Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-06
What the q. 5. Congress Gould
Have Done and What They
Really Did do During
the Last Session.
An Unprecedented Number of
Bills Pigeon-Holed and
Placed on the "Cal-
enders."
A List Of the More Important
Bills Which Finally
Passed.
The River and Harbor and the
Shipping Bills laid in Their
Graves.
The Grand Total of Appropriations
Reaches 1926, ,a27,511.
UNFIRIsHED BUSINESS.

UNFINIsHED BUsINEsg.
Special Dispatches to THB BEE.
RELICS OF THE SESSION,
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Under the
bead of "Un6nished business" the
only matter of Importance left Is the
bill to regu ate the carriage of passen-
gers by sea with tho presidents veto
message).
Under the head of Business on the
speakers table," are the following:
To regulate immigration; relating to
the entry of distilled spirits In dis.
tilleries and special bonded warehouses,
and to Withdraw the same.
Under the head of "Bills from the
senate on their first and second read.
Ing" there are 50 bills unacted on
that come over from the first session
of the Forty. seventh congrsrs, and
81 from the second session.
Among the latter are the following:
For the survey of passes between the
affl uents of the upper Mississippi and
Columbia rivers; for the performance
of the presidential duties In case of re-.
moval by death, resignation or inabil-
ty of both president and vice presi-
dent, and for the relief of Fitz John
Porter. Bills and resolutions remain
Ing upon the calendar of the senate re-
ported from committee but not fiually
acted upon number 398 The more
important are: A resolution propos-
Ing an amendment to the constitution,
relative to the manufacture, importa-
tion and sale of Intoxicating liquors;
resolution extending banking privl-
leges; resolution for printing 10, ,00O
copies of the medical and surgical his.
tory of the war; the bill to establish a
branch mint at Omaha; making the
government paper currency legal ten
der for custom dues; to incorporate
the Inter Oceanic Ship Railway COM
pany; to constitute bureau of agri'
culture; an executive department; to
establish bureau of industry;
to place Thos. L. Crittenden on The
retired VT of the army ~ brigadiel
general; admitting Dakota to the
union; to exempt freight vessels less
than % tons burthen from inspection
and license; the bill providing for a
government for Alaska; to eIpedits
the administration of justice In the
supreme court of the United States
to provide for an investigation and
settlement of claims against the United
States; the resolution to appoint 8
commission on the revival of interns
tional commerce In the United States
steamnhips suitable for naval pur
poses; to prevent the payment O.
double pensions; to enable corpora
tions to become surety on official bonds
increasing the area of the Yellowstone
park; to relieve ships from compul
sory pilotage; to suppress the opium
traffic with China; to provide for tn
specific annual appropriation TO
fifteen years for school purpose
on the basis of illiteracy
The ''D!ngley" shipping bill whiol
passed the house early In January wa
not taken up by the senate till yestsr
day at midnight, objections hsvin
been raised which seemed to jsopar
dizs the passage Of the bill, the com
mercs committee withdrew the ton
mage and mail pay sections which the
had added, and the bill with som
amendments then passed. Two hour
later the bill reached the house, an
attempts were made to send it to tn
committee of conference or to pass
as amended under suspension of tn
rules. Owing to the dead lock owe
the South Carolina election case, th
house refused to entertain either me
tion, and the shipping bill failed.
The river and harbor bill appropris
ting $8, ,047, 900 was strangled In tn
senate by q motion to lay 1t on tn
table upon the last day of the session
Among other propositions whic
failed to reach the status of legisl'
tive enactment were those to forte
the land grants of the Northern p,
cific, Texas Pacific, Atlantic g. Pacif
and other railroads; to reduceamoun
paid land grant railroads for tran
porting mails; to place General Graz
upon che retired list, and tc constitu
wife as a competent witness again
husband In prosecution for polygam
The last bill which passed the sena
was the house bill to fix terms of Il
United States courts for eastern ar
northern districts of Texas. The b
reached the house Just as Speak
Keller began his remarks prelimina
to declaring the house adJourne
The clerk, with the bill In han
rushed up to the desk and endeavor'
to get. the speaker'ss attention, b
the bill fell without pthe coveted 81
nature.
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
The chairman of the house comm
tee on appropriations has furnish
for publication statement relative
the appropriation bills passed this 81
sion which have become laws: T
aggregate amount of all the bills
1928, 1927, Oil, made up as folloS
Pensions, $86, 576, 900; military acs
emy, $31e. 657; fortifoatlons, $67
050; oonseller and diplomatic, 81, 20
755; navy, S15, 894 ,434; army. 90
68l, $50; postoffioe, S44, 489, 8.
Indian, %, 1862, 500; Legislative. 81
464,2s6; suniry civil, s23, ,9Os. 1.