Morris tribune., 1886-06-09

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Doings in the Senate and House-Ai
Amendment to the Patent Law-Th
Presidents Reply to Secretary Man
ning's Resignation.
| WASHINGTON CITY, June latter a de
bate Of some length in the senate, Friday
ON the consular and diplomatic appropria
| tion bill, the Chinese indemnity bill wa!
| again taken up and Cockrell made an earn
est speech against it on the ground that the
rioters, as well as the Chinese, were foreign
ers, brought to this country to enable cor
| porations to tyranize over American labor
At the conclusion of Cockrell's speech the
bill was brought to vote, and passed-yeas
so; nays, 10 The senators voting in tbs
negative were Messrs Beck, Berry, Cock.
rell, Coke, Eustis, George, Harris, Maxey,
Mitchell of Oregon, and Vest.
The bill authorizes the president to ascer.
tain the actual losses sustained by Cinnamon
by the riot at Rock Springs, Wy. T., in
September, 1885, and to pay such losses.
The amount appropriated by the bill for
that purpose is $780, 600
In the senate Saturday ingalls, resolu-
tion was laid before the senate calling on
the secretary of the interior for information
as the authority for the issuance of the re-
cent order of the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office suspending the receipt of ap-
plications for public lands under the pre-
emptory timber culture and desert land
acts. Walthall said soon after the order
was issued the secretary of the interior
doubled its legal authority without
reference to precedents and had determined
to revoke it. On Friday an hour or more
before the senate met, and two or three
hours before the offering of the Ingalls, reso-
luton, he (WalthalD saw and read the
original draft of the order revoking it, and
in conversation with the secretary of the
interior on the subject, had learned from
the secretary that he had grave doubts as to
the legality of the order, and had deter
mined ON the very day of its issue to re-
woke it.
During the discussion on the above the
following colloquy took place between In
gals and Cockerell:
Cockerell-Why could not the seuator
answer proper question at once?
Ingalls-The senator from Missouri is iu-
capable of asking a polite question of any
body. That is tho reason.
Cockrell-And the senator from Kansas is
incapable Of answering a gentleman.
lngalls-I never shall have an opportunity
Of answering gentleman whenever the sem
ator from Missouri interrogates me.
The chair urged the senators Ito keep or
der.
Edmunds soto voce)-That is unparlia-
ingalls, also soto voce)-You say it is
The house Saturday passed the senate
bill for the erection of public building at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, with an amendment reduc-
fho
COO; also the senate bill appropriating $780,
OC0 for the erection of public building at
Sioux City, Iowa
Atkinson of Pennsylvania, from the COM
mittee on patents, reported bill amending
section 1887; calendared. THE change pro-
posed will give to an inventor a |
patent for seventeen years if his
application for patent is fled in this |
country before patent is granted him in a |
oreign country. The present law provides /
hat If an invention is first patented in
oreign country, an American patent
issued for the same inv ention
hall expire with the foreign patent
A discussion then arose as to the proceed
Ire of business Holman of Indiana desir.
ng to call up appropriation bills, Throck-
norton of Texas and Irish Of Georgia advo-
ating the claims of the commit
zee on Pacific railroads and O'Neill
Iesiring that the day should be
ssigned to the consideration of bill relating
o labor. The house rejected motions to go
nto committee on the whole on legislative
ppropriation and labor bills, and by vote
f 123 to Al took up for consideration the
'aciic railroad extension bill 1t was
greed that the previous question should be
onsidered as ordered at o'clock unless
he debate should exhaust itself at an earlier
our.