Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-04-21

Washsngt on, April 10. 1872.
The Synate committee on Foreign
Relations administered Il slap III the
fac? to the House for its having pass
ed the Chinese exclusion bill as an III
dependent measure. instead OF max
ing it an amendent TO The bill which
had already passed the Senate extern
ding for ten year, the present anti
Chinese laws, which expires by linl-
tation early next month, by report
ing the House bill back to the Senate
with the original Senate bill as
substitute.
1t has been charged that certai
parties in the House favored making
the exclusion bill an independent
measure in the Thought tina t enough
tim would be consumed bcfOreit was
acted upon to enable certain interest
parties to land thousands OF Chinese
labOrcrs in this country, between the
time Of the expiratio OF the present
laws ana the enactment OF Il new one.
Appearances make the charge
plausible. Had the House exclusion
bill been passed as "n amendment
to the Senate bill, the amended bill
could have at once been sent to a
conference cDlnmittc and before now
!, completed bill of some sort could
have been in the hands OF til" Presi
dent. Sen?tOr FELTON, OF California
asked that the report of the COM
NIT e be not taken up for action by
views OF the people OF the Pacific
coast and his own there on.
The first official act t1 Secretary
ElkinS after his return rom Il bust
ness trip from New York was to
direct the depot army QuartermaStcr
at st. Louis to send Immediately 3O
! tents to .he mayor Of Columbus.
Mississippi,for the use OF the people
rendered homeless by the recent
action OF Representative K;l2o1c. OF
Texas. who objected to the immedl-
ate cOnsihcrat OF IL resolution i'll
trnduced in the House appropria ting
$50 900 for the sufferers.
" hv is it that men who in the
| Ordinary course OF business would
ScOrn to do I, dishonOrahlr act will
schenc to take advantage OF the
| Governments, not to call it by a
worse name? is Il question that
! o ours very often to those who keen
! their eyes open in Washington. For
| instance, the owners OF the real eS-
| tate south OF Pennsylvania Avenue,
which has fer years been Il drag on
the market, because OF it's uiSrcEuta-
bic location and it's periodical over
flows rom the Potomac river, have
not heSitntrd to organize Il lobby
! for the purpose VI working bills
! through Congress for the purchase OF
! this real estate Wnl1h no one else
! Will buy, by the Government.
Now this is prri,e IA ting Il double
! wrong on the O.rrnment, and hence
lS,n every citizen Oi the country. First
he price expected is cXtOrtionatc,
next. the locality is unht for the
/ erection of public buildings, which is
| fully proven by the experience OF Il e
engineer IS in finding 81 solid found
alton for the new City Post Office
, which is to- be built on the south ST G
Of Pennsylvania Av1nye, upon Il ST c
sold to the government by this same
/ lobby it was necessary to go forty
! feet below the surface to find anytlii &
! solid enough to build upon, But til $
do not deter the libby, which is
now at work, backed by the two
Washington daily papers, trying to
secure the passage OF a bill recently
introduced in Congress appropriate ting
$500, 900 for the erection OF Il new
Patent Office on the south side of
Pennsylvania Avenue. If Congress-
passes this hillit certainly beU, G,
90 the charge OF having been improp-
crly influenced.
Demo ~ tic Rel resentatives who
have >i:iteu their Districts lately
make no bones OF saying that ii the
House continues the five cent policy
inaugerated by Holman. in relation
to appropriations, that the next
House Will certainly be republican.
as they say such peanut methods are
not endorsed by sensible people Of
any party. They are trying to ge;
holman to "let up" but there arc no
indication that he will.
Representative toopers attempt to
wrigGle out OF the unpleasant pre-
dicament in which he found himself