New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-22
pany the amount of compensation TO be paid to the
Indians for tho right Of way through their lands.
KILGORE GIVES UP THE CHINESE BILL.
SHARING HIS FUN WITH THE PREsIDENT-wHAr

WILL MR.. CLEVELAND Dol
Washington, Sept 81 (SreciaD.-Kilgorc, Of TEXAS
Is the only man In Congress who has managed to get
any real unmixcd fun out of the Chinese Exclusion
bill Brown of Colorado enjoyed himself over It for
few minutes when he defed the Foreign Relations
Committee OF the Senate and sent the bill to the
House with the Edmunds resolution pending over It
and him but his fun mixed up with business
for his State is party in interest Texas, however
doesn't straw about the matter so kilgoe's
sensations were those Of pure, solid amusement The
smile he smiled Yesterday broad his adopted State
when the lightning of Congressional debate was fash
Ing around him. has already passed into history The
moro the storm ragged the broader he smiled.
But Kilgore doesn't want the earth He rs salts
fed with less When It bad been definitely decided
that there power In law In Congress TO make
him carry the bill to the President until he got ready
and when he had made It clear that he wouldn't do 1t
anyway. whether It the law not, he concluded
not 10 keep the fun ell to himself So he went up and
shared with the President, and incidentally took
the bill with him and left It He reached the White
House at IL O'Clock this morning, and the President
amusement began at that moment. 1t was not con
dition that confronted him. yet exactly theory
but rather a conundrum Whether he should turn Mr.
Scott down and bury him, to mix metaphors little
under real big filed with resounding epgrams
break the heart Of the Secretary of State by signing
the bill and sending II back with protest fun OF
plattudes on the evils Of hasty legislation Those
the matters at issue. There was no end OF
rollckng joy in either course; and that is what he
Is laughing at tonight
The mudde made by this bfll whose tortuous course
has parallel in Legislation, has developed an sp
parent necessity not only for amended rules IN Con-
gross, but for an amended Constitution well The
fact that a measure which nobody wants, one calcu
lated affect dsastrousy important commercial and
humanitarian interests, can suddenly break forth like
pestence and pass itself through two OF me coor
dnate branches of the Government despite the OBJ
structve efforts Of the best OF parlanentarans and
then be substantially vetoed at the Will of single
member temporarily left at the head OF one OF the
minor committees, is one which the trainers OF ne
Constitution failed to provide against and which the
first century of the Republc failed to disclose
1t is officially given out at the White House TO night
that information received this morning OF China
having refused 10 ratify the treaty If this be true
II looks very much II kgore's strange antics had
been inspired His prompt transmital of the bill to
the President, after all the delay he seemed prepared
to indulge IN is decidedly suspicious There arc few
people tonight who do not believe that he was prf-
vately informed from the White House OF Chinas
decision and peremptorly ordered not TO keep the bill
In his possession any longer