The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-07-19
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Record of What WlJ Accomplished In
the Session Which Has just Come
to a Close.

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to a Close.
The first session of the forty-eighth
congress adjourned on the 7th. 1t has ex-
tended over period Of seven months and
four days, although tie actual working time
will not exceed 165 days. In that time there
have been introduced in the senate, 1857
bills and 81 joint resolutions, and in the
house, 1907 bills and 2c4 resolutions.
or these sixty-six senate bills and ten
senate resolutions hive passed both houses
and became laws by executive appreciation,
and sixty-two house bills and tbirty-two
house resolutions have become laws in the
same manner. Three house bills also be-
came laws without action by the president,
and one was retul ned to the house with his
veto.
OF the measures introduce in the senate
9rS bills and II joint resolutions were inde-
tinitev postponed anu six bills laid upon
the ta lie.
In ire rouse fourteen bills and three joint
re solutions were postponed 1u,e6oitely.
A m:'iotily OF f6e me ;su C Introduced in
both Douses related to matters not of gen.
erll import. oce. such as bills for private
relief ant, pensions, erection o. public build
hrs, u it'yiny .ver' au'i other improve
mems only OF loo Il in crest.
The following measures pissed both
fou>cs. aud were 81 ned ny tle president
in addition 10 re ,llar aUnu u appropli alton
bills anil liver anil l,;rhor bills.
L ills 10 reduce rates OF os, ;e on news
papers anil other peiio, icsl public .tions
SEE oud-clas Wren sent ny OTHERS t1in pub
fishers OF newsde.lers 10 1 cent for each
four ounces.
To provide civil govei nment for Alaska.
NJ 4 H., -
sonel's to Alabama claims Until December,
1885.
To prevent aud punish counter letting in
the United St lies OF hoods or other securi-
ties OF forei Il Governments.
To grant p'teen days lie we of absence,
With p.v, IN each ye.'r to letter carriers.
To aulro, re Tue secretary OF war to offer
a reva,1 o. $25, 10 for the rescue of the
G eeiv Arctic exploring pIy.
To e., Dish bure. u Of llpor statistics.
The make all public rosus and highways
pc I rol'is.
To author re legislatures of Illinois, Ar
kansas, Lou'siar anil Tenne ssee to sell or
lie tlin land appropi lated for school
pr poses.
To remove certain burdens from Ameri-
Gu merchants milne.
To es .nh h 'ure.su of animal industry
aud prevent Ire eX ,ol ut on OF diseased cat
lie ald provide for be eX l. patton OF leuro
pneumonia au'l otper contagious dlseaGes
among domestic animals.
To make 1T felonv for any person to per-
tie any officer or Elm I'oye OF the United
St.tes, getting under auI ,or.fy Of the United
sites OF any Cepa1 meut thereof.
To repe.il 1 he lest olfh act of 1882.
To authorize The Il, ting out of an eXpedi-
on for the relief OF Lieutenant Greedy and
} r.y in the Arctic seas.
To limit the time in which prosecutions
nav he begun against ersOns for violation
n int alnaI Ia to
To relieve 1rhm The charge Oh desel Ion
certain soldiers of tue Iaie war who, alter
laving served filth, ully until the close of
be war, left their commands without leave.
To proyiie in states west Of the Mississippi
liver b., .uch home for volunteer soldiers of
be tie -. and for soldiers of the Next
gu w.r and Tue war of 1872, whose disabil-
lies were not incurred in service against
be United States.
To pro, ide FOR The disposal of abandoned
1lit.,iy re.ei yatloDs.
To reofganize corps Of Judge advocates
I the ARM.
To establish bureau of nav igation in the
reasul department.
The following measures have been incor-
GRATED in the regular appropriation bills
nd become laws:
To appoint a commits ion to visit the sew
raj cOuuti les OF Ceutra' and South America
, collect information "a to the Lest mode
securing more intimate intel rational and
relations between these coun-
les and The United States.
To provide that here i. Ter all estimates of
le approp, iation and estimates Of defici-
1cies in The aplrop, iaiions intended for
,nsi,leration OF CONGRESS- shall be trans
tilted to congress THROUGH the secretary of
e treasury. and in no oiner manner.
To provide that the number of deputy
electors Of the inter nal revenue, gragers,
ore keepers anil clerks EN- oloyeu in the
tprnql alaII no in
eased.
To create board Of pension appeals to be
,pointed by the secretary OF the interior.
To provide for the appointment Of sci
tific commission which may, in the name
the Uniteu States government, conduct
tional conference Of electricians in Phila-
lphia in the autumn of 1884.
To authorize the president, in case of
or actual epidemic, to use the
expended balance OF appropriation not to
coed 500, n0n In aid Of the state and local
ards or otherwise, In his discretion, In
evening and suppressing the spread of
9 same and maintaining quarantine at
ints of danger.
TO admit 10 the government hospital for
3 insane inmates of the soldiers home
10 are now or may hereafter become in
he.
TO provide 1t shall not be lawful for the
ad Of any executive department or any
reau, branch or Office Of the government
cause to he printed, nor for the public
inter to print, any document or matter Of
Y character whatever, except that which
by law aud necessary to ad-
mister the public business, nor for any
reau officer to embraces In his annual or
Ter report to he printed any matter not
ectly pertaining 70 the duties of his office
prescribed by law.
20 provide for the appointment of Mis-
lri River commission with powers and
lies similar TO those Of the Mississippi
yer commission.
% appropriate SO, 100, 900 to pay rebate
on tobacco.