Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-20
EDMUNDS' BLUNDER.
A Resolution Calculated to Help tho
Democrats Out of Hole.

Resolution Calculated to Help tho
Democrats Out of Hole.
Copyright, 1883, byAe California associated Press
WASHINGTON, September 19th.-Senator
Edmunds, in his resolution of to-day call
ing on the President of the Senate to with
hold from the House the Chinese exclusion
bill, unintentionally played right into the
hands of the Democrats. The resolution
was not passed, but went over until to-
morrow, when Edmunds will again bring
it up and try to have it passed. 1t is be-
iieved by many that he will succeed. He
has been opposed to the bill from the start,
and would have done much to defeat il
had he been present when the vote was
taken the other day on the question of re-
consideration.
1t is question if the Senate can reach
the bill now, however, as it has been form
ally delivered to the House. and is bevond
the jurisdiction of the presiding officer of
the Senate. 1t will be optional with the
House, therefore, whether it be passed or
not. Even should the resolution of Sen
ator Edmunds be passed, the Democrats
have gotten what they were so anxious for.
and they appear to be quite sorry of their
bargain. They realize only too fully
THE EMBARRASSING POSITION
Into which the President has gotten him
self. This is evidenced by the action of
Representative kigore, Chairman of the
House Committee on Enrolled Bills, whose
duty it will be TO carry the bill to the Presi.
dent. He said tonight that he had decided
to withhold the bill to give the Senate. time
for action on Edmund's resolution.
This action is severely criticised as being
presumptous on the part of one simply
authorized to deliver the document. 1t
looks dubious as to the bill ever reaching
the President. Quite number of Republi-
cans are opposed to it, and il is now be-
lieved that the Democrats will, as party
act, vote solidly against the bill, in order to
relieve the President from his embarrassing
position.
IN AN AWFUL PICKLE.
1t is said here to-day that the State De-
partment is in active telegraphic communi-
cation with Minister DENLY, in the hope
that the Chinese Government can be gotten
to take action on the treaty before the
expiration of the ten days in which the
President must act upon the Chinese ex-
clusion bill, or allow it to become a
law. Minister Denby, it is said. has
wired the State Department that
the Chinese Government has assured him
that everything possible would be done
to accommodate the State Department Off
cisls. They believe from this that there is
good reason to hope that the President
may be relieved from action on the exclu.
sion bill
STEWART DIsGUSTED.
Senator Stewart. to whose persistent
efforts !: IS probably due that the Chinese
bill passed Us soon as it did, is extremely
disguised with the new phase of The mud
die over the Chinese bill which was de-
yeloped to-day. IN conversation with
your correspondent this evening he made
no attempt to conceal his contempt for the
resolution introduced by Senator Edmunds
to-day to hold back the bill. The
resolution troubled him little, though
because the bill had left the Sen.
ate with the signature of the President
pro tenn, but what irritated him to no small
degree was the action of Congressman Kill
gore, whose duty it was to have taken the
bill from the House to that the President
to-day, in holding it back to await action
on Edmunds' resolution. Senator Stewart
expressed himself in pretty strong terms
regarding it. He thought it shameful that
the Senate, after passing this bill, should
be treated as it was to-day, and said there
ought TO be some penalties made in the
House for the punishment of its officials
who act as did Kilgore.