Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

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Here we have the surprising result of 22a
LAWYERS and only seventy who are not law
yers More than three fOurths of the whole
Delaware, Minnesota and Nebraska stand
quite alone without lawyers in the House,
but they have only five members between
them, while Michigan presents platoon OF
nine lawyers, Mississippi six and Maine five,
without adulteration from other occupa-
tions. Alabama, North Carolina and Wis.,
consin have each seven lawyers and only one
other member; and Illinois has a solid pha-
lanX of seventeen lawyers and only two
members from all other occupations. There
is danger in such a state of ofthings.-Grdphtc.
IMPORTANT MEASURES BEFORE CONGRESS.
4, hafN has n
is the consideration of three special orders,
nine resolutions, and one hundred and sixty
four bills, from the last session. That is a
pretty good supply of work to start on.
Then there are Senate bills to be considered
by the House and Senate both, the most i'm
portant of which are a bill TO provide for the
survey of the land and water route and canal
from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic
Ocean; to authorize and equip an expedition
to the Arctic seas; to establish the Territory
of Lincoln and provide temporary govern
ment therefor; to authorize the southern
Pacific Railroad Company to extend its
railroad and telegraph line easterly from
its present eastern terminus In Arizona to
point on the Rio Grande at or nesr Ell Pa
so, and to aid in building the same; to
amend the Texas Pacific Railroad act: to
repeal all that part of the Resumption act
which authorizes the Secretary of the
Treasury to dispose of United StRtes bonds
and redeem and cancel the greenback cur
rency; regulating compensation for trans
portation of mails on railroad routes, and
providing for the classification of mail mat
ter; to provide for the establishment Of
steamship mail service between the United
States and Brazil; to provide for
and regulate the counting of the votes for
the President and Vice. President; to regu-
late the hours of labor; to establish an edu-
cational fund, and to apply the sales of pub
lie lands to public education, etc.; authOriZ-
ing railroad companies to construct and
maintain telegraph lines for commercial
purposes; to provide for the indemnity due
to the several States under the acts of March
3, 1857, relating to swamp and overilowed
lands; to confer upon Army Boards of the
United States, organized by the President
to review proceedings of Courts Martial,
authority to compel the attendance of
witnesses and to send for persons and papers
and to incorporate the United States Rail-
way Mail Service Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton.
The bills of financial importance on the
House calendar are the Silver certificate
bill, providing that depositors of silver
bullion or coin may receive a certificate OF
like functions with a gold certificate; tho
bill to retire National-bank notes, and sub
stitute treasury notes, and the bill provid'
ing for Government bonds Of small denom-
nations for the investment of savings, eact
money -order Office in the United States tC
become place Of deposit. The last projec,
developed n good deal of popularity last
winter, and it is likely TO become law.