The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-22
NATIONAL TOPICS.
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS AT
SEVEN O'CLOCK YESTERDAY
MORNING.

THE CLOSING HoURs-REvIEw OF THE
WORK DONE DURING THE sEssIoN-THE
POTTER COMMITTEE TO RESUME ITS sEs-
sIoNs MISUNDERSTANDING REGARD
ING THE EXPENsEs OF HAYES LOUISIANA
COMMISSION.
| WASHINGTON, June 20.-The winding
up of the session this morning at seven
O'Clock, after an al-night siege, closed in
on disgraceful scene. After the sundry
civil bill had passed early in the morning,
the two houses were kept in session by
reason of the delay in preparing that bill
for the signature of the president. The
house took recess and the senate was in
executive session nearly all Of the remain
ing time and no business of Importance
was transacted. The house did pass
resolution offered by Mr.. Frank
lin of Missouri that in the investigation of
the late Door-Keeper Polk, nothing had
been shown affecting his integrity or reflect
irg upon him as an honorable man. On
motion of Mr.. Sayler of Ohio an amendment
was adopted allowing Col. Polk extra pay
for expenses incurred in the investigation
During the last two or three hours of the
session in the house, members were sleeping
on the floor on the sofas and at their desks.
Nheh any business was attempted there
we, Mere ga. caiIs anu SHOUTS OF louder ana the
IKE. Inc MIS- hayes temperance society
meets tomorrow TO pass resolutions de-
precating drunkenness on the part of mem
oerS Oh congress
WORK OF CONGRESS.
During the session just closed there were
introduced 6629 bills and 243 Joint resolu-
tons. About $500 bills were introduced
in the house, which is an average of nearly
20 to each member Of these bills, about
260 were disposed of, in addition to the reg
ular appropriation bills. The most i'm
portant ones were the act remonetizing sill
yer, the act allowing criminals in United
States courts to testify in their own behalf,
the act providing new form of govern
ment for the District of Columbia, the Pa
cifc railroad funding act and the act for
bidding further retirement of egal-tender
notes. These are really all the important
acts that congress passed last session.
Some of the most important bills consider
ed are now lying on the speakers table,
over 225 bills having passed the senate
which have not reached the house. The
senate has been very industrious, and has
cleared up its calendar. The only important
bills remaining on the senate calendar un-
disposed of are as follows: The bill to
create the territory of Lincoln, the bill to
amend and revise patent laws, the Texas
Pacific railroad bill, the Japanese fund bill,
| bill regulating compensation ioi mail
transportation aud classification OF mil
matter ana Dill TO regulate counting OF
electoral votes There are more than i've
hundred bills on the house calendar which
were lelt undisposed OF. The most impor-
taht oil these are the bill to restore to pen
SION Tolls tllose whose names were stricken
OH LOT dls'oyalty' the blll TO regulate com
pehsatlon OF postmasters and prevent illegal
tralilc IN postage stamps, blllto transfer the
lndlah bureau TO the war department, sew
eral postal savings bills, bill to retire crcu-.
latioh OF NATIONAL DIS the Dlll to authorize
national banks 10 exchange their reserve
LOT bonds the leXas Paclhc blll, prorate
DilI, Dill Tor Improvement OF the Misslssip-
pi riVer' Geneva award 6ill' The only I'M
portant bills which have passed the house
but when were not acted upon by the SEN
ate, reached that body on day OF adjourn
ment' these are the bills to increase pay
OF letter-carriers, the bill establishing post
routes and the bureau of pensions bill.
Three or four contested election cases were
lett undlsposed OF ny the house.
The following bills were signed and be-
came laws THIS morning; In relation to the
Venezuelan mixed commission; creating
the Ctah and Northern railroad company,a
corporation IN the territories OF Uth, Idaho
ana Montana, and granting thereto the
rlght,ot,way through public lands for the
relief OF George II. Giddings, granting a
pension to Mary Mcnamara, to appoint a
commission to ascertain the cost OF re-
moving the naval observatory, to authorize
the sale OF the small arms now in use in
the naval ser'lSe ana the conversion OF the
proceeds OF such sale in the purchase of