The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-24
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-.
The Bills Introduced Before Congress
which Have Passed and which
Failed.
fst, Louis Republican,


WASHINGTON, June 20.-During the session
inst closed there were introduced 6629 bills
and 243 Joint resolutions. About $500 bills
were introduced in the House, which Is an
average of nearly twenty to each member. OF
these bills, about 260 have been disposed Of
i'm addition to the regular appropriation bills.
The most important ones were the act re-
monetizing silver, the act allowing criminals
in United States courts to testify In their own
behalf, the act providing new form OF gov
ernment for the District Of Columbia, the Pa
cific Railroad funding act, and the act forbid
ding further retirement of legal tender notes.
These are really all the important acts that
Congress passed last session. Some OF
Che most important bills considered are
now lying on the Speakers table,
Senate which have not reached the House:
The Senate has been very Industrious, and
has cleared up it's calendar: The only inn
portant bills remaining on the Senate calen-
dar undisposed of are as follows: The bill to
create the Territory Of Lincoln, the bill to
amend and revise patent laws, the Texas Pa
cific Railroad bill, the Japanese indemnity
fund bill, bill regulating compensation for
mail transportation and classification OF mail
matter aud bill to regulate counting of cleo
toral votes. There are more than 800 bills
on the House calendar which We're left undis-
posed of. The most Important OF these are the
bill to restore to pension rolls those whose
names were stricken off for disloyalty, the bill
prevent illegal traffic in postage stamps bill
| to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War De-
partment, several postal savings bills, bill to
retire circulation of national bills, the bill to
authorize national banks to exchange their
| reserve for bonds, the Texas Pacific bill, pro
rate bill, bill for Improvement Of the Missfs-
sippi river, Geneva award bill. The only i'm
portant bills which have passed the House,
| but which were not acted upon by the Senate
reached that body on the day OF adjournment
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| carriers, the bill establishing post routes, and
| the Bureau Of Pensions bill. Three or 1out
contested election cases were left undtsposeC
of by the House.
The following bills were signed and BECAME
| laws this morning. In relation to the vene
zuelan mixed commission; creating the U tai
and Northern Railroad Company, o corpora
tion In the Territories OF Utah, Idaho ant
Montana, and granting thereto the right o
| way through public lands; for the relief o
George III. Giddings; granting pension t.
Mary Mcnamara; to appoint q commission
to ascel tain the cost of removing the Nava
Observatory; to authorize the sale OF tn
small arms now in use in the naval ser
vice, and the conversion qf the pro
ceeds of such sale in the purchase OF arm
similar in Calibre to arms now In use D!
the United States army; to authorize Spence
Baird, assistant secretary OF the Smithsonian
Institute, to receive a diploma and media
from. the King OF, Sweden; making aPgptrEo g tE
government for the fiscal year ending Jun
80 1879, and for other purposes; joint, resolu
tion authorizing the Secretary OF War to 1ssu
tents, poles and pins to the Governor OF Yves
Virginia.
OF all the bills which have passed bot
houses, about 500 in number, but two wer
vetoed the silver bill and one to reorganiZ
the courts in Mississippi No bill became
law by reason OF the expiration OF the COZ
stitutionai limitation of ten days allowed th
President to sign the same.