A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . CHESTEH ALAN ARTHUR(1S3IV1886.) One partial term, l&si-lg85. THE CHINESE. The State of California, on account of its situation, received thousands ofChinese immigrants every year from across the Pacific. These people live so 440 HAYES, GARFIELD, AND ARTHUR. meanly that they could affortl to work for wages upon which a white man wouldstarve. Consequently they crowded out other laborers and caused so much
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . CHESTEH ALAN ARTHUR(1S3IV1886.) One partial term, l&si-lg85. THE CHINESE. The State of California, on account of its situation, received thousands ofChinese immigrants every year from across the Pacific. These people live so 440 HAYES, GARFIELD, AND ARTHUR. meanly that they could affortl to work for wages upon which a white man wouldstarve. Consequently they crowded out other laborers and caused so much dis-content that something in the nature of a revolt took jilace against them. Thegrievance of the Californians was so well-founded that Congress, while Hayeswas President, passed a bill which forbade the innnigration of Chinese laborers tothis country, and requiring those already here to take out certihcates, if they leftthe United States, so as to identify themselves before being allowed to Hayes vetoed the bill, but it was passed in 1882. The amazing. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. ingenuity of the Cliinese has enabled them to evade the law^ in many instances,but their immigration was substantially cliecked. Probably there is no moredegraded community on the face of the earth than the part in San Franciscoknown as Chinatown. Most of the yellow celestials live undeiground, wheretheir unspeakable villainies are a flaming reproach to the authorities that permitthem. THE MORMONS. Tlie Mormons proved a thorn in the side of the body politic. Their polyg-amous practices led to the passage in 1882 of Senator Edmunds bill which EXPLORATION OF ALASKA. 441 excluded polygamists from holding office. A good many jiersons were convictedand sentenced for violation of the law, which was ajjlield by the Supreme legislation, while abating in considerable degree the practice ofpolygamy, did not bring it to an end. There are still many persons in Utahwho have a number of wives
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