The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-05
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Bills Signed and UnsIgnedsssBIll
That Failed TO Pass.
WARRINGTON, March 4.-All the bill
which were presented TO the Presiden
for his approval to-day and yesterday
received his signature with the excep
tions OF sixteen, mostly Of private char
acter and including bill authorizing
the construction of bridge across thi
Arkansas river; bill to establish an as
say office at Helena, Monta and q bill tc
confirm certain land titles in Missouri.
The following Senate bills were on the
Speakers table at the time OF the final ad
iournment to-day and were not reached
A bill supplemental TO the act incorpor.
stinp the Texas and Pacific Railroad
authorizing 1t to consolidate with the
Southern Pacific Railroad OF California
q bill regulating the diplomatic and con-
sular systems Of the United States
a bill authorizing certain promotions in the
United States army; bill amendstory Of
the national currency act, providing thai
the total liabilities to any association ior
money borrowed, including IN the llabili'
ty Of The company or firm the liabilities
Of the several members thereof shall at no
time exceed one.tenth part Of the amount
Of the capital stock Of the proportion &C.
tually paid in or the surplus profits; bill
TO amend the copyright laws, providing
that no label designed 10 be used upon an
article OF manufacture shall be entered lor
copyright, but may be registered in the
Patent Office as q trade mark; bill In re.
lation to the distribution Of the report Of
the Commissioners OF Agriculture for '72;
a bill authorizing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to refund diiFerential duties on
articles actually on ship board in French
vessels destined for the United States, No
yember 8, 1872; bill declaring and en-
forcing the civil rights of the United
States: bill authorizing steamship ser
vice in the Cult oi Mexico between the
ports OF New Orleans and Mexico, bill
10 amend the act to enforce the rights ol
citizens of the United States to vote in
the several States OF the Union
q bill 10 amend an act to incorporate II
National Military and Naval Hospital Tor
totally disabled officers and men Of the
volunteer service; a bill to aid in the ex.
ecution Of the law in Utani soldiers
bountv land bill, which passed in the
House and which failed In the Senate;
among the other bills which failed to pass
Congress this session, were those pro-
viding for Postal Telegraph and for the
resumption OF specie payments; Louisi'
ana election bills; bills reorganizing the
customs service; bill retunding cotton tax;
a bill for the admission Of Colorado, New
Mexico and Utah into the Union, and the
bill creating the Territorial Government
OF Oklohama; the joint resolutions pro-
vidinp for the election Of the President
and Senators by the people and for the
one term amendment 10 the Constitution
of the United States; bill for the proven
tion of cruelty to animals in tsnsporta
lion: the two Der cent bill for the benefit
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; the Joint
resolution for the purchase Of Cuba; q
bill authorizing part payment OF custom
duties In greenbacks and the Boston nre
relief bill; all the bills providing subsidies
for railroads or steamship lines failed;
reports Of Senate Investigation Commit
tees on the cases Of Clayton, Caldwell,
Pomeroy and Patterson all went over
without action by that body. The gen
eral appropriation bills received the Pres
idents approval, together with the fol-
lowing among others Of importance: The
bill repeating the franking privilege bill
for the revialon and codiacadon Of the
pension laws; bill amendatory oi the act
codifying the postal laws; bill amendato-
~ and codlfying the laws relating to
mints and coinage; bill reducing the in
ternal revenue force; Bill for the revision
Of the statutes Of the United States, re.
port to be made In December; bill au-
thorizing the construction Of ten sloops
of war; bill providing for the sale Of
coal lands; q bill paying the awards Of the
Southern Claims Commission, q bill to
carry into effect the articles Of the Treaty
of Washington relating to the fisheries a
bill providing for the deposit of the Gene:
va award In the Treasury OF the United
States: this is q substitute for the House
and Senate bills providing for the imme-
diate distribution of said award; q Joint
resolution congratulating Spain on the e.
tabliShment ofa Republic. Considerable
general legislation was engrafted upon
the various appropriation bills, among the
most important measures they acted on
being those relating to the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, and those In regard
TO the Credit Mobiller transactions and
proVisions for rsising the salaries Of Prest'
dent, Vice President, Judges ot the Su'
nreme Court and members ot Congress.