- uralization. All the Chinese that have come here come from a district not as large as Connecticut, the district of Kwang-tung. Canton is the name of the city, but Kwang-tung is the name of the ince in which that city is situated. The eae will not come here to stay, and will never in large numbers. I myself should not like to » them come in droves, but they will not. Last year 4,000 more returned than came over during the year, and many of the immigrants haven’t the money to get home with. Itisa mistake to suppose that the Chinese immigrants thatcome here are of the lower classes, They are of the middle classes, but the middle class is lower there than in some other countries, for the levels of the heathen countries are 1. The immigrants occupy a higher relative position than the immigrants who have come from Great Britain to the naturalization matter there is Yung Wi uralized, and Indians have been naturalized too. But the Chinese wont come; they don't waut to come and we don’t want them. ‘The question is simply one of supply, of labor and wages. It is a difficult thing for the Chinese to learn our language, | If they are old it is physically impossible. Their dialect is against them. ING FOR" SENATOR BLAINE ALSO. “The employers in California prefer Chinamen be- cause they don't go away as quickly as other men and work cheaper. The housewives like them for servants because they do not wish to go out much and don’t have many visitors. There are probably not mo ‘han one hundred thousand of them in America to-day, If they had scattered, instead of re- maining in California, we wouldn't have heard much out them, The immigrants lived inside the tropics and are not the offscourings of the peo- ple as they have been called. No slaves have een brought here. A coolie means a rson who is bound out to a master and works for a certain number of years under that master's direction. He can be let to any one. No such persons are sent here; the California com- panies have not violated the coolie provision of the treaty. The Professor brought out a formidable looking gavile decument containing the report of Senator Morton's committee sent to San Francisco to inquire concerning the Chinese business. If Senator Blaine had studied this report, said the Professor, patting the volume, he wouldn't have made the er- roneons statements that he did in Congress. Tho companies haven't bought any coolies. The Chi- nese are the most industrious classes I ever saw. They are nover expatriated. The point that is ihade about their going back is ab- surd. If they return, of what danger is their presence for the time being? If they return, why should any provision be made tor keeping them out of the country?” BAD ‘FCT ON CHINESE STUDENTS, “How will the proposed bill affect the Chinese students?’ queried the reporter. “It will have a bad effect upon this matter of educat! By the Senate amendment they cau come | in any numbers by getting the certitic of some official that they are coming here for pur- poses of education merely.” *: , of course, the bill would not interfere with cs, they will go to other countries. They havo begun in the line of advancement and must continne, u suppose that I wonld come here if I were & The United States throws her doors open to all nationalities—the African, the Persian Hindoo-—and yet says to’ the Chinese fou cannot come here unless you have a “Although it is very true that the Chinese have made some advancement,” said the reporter, “haven't they been a long time watt “Yer; the Chinese Empire is 4, years old, but it has advanced, anc that is a great thing “Is it diffienlt to convert the Chinese to the Christian religion?” “No, not very. Itis true that only about 15,000 have been converted to the Protestant religion, but the missionaries have only been in the Kingdom forty years. There are 400,000 Roman Catholics, but the missionaries have been at work 250 years. In New York, Lam told, there are 100 Chinamen who have Irish wives. This isan argument in favor of the assimilation theory.” A MATTER AFFECTING AMERICAN HONOR, “put,” said the Professor earnestly, “the whole matter should be put to the public as a thing affect- ing our national honor. It is a very humilteting thing, especially to those having relations wit China, to see the treaty abrogated without a confer- ‘he Chinese will retaliate and our commerce go. Our citizens will be deprived of trial by our consis and there will be trouble. The proposed on our national honor. continued the Professor, “to dis- cuss the question in its relation to labor in the East- ern States, The North Ada nd if 1,000 of the C by luck of acct large number of them scarcely get @ living. they become skilled bf any one else. Tho wh When ask aa much wages as excitement wae created for political purposes. The hoodlums of Sas Francisco who voulan't work if work. were offered them