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eft OF the aged and accomplished widows Of
those distinguished men.
| send you brief record Of some Of the i'm
poriant public bills which failed to be acied upon
The calendar Of the House, alone, for the 7th Of
August, covers sixteen folio pages, and but four Of
the bills were acted upon.
All the Oregon bills failed. The House. upon
Friday last, hurried through bill establishing q
Territorial Government for Oregon, and appoint
ing Indian agents, but II was not sent to the Sem
ate in time 10 receive the action of that body
4 temporary poslponement Of question like this
can do no harm in any quarter, and, as the clo-
sing session Of this memorable Congress is not a
great way off, the evils Of the claws delay" can
be rcmedicd. The failure of the bill, however,
has had an effect Of disappointing many of the
officers Of Government. The eGoyernorship, we
were told last week, was assigned to the Senator
from Illinois who was dragged from the cars at
Washington, when on his way home, in order to
give Il vote for the new Tariff bill. Judges and
Indian agents were also to have been appointed
under this act, and there is, therefore, more than
one disappointed office seeker.
Ab'll TO establish stockade forts from the from
tiers of the Missouri river 10 Oregon also went
down to keep company with the lost measures.
Important measures were also pending for the
reorganization Of the State, Treasury, Navy and
Post Office Departments. Some of these bills,
had they become laws, would have materially la-
cilitatcd the public service.
The bill giving the President power to issue
letters of marque and reprisal against Mexico
sumbcred and died in the committee room on
Foreign Relations.
Numerous military bills also failed. Among
them one rcgulatingand enforcing militia returns,
and another to aid and encourage the States ines
abliShing legionary corps. third bill was de-
signed to form an asylum for the relief aud sup.
port Of invalid soldiers Of the army.
A good many bills "oulhorizing every man,
maid, and widow" TO enter quarter section of
land, and ''cyery head Of lamily to enjoy the
same boon, were also lost.
SO, also, the bills amending the act for the bet
ter security Of lives and passengers on board Of
steam vessels; for creating the office Of Assistant
Secretary of State; for executing a historical
painting for the rolundo; for making portraits of
the Presidents; loran equestrian statue of Wash
ington; for The relief of sick and disabled sea-
men; to establish prospective pre-emplion sys-
tenn; to provide for the sale of mineral land in
Michigan and Wisconsin; to establish a board of
commissioners TO examine and decide claims a.
ganst the United States; for the better provision
of the Consular system of the United States; to
create a board TO ascertain and determine the IL
mount of each Of the claims of the citizens of the
United States against Mexico; a bill granting
quarter section of land to each officer, nOn-com-
missoned officer, private, and musician of the
volunteer force called for and received into the
service of the United States, under laws passed
at the present session of Congress; to each nom
commissioned officer, private, and musician of the
regular army of the United States in service on
the seventh day Of May last; tocncowagec ecnlist-
ment into the regular army of the United States
and for other purposes; allowing the erection of
certain lighthouses; to abolish public executions
in capital cases; for the establishment of national
loundrles; for the transportation of the United
States mail in ocean steamers; to promote the
progress Of the useful arts; for the benefit of the
blind; TO provide for the organization and cstab-
lishmont Of the State militia.
WESTERN MEASURES WHICH FAILED.-Bill5 for
the construction of ship canal around the Falls
of ST. Mary, at the outlet of Lake Superior; to
grant to the States of Indiana and Illinois a por-
ton of the unsold lands in the Vinccnnes, Pales-
tine, and Shawncctown land districts for the COM
pletion of the national thoroughlare connecting
Lake Erie with the Ohio river by the improve
ment of the navigation of the Wabash; to au-
thOrze the purchase of the residue of the stock
held by individual stockholders in the Louisville
and Portland Canal Company and the Louisville
Dry Dock Company, and to make the navigation
of the said canal free from toll; amendatory Of
the act entitled San act to provide for liqudating
u md nn,yin,r contain ,l,i,,,,. f ,.fN
ginia," approved July 5, 1889; granting to the
States of Missouri and Arkansas certain alternate
sections of land in and near the New Madrid and
ST. Francis river swamps, for the purpose of re-
claiming said lands, and increasing the value of
the public lands in the vicinity thereof; to reduce
and graduate the price Of public unds; for the
purchase of a site for marine hospital at St.
Louis; for the examination of naval depot on
Lake Erie; to provide for the adjustment Of land
claims in the western and southern States; con-
corning the Snag-boas on the western rivers; to
grantto the Stateof !linoisaright of way through
the public lands of the United States and for 9TH
er purposes to aid in the construction of the
northern cross railroad; giving the assent of Con-
gress to the disposition of the five hundred thou
sand acre grant of land to Missouri for the sup
port of free public schools, us provided in her
constitution, made in convention in 1845.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES THAT FAILED.-BilIs
for the relief of certain surviving officers of the
Revolution; providing for the appointment ofccr-
tain officers in the several departments of the
Government Of the United States, in the city of
Washington, and for the more general and equal
diffusion of such offices among the several States
and Territories, and in the District of Columbia;
to authorize to Secretary of the Navy to take
preliminary measures for the construction of
dry-dock at Philadelphia; for heimprovcmcnt of
the Newark Bay; to remit the duties on certain
goods destroyed by fire at the connagrotion in the
city of New York on the night of the 10Th of
July asG for denomination of the public works
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