The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-05
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
A List of the More Important Measures
Passed During the Session.

A List of the More Important Measures
Passed During the Session.
WASHINGTON, March All the regular
appropriation bills obtained passage in both
houses, and have become laws The sundry
civil, the last upon which agreement was
reached in conference, received the Presi-
dents signature at 10 O'Clock this morning,
During the Forty-seventh Congress- 1860
bills and joint resolutions have been intro
duced in the two house-S,01S in the House
and 2 652 in the Senate, and of these 832 have
been introduced in the House and 357 in the
Senate during the session just closed. In
each House the great majority of these
measures still remain with the committees
to which they were referred, and of those
reported from committees a large number
remain upon the caenders of the respective
houses. Aside from the regular annual ap-
preparation bills, 163 bills and joint resolu-
tiOns passed both houses during this session
ard become laws. Among the more i'm
partant of these are the following:
The tax and tariff bill Ito reduce the rev.
enue); the clvil-service bill; the Japanese in
demnity fund bill Ito provide for new
mixed commission in accordance with the
treaty of April IS, 1866, with the United
SptesG to modify the postal money-order
sy tenn and for other purposes; to readjust
~ salary Of postnasters; to afford assist
abce and relief to Congress and the execu-
tive department in the investigation of
claims and demands against the governments
to prevent the importation of adulterated
tea; to encourage the holding of a worlds
industrial and cotton centennial exposition
in 1884; to amend the act repeating the dis
eliminating duties on goods produced east of
the Cape Of Good Hope; granting the right
for railroad and telegraph purposes through
the Fort Smith, Ark, reservation; a
joint resolution to adjudicate the claims
of New York brokers for refunding
taxes; to print the agricultural reports
for 1881 and 1882; to allow Canadian grain to
be brought over the border to be ground to
erect monument to General DeKalb; pre-
senting the thanks of Congress to John +.
Slater for his educational beQuest to coored
people; to refund to the State of Georgia
money expended for the common defense in
1879; to establish the title of the United
States to the site of the military post at El
Paso Tex; authorizing the sale of certain
property at Harrodsburg, KY, belonging to
the Soldiers Home; cedng to the First tax
ing district OF Tennessee a lot of land situ-
ated in that district to refund to the States
of Oregon and California moneys paid in
suppression of the Modoc war; to pro-
vide for holding a term of the District
Court of the United States at Wichita,
Kan, and for other purposes; extending the
time for flingc laims for horses lost by officers
and enlisted men; to amend section 1862 Re-
vised Statutes, relating to the tax on tobacco;
to amend sections 1926 and 1927, Revised
Statutes, SO as to extend the Jurisdiction of
justices of the peace in Washington, Idaho,
and Montana; to admit free of duty a monu-
ment' to General Washington; authorizing
examination and auditing of certain claims
against the Freedmen's Savings Bank, and
the payments OF certain dividends barred by
act of Feb 81, 1881; to increase the fees of
witnesses in the star-route cases from west
of the Mississippi river; to regulate the con-
structon of bridges across the Ohio river; to
regulate the export of tobacco in bond.