McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17
THE RECORD MADE UP.
What Was Accomplished by the National
Body Which Has Recently
Adjourned.

What Was Accomplished by the National
Body Which Has Recently
| Adjourned.
The first session of the forty-eighth
congress adjourned on the 7th. 1t has ex.
| tended over a period Of seven months and
four days, although the actual working time
| will not exceed 165 days. In that time there
| have been introduced in the senate, 1857
| bills and 81 joint resolutions, in the house,
| 1907 bills and 234 resolutions.
| OF these sixty. six senate bills and ten sen.
| ate resolutions have passed both houses and
became laws by executive appreciation, Snd
| sixty-two house bills and thirty-twO house
resolutions have become laws in the same
manner. Three house bills also became
| laws without action by the president, and
one was returned to the house with his veto.
OF the measures introduced In the senate
1858 bills and II joint resolutions were indie.
finitely postponed and six bills laid upon the
table.
In the house fourteen bills and three joint
resolutions were postponed indefinitely.
A majority OF the measures introduced IN
both houses related TO matters not Of general
importance, such as bills for private relief
and pensions, erection of public buildings,
bridging rivers and other improvements
only of local interest.
The following measures passed both
houses and were signed by the president in
addition to regular annual appropriation
bills and river and harbor bills.
Bills to reduce rate postage on newspa-
pers and other periodical publications Sec
ond class when sent by others than publish
ere, or newspapers to cent for each four
ounces.
To provide civil government for Alaska.
To extend duration OF court OF commits
sioners to Alabama claims until December,
1885.
To prevent and punish counterfeiting in
the United States of bonds or other securi.
ties of foreign governments.
To grant fifteen days leave OF absence,
with pay, each year to letter carriers.
To authorize the secretary of war to offer
a reward of $25, 900 for the rescue of the
Greedy Arctic exploring party.
To establish bureau Of labor statistics.
To make all public roads and highways
post-roads.
To authorize legislatures of Illinois, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee to sell or
lease certain land appropriated for school
purposes.
To remove certain burdens from Ameri
can merchants marine.
To establish a bureau of animal industry
and prevent the expectation of diseased cat
tie and provide for the extirpation ofpleurO-
pneumonia and other contagious diseases
among domestic animals.
To make it felony for any person to per-
senate any officer or emplOye OF the United
States, acting under authority of the United
States or any department thereof.
To repeal the lest oath act of 1862.
To authorize the fitting out of an eXpedi-
ton 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 the charge OF desertion
certain soldiers of the late war who, after
having served faithfully until the close of
the war, left their commands without leave.
To provide in states west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river branch home for volunteer SOL
diers of the late war, and for soldiers OF the
Mexican war and war of 1872, whose dis
abilities were not incurred in service against
the United States.
To provide for the disposal Of abandoned
military reservations.
To recognize corps of Judge advocates of
the army.
To establish bureau of navigation in the
treasury department.
The following measures have been incor-
porated in the regular appropriation bills
and become laws:
To appoint commission to visit the sew
eral countries OF Central and South Ameri-
ca to collect Information as to the best mode
Of securing more intimate international and
commercial relations between those coun-
tries and the United States.
To provide that hereafter all estimates of
appropriations and estimateslof deficiencies
in the appropriations intended for consid-
Grafton 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 the internal revenue, guagers,
store keepers and clerks employed IN the
internal revenue service shall not be in.
creased.
To create board Of pension appeals to be
appointed by the secretary Of the interior.
To provide for the appointment of scien.
tific commission which may, in the name of
the United States government, conduct a
national conference of electricians in Phlla-
delphia in the autumn of 1884.
To authorize the president In case of
threatened or actual epidemic, to use the |
balance of appropriation not to
exceed 500, 200 in aid of the state and local |
and suppressing the spread of |
the same and maintaining quarantine at |
points of danger
To admit to the government hospital for |
insane inmates of the soldiers home who |
are now or may hereafter become insane.
To provide it shall not be lawful for the |
head of any executive department or any |
bureau, branch or Office d the government
TO cause to be printed, nor for the public
printer to print, any document or matter
)f any character whatever, except that
which is authorized by law and necessary to
administer the public business. nor for any
bureau officer to embrace in his annual or
,ther report to be printed any matter not
directly pertaining to the duties of his office
Is prescribed by law.
To provide for the appointment Of Mis-
Ouri river commission with MOWERS and |
luties similar to those of the Mississippi
liver commission.
To appropriate So, 100, 900 to pay rebate
ak on tobacco.