Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Tlie President, Friday, vetoed eight private pension bills, principally upon the ground that the death or disability of the soldier w r as not connected with the military service. The Chinese exclusion bill passed the Senate Friday by a vote of 37 to 3. Afterward it was learned that the Chinese had not rejected the new treaty, as reported, and reconsideration of the bill may result. N. H. R. Dawson, Commissioner of Education, in his annual report, says that more than 12,000,00) of children attended the public schools some part of the last fiscal year, and of these nearly 8,000,000 were in average daily attendance. In this respect the Southern States, once so backward, have made progress than other parts of the country. * ’ There w T as a prolonged and somewhat acrimonious political debate in the House on Saturday, on the retaliation bill, to give the President-tin * powers he recently asked for in his fisheries message. The opposition to it came from Messrs. Bayne, Dalzell, Lind and White (of New York), who asserted that if it became a law it would give the President power to utterly ruin the commerce of the States on the Canadian line. The bill was passed by a vote of 174 to 4, the gentlemen named voting against it, An immense sword-fish, caught oh a mackerel hook by Capt: Brooks, of the yacht Curley, was beached at Shelter Island, L. 1., this week.