How is that for a heathen Chinee in favor of restricting the liquor or opium traffic? We have had commissions and expended lavish sums of money on various other Congressional inquiries. We have had a commission in regard to the interests of the Indians. a commission to investigate political outrages in the Southern States. we have had a "silver commission 7 inquiry. we have had various tariff commissions. we have had a commission to investigate the ravages of the cotton worm in the Southern States. to investigate the grasshopper in Kansas. and polygamy in Utah. and pleuropneumonia. and the Asiatic cholera that never came. We had a committee of Congress to investigate our relations with Canada. We had in this country in 1880 a prison population of 60.000 adult prisoners and 11.000 in the reformatories.