MONEY COMPENSATION is a very poor return as an offset to outrage. Congress passed the bill appropriating $147,750 to indemnify the Chinese sufferers from the Rock Springs riots. Hon. Wm. Walter Phelps, representative from New Jersey, spoke words upon its passage for which every Christian in the country must feel grateful. Said he: “I want to pay this amount because the Chinese Government asked for that sum. The sum represents only the property destroyed. The Chinese Government knows that our Government never likes to pay a claim in full, so it wisely presents its bill only for the property destroyed, and says nothing of 28 men murdered––nothing of 15 men wounded––nothing of 700 Chinese hunted for ten days with club and rifle like rabbits, until they were dispersed into the wilderness and their village was made an ash heap. “In the time when Great Britain was at war with China, an American citizen named Edwards was arrested by mistake as an Englishman, imprisoned from sunrise to sunset, and then released. The Chinese Government paid $31,600 for the injury done to his person and to the dignity of the United States. There were 700 Chinese who suffered at Rock Springs––all of them more than this man. We hesitate to pay them $200 each. Recall the familiar story of heathen generosity––how China once gave us $700,000 and said: ‘Take it and pay the claims of your citizens.’ We took it; we paid the claims with twelve per cent. interest, and there was enough left to return $200,000 to the Chinese Government. “If this seems ancient history, long after the Rock Springs massacre there was a riot in Ching King. The rabble destroyed property belonging to the American Methodist Missionary Society. The Chinese Government has already paid $25,000 for these losses; and also, since our discussion on this bill, a riot, under similar circumstances, at Shanghai, destroyed other missionary property. The Chinese Government has paid this bill too, $5,000. “I have no heart to speak of the obligations founded in the international law. I don’t want even to refer to the treaty, where we pledged ourselves to exert all our powers to devise measures for the protection of Chinese subjects in this country. It is not on the ground of legal, but of the moral obligations that I prefer to rest this claim.” * * * * *