are enraged at them because they oust some of their friends who are employed. The Chinese are inoffensive people and will not fight unless attacked. ‘They will then use their biudgeons and pistols ef- fectively. The hoodlums vote, the Chinese cannot; therefore, the politicians seek to war mu the Chinese for the sake of the hoodlum vote. whoie question is one of labor, that is all. It would have been better for the Chinese if they had had three ports of entry into California instead of one, They would then have becoine more dispersed.” CHINESE AHEAD OF THE NEGROES. ‘The San Francisco correspondent of the Baltimore Sun (democratic), under date of February 1, writing of the Chinese schools, says:— Rev. Otis Gibson knows moreof Chinese capacity for improvement than any one else on this coast, ex- cept a few persons who have been missionaries in China and who indorse his reports. His ed is the education of Chinese in San Fran- cisco, with efforts to change the com- plexion of their superstitions, We cannot jim- prove on the moral laws of Confucius. They are identical in China with ours in Christendom, aud they form the base of all religions; from the begin- ning there has been no essential variation. The trunks only differ in form and structure, and in the mythic story of who planted it, and when and where and by what miracles the lowly believed that God directed the planting. Otherwise the fruit of all is evo in moral nutriment, adapted to the various peoples. The reverend missionary wisely admits the merits of Confucius; claiming that for this age and for this country our doctrine is better adapted, a1 be accepted without disparagement | to Cone fucians. This is the shortest and easiest way to win converts. A public examination of Chinese Rcliolars gave convincing proof of the capacity of that race for intellectual advancement far beyond that of the negroes. If being sharp ata bargain be any sign of wit Chinamen are fully our peers. As @ further test, they get perfect mastery of modern machinery in less time than our own average appren- tices. Moreover, all Chinamen are more reliable and quick at figures. They have a wee decimal con- trivance of bulls, sliding on wires, that counts up in atrice, and unerringly, fractional values, which our accountants cypher out by primitive rules of painful complexity and oft repetition. VIRGINIA’S DEBT. OPPOSITION OF THE READJUSTERS TO THE FUNDING BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE—PROB- ABLE ACTION OF THE CONVENTION TO-DAY, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] RicuMonp, Va., Feb. 24, 1878, There are quite a number of delegates here to attend the convention of readjusters, which will meet in this city to-morrow at twelve M., and there will doubtless be a pretty fair attendance. The re- adjusters will insist upon the utter rejection of any liability in any manner or degree for that portion of the old debt known as West Virginia's third. The public free schools are to be specially guarded and fostered, and no compromise can be considered which shall not concede to them fully ail that has been provided for their maintenance by the laws and constitution, A DELUSIVE SCHEME. As to the McCulloch bill now pending, the read- justers will denounce it as a delusive scheme, which, offering to accept three per cent for ten years, de- mands four per cent for twenty years and five per cent for ten years, with an entire exemption from taxation, which makes the actual rate equal to four per cent for ten years, five per cent for twenty years and six per cent for ten years. This scheme, they say, also discriminates against the “peelers,” con- tre to the declaration of the conserva- tive platform of 1877, which ‘laimed that the debt should be _ settled upon the basis of the present revenue, and that placed all classes of creditors bs soe the same footing. This Dill also, it is claimed, retains the tax receivable coupon and places the whole matter of refunding in the hands of the American and English funding as- sociations, to all ot which the justers will not consent. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE TO BE SECURED. There will be an independent organization devised by the Convention, and to its ranks will be invited al) ‘and colors opposed to higher taxation, in favor of the public schools, and for a settlement within the revenue derived from the present rate of levy. As to the present session of the General Assem- bly, they say it is too near its close to attempt any- thing. of much consequence. The effort of the readjusters will be to elect a majority of the next Legislature, in which measures are expected ta be carried through in accordance with the views already given. It is expected, too, that this Conven- tion will declare for.a State Constitutional Conven- tion to with the debt and other questiong, but that is not yet fully determined on, as many read- justers are not in favor of the Convention. There is likely to be serious differences of opinion is believed by in the Convention to-morrow, but it those now here that its proceedings will be as har- monious as can be expected. & W. SPRAGUE. A. HEARING OF THE MOTION TO RELIEVE MR, CHAFEE OF HIS TRUST POSTPONED TO TRE LAST OF MARCH—PLANS FOR SETTLEMENT— MB, CHAFEF'S DEMANDS, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.