The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-27
WASHINGTON CITY,

Ine facc to the House for its having
las5ed The Chinese exclusion bill as
IN Independent measure, Instead of
0abiHg II an amendment TO the
&il which had already passed t 'e
S,nate extending for ten years the
present anti-Chinese laws, which
q III expire by limitation early next
as0nth, By reporting the House bill
Back 80 the Senate, with the origi-
AM Senate bill as substitute.
1t has been charged that certain
parties in the House favored max
mg1he exclusion bill an independ-
tnt measlre in the hcpe that enough
mne you'd be consumed :before it
wns acted upon to enable certain
a megested parties TO land thousands
nj Chinese lab or rs in this country,
Between the time of the expiration
Of she present laws and the enact
sDent of new one. Appearances
alake the charge plausible. Had
'she House exclusion bill been pass
sd as an amendment to the Senate
Gll, the amended bill conld have at
sNee been sent to a conference com
Enttee, aud before now completed
Hbil Of some sort could have been in
Vhe bands Of the President. Sena-
Tor Telton, Of California, asked that
she report Of the committee be not
'saken up for action by the Senate
%ptj he could present the views Of
ne people of the Pacific coast and
his own thereon.
Vie first official act Of Secretary
Rlkias after his return from bust
Aes3 strip to New York was to direc
i6e depotArny quartermaster at st
6Oui5 TO send Immediately 800 tent:
10 )Ga mayor OF Columbus, Missis
sipll for the use Of the people rem
t5eTed homeless By the recent foods
quite contrast with the action o
a preventative Kllgore, Of Texas
WI objected to the immediate con
ri a5un OF q resolution introduces
In re H@ase appeopriating $4,000
10 he sufferers.
Why IS it that men who in the or
binary course of business woult
ssorn to do a diyhonorable act vii
hsheme to take advantage of tn
government, not TO call it by
wefse Game? Is a question that Oc
s1ga very Office 10 those who kee
anesC eyes open in Washington
For instance, the owners of the rea
sssate south Of Pennsylvania Ave
s0e which has for years been
aTa% on the market, hecuse of it
sEiyreputable location and its peri
%ugal Over1loWs from the PctOma,
t5gpf, haVe not hesitated to organ
in4 "a lobby for the purpose Of work
my oils through Congress for tn,
yaighase Of this real estate, which
nao..a else viii buy, by the govern
a8eaJ.
&ow this is perpetrating a double
wrong on the Government, anC
b@ngs on every citizen Of the count
ry. First, the price expected is eX
furlionate, next, the locality is unfi
fer fhe erection of public buildings
wa&4l is fully proven by the eX
SeySeIlee OF the engineers in finding
ii ssjid foundation for the new City
Pest Office, which s to be built OF
SSo aauth side Of Pennsylvania Ave
Tsn1, anon n site sold to the Govern
q sDf@t by the same lobby it was nee
ssessary to so forty feet below the
salySace to find anything solo
~enDsgh TO build upon. But thi,
dies not deter the lobby, which il
sswS ut work, backed by the two
Washington daily papers, trying tt
secure the passage of bill recently
3E&yDluced in Congress appropriat
fS3g S3.5CG000 for the erection of /;
TwS Patent Office on the south sid,
az Pennsylvania Avenue. If Con
grSss passes this bill it will certain
~ he opeu to the charge of havin,
tbtea improperly influenced.
democratic Representatives VIII,
haye visited their districts latel,
: aaaI;e no bones of saying tllatif tn
HtEsse continues the five-cent poll
gy iEaugurated by Holman, in rels
tier to appropriations, that the mex
Ho0se will certainly be Republican
sstAsy say such peanut method
are Dot endorsed by sensible peopl
of RSy party. They are trying t
SET GGlman to "let up" but. ther
ere no indications that he will.
Representative Cooper's attemE
to Wsigsle out of the unpleasant pre-
SGie:ment in which he found himse'
r%asn It was proven that his sigma
turV had been used to obtain per
s;0a Information, which was aftel