Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-19
CHpit0l Gatherings.

Tha Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations yester lay decided, by a
party vote, to report the fisheries
treaty adversely.
At the caucus tonight, after con-
siderable debate, the motion was
adopted that the Democratic mem bers
of the Ways and Means Committee
be requested to confer with their asso-
ciates Oh the committee and endeavor
to reach an agreement as 10 the time
during which the debate on the tariff
shall continue.
The Sub-Ct mmittee OF the House,
Committee on Educational yesterday
decided to report to the full Com
mittee a substitute for the Blair
educational bill as passed by the
Senate. The substitute provides for
the use OF money realized from the
sale of public lands not to exceed
$S 900, 900 in any one year for educa-
tional purposes. The money is to be
distributed among the States in pro-
portion to the number of persons Of
scholastic age.
The House Committee on Agricul-
ture at it's meeting yesterday morning
received the briefs of the attorneys on
the refined lard investigation and
agreed to take up the bill for final ac-
ton at the next meeting, one week
from to-day. The committee also
fixed Saturday for hearing the argu-
ments on the Hatch and Enlo bills,
prohibiting speculation in farm pro-
duets on the boards of trade. The
question of the constitutionality OF the
propositions will be argued by the at
torneys representing the leading
boards of trade of the country.
o. L. piuden, assistant private
secretary to the President, was before
the House committee on printing yes
terday, to explain the circumstances
connected with the binding of Presi-
dent Cleveland's marriage certificate
at the Government Printing Ofiic /.
Pruden said the certificate, a very
elaborate and handsome one, had
been gotten up by himself and taken
to the public printing office, where it
had been bound in elegant covers. 1t
had been delivered to the President
several months after the marriage.
The President knew nothing
OF the binding until recently,
when he had been told about it
by Mr.. Richardson, the Chairman
OF the Committee on Printing. Pruden
further said it had been customary to
have private work for the President
done at the Government Printing
Office during the past Administration,
but that when President Cleveland
discovered the fact he had ordered tine
practice discontinued.
The President has vetoed the bill
for the relief of Major Daniel N. Bach,
Paymaster of the United States army.
The object of the bill is to release
Paymaster Bach from all liability to
the Government for the loss, by
theft, of $3.50, which was en-
trusted to him for the payment OF
United States troops at the various
posts, one of which was at Fort Nc
Kinney, Wyoming Territory. In the
veto message the President says
"When it is said this loss can be
charged in any degree to the
neglect or defaul6 of this Government
it is answered that the direct and i'm
mediate cause of the loss was an omis-
sion on the part of the Paymaster ef
the Government, in whose custody
these funds were placed, OF the plain
est and simplest acts of prudence and
care. l am thoroughly convinced that
the interests of the public would be
better protected if fewer private bills
were passed relieving officials upon
slight and sentimental grounds from
pecuniary responsibilities, and the
readiness with which army officers
join in the applications for condona-
tion of negligence on the part of their
army comrades does not tend, in my
opinion, to maintain that regard for
discipline and scrupulous observance
OF duty which should characterize
hese belonging to their honorable
profession. 1 cannot satisfy myself
that the negligence made apparent in
this case should be overlooked"