The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-07-10
WORK OF CONGRESS.
List Of tho Most Important Measures
Passed by Congress Not Passed.


The first session of the Forty-eight con-
gress closed on Monday Ia t 1t has extended
over period of seven months and four days,
although the actual working time will not ex-
coed l65 days. In that time there have been
introduced in the senate 2,367 bills and 81
joint resolutions, and in the house 7,507 bills
and PSI resolutions. OF these, IS senate bills
and 10 senate resolutions have passed both
houses and become laws by executive ap-
proval, and 63 house bills and A. house reso-
lutions became laws in the same manner.
Three house bills also became laws without
the action of the president, and one was re-
turned to the house with his veto. Or meas
ures introduced i'll the senate, 36S bills and II
joint resolutions We're indefinitely postponed,
and bills laid upon the table. In the house
ii bills and joint resolutions were indefinitely
postponed majority of the measures in
troduced in both houses related to matters not
OF general importance, such as bills for pri-
waite relief and pensions, for the erection of
public buildings, the bridging of rivers and
other improvements only of local Importance
BECAME LAWS
The following measures passed both houses
and were signed by the president, in addition
to the gegular annual appropriation bills and
river and harbor bills;
The bill to reduce the rate of postage on news
papers and periodical publications of the second
class when sent by others than publisher of
news agent to one cent for four ounces; 70 pro-
yide-a civil government to Alaska; to extend
the duration of court commissioners Alabama
claims until December, 1885: to prevent and
punish counterfeiting in the United States of
bonds or other securities OF foreign govern
ments; to grant fifteen days leave of absence
with pay IN each year TO letter carriers; to
authorize the secretary of war to offer reward
of SO 600 for the rescue of the Greedy Arctic
exploration party; to establish bureau of la
Dor statistics; to make all public roads and
highways post roads; to authorize legislatures
of the states of Illinois, Arkansas Louisiana,
and Tennessee TO sell or lease certain lands ap-
propriated for school purposes; to remove GER
tain burdens from the American merchant ma
rine, commonly known as the Dingley ship
ping bill: to establish bureau of animal in
dustry, prevent the expectation of diseased
cattle, and provide for the suppression and ex-
tirpation of pleuro- pneumonia and other con-
taglous diseases among domestic animals; to
make ii felony for any person to personate any
officer or employee of the United States, or any
department thereof; to repeal the test oath act
of 1862; to authorize the fitting out of
an expedition for the relief of Lieut.
Greedy and party in the Arctic seas; 10
limit the time in which prosecutions may be
begun against persons for violation of internal
revenue laws TO three years: TO relieve from
charge of desertlon certain soldiers of the late
war, who having served faithfully until the
close of the war, left their commands without
leave; to provide for the location in 3 state
west of the Mississippi river of branch home
for volunteer soldiers of the late war, and for
soldiers of the Mexican war and the war of
1872, whose disabilities were not incurred in
service against the United States; TO provide
for the disposal of abandoned and useless mill
tary reservations; to reorganiZe the corps of
Judge advocates of the army; to establish u
bureau Of navigation in the treasury depart
ment
The following measures have been incorpor-
ated in the regular appropriation bill and be-
come laws:
To appoint q commission to visit several
countries of Central and South America TO col
1ect information as to the best mode of secur-
ing more intimate international and CONNER
ciai relations between these countries and the
United States; to provide that hereafter all es-
Inmates of appropriations and estimates of de-
hclenc1es IN appropriations extended for the
consideration of congress shall be transmitted
TO congress through the secretary of the treas
ury, and in no other manner, to provide that
the number of deputy collectors of in
teTnai revenue, gaugers, storekeepers, and |
clerks employed III the internal revenue |
service shall not been increased: to create a |
board of pension appeals to be appointed by |
the secretary of the interior: 10 provide for |
the appointment of scientific commission |
which may, IN the name of the United States |
government, conduct a national conference of |
electricians in Philadelphia, in the autumn of !
1884; to authorize the president in case if |
threatened, or actual epidemic to use the IN
expended balance of the appropriation. not to !
exceed $780, Goo in aid of state and local boards
otherwise in his discretion, in preventing |
and suppressing the spread of the same and |
maintaining quarantine at points of danger: to !
permit the admission TO government hospitals |
for the insane of inmates of the soldiers home !
who are now may hereafter become insane; |
to provide it shall not be La wfu for the head of |
an executive department or any bureau or
branch or officers of the government to cause
to be printednor for the public printer to print
any document or matter of any character what
ever except that which is authorized by law
and necessary to administer public business,
nor for any bureau officer to embrace in his
annual or other report to be printed any mat
ter not directly pertaining to duties of his of
flee as presented by law; to provide for the
appointment of Missouri river commissioner
with powers and duties similar TO those of the
Mississippi river commission: to appropriate
s., i5o,oN to pay the rebate tax on tobacco.