The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-27

Cleveland nor openly break with him.
The people must have somebody to abuse,
and they were already in such fine humor
to abuse Cleveland and Gresham that con-
gress might we'll have found its account
in joining the general procession.
Everybody knows about the three lead
ing measures of the late congress, of which
more anon. Nobody cares about the thou
sand little measures-that Is, nobody ex-
cept the individuals who have obtained
"relief," and the localities which have got
appropriations-ando Of these the local rep
resentative gets the credit Everybody
knows also the two colossal blunders made
by the president which added so greatly
to the embarrassment Of congress. Be-
tween the two extremes, however, lie sew
eral measures of great value, of which lit
tie has been said One Is the antilottery
law, introduced In the senate by Mr.. Hoar
in April, 1894, which the postoffice au-
thorites say will completely stop the cir
culation of lottery literature through the
mails. A few months ago mail train
was robbed in Virginia, and the robbers
showed their knowledge of the matter by
searching out every letter directed to lot
terry firms, of which there were many hun
dreds. One Of the experts says that the
mail sent out by lottery companies runs
away up in the thousands of tons yearly,
and that besides the great Honduras COM
pany, formerly the Louisiana State lot
terry, and the Mexican company there are
80 lottery companies in the United States,
the majority of which do clean stealing
business, sending out circulars and receiv-
ing money, but having no drawings. The
power granted to the postal authorities to
search and seize borders on the despotic,
but it will stop the business.
Matters Worth Noting.
Important bills were passed for the re-
lief Of the federal courts, providing for ad-
ditional judges, especially in the Indian
Territory. The acts amending and codify-
ing the regulations in regard to steam YES
sells are highly approved by experts in that
line A joint resolution greatly curtailing
the too extensive privileges of trading in
the free zone between the United States
and Mexico is still matter of heated dis
cussion. Another concurrent resolution
names the secretary of the treasury, tho
director Of the mint and the superintend-
emit of the coast and geodetic survey as a
commission to inquire into and report to
the first section of the Fifty fourth con-
gress a plan for metrical system of
weights and measures. If this can be per-
fected all our measures will run by tons,
as our money now does. The commission
to examine and report on the strike and
troubles generally at Chicago has done
good work, and joint resolution provides
for the printing of 10000 copies of it's re-
port. An amendment to an appropriation
bill gives SIS, 900 each to the heirs of the
persons killed in the Fords theater disas-
ter, and only the hurry of the closing hours
prevented proper awards to tho survivors
who were injured. 1t is pity and like
wise shame that the persistence of indi-
vidual members of the senate, persistence
not altogether free from suspicion Of I'M
worthy motives, delays the erection of a
new government printing office. for there
IL great danger of a calamity there which