The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-16

Matters and Things That Make Up
the Capital Routine.

Lively Turn in Affairs Likely as to
the Chinese Question The Admins
tration Anxious TO Avert Celestial
Complications That May Grow Out
Of the Geary Law A olishment of
an Ornamental Adjunct of the Cen
sus Bureau-New Fads in Silver
and Pensions Many Bills to Erect
New Buildings Being Presented.
Washington, Sept. 15.-Thcre is a
promise of something lively before long
in the House over the Chinese exclusion
matter a few days ago, a bill was in
! PRODUCED into the House by Mr.. Everett
| of Massachusetts,, the purpose Of which
was to postpone the operation Of the
/ Geary exclusion law. This Everett bill
has assumed proportions of great import
/ ance. Although Mr.. Everett is the puta-
! tive father of the bill, its real author is
| Mr.Josiah Quincy, the assistant Secretary
Of State Whatever Mr.. Quincy touches
necessarily becomes great. Not only so,
| but it is understood that this bill was
! drawn by Mr.. Quincy after consultation
| with the President; so that it may be
understood as the expression Of the exec
! utive mind. 1t is important enough to
! have caused a conference of three hours
| duration, in which the participants were
| three cabinet officers, Messrs. Car
! isle Gresham and Oney, and Assistant
Secretary Hamlin, with Mr.. Geary the
| author of the bill sought to be super
| seeded. The secretaries stated that the
! President was very anxious that the Ev-
erett bill should be passed as speedily as
possible in the House, and go at once to
the Senate and be pushed through that
| body as soon as possible. He is all the
more anxious about this because of the
! protests of the new minister from China,
| which, if unheedcd, might easily become
! the cause of unpleasantness between the
! two countries.
MR. GEARY DIDN'T SEE II THAT WAY,
All the arguments used did not con-
! vince Mr. Geary of the Importance of
setting aside his law and substituting
! the Everett bill in its stead He cx-
! pressed himself in very plain terms, and
! said that the Everett bill would be an
tagonized by every representative from
the Pacific coast He insisted that a sec
tiOn should be added providing for The
! phOtOgraphing of every Chinaman as soon
as he enters this country, and that the
definition of what constitutes merchant
should be made 50 plain that there could
be no mistake about it. He also expressed
a willingness that the Imprisonment
| clause might be eliminated from the
| former bill, and if these things were
agreed to, there would be no objection to a
reasonable time in which Cinnamon
might take out their certificates of regis
tratiOn. He was willing that this period
| should be made ninety days, and even
/ lnnuap If a tbinurnap oh ~,
! position to comply with the law. Mr.,
| Geary further said that if these pro-
! visions were antagOnized by the admins
! trdtiOn, every member from the Pacific
| slope would stand ready to oppose in
every way possible the passage of the
! bill The Everett bill is now in the hands
of subcommittee consisting of Messrs.
McCreary, Everett, Geary, Hit and
! Harmer.
PURELY ORNAMENTAL.
The division of disbursements and ac-
counts in the census office will be abol-
! ished after Sept. 30. This will result in the
| dismissal of four clerks. and the transfer
| of another TO another divisisn.
Mrs. Alexander Il. Shepherd, wife of
| the famous Boss Shepherd, has arrived
| in this city, from her far away home in
! Chihuahua, Mexico. She is on a visit to
! her children, who live in the northern
! suburbs of this city Boss Shepherd did
more to make Washington beautiful than
any score Of other men combined. When
! ever one speaks of the beauty of Wash
! iugtOn, he inVOluntarQy pays "a tribute to
! Boss Shepherd, although that worthy
was in his day, one of the worst abused
men on this continent
MIR. BELL WANTS TO RING IN SILVER.
Mr. Bell of Colorado has ntroduc ed a
bill TO pay the coin obligations of the
! government in silver Mr.. Bell will be a
very old man before he sees that bill be
come a law. Mr. Durburrow of Illinois
offers bill TO pension letter carriers
after service of twenty years. What
will be the next thing brought toward by
| the ingenuity of the statesmen in the way
of pension increase 1t would seem that
this country has had enough of pensions.
\ bill by MIR. Burrows of Michigan pro
poses to pay a pension TO every inmate
of a confederate prison, with bonus Of 81
for every day of imprisonment.
A very large number of bills to erect
public buildings have been introduced.
They represent every part of the country,
and call for amounts of all sizes Bills
We're introduced yesterday which APP
propriated nearly six millions for this
purpose.
CHURCH PETITIONS.
The churches are beginning again to send
petitions against the enforcement of the
NTedfN law. Every CnufCn IN JnlS COuu-
try has a very great interest in the con
tinuanceof amicable relations with China.
They all have missionary enterprises
there which are doing good work, the i'm
portance of which cannot easily be over
estimated, and which is taken into con-
sideration too little by many Of the men
who make laws. The author of the Geary
law is reported to have said that the
missionaries in China were little or no
better than anarchists in this country A
man who can say such a thing as that,
simply does not know what he is talking
about. This Chinese business is unfor-
tunately looked at by most congressman
as purely political matter in which each
party tries to see how much
he can condemn Chinese I'M
migration, with the nope of thus carry
ing the states Of the Pacific slope 1t has.
to large extent, dcgenerated into a mat
ter of party politics, and a low order of