Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-07-17
wHAr coNeREss HAs poNE,
List of Measures Thar Have Passed
Both Houses and Been Signed
by the President

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WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 6.-The
following measures have been passed by
both Houses of Congress during the ses-
sion and were signed by the President,
in addition to the regular annual APP
preparation bills and river and harb0r
bills: Bills to reduce the rate of post
age on newspaper and periodical publi-
cations to second class, when sent by
Others than the publisher or news agent
to one cent for each four ounces; to pro-
vide civil government tor Alaska; to
extend the duration of Court Commits
sioners of Alabama claims until Decem-
ber, 1885; to prevent and punish eoun-
terfeiting in the United States of bonds
or other securities of foreign countries;
to grant fifteen days leave Of absence,
with pay, in each year to letter carri-
ers; 70 authorize the Secretary of War
to offer a reward of $25 900 for the rescue
of the Greeley Arctic exploring party;
to establish a Bureau of Labor Statis-
ties; to make all public roads and high
ways post-roads; to authorize Legisla-
lures OF the States of Illinois, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Tenpessee to sell or lease
certain land appropriated for school
purposes; to remove certain burdens
from the American merchant marine,
commonly known as the Dingley Ship
ping bill; to establish a Bureau of ami
NAL industry to prevent the expectation
of diseased cattle and provide for the
suppression and extripasion of pleuro-
pneumonia and other domestic animals:
to make it feloly for any person to
personate any officer or employe of the
United State acting under authority of
the United States or any Department
thereof; to repeal the test oath act of
1882 to authorize the fitting out of an
expedition for the relief of Lieutenant
Greeley and party in the Arctic Seas; to
limit the time in which prosecutions
may be begun against persons for viola
tions of internal revenue laws to three
years; to relieve from the charge of de-
sertion certain soldiers of the late war
who, after having served faithfully un-
til the close of the war, left their COM
mands without leave; to provide for the
location in State west of the Missis-
sippi river 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 incur
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to provide for the disposal of abandon
ed and useless military reservations; to
reorganize corpse of Judge Advocates
of the Army; to establish a Bureau of
Navigation in the, Treasury Depart
lment. IL H. ~
The following measures have been in
corporated in the regular appropriation
bills and become laws: To appoint a
commission to visit several countries in
Central and South America to collect
information as to the best mode of Sc
curing more intimate international and
commercial relations between these
countries and the United States; to pro-
vide that hereafter all estimates of ap-
preparations and estimates of deficien-
cies in appropriations intended for the
consideration of Congress shall be trans
mitted to Congress through the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and in no other
manner; to provide that the number of
Deputy Collectors of Internal Revenue,
Gaugers, Store-keepers, and clerks en-
ployed in the Internal Revenue Service
shall not be increased; to create Board
of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by
the Secretary ofthe Interior; to provide
| for the appointment of a scientific COM
mission which may in the name of the
| United States Government conduct the
National Conference of Electricians in
Philadelphia in the autumn of 1884; to
authorize the President, in case of
threatened or actual epidemic, to use
the unexpended balance of appropria-
tion not to exceed SlOO,OO0 in aid of
State and local boards, or otherwise in
his discretion, in preventing and sup
pressing the spread of the same, and
maintaining quarantine at points of
danger; to permit the admission to the
Government Hospitals for insane of in
mates of the Soldiers Homes who are
now or may hereafter become insane;
to provide thatit shall not helawful for
the head of any executive department.,
or any bureau, branch or Office of the
Government, to cause to be- printed,
nor for the Public Printer to print any
document or matter of any kind what
soever, except that which is authorized
by law as necessary to administer the
public business, nor for any bureau
officer to embrace in his annual or
other report to be printed any matter
not directly pertaining to the duties of
his office as prescribed by law; to pro-
vide for the appointment of Missouri
River Commission, with. powers and
duties similar to those of the Mississip-
pi River Commission; to appropriate
So, 1901 900 to pay the rebate tax on to-
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