The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-07
INDEMNITY FOR CHINESE.
THE BILL PASSES THE SENATE BY
VOTE OF 80 TO 10.

The Amount Appropriated Is $3.50. 600
Doings in ~ Senate and House-An
Amendment to the Patent Law-Thc
Presidents Reply to Secretary Man
ninI's Resignation.
WASHINGTON CITY, June AFTER de-
bate Of some length in the senate, Friday,
ON the consular and diplomatic appropra'
ton bill, the Chinese indemnity biil was
again taken up and Cockrell made AN earn.
est SIP, ech against it on the ground that the
rioters, as well rs the Chinese, were foreign
ers, b. ought to this country TO enable cor
potations TO tyranize over American labor.
AZ the conclusion OF Cockrells speech the
ILL was brought to a vote, and passed-yeas,
80; nays, % The senators voting in the
negative were Messrs. Beck, Berry, Cock
reIl, 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, lsS5. and to pay such losses.
The amount appropriated by the bill for
that purpose is S!5O,0O0
In the seuate Saturday Ingalls, resoiu-
ton was laid before the senate calling on
the secretary of the interior for information
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-
enptofy timber culture and desert land
acts Wathall said soon after the order
was issued the secretary of the interior
doubled its legal authority without
reference to presidents 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, lie (Walthalb saw and read the
original draft of the order revoking it, AM
in a conversation with the secretary of the
interior on the subject, had learned from
the secretary that he had grave DOUBTS as 10
the legality of the order, and had deter
mined on the very day OF its issue to re-
woke il.
During the discussion on the above the
following colloquy took place between In
gals ana Cockere.i:
CockerelI Why could not the senator
answer proper question at once.
ingalls, The senator from Missouri is in
capable of as,ing a polite question OF any
body. That Is the reason.
Cockrell-And the senator from Kansas is
incapable of answering gentleman.
ingalls, never shall have an opportunity
of answering a gentleman whenever the SEN
ator from Missouri interrogates me.
The hair urged the senators to keep or
der.
Edmunds soto voce,-That is unparlia
mentary
Ingalls, also soto vocel-You say it is
The house Saturday passed the senate
bill for the erection of II pullic building at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, with an amendment re1uc
ing the appropriation from $50, $50 to Sl0t, =
90, also the senate bIl appropriating 500, =
go for the erection OF u public buiiding at
Sioux City, Iowa
Atkinson of Pennsylvania, from the COM
mi.tee on patents, reported bill amending
sect. ION 4oS. Calendarel The change pro
posed will give to an inventor a
patent for seventeen years if his
application for a patent Is filed in this
country before patent j. granted him in q
foreign country. The present law provides
that ii an invention Is lirst patented In
foreign country, an American patent
subsequently issued for the same inv ention
shall expire with the foreign PATENT
\ discussion then arose as to the proceed
uTe of business Holman of Indiana desir
ms to call up appropriation bills, Throck-
morton of Texas and Irish of Georgia advo-
eating the claims of the commit.
tee on Pacific railroads and O'Neill
desiring that tue day should be
assigned to the consideration of bill relating
to labor The house re ected motions to 20
into committee on the whole on legislative
appropriation and labor bills, and by vote
OF % to ~ too.l up for consideration the
Pacific railroad extension bill 1t was
agreed that the previous question should be
considered as ordered at o'clock unless
the debate should exhaust itself at an earlier
hour