Show TELEGEAPHIC fi y THE CHINESE BILL Aad sun There is jDanbt C8 m = oeriUag the Presidents Action Washington 28The Evening Oritic publishes the following It was stated a the Capitol today on the authority of < den B K I Butler that the President bad concluded to veto the Chinese bill and that the matter would be finally settled at So cabinet meeting this afternoon after-noon Butler who is a warm advocate of the bill had a long interview witn tha President last night and is quoted as saying say-ing today that he was satisfied from the Presidents remarks that the bill would be vetoed today or tomorrow Members Mem-bers of the Pacific Coast delegation commenting on the rumor today said that they did not believe it to be true The President it is added does not object ob-ject to restricting immigration but will state to Congeess that the time is excessive exces-sive and that Congress will reduce it to ten years he will sign the bill The foregoing statement added to the fact that no action was taken on the subjectat odays cabinet meeting has tonight nspnred a good many positive predic tions that the Chinese bill will be returned turned to Congress without the Presidents Presi-dents approval but the Pacific Coast senators and republicans and other per sons whose opportunity for forming a correct judgement are 01 the very nest attach no importance to these current rumors and regard them as hasty de duotions from entirely insufficient premises prem-ises Gen Butler left Washington yesterday evening and the statements put forth on his alleged authority are probably wholly spurious or greatly exaggerated ggerated However this may be the facts in regard to the consideration of the Chinese bill at todays cabinet session are substantially as follows Owing to the amount of time consumed in discussing discuss-ing the Mason case and in disusing dis-using of several routine matters whieh required immediate attention there was very little opportunity for discussion of the Chinese bill without either prolonging longing the session beyond the hour when it was necessary for cabinet officers to return to their respective departments to close up the days business or the catting off of several members from an opportunity of expressing their views noon it The President therefore partly as a matter of courtesy to the members and partly by reason of his well known find apparently constituted proneness to take all the time possible for action tion on important matters adjourned further discussion of this subject until too next cabinet session which will take place on Friday There are still just as many good reasons for the belief that he will sign tue bill after the cabinet discussion discus-sion is concluded as there have been from the very first and Senator Jones of Nevada says there has never been a word said by the President to him or soar so-ar as he can learn to any one else to justify a suspicion that a veto of this bill even remotely contemplated by a politician itician of President Arthurs good sense and recognized sagacity but on the con trary sufficient has been said to inspire I perfect confidence that he had always intended ended and stilt intends to sign the bill regardless of the tenor of any and all advices that m1Y be given him by members J mem-bers of his cabinet or outside counselors New York Washington specials I to the Grajphte say hundreds of telegrams tele-grams are being received at the White Hp se urging the President not to sign th Chinese bill They come from all parts of the country except the Pacific Slope It is understood the President is I being strongly advised in Washington by public men here to both sign and veto the bill and it is becoming a very grave question what to do in the premises prem-ises There are two phases of the question ques-tion at present the right or wrong of it i in the abstract and the political bearing on the case It is strongly malntainedbySenatpr Jones of Nevada Miller of California and others from the Pacific Coast and states that it is not only right but a political necessity and that the President cannot afford to qeto it Others argue that the bill oversteps the bounds of the treat and is not right and that for this reason it will not stand the cool inspection of time when the excitement wears away and the people peo-ple of the country come to reflect upon the question It is urged that the Pacific Pa-cific Slope cannot be depended upon to vote the Republican ticket California and Nevada both went for Hancock and there is no guarantee of an imminent change of heart in that section At any rate if the bill 1 becomes law the democratic demo-cratic party will reap what credit there is in it because they voted solidly for it while republicans refused to do so un less it i was modified |