The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-08-18
CONGRESSIONAL

We find the following list Of important
bills lost during the present session
The Texas Debt bill, aPPrOprla'lng 3d.
100000.
The Homestead Land bill oo
The River and Harbor Dill s2''Oo'OoO
vetoed. ,oooooo
Ramsay California Mail Route DILL
Shanghai Steam Ship bill.
Weekly Mail to California bill.
Ocean Steam Ship bill, Ss5O,OOO.
Pacific Rail Road bill.
TO Increase Rates of Postage.
Dapt. Duncan Ingraham's Resolution.
Minnesota Rail Road bill, repealed.
None of the bills making land grants for
rail roads were passed.
The Baltimore Patriot says
A question is like to grow up in regard to
Oh. right Of reconsdering these important
questions at the the next session of the pres.
eut Congress. 1t has been determined that
the unfinished business of the first session of
n Congress lies over properly until the Sc.
cond. Under this decision, bills which were
pending during the present session, Will, OF
course, tuke their proper place upon the cal
endar of the next. But u rule Of Congress
limits the right to move reconsideration TO
a particular number of days after the defeat
of the bill, and the session has expired before
that term of Limitation has run out. The
question then will be whether the recess OF
Congress should run against the right to re-
consider? Or, whether the recess should be
regarded as parliamentary dies non not to
be estimated ut all in the term of limitation !?
We should think tina, A.he right to reconsider
within the specified limitation attaches to the
particular bills, and will continue until the
expiration of the number of Legislature days
limited-the recess not being counted. Un-
der this opinion, the various bills lost may,
at the pleasure of Congress, be called up for
reconsideration, and placed in their proper
position. The principal effect of this view
will be that these measures will escape the
tedum and danger of legislative navigation,
and then secure an earlier decision.
Among the most important of the bills
passed and approved during the late session
are:
The regular Appropriation bills.
The Kansas and Nebraska bill.
The bill providing for six lirstclass war
steamers.
The Ten Million bill of the Gadsden
treaty.
The Homestead bill for Kansas and Ne
braska.
The bill extending the warehouseing sys.
TEN.
The bill to give effect to the Canadian Re-
ciprocty treaty.
The bill repeating the Minnesota Railroad
Land bill.
In addition to the catalogue of acts passed
by the two houses, the Senate, in their diplo-
matte capacity, in conjunction with the exec
utive department, have passed number of
laws in the form Of treaties with several for.
eign nations, and various Indian tribes, the
most CONSPICUOUS of which are:
The Gadsden Treaty.
The British Colonial Reciprocity Treaty.
The Commercial Treaty with japan.
The Neutrality Treaty with Russia.
Sundry Treaties extinguishing the Indian
titles in Kansas, Nebraska, and other Terri.
tories.
An amendment TO one of the appropriation
bills was adopted in the Senate, at the in
stance of Mr.. Jones, of Tennessee, giving to
the city Of Memphis the property of the
United States Maryland at that place and
abandoning it. ......