The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-08
CONGRESS- WORK.
What There is 20 Show tor Eight
Months of a Session.

months and four days, alsb ougn the
actual working time will not exs
coed 165 days. In that time there
have been introduced in the Sem
ate 1857 bills and 81 joint rtsolus
tions, and in tue House 750 bills
and 2S4 resolutions. OF .hese,
sixty-six Senate bills and ten Sem
ate resolutions have passed both
houses and become laws by execu-
tive approval, and sixty-tvo House
bills and thirty 9wo House resolu~
tions haze Decome laws in the same
manner. Three House bills have
also become laws without action o.
the President, and one was returned
to the House with his veto. OF
measures introduced in the Senate,
368 bills and seventeen joint resolu
tions were indefinitely postponed
and six were laid upon the table.
In the House, fourteen bills and
three joint resolutions were post
poned indefinitely. A majority of
the measures introduced in 10th
houses related to matters not Of gen
eral importance, such as bills for
private relief and pensions, for the
erection of public buildings, dredg,
ing rivers and other Improvements
OF only local Importance.
The following measures passed
both houses and were signed by the
President in addition to the regular
annual appropriation bills and river
and harbor bills, bills to reduce the
rate Of postage on newspapers and
periodical publications OF the second
class, when sent by others than
publishers or news agents, to one
cent for each four ounces; to provide
civil government for Alaska; to
extend the duration OF the court of
commissioners of Alabama claims
until December, 1885; to prevent
and punish counterfeiting in the
United States, of bonds or other
securities of foreign governments ;
to grant fifteen days leave Of alb
sence with pay in each year to letter
carriers; 10 authorjZs the S, cretary
of War 10 offer q reward Of $25, 900
for the recovery Of the Greeley Arc
tic exploration party; to establish a
bureau of labor statistics; to make
all roads and highways post roads;
to authorize the Legislatures of the
States of Illinois, Arkansas, LOUISE
ana and Tennessee to sell or lease
certain land sppropr ated for school
purposes; to remove certain bur-
dens from American merchant ma.
rine commonly known as tina Ding
ley shipping Dill); to establish a
bureau of animal industry, prevent
the expectation of diseased cattle,
and provide for the suppression and
extirpation Of pleuro pneumonia
and other contagious diseases among
domestic animals; to make it
felony for any person to personate
any officer or employee Of the
United States acting under author
ity OF the United States OF any
department thereof; to repesl the
test oath act of 1862; to authur ze
the fitting out of an expedi ion for
the relief Ut Lieutenant Greeley and
party in the Arctic Seas; TO Iimit
the time in which pro eeuti )ns may
be begun against psrsons for
violat on OF internal revenue laws
to three years; to relieve
from the large OF DISCRETION certain
soldiers Of the ate war, who after
having served faithfully til after
the close of the war left their COM
msnGs without leave, t. prov de in
q State west of the Mississippi river
a branch home for volunteer stl-
diers Of the late war, and for sol
diers Of the Mexican war, and war
of 1912, whose disabilities were not
incurred in service against the
United Stateer TO provide for the
disposal of abandoned and useless
military reservations; to reorgan'ze
the corps of judge advocates OF the
army; to establish a bureau of navi-
CATION In the treasury department.
The following measures have
been incorporated in the regular an
preparation bills and become laws:
To appoint a commission to visit
several countries of Central and
South America, to collect informa-
ton as to the best mode of securing
more intimate international COM
mercial relations between those
countries and the United States; to
provide that hereafter all estimates
of appropriations and estimates of
deficiencies In appropriations intend
ed for consideration of Congress shall
be transmitted to Congress through
the Secretary Of the Treasury,
and in no other manner; to provide
that the number of deputy collect
ORE, internal revenue gaugers, store
keepers and clerks employed in the
internal revenue service shall not
be increased; to create a beard of
pension appeals to be appointed by
the Secretary of the Interior; to
provide for the appointing Mt OF a
scientific commission, which may in
the name of the United States gov
eminent conduct a national confer
cate OF electricians III Philadelphia
in the autumn of 1884; to authorize
the President, in case of threatened
or actual epidemic, to use the uRex-
pended balance of appropriations,
not to exceed 100000, in aid of |
State and local boards, or otherwise
in his discretion, in preventing and
suppressing the spread of the same,
and maintaining quarantine at
points of danger; to permit admis-
sion to the government hospital for |