The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-18
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List Of the Most Important Measures
Passed by oongress-Bills Hot Passed.

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Passed by oongress-Bills Hot Passed.
The first session of the Forty-eighth con-
gress closed on Monday last. 1t has extended
over a period of seven months and four days,
tn1thoush the actual working time will not ex-
eeeStt kdays. In that time there have been
introaMeed in the senate 1857 bills and 81
joint resolutions, and in the house 1907 bills
and 2S4 resolutions. OF these, SO senate bills
and 10 senate resolutions have passed both
houses and become avs by executive ap-
proval, and GO house bills and 42 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, 36S bills and II
joint resolutions were indefinitely postponed,
and 6 bills laid upon the table. In the house
IA bills and 3 joint Resolutions were indefinitely
postponed. A majority of the measures in
Produced in both houses related to matters not
of general importance, such as bills for pri-
vate relief and pensions, for the erection of
public buildings, the bridging of rivers, and
other improvements only Of local importance.
BECAME LAWS.
Tho following measures passed both houses
and were signed by the president, in addition
to the gegular annual appropriation bills End
river and harbor bills:
The bill to reduce the rate of postage on news
papers and periodical publications of the second
class when sent by others than publisher of
news agent to one cent for four ounces; to pro
vide a civil government to Alaska; to extend
the duration of court commissioners Alabama
claims until December, 1885; to prevent and
punish counterfeiting in the United States of
bonds or other securities of foreign govern
ments; to grant fifteen days leave Of absence
with pay In each year to letter carriers; to
authorize the secretary of war to offer IL reward
of $3.50 O for the rescue of the Greedy Arctic
exploration party; to establish n bureau of Ia
Dor 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 GER
tain burdens from the American merchant ma
rine, commonly known as the Dingley ship
ping bill to establish a bureau of animal in
dustry, prevent the expectation Of diseased
cattle, and provide for the suppression and ex-
tirpation of ~pleuro-pneumonia and other con-
ttSious diseases among domestic animals; to
m Ike it felony for any person to personate any
o deer or employee of the United States, or any
department. thereof: to repeal the test oath act
O. 1862; to authorize the fitting out of
al expedition for the relief Of Lieut.
Gtfely and pe/y in the Arctic seas; to
LIN kttS m in which prosecutions NAV be
b ii against persons for violation of internal
gFenue 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 a state
west of the Mississippi river of a branch home
for volunteer soldiers of the late war, and for
soldiers of the Mexican war and the war of
1917, whose disabilities We're not incurred in
service against the United States; to provide
for the disposal of abandoned and useless mill
tary reservations; to reorganize the corps of
judge advocates of the army; to establish a
bureau of navigation in the treasury depart
ment.
The following measures have been incorpor-
ated in the regular appropriation bill and be-
come W
To appoint q commission to visit several
countries of Central and South America to col
lect information as to the best mode of secur-
ing more Intimate international and CONNER
cial relations between these countries and the
United States; to provide that hereafter all c-
Inmates of appropriations and estimates of de-
ticlencies in appropriations extended for the
consideration of congress shall be
to congress through the secretary of the treas
ury, and in no other manner, to provide that
the number of deputy collectors of in
ternal revenue, -gausers, storekeepers, and
clerks employed in the internal revenue
service shall not been increased; to create a
board of pension appeals, to be appointed by
the secretary of the interior; TO provide for
the appointment of a scientific commission
which may, In the lame of the United States
government, conduct a national conference of
electricians in Philadelphia, i'll the autumn of
1881; to authorize the president in case if
threatened, or actual epidemic, to use the I'M
expended balance of the appropriation. 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 the admission to government hospitals
for the insane of inmates of the soldiers home
who are now OF may hereafter become insane:
to provide it shall not be lawful for the head of
an executive department or any bureau or
branch or officers of the government to cause
TO be printednor for the public printer to print
any ocumen or matter Of any character what
ever except that which is authorized by law
and necessary to administer public business,
nor for any bureau officer to embrace i'll his
annual or Other report to be printed any mat
ter nos directly pertaining to duties of his Of
flee as presented by law; to provide for the
appointment of a Missouri river COMMISSIONS
with powers and duties similar to those of the
Mississippi river commission; to appropriate
SS3,75p,NV to pay the rebate tax on tobacco.