The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-07-18

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Tho first session Of the rorty-eishth con-
gress closed on Monday lat II has extended
over period Of seven months and four days,
although the actual working time Win not OK
ceed 1876 daya In that time there have been
introduced in the senate a,S87 bills and 81
Joint resolutions, and in the house 1907 bills
and "a resolutions. or these, % senass bills
and 10 senate resolutions have passed both
houses and become laws by executive ap-
proval, and 50 house bills and ~ 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, 30s bills and "a
joint resolutions were indefinitely postponed,
and bills laid upon The table. In tho house
II bills and 3 joint resolutions were indefinitely
postponed. A majority Of the measures In
OF general importance. such - bills for pri-
vate relief and pensiOns, for tho erection Of
public buildings, the bridging Of rivers, and
other Improvements only Of local importance
BECAME LAVA
The following measures passed both houses
and were signed by the president, in addition
- @Neegpla, annaI appropriation bills and
river and hasbor bills:
papers and periodical publications Of the second
GLASS when sent by others than publisher of
news agent to one cont for four ounces; to pro.
yides civil government to Alaska; to extend
the duration OF court commissioners Alabama
punish counterfeiting In the United States Of
bonds or other securities Of foreign govern
ments; TO grant fifteen days leave 81 absence
with pay in each year to letter carriers; to
authorize the secretary Of war to offer reward
of Us 900 for the rescue Of the Greedy Arctic
bor 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 cer-
tain burdens from the American merchant ms
ping bill; to establish bureau Of animal in-
dustry, prevent the expectation Of diseased
cattle, aud provide for the suppression and ex-
arpation OF pleuro-pneumonia and other con-
tagioua diseases among domestic animsls; to
make II felony for sny person to personate any
department thereof; to repeal tho test oath ct
Of 1869; TO authorize the fitting ont Of
IN expedition for the relief OF Lieut.
Greely 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 state
west Of the Mississippi river Of branch home
for volunteer soldiers Of the late war, and for
soldiers Of the Mexican war aud tho war Of
1912, whose disabilities were not incurred in
service against the United States; to provide
for the disposal Of abandoned and useless mill
tary reservations; to re0rganize the corps Of
judge advocates Of the army; to establish =
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 commission to visit several
countries OF Central and South America to COL
lect information a. to tho best mode Of sec,lr-
ing more intimate International and CONNER
cial relations between these countries aud the
United States; to provide that hereafter all en-
Inmates OF appropriations and estimates of de-
dciencies in spprorriations extended for the
to congress through tho secretary Of the treas
nry, and In no other manner, to provide that
the number Of deputy collectors Of in
ternal revenue, CANCERS, st0rekeepers, and
clerks employed in tho internal revenue
service shall not been increased; to create a
the secretary of tho interior; to provide for
the appointment Of q scientific commission
which may, IN the name Of the United States
government, conduct national conference OF
electricians in Philadelphia, in the autumn Of
i;; isa; to O., authorize he tie president in case il
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or otherwise III his discretion, in preventing
and suppressing the spread Of the same and
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