The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-29
CAPITOL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

| connection with the Army Reorganization
| bill. The bill was recommitted to the
conference committee because Of serious
/ blunders which we're fou1d in the text
! blunders which practically invaIidated all
| the Senate amendments, and number Of
the House amendments also. Fortunately
! the mistakes were discovered before the
! bills had come up for action. but not be
! fore there was some rather harsh COM
! ment and rather open suggestions that the
! mistakes might not have been as acct
! dental as they seemed. The incident of
! the Legislative Appropriation bill a ses-
| sion or so ago, which was found. when
| passed. 70 be minus a clause appropriating
! $l2 Geo. and a Military Academy bill about
| the same time which was passed in quite
| a different form from that upon which the
! conferees had agreed. were called 10 mind
/ and quoted as occurrences of similar ma
| tuTe. All members of the conference COM
! Tnittee are stout in their assurance that
| the matter was nothing more than cleri-
| cal error
Speaking of it today. Sena tor Cock
/ rell said: a large number of clauses
/ were made practically void By the mis-
/ take 4 mistake il was. however merely
/ Of the wording of the clauses. Several
/ Senate amendments were disagreed to by
I = OeNfSiCn
! reached to include them. The form of
phrase was something like this: The
/ House recedes from its objection to the
/ Senate amendment but failed to state
/ specifically that the amendment was re-
/ inserted This. Of course. threw he whole
4 conference bill under cloud. and in order
/ to have IL in proper shape We have gone
/ into conference upon it again. With TIE
( idea of being able TO word it more spo-
i cjfeally.''
! For the House ronferees Representative
! Hay stated that there was no question Of
anything but an error. such as frequently
/ creePs into public documents.
J Chinese ENcIusiOn--"In our attempts
to have the Chinese Exclusion acts con-
tinued for another term said Represen-
| tatire Julius Kahn yesterday. Eve shall
| get an immense amount of assistance
from those Chinese who are native born
! Americans. If may use that phrase IN
! fact. they are the persons who are chiefly
/ interested in having the Mongoliars kept
out Of the country. and they have repeat
/ edIy indicated 10 the authorities OF San
Francisco that they realize this.
You can see for yourself that fr n he
{ point Of view of competition in labor this
IS naturally so The Chinaman no-- resi-
/ dent in America is the representative OF
the cheapest Of cheap labor. He is not.
however by any means the cheap lahorer
that he was He has risen a b. and now
/ capnot-or rather. viii motive upOn he
same neagre scale which formerly 50 It's
feel hin This IS particularly trae cf tie
Hatiye-born ChinanaD- He has become
used to some Of the Tuxuries Of the 4merf-
can, and ne does not intend to give them
/ Up. He lives on more expensive plan.
/ and of course works for higher wa gas.
But the moment Chinese from China used
| 10 living in the scanty style of the coclie
/ are again allowed to come 10 this ceUn-
try. the AGnerican-born Chinaman would
/ have Immediately TO lower his scale Of
/ living 10 meet that Of the newcomer.
/ thing which he is not DESTROYS Of doing
The AmeTiCan-bOrn Chinaman is
large factor in the California community
/ much larger than the uninformed yer
son would think In San Francisco he can
! be reekoned at about 20 per cent Of the
total Chinese population, and the same
! proportion persists throughout the rest OF
the coast cities I should think
The Chinese Exclusion treaties viii not
expire until 1904. In 1882 they wers maze
TO last twenty years. and We're later ex-
! tended for two years. But we are anX-
1 iOus TO have the compact entered into
! again before the twenty years Expire.
The war in China I feel sure. will make
the renewal all the more easy The CHI
nesC VIII be willing TO keep their people
al home: quite as willing I believe as we
/ viii be TO have them stay away from u.s.
women Lawyers Attracfed.-It has
long been a matter of comment that the
! Senate Committee on Claims seems to
/ have an attraction for the women mem
bers of the legal profession The com
mittee hardly ever holds a session when
of the gentler sex. Many core to plead
before the committee. but others come
simply to look on. drawn by some strange
! power which seems to act upon their sex
| alone Some appear as often as oppor-
| tunity offers. others just occasionally,
| but il is certain that nearly every wom-
/ an praCticing law in the city has at some
! time or other been in the room, Of the
| Senate Committee Oh Claims
Changed Conditions.-Whea Repre-
sentative Wheeler was speaking 50 earn
estly on the Army bill the other day. he
came out strongly with the statement that
the navy. IN marked contrast to the army
had never been a threat to the country
/ Delegate Wilcox OF Hawaii seated over in
the corner, listened 10 the remark with
| Interest. Speaking 10 a group Of friends in
I ths clOakroom he took exception to the
statement. lie said that before Hawaii
! was taken under the flag such remark
might have been entirely true but any
! Hawaiian could justly disagree with IL
now 1T IS only necessary to go back to
the time when Wutse with the Boston
I came 10 cur island shores and upset cur
! Government 10 show the observation TO
I be false. The HaWaiians have suffered at
the hands Of the navy Since the United
States has embarked upon its impe -ialisGc
! pOiicy q great many Of the time-lGaOred
savings hat have seen service since the
beginning Of the last century, have lest
| their value
The Third Hovse.-An interesting
body of legislators Of which the outside
I world has little if any knowledge meets
every morning in the cloak room of the
/ House Of Representatives. some half an
hour before u. It holds its deliberations
around the ire in the corner. and is call
/ cd the Third House" It IS extremely
! select IN its membership which numbers
! perhaps half 4 hundred. There are others
! 10 the extent of about 100 who have a
! sort Of honorary membership. They are
! allowed TO stand around and listen but
/ rarely. if ever. do they enjoy the privilege
| Of speaking. and are never allowed to
! draw up a chair before the roaring fire
and join the inner circle.
Membership OF the active kind Is an