Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-11
Congressional Work.

auu were slSneu Dv the freSldent,
in addition to the regular annual ap.
preparation bills, and the river and
harbor bills:
Bill to reduce rates of postage on
newspapers and periodical publ.
cations of the second class, when
sent by other than the publisher o,
news agents, to One cent for each
four ounces.
10 provide civil government fol-
Alaska.
To extend the duration of the
Court of Commissioners of Alabama
claims until December, 1885.
To prevent and punish counter.
feiting in the United States or bonds
or other securities Of foreign govern
ments.
To grant a fifteen days leave of
absence, with pay, in each year, to
letter carriers.
To authorize the Secretary of Var
10 offer a reward of $25 600 for the
a of the Greeley Arctic explor-
ins parry.
To establish a bureau of L .bor
Statistics.
To make all public roads and
highways post roads.
To authorize the Legislatures Of
the States of Illinois, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Tennessee to sell OF
lease certain lands appropriated for
school purposes.
To remove certain burdens from
the American Merchant Marine
Commonly known as the Dinsley
Shipping Billy.
To establish q Bureau of Animal
Industry to prevent the expectation
Of diseased cattle, and provide for
the suppression and extirpation OF
pleuro-pneumonia and other such
contagious diseases among our do
nestle animals.
To make it felony for any person
to personate any officer or employe
of the United States, acting under
authority of the United States, or
any department thereof.
10 repeal the test oath of 1882.
To authorize tbs fitting out of an
expedition for the relief of Lieut..
Greeley and party in the Arctic seas
To limit the time in which pros
ecutions may be begun against per-
sons for the violation of the internal
revenue laws to three years.
To relieve from the charge of de-
sertion certain soldiers in the late
war, who, after having served faith
fully until after the close of the war,
left their commands without leave.
To provide for q branch home for
volunteer soldiers in the late war,
for soldiers in the Mexican war and
the war of 1912, whose disabilities
were not incurred in service against
the United States.
To provide for the disposal of aban-
doned and useless military reser.
vations.
To reorganize a corps of Judge ad.
vocates Of the army.
To establish o Bureau of Naviga.
ton in the Treasury Department.
INCORPORATED IN APPROPRIATION BILLS.
The following measures have been
incorporated in the regular appro.
priAtion bills and become laws:
To appoint a commission to visit
the several countries of Central and
South America to collect information
as to the best mode of securing more
intimate international and CONNER
cial relations between these coun-
tries and the United States.
To provide that hereafter all est.
mates of appropriations and est.
mates of deficiencies in ~appropria.
tons intended for the consideration
Of Congress shall be transmitted to
Congress through the Secretary of
the Treasury. and in no other way.
To provide that the number of
deputy collectors, Internal Revenue
gaugers, storekeepers and clerks en-
ployed in the Internal Revenue SER
vice shall Tot he increased.
To create q Board of Pension Ap.
peals, to be appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Interior.
To provide for the appointment of
. scientific commission, which may,
in the name OF the United States
Government, conduct a national con-
ference of electricians in the autumn
of 1884 in Philadelphia.
To authorize the President, in case
of threatened or actual epidemic, to
use unexpended balances of appro.
priations, not to exceed 500, 900, in
the aid of State and local boards, or
otherwise. in mis- discretion, in pre-
venting and s~uppressing the spread
of the same and maintaining quar-
antiue at points of danger.
To permit admission to the Gov
eminent hospital for the insane in.
mates of the Soldiers Home, who
are now OF may hereafter become in
sane.
To provide that it shall not be
lawful for the head Of any executive
department, or any bureau, branch
or Office of the Government, to cause
to be printed, or for the public
printer to print, any document or mat.
ter Of any character whatever, except
that which is authorized by law and
necessary to tie administration of
public business; or for any bureau
official to embrace in his annual or
other report, &c be printed, any mat
ter not directly pertaining to the
duties of his Office, as prescribed by
law.
To provide for the appointment of
q Missouri River Commission, with
powers and duties similar to the
Mississippi River Commission.
To appropriate $3,750,0 900 to pay
rebate tax on tobacco.