Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-18
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Notes from Legislative and Execu.
tive Departmauts


tive Departments.
WASHINGTON, July Thames H.
Whitaker has been appointed Post
master at Bueno Park, Los Angeles
county. California.
The Department of State is informed
that revolution exists in Venezuela.
and that DR.. Paul has assumed the office
of President. Assistant Secretary Reeves
said this country was quietly watching
affairs in Venezuela, but as yet had OBJ.
served nothing in the situation that
would justify interference on our part.
In respect to the publishing of the
Rebellion records, proviso is inserted
that hereafter before the publication of
any volume of said records, the manu-
script copy shall be submitted by the
Secretary of War to a committee, to be
selected by him, who shall certify that
the volume contains only contem pora-
neous official records of the War of the
Rebellion.
The conferees on the River and Har-
Dor bill seem to have reached an impas-
siole barrier, and will propably report
disagreement. The items in dispute are
Portage Lake Canal, Beaver river penn
(Green and Barren's improvement propo
sition. The House conierees EXP e,s
willingness to accept the Senate PROPOSE
| ton to purchase the Green and Barren
property, but hold out sturdily against
| the others.
Favorable action has been taken bythe
House Committee on Military Affairs on
Lees resolution calling on the Secretary
OF the Interior for information relative to
application for pensions by officers of the
| United States Navy and Marine corps,
who served honorably through the Mexi-
can war, but whose names were dropped
| from the rolls because of their action in
Joining the Confederate forces. The Com
missioner OF Pensions has refused to grant
applications for pensions in such cases.
The latter resolution was reported to the
House and adopted.
DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS,
The President to-day nominated the
following United States Ministers Resi-
dent to be ENJOYS Extraordinary and
Ministers Plenipotentiary at the courts
where they are now stationed: Lambert
Tree, OF Illinois, Belgium; Robert Roose-
yelt, New York, Netherlands; Rufus
Magee, Indiana, Sweden and Norway :.
Charles l.. Scott, Alabama, Venezuela.
Ihe President also nominated John E.
Bacon, OF South Carolina, now Charge
d Affalres, to be Minister Resident of the
United States to Paraguay and Uruguay:
Samuel s. Sears, of Nevada, to be agent
for the Indians of the Nevada Agency.
in Nevada.
| SELECT LABOR COMMITTEE,
The select House Committee on the
importation OF Contract and Pauper
Labor will first visit New York and Bos.
ton, and later in the season will probably
proceed to San Francisco to inquire into
the Chinese labor question. Morrow, the
California member of the Committee.
says operations of the Committee will not
in any way be allowed to affect the
prompt action of Congress upon the
pending bill to give effect to the new
Chinese treaty, but will be mainly ,levot-
ed to the ascertainment of facts attending
the importing of Chinese labor through
the British Columbia frontier. This will
probably necessitate visit by the Com
mittee to Port Townsend, and if the alle-
cations are borne out to the satisfaction of
the Committee it is expected that the
recommendation will be made that nego.
tlatlons be commenced with the Gov
ernment of Great Britain looking to the.
imposition of proper restrictions on this
kind OF immigration.
MORE vEToEs.
The President to-day vetoed four pri-
vate pension bills. The first granted
pension to the widow of John Herbst,
who enlisted in 1852. In August 1864
he was captured by the enemy. After
his capture he joined the Confederate
forces and was recaptured by the Union
army and then explained that he desert
ed the enemy to escape the hardship Of
prison life, and was released and mus
tered out Octo Der IL, 1865. The disabil-
ity for which his widow now asks for a
pension, the President says, quite likely
resulted from exposure in the Confeder-
ate army, and adds:
The greatest possible sympathy and
consideration are due to those who
bravely fought, and being captured, as
bravely languished in Rebel prisons.
will take no part in putting on the
pension roll which represents Union
soldiers, soldier found fighting against
the cause he swore he would uphold.
nor should it be for moment admitted
that such desertion and treachery are
excused, when it avoids the rigors Of
honorable capture and confinement. 1t
would have been a sad condition of
affairs if every captured Union soldier
had deemed himself justified in fighting
against his Government rather than 10