The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11
woRK OF CONGRESS-.
List OF the Most Important Measures
Passed by Congrass-Rills not passed.

~AoSS important Measures
Passed py congrsss-Bills not Passed.
The first session of the Forty-eighth CON
gress closed on Monday last. 1t has extended
over q period Of seven months and four DAYS
although the actual working time win not az.
coed loo days. In that time there have baan
introduced in the senate 1857 bills and az
Joint resolutions, and in the house 1901 bills
and 2S4 resolutions OF these, SO senate bills
and IL senate resolutions have passed both
houses and become laws by executive an
proyal, and 62 house bills and AZ 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. OF meas
ures introduced in the senate, 1858 bills and II
joint resolutions were indefinitely postponed,
and D bills laid upon the table. In the house
IA bills and 8 joint resolutions were indefinitely
postponed. A majority of the measures in
troduced In both houses related to matters not
or general importance, such as bills for pri-
Vate 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
paper and periodical publications of the second
class when sent by others than publisher of
news agent to one cent for four ounces; to pro-
vide 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 10 letter carriers; to
authorize the secretary of war to offer a reward
OF 80, O00 for the rescue of the Greely Arctic
exploration party; to establish a 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 APP
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 a bureau Of animal in
dustry, prevent the expectation of diseased
cattle, and provide for the suppression and ex-
hrpatlon OF pleuro-pneumonia and other con-
tagious diseases among domestic animels; to
make it 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; to
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 desertion 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 q state
west Of the Mississippi river Of a 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 r~eorganize the corps of
judge advocates of the army; to establish a
bureau OF navigation in the treasury depart
ment.
The following measures have been incorpor-
atoa in the regular appropriation bill and be-
come laws:
To appoint a commission to visit several
countries of Central and South America to col
lect information as to the best mode of secur-
ing more intimate international and CONNER
cial relations between these countries and the
United States; to provide that hereafter all es-
Inmates of appropriations and estimates of de-
iciencies 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
ternal revenue, gaugers, storekeepers, and
clerks employed in the internal revenue
service shall not been increased; to create 3
board of pension appeals, TO be appointed by
the secretary of the interior; to provide for
the appointment Of a scientific commission
which may, IN the name Of the United States
government, conduct g 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 un-
expended balance OF the appropriation. not to
exceed 500, 600, in and Of state N dlocal boards
or 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 or may hereafter become insane
to provide it shall not be awful FOX the head of
an executive department or any bureau or
branch or officers OF the government TO cause
to be printed Nor 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 fer any bureau officer to embrace in his
annual or other report to be printed any mat
ter not directly pertaining to duties OF his ef-
fee as presented by law; to provide for the
appointment of a Missouri river commissioner
with powers and duties similar to those OF the
Mississippi river commission; to appropriate
33, 10000 to pay the rebate tax ON tobacco.