Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-04-21

". tfli --~- 1888
The Senate COMMITTEE on Foreign
Relations administered a. slap In tn.
face to the House for It's having pass
ed the Chinese exclusion bill as an In
dependent measure, instead of max
ing IL an amendment to the bill which
had already passed the Senate extend
Ing for ten years the present anti Chi
nese laws, which will expire by limIta
tion early next month, by reporting
the House bill back to the Senate,
with the original Senate bill as a sub
stitute.
IL has been charged that certain
parties 10 the House favored making
the exclusion bin an independent
measure In the hope that enough time
would be consumed before it was act;
edupon TO enable certain interested
parties to land thousands of Chinese
laborers in this country, between the
time of the expiration of the present
laws aud the enactment. of a new one.
Appearances make the charge plapsi,
pie. Had the House exclusion ybpl
been passed Ms an amendment, to, the
Senate bill, the amended BIZ could
have at once been sent 90 aoonference
committee, and before nova complet-
2
ed bill OF some sort could have been
10 the hands ofthe President. 'rS9nal:
tor FELTON,, of California, asked that
the report of .Athe CON mittee be not
taken up for action blythe Senate u upy
til,he .conId present the views of the
people ofe-the Pacific coast and his
own thereon. ''''f'
The first official. act of Sec. Elkins
after his return; from n business trip
70 New York was TO direct the depot
army quartermasteE. at st. Louis to.
send immediately SEQ: tents to the
mayor of Columbus, Mississippi, for
the use of the people rendered home.
less by the recent floods. Quite a con-
trast with the action of Representa-
i've Kilgore, of Texas, who objected
20 the immediate consideration of a
introduced in the House
.ppropriating ESQ, 600 for the sufferers.
Why Is it then who in the ordinary
,ourse of business would scorn to do
lisbon orable act will scheme to take
Idvantage of the Government, not to
all 1t by a wore namea Ia question
hat occurs very often to those who.
Seep their eyes open in Washington
Cor INSTANCE, the owners of the real
state south of Pennsylvania Avenue,
which have for years been a drug on \
be market, because of it's disreputai
lie location and It's periodical over
ows from the Potomac river. have
ot hesitated to. organize a lobby for
he purpose OF. working bills through
congress for the purchase of this real
state, which no one else will buy, by
BE- Government. II We e.ye..; 70 sirF, III
Now'this is perpetratinsg double
'ronR on theaGoverDment, and hence
n every citizen ], of the country
irst, the price expected is extortion-
te. next. the locality is unfit. for the
rection of public buildings, which is
lilly proven by the experience OF the
lgineers In finding solid foundatiorla
n the new City Post Office. which is
D be built on the south side of Penn-
'ivania Avenue, upon site sold to-
u Government by this same lobby
was necessary to go forty feet be-
W the surface to find anything solid |,
cough to bnild upon. But this does
1t deter the lobby, which is now at (
ork, backed by the two Washington
lily papers, trying to secure the pas
&c of bill recently introduced In
'ngress appropriating S., 500, 600 for
e erection of new Patent Office on
e south eide of Pennsylva la Ave.
Congress passes this bill it will GER
inly be open to the charge of having
en- improperly influenced.
Democratic Representatives who
We visited their districts lately make
bones of saying that If the House
Dtinues the five-cent policy inauger-
ed by Holman, in relation to appro-
iations, that the next House will I
rtainly be republican, as they sayl
ch. peanut methods are not endorsed
sensible people of any party. They
3 trying to get Holman to ''let up, r.
t there are no indications that he
II. - ass 80 - T.
Cooper's attempt to
iggle out of the nipple asant predicar {
mt in which he found. himself when :
was proven, that his signature, had 4
en- used to obtain pension Informa. :,
N, which was afterwards sold, by ISo
using Commissioner Raum was a
lure, as it deserved to be. I, II calledts
mind the old lawyers advice to al.
ung one---''whenyou have 10 case E
nse the othar sidef -