} Pnrovipence, R. I., Feb. 24, 1879. The first important move in the affairs of the house of A. & W. Sprague came up in the Supreme Court in this city to-day. It consisted of the petition of creditors representing over $4,000,000 of the firm’s indebtedness, praying for the removal of the trustee, Mr. Zachariah Chafee, for causes fully set forth in the Hrnatp some time ago. Counsel for the creditors desired to have the case continued for a few days. The Court, however, could not find it convenient to grant the request, but sug- gested that if the hearing was to be continued at all it had better be continued to the March term. This proposition being acceptable to both parties the case was continued to the fourth Monday in March. Creditors of the house appear to look upon the delay with @ good deal of favor, as they seem to be im- pressed with the idea that Mr. Chafee in the mean- time will aid them in consummating an arrangement for forming ® new corporation for the purpose of protecting their interests and using the unused — erties of the firm to the best advantage. is roposed after organizing the new company 0 offer the various mills and other propertics tor eale in parcels. If no outside parties can be found to purchase at a satisfactory figure, then the new company is to become the purchaser. Each creditor would be expected to take stock pro rdta, ac» cording to the extent of their claims, or, in other words, the creditors to step into Mr. Chafee’s shoes and make the best possiole compromise with the parties who have liens and attachments upon the property. The new company would also dispose of the property as fast as practicable and liquidate the in- debteaness, By securing corporate rights tay would be able to sell the property and take the im pay: ment, and this, itis claimed, would make s demand for the stock and enable parties who desired to in manufacturing business an opportunity to do so on easy terms. They cannot, however, take tis course unless a stock company ie formed, and ttrey caunot, under the present arrangement, exchange the property for the extension notes, MR. CHAFEE'S POSITION. A Heratp correspondent called this afternoon upon Mr. Chafee, at the office of Messrs. A. & W, Sprague. That gentleman intimated, in unmistak- able language, that he did not propose to relinquish his trust until the creditors indemnity him from all prospective litigation on the part of the creditors who were not in favor of his turning the property over to the petitioners, who represont mostly banking institutions in this city, He did not say that he would “step down and ont.” In_ his annual statement, as printed in the Henratp, he stated that he would co-operate with the creditors, He does not propose to be harassed with endless litigation in case he gave up the trust, and he thinks that $3,000,000, at least, invested in gov- ernment bonds or other first class securities, should be deposited with some bank or other cu an agreeable to all concerned to secure him from any litigation which might arise. He is in control of the business to protect the interests of ali concerned, and he respects the claim of the smallet as well as of the larger creditors, It appears, therefore, aa though the creditors’ com- mittee are mistaken in regard to Mr, Chafee's plans, Many of the private creditors are opposed to his re tiring from his present position. Among the counsel who appeared for the creditors to-day was B. H. Bristow, ex-Secretary of the Treas ury. YOUNG WOME AT HARVARD. Boston, Feb. 24, 1879. It is stated on the authority of the Advrtuer, of this city, that the officers of Harvard College propose to allow young women to pass through the different stages of instruction under the tuition of the various professors, but with « distinct organization to be con- trolled by a board of seven Cambridge ladies. They are not to bo considered strdents ot the coltege, but more properly private pupils of the professors, with $ the various branches ot the college course open te ern. “ALWAYS WITH YOU." The Henry has received from “Mrs, P.,” $2 for Abraham Levy, of No. 185 Rivington street; from “J, HL,” $5 for No, 502 West Fifty-sixth street; $5 for No. 185 Rivington street, #5 for poor tatlor, and $10 for general fund; from “J. B. C.,"" $2 for two cases; from “E. ©. W.,” $2 for No. 502 Wost Fifty-sixth street; from “Julius,” $50¢., and from “Bertha,” 500, for No. 185 Rivington street. Total, $82,