Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-30

4 Large Amount of Business A,oniSino
DisDosat-Some Important Measures.
Washington Special (Nov. 27) to Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The calendar of the House of Representa-
tives, which has just been officially prepared,
is larger, say the clerks, than any calendar
that has been ready for second session of
Congress for years. It is document of
thirty-hve pages, and contains seven reports
of committees and bills undisposed of, which
means that they have had partial considera-
ton; five house bills and resolutions, with
Senate amendments; ll6 from the Senate on
first and second reading; four concurrent
resolutions; ninety-one bills in committee Of
the whcle on the state of the union, and 225
bills on the private calendar. Just about one
eighth part of these bills will get through.
One of the first bills to be taken UP next
week will be reported by Mr.. Knott, from
the judiciary committee, to provide for the
further distribution of the Geneva award.
At the last session it was made the special
for Wednesday next. Among the House
bills, with Senate amendments, is one to re-
peal SO much of the resumption act as au-
thorized the secretary Of the treasury to dis
pose of United States bonds and redeem and
cancel the greenback currency. Among the
bills from the Senate on first and second
reading are the following: Bill extending
the time for the construction of the Northern
Pacific railroad act directing the secretary
of war to purchase a lot of ground situated
near Columbus, Ohio, now used
by the United States as cemetery; bill fix
ing the date of the commencement Of GER
tain pensions, and granting Arrears in certain
ook 10 o,,4I> No n
Indiana and Illinois, respectively, to COM
mence and prosecute suits against the United
States in the supreme court of the United
States; act to amend the act approved March
3, 1873, authorizing the award to the Vim
cennes university of certain vacant and
abandoned lands in Knox county, Indiana.
In committee of the whole on the state OF
Union, the first bill on the list is that grant
ing pensions to soldiers and sailors of the
Mexican war. This bill last session blocked
the way of all other business on the public
calendar, except such as could be taken up by
unanimous consent or by q two thirds
vote. If it's friends choose to hold it there
it will again block the way, to the exclusion
of large number of important bills, among
which are the following Providing for ar
rears Of pensions providing for the trans
fer of the Indian bureau to the war depart
ment; for the appointment of a commission
to investigate the origin and best means of
destroying the cotton army worm /; to pro-
mote refunding the national debt, and the
loan of savings to the United States for that
purpose; to provide for the deposit of saw
ings i'll a popular loan, and to provide for
funding the national debt in home bonds
convertible into currency; extending the
time for the completion of the North
ern Pacific railroad; to estab-
blish a postal savings depository
as branch of the postofice department. and
to aid in refunding the interest bearing in
debtedness of the United States. Also a
number of bills relating to Pacific railroads.
On the private calendar the bill to reimburse
William and Mary college for property de-
stroyed during the late war occupies rela-
lively the same position as the Mexican pen
sion bill on the public calendar. 1t is the
first on the list, and as there is bitter oppo-
sition to it, it blocks out all other business,
and so long as it holds its place no bill on
the private calendar can be got rid of except
by unanimous consent on what is called OBJ
lection day. About the only bills on. this
calendar that have much show are those for
invalid pensions. Every other private bill is
looked on with more or less suspicion.
A dutiful negro at Leaksville, North Caro-
lima, having won the privilege at the tourna-
ment of browning the Queen Of Love and
Beauty, crowned his own sister.