Indemnity for Chinese

THE BILL PASSES THE SENATE BY A VOTE OF 30 TO 10.

The Amount Appropriated Is $150,000—Doings in the Senate and House—An Amendment to the Patent Law—The President’s Reply to Secretary Manning’s Resignation.

Washington City, June 7.—After a debate of some length in the senate, Friday, on the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, the Chinese indemnity bill was again taken up and Cockrell made an earnest speech against it on the ground that the rioters, as well as the Chinese, were foreigners, brought to this country to enable corporations to tyranize over American labor. At the conclusion of Cockrell’s speech the bill was brought to a vote, and passed—yeas, 30; nays, 10. The senators voting in the negative were Messrs. Beck, Berry, Cockrell, Coke, Eustis, George, Harris, Maxey, Mitchell of Oregon, and Vest.

The bill authorizes the president to ascertain the actual losses sustained by Chinamen by the riot at Rock Springs, Wyo., T. in September, 1885, and to pay such losses. The amount appropriated by the bill for that purpose is $150,000.

In the senate Saturday Ingalls’ resolution was laid before the senate calling on the secretary of the interior for information as to the authority for the issuance of the recent order of the commissioner of the general land office suspending the receip* of applications for public lands under the pre-emptory timber culture and desert land acts. Walthall said soon after the order was issued the secretary of the interior doubled its legal authority without reference to precedents and had determined to revoke it. On Friday an hour or more before the senate met, and two or three hours before the offering of the Ingalls resolution, he (Walthall) saw and read the original draft of the order revoking it, and in a conversation with the secretary of the interior on the subject, had learned from the secretary that he had grave doubts as to the legality of the order, and had determined on the very day of its issue to revoke it.

During the discussion on the above the following colloquy took place between Ingalls and Cockrell: Cockrell—Why could not the senator answer a proper question at once? Ingalls—The senator from Missouri is incapable of asking a polite question of any body. That is the reason. Cockrell—And the senator from Kansas is incapable of answering a gentleman. Ingalls—I never shall have an opportunity of answering a gentleman whenever the senator from Missouri interrogates me. The chair urged the senators to keep order. Edmunds (sotto voce)—That is unparliamentary. Ingalls (also sotto voce)—You say it is. The house Saturday passed the senate bill for the erection of a public building at Zanesville, Ohio, with an amendment reducing the appropriation from $150,000 to $100,000; also the senate bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building at Sioux City, Iowa.

Atkinson of Pennsylvania, from the committee on estimates, reported bill amending section 4587, calendarized. [The change proposed will give to an inventor a patent for seventeen years if his application for a patent is filed in this country before a patent is granted in a foreign country. The present law provides that if an invention is first patented in a foreign country, an American patent subsequently issued for the same invention shall expire with the foreign patent.]

A discussion then arose as to the procedure of business. Holman of Indiana desiring to call up appropriation bills, Throckmorton of Texas and Irish of Georgia advocating the claims of the committee on Pacific railroads and O’Neill desiring that the day should be assigned to the consideration of bill relating to labor. The house rejected motions to go into committee on the whole on legislative appropriation and labor bills, and by a vote of 123 to 41 took up for consideration the Pacific railroad extension bill. It was agreed that the previous question should be considered as ordered at 4 o’clock unless the debate should exhaust itself at an earlier hour.