The Newtown bee., 1880-06-23
Tie Work Of the Session.

number of measures not yet reported from committees, there remained about SC0 bills and joint resolutions on the Senate calendar, and about l, 400 bills and joint resolutions on the House calendar (including some 910 pension and other private biils) which have been re- ported with committee recommendations for passage (many of them measures that have passed one or the other of the two houses), but all of which go over to take their chances at the next session. Aside from the regular annual appropriation bills the following are the more important public measures that passed both houses and became laws during the last session of Congress:
 An act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the treaty of peace and the recognition of American independ- ence, by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufactures and the products of the soil and mine, in the city of New York, in 1883, subject to the supervision and under the auspices of the government ot tho United States.
 An act to amend the internal revenue laws ill regard to distilleries (known as the Carlisle bID.
 An act authorizing an allowance for loss by leakage or casualty of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for expoi tation.
 An act for the relief of settlers on public lands, allowing their rights to relate back to the date of their settlement, the same as if they had settled under the pre-emption laws.
 An act to abolish all tolls at the Louisville and Portland canal.
 An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital at Memphis, Tenn, at a cost not exceeding $50, Quo. ....
 An act to provide building for the use ot the United States circuit and district courts, custom house and postoflice at Pittsburg, Pa., at 0 cost not exceeding S750.000.
 An act appropriating $200, 900 tor the pur- poss of acquiring sites and the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier.
 An act appropriating S50, 900 to complete the survey of tbe Gettybura battlefield and to provide for the compilation and prese, vation of data showing the various positions and movements ot troops at that battle, illustrated by diagram. An act to provide for the Yorktown centen- nial celebration.
 An act providing for negotiation with certain foreign governments relative to the ilnporta- ton oi tobacco into their dominions. An act for the construction of a public building at Toledo, Ohio.
 An act to increase the pensions of wholly disabled soldiers and sailors. An act to ratfy and carry into effect the agreement with the Ute Indians. An act to amend the statutes in regard to immediate transportation of duliable goods. An act relating to timber trespassers com mitted prior to March l, 1879, relieving th' tresp0ssers from pt prosecution uron pay ymea oi the price oi the timber
 Act to amend certain sections of the revise statutes concerning mineral lands, alloWinl agents oi non-resiients to make tue affidavit. | nc cfssary to obtain patents. Act for the payment ot the awards oI th, Southern claims commission. Act to provide for the settlement of all out standing claims against the District oi Colum bia.
 Act to constitute a joint commission fo int fpftt ha ETapOh cla f, of January Is, 1880.
 Act to provide for the repayment of fees, | purchase money and commissions paid on void entries of public lands. Joint resolution for the relief 0. parties who 1 have made contracts to deliver cut hoop iron prior to q certain date in respect of the duties | imposed.
 The amount appropriated during the last l session of Congress included in the regular
 annual appropriation bills, the river and l harbor bill, the deficiency bills and mscnI-
 lancous appropriations aggregates about SlS6,- ! 900 GOO.
 1 The following are the principal bills re
 ma; ming on the Senate calendar: The sixty
 surgeon bill; prohibiting military int Interference | at elections; prohii ing officers Of or a mans 1 against the United States from contributing 1 money for elections; to establish a territorial | government for Alaska; extending the time 1 for the comuletion of the Northern Pacific |
 the allotment of lands In severaltY to Indians 1 for the relief of the Poncas; for the pay ment 1 ot the five per cent claim ot lands ot certain l s Stntes; to incorporate the Interoceanic Transit
 company; providing for a commission to re-
 port upon the regulation of commerce among the States; the Kello4g-Spoford case and l the bill for'the relief ot Fnz John Porter. Among bills on the calendar of the House a, e those 10 regulate emigration; the funding l H. the Iiish relief bill; to organize a court i ot pensions; the Chinese indemnity bill; to regulate the duties on hoop, ban1 and scrol
 iron; the sugar and Tucker tariff bills; the 1 DO iicnl assessment bill; to restrict the emi- 1 grafton of Oh nese; to amend the Constitution ! as to the election of President; to regulate
 tire pay and number of supervisors oi election l to amend the Pacific Railroad sinking funt
 act; fer the abrogation of the Clayton Bulwel
 treaty. The most important Seuate bills re-
 1nainng on the speakers table are those tc 1 define the terms ot chief supervisors of cleo
 tinns; for the appointment of if commis
 sion; the electoral count joint rule, and the
 mineral land bill prepared by the oommis l sioner.