Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-09
YESTERDAY At THE CAPITAL,
The Recent Land Entry Circular of
Commissioner Sparks Attacked
and Revoked.
Passage Of the Rock Springs Chi
nese Indemnity Bill By
the Senate.
Resignation Of Secretary of
the Treasury Manning Vetoed
BY the President.

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the Treasury Manning Vetoed
By the President.
WASHINGTON. June An the Senate to
day Mr.. Ingalls, offered a resolution which
on an objection by Mr.. Beck, vent owe
until tomorrow; calling on the Secretar,
OF the Interior to inform the Senat
whether a certain circular had been ISSUED
by the Commissioner OF the General Lane
Office with the consent OF the Secretary O
the Interior. The resolution recites in full
the recent circular to Registers and Re
~ceivers of the land Offices stating that nc
new applications for entry under the pre-
emption, timber culture or desert lane
acts could be received pending legislation
by Congress to repeal these acts
The resolution then proceeds to
direct the Secretary OF the Interior
to inform the Senate by what
act it was claimed that Congress had
delegated to the Commissioner OF the Gen.
eral Land Office, or to the Secretary of the
Interior, or to those officers jointly, the
power to suspend by executive order the
operation throughout the United States OF
the presumption timber culture and desert
land acts, and to deny to citizens OF the
United States their rights under said act.
On m, ton of Mr.. Edmunds the Chinese
indemnity bill was taken up but informally
laid aside at the request of Mr.. Allison to
permit the consideration of the consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill.
In the course OF this debate, Mr.. Allison
attributed much of the difficulty arising in
the matter of differentiation to the
scramble between consuls whose compensa-
tion is received through fees. Foreign
merchants shipping goods to the United
States were im%portuned by cousuls who
were paid by fees to get their certi1cation
from those consuls instead of from the reg
ular salaried copsuls in the near %neighbor-
hood. This matter, he thought, deserved
the attention OF the State Department. At
2 O'Clock the matter went over, and the
Chinese indemnity bill was then placed be-
fore the Senate, and Mr.. CockrelI took the
floor. He argued strongly against
the bill. H read at some length
from official correspondence on the subject
that all persons engaged in the violence
complained OF were foreigners. This CORE
~spondence went also to show that these
foreigners as we'll as the Chinese persons
complaining, had been brought there under
a system OF contracts for the supply OF
cheap labor to %supplant the American
laborer. The Chinese had been brought
there as serfs, with the knowledge OF the
Chinese Government. The Chinese had
been brought there to supplant white labor
ers, because the Chinese were more like
slaves. TIL distinguished representative
OF tue Chinese Government, Mr.. Cockrell.
said he had undertaken to suppress appa-
rently or 10 ignore the actual origin OF the
trouble, and 80 had the senators from New
York, Ohio and Vermont. He
read from correspondence to show
this, and also to show that
none OF the parties went to live or work
at the place where the violence occurred
under any protection of the United States.
They went there relying for protection ON
their masters" thee ,mpany that hired
quired to extend to the Chinese or any
other foreigners any greater right OF re-
dress for wrongs than is given to citizens OF
the United States. Mr.. Cockrell ANNA
verified with severity on the position taken
by Messrs. Evarts, Edmunds and Sherman.
He contrasted the freedom enjoyed by the
Chinese in the Unit d States even to the
Of building joss houses.
with the limitation attending the
IT'S OF citizens 81 the
United States in China. The basis Oh
which the Secretary OF State and the Presi
dent have recommended the ella inns covered
by this bill were solely that Of pity for the
and not because there was the
legal or other obligation existing
in the premises. At the conclusion of Mr..
vote and passed. Yeas, 80; nays, 10.
The Senators voting in the negative were
Beck, Barry, Cockrell, Coke. Eustis, George,
Harris, Maxey, NJ tchell, OF Oregon, and
Vest.
The bill authorizes the President to as
the actual losses sustained by the
Cinnamon by the riot al Rock Springs,
Wyoming, in September, 1885, and to pay
such losses. The amount appropriated by
the bill for that purpose is $50 5000. The
Senate then resumed the consideration OF
the Consular and Diplomatic %Appropria-
ton bill. On reaching the appropriation
of 50, 27O, as the American contribution to
the maintenance OF the International Blu
reau Of Weights and Measures, Mr.. Conger
attacked the item. He ridiculed the
idea CT a change in our last established
system OF weighs and measures, and saw
After an explanation OF it by MIR.
and Mr.. Allison, Mr.. Conger moved
to strike it out. This motion was rejected
l (Mr. Conger), nays AZ. [Great
laughter.1
The Senate, without finishing the bill, adj
till tomorrow.
House.
The speaker laid before the House q com
from the Secretary of War,
recommending that SIC, 1000 of the amount
appropriated by the act OF March 3, 1883,
Tor the armament OF Notifications be ap-
and made available for the con-
Of guns.
Mr. Boutelle. Of Maine, introduced a bill
to duties on fish. Referred. (Bou-
telte says in reference to this bill that the
o-called retaliation provision recently
added by Congress to the Shipping bill,
however proper and justiiable, will not be
with much concern by the Can
as they don't care much for the
privilege OF purchasing bait or Supplies in
our ports. He proposes, therefore; to deal
with the fishery question practically by
the termination Of free Importation of fish,
and increasing the import duty on all fish,
compelling the Canadians to pay for the
mere privilege OF selling their fish in the
United States.
The House at evening session passed
seventeen pension bills. and adjourned un-
to.morIo w.