The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-19
The Work of Congress.

Congress are the following.
The legislative, executive, and judicial APP
preparation bill.
The army appropriation bill.
The Electoral bill for counting the votes for
President and Niee-President.
The bill TO regulate Interstate commerce.
The Geneva award bill.
The bill to establish postal savings banks
The bill to repeal the specie resumption act
The bill granting pensions to survivors OF the
Mexican war.
The bill to restrict Chinese immigration.
The joint resolution proposing a constitution
al amendment to prohibit the payment OF dis
loyal" claims.
The proposition 10 transfer the Indian bureau
to the War department.
The Mississippi levee bill, and the bill pro-
viding for a commission on the improvement Of
the Mississippi.
The bill extending the time Tor the compile
ton Of the Northern Pacific railroad.
The Texas Pacific railroad bill Tom. Scott's)
The Brazilian mail service bill.
The bill to regulate the transportation OF an
imals BY railroads.
The bill to devote the proceeds OF sales OF the
public lands to educational purposes
The bill authorizing railroad companies TO
construct and maintain lines Of telegraph Tor
commercial purposes
The Burnside committees army reorganiza-
ton bill.
The bill TO revise the patent laws.
The various measures reported from the
house committee on banking and currency
and many other financial bills, both in the
House and Senate.
All bills, besides those specified above, pro-
posing aid in lands or bonds for the construc-
ton Of railroads, canals, &c.
\ large number Of bills on the calendars
affecting local interests, OF more or less i'm
portance, and several hundred reported from
committees for the relief of private claimants
besides thousands Of others which we're Left
untouched on the files of the committee rooms
The total number of bills and joint
resolutions introduced in the House Of
Representatives during the Congress
which has just expired is 6,S26, and fol
the Senate is 1916.
AIC PlihCII'dI iHSd>uICS WHICH u'tN [
become laws during the last session are
The bill reducing the tax on tobacco ano
otherwise amending the international revemue
laws
The river and harbor bill
The census.
The bill to aid the refunding of the national
debt by authorizing the issue of small treasury
certificates.
The bill to prevent the introduc ton of in
fictitious or contagious diseases. ami bills pro-
viding for the payment of arrears of pension:
for service by the Union soldiers in the late
war.
THE MISSISSIPPI IMPROVEMENT AND THE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
The failure of measures to improve
the navigation of the Mississippi river
and protect its alluvial lands from over
flow, and to aid in building trans-con-
tinental railroad between the lower
Mississippi and the Pacific on the 32d
parallel, are to be especially regretted.
Both are national objects the accomplish
ment of which is within the legitimate
province of the general government,
and worthy of its highest consideration.
Both measures were opposed by extreme
partisans upon sectional grounds; but
both suffered mainly from the differences
among members who favored them, but
could not agree upon the method of then
execution. The railroad project lost
support by the refusal of those who haC
it in charge to provide for terminus OF
the lower Mississippi. They not only
evaded it, but left the sincere advocate:
of Southern route to believe that they
were holding out false promises anc
shaping their plans so as to divert the
traffic and travel of the road to the St
Louis connections of great Northern
monopoly.
The bill for the improvement of the
Mississippi river and the country subject
to its ravages, when overfiowing it;
banks, was clearly insufficient for the
objects declared 1t simply provided
for another commission-and another
survey-and another report--and more
procrastination, when it ought to have
provided for the beginning of the work
under conditions that would have Sc