The National tribune., 1882-08-12
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGREs
Some of the Important Measures That Re
the Calendar.

some OF the important measures 1hat ke tl
the Calendar.
On Tuesday the first. session of the orty-
Seventh Congress came to a close, an both
Houses adjourned sine die. The last hou we're
uneventful ones, and there was not al
special interest before either House to 5ct
spectators. AS will be seen elsewhe Mr..
Voorhees, made strong effort to sec tie
passage Of the $40 pension bill, and but r the
objection of Senator Platt of New =! ik r.
would no doubt have been passed. II T., r
course, be taken up at the second sess aat
we feel assured of its final passage.
The House will leave behind it a cal DIR q
some seventy pages. First, the Hou. c8,cn-
dar proper, which is the repository o pabHc
measures that make no appropriation of .ley
second, the calendar of the Commit, hs
Whole House, which is the destinati, sf al.
bills appropriating money or lands of tn
States; and third, the private Gale t.T. To
which are referred private measures .ra~r
description. On the House calend :.-
remain 125 measures.
Two hundred and thirty propositio H4
resting place upon the calendar of the Com
mittee of the Whole; thirty three of them are
public building bills.
More than four hundred private relief bills
practically find grave in the private calendar,
for it is very improbable that during short
session Of Congress any considerable number of
them can receive consideration and action
Since the early part of May the House has not
considered the business on this calendar, except
under a special order, which only embraced
pension bills. For this reason no pension bills
remain upon the calendar.
The Speakers table is the depository of about
two hundred Senate bills, most of them of a
private character, but including also twelve
bills which have passed the Senate, providing
for the erection Of public buildings, as follows
Place Cost Place. Cost
Augusta, Me.....SI5OOO. Asheville, n. C...S5OOOO
Montpelier, VT. $50 0GO. Greenevie, s. c.. 1000
HavcrhilI, Mass. $1,000. Lacrosse, Wis.,. 100 600
Camden n. .J... 5000. Jefferson City, Mo.l00 600
Newcastle, Del. 1900 Hot Springs Ark 5000
Clarksb'g &, w. Va. 10000 Carson City, Nev-l00 900
During the present session of Congress 7,1S2
bills and joint resolutions have been introduced
in The House of Representatives OF this inn
mense total SOB have been reported favorably,
245 unfavorably, and no less than 6134 remain
in the hands of the various committees
Three hundred and three bills and Joint
resolutions have passed the House; 287 have
become laws, and Al await the Presidents ap-
prevail Among the latter are the bills appro-
prating 100000 and $4,000 respectively for
public buildings at Fort Wayne, Ind, and ST.
Joseph, Mo.
Twenty-Five hundred and eighty three bills
and joint resolutions have been introduced in
the Senate 466 of these have been passed by
that body. At the hour of final adjournment
besides the great number of measures not yet
reported from the Senate committee there will
remain upon the Senate calendar about 100 Sen
ate bills and Joint resolutions, and II House
bills and resolutions; all of which have to take
their chances at the next session.
The following are the principal bills and
joint resolutions of general interest remaining
on the Senate calendar: To establish uniform
system of bankruptcy throughout the United
States. To authorize the payment of customs
duty in legal tender notes. To establish a
branch mint of the United States at Omaha,
Nebraska. To regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States. To incorporate
the Maratime Canal Company of Nicaragua. To
provide for ocean mail service between the
United States and foreign ports. To incorpo-
rate the Inter oceanic Ship Railway Company
(the Eads' bill"). TO authorize the Secretary
of the Interior to ascertain and certify the
amount of land located with military warrants
in the States described therein. Joint resou-
ton proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
ton in relation to alcoholic liquors. Joint res
olution providing for commission to consider
and report what legislation is needed for the
better regulation of commerce among the States.
Bill to authorize the construction of building
for the Congressional library. bill to estab-
lish an educational fund, and to apply portion
of the proceeds of the sales of public lands to
public education (the similar bill to devote the
whisky taxes to the establishment of an edu-
cational fund has not yet reached the calendar,
being still in the hands of the Committee on
Education and Labor. A bill to constitute