Show TIE EVERETT nI LIt L-It Will Be Amended and Sent to the House Next Week WASHINGTON Sept 13The administration adminis-tration altered its determination with reference to the Everett bill extending the limit allowed under the Geary act for the Chinese to register to September 1 1894 last night at a conference held at residence of Secretary Carlisle at which in addition to the secretary there were present Secretary Gresham Attorney General Olney and Representative Geary of California The members of the administration expressed opinion that the bill ought to be pushed through both houses at once and an intention was manifested of insisting upon going ahead with the bill today in the House Geary however pointed out radical radi-cal defects in the bill which would render its effects nugatory He also declared the extension of time for registering should be reduced to six months that the term Chinese laborer should be specifically denned and the imprisonment clause should be modified He also favored a provision inserted for photographing all Chinese who registered It was finally decided to agree to the modifications and accordingly today the bill was referred by the foreign affairs committee to the subcommittee that will meet tomorrow night Today it developed that Cleveland himself him-self is not anxious to press the bill for fear it will complicate matters in the Senate In fact he is in favor of the House folding its hands and doing nothing noth-ing until the Senate acts on the Sherman repeal bill This has been apparent for several days with reference to the Tucker bill repealing the existing federal election elec-tion laws While the House leaders have no desire to embarrass the president infighting in-fighting fate they will not agree to the policy advanced by the White House The Tucker bill will not reach the stage of debate this week but early next week if the present policy of the controllers of the destinies of the House adhered to the Tacker bill will go into the arena of debate Meantime the Everett bill will be calmly modified in the committee and possibly next week the amended bill will be pressed in the House |