Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-12
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-.

Joint resolutions, ana IN the Senate 1000
bills and 134 joint resolutions Of the
House bills about $50 have up to the present
writing become laws with the approval OF
the Executive; five became laws without
his approval, twenty-four have been defeat
ed by vote of the House, either by being
laid on the table, rejected outright or the
consideration indefinitely postponed, and
nine have been defeated by adverse reports
from committees. One bill was defeated
by the veto of the President, and almost
six hundred which were passed by the
House, in addition to those already enume-
rated, failed of final action in the Senate.
The majority of the remaining bills were
not acted upon by the committees to which
they were referred. Of the House joint res
olutions As became laws with the approval
of the President and 16 others which passed
the House failed of action in the Senate:
ate, about 450 bills and 35 joint resolutions
have up to this writing passed that body,
and of these ia bills and 17joint resolutions
were acted upon finally by the House and
became laws with the approval of the Presl-
dent, and two bills which passed both houses
became laws without the Presidents sigma
ture. The Senate acted adversely upon 52l
of the bills and 19 of the joint resolutions
introduced in that body either by indefi-
mite postponement or by laying on the table.
In addition to the regular appropriation
bills of both sessions, and a river and
harbor bill passed at the first session,
the following named measures OF gen
eral importance have been enacted into
laws: Bills to establish bureau Of labor
to establish bureau of animal industry to
prevent the expectation of diseased cattle;
to repeal the test oath act of 1852; to limit
to three years the time in which prosecu-
tions may be begun against persons for vio-
lation of the internal revenue laws; to es-
tabish bureau of navigation in the Treas
ury Department; to grant letter carriers at
free delivery offices fifteen days leave OF
absence, with pay, in each year to provide
a retired list for soldiers and marines who
have served continuously for thirty years or
upward to reduce the rate of postage on
newspapers and other periodical publica.
tions of the second class when sent by others
than the publisher, or news agent, to one
cent for each four ounces; to remove GER
tain burdens from the American merchant
marine the Dingley shipping bilO; to
equalize the rank of graduates of the Naval
Academy upon their appointment to the
various corps; to provide civil govern
ment for Alaska to prevent and punish
the counterfeiting in the United States of
bonds as other securities of foreign govern
ments; to extend the duration of the Court
of Commissioners of Alabama claims; to
make all public roads and highways post
roads; to make it felony for any person to
falsely personate an officer or employee OF
the United States acting under the authOri-
ty of the United States or any department
thereof; to authorize the National Academy
of Sciences to receive and hold trust funds
for the promotion of science and for other
purposes; to relieve from the charge of de-
sertion certain soldiers of the late war who,
after having served faithfully until the
close of the war, left their commands with
out leave; to provide for the location OF
branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers
of the Mexican war and war of 1912, whose
disabilities were not incurred in service
against the United States to reorganze the
corps of Judge Advocates of the army; to
declare forfeited certain lands granted to aid
in the construction of a railroad and tele-
graph line from Portland to Astoria in
Oregon; to reorganize the Inspectors Gen.
eral Department of the army; to provide
for the ascertainment of claims of Ameri-
can citizens for spoliations committed by
the French prior to July 81, 1901, by refer
ring them to the Court of Claims.
The following measures have been lncor-
porated in regular appropriation bills, and
with them become laws: A provision to
prohibit officers of the government from
accepting voluntary service for the govern
ment, and from employing personal service
in excess of that authorized by law, except
in cases of sudden emergency, involving
the loss of human life or the destruction of
property; to appoint commission to visit
the several countries of Central and South
America to collect information as to the
best mode of securing more intimate inter-
national and commercial relations between
these countries and the United States; to
provide that the number of deputy collec-
tors of internal revenue, gaugers, storekeep-
ers and clerks employed in the Internal
revenue service shall not be increased; to
create Board of Pension Appeals, to be
appointed by the Secretary Of the Interior {;
ened or actual epidemic, to use the unex-
pended balance appropriations made by
the acts Of August7, 1889, and March 3, 1888,
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 provide that it shall
not be lawful for the head of any executive
department or of any bureau, branch or Of
flee of the government to cause to be printed,
nor for the Public Printer to print any doc
ument or matter or 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 other report to be printed any
matter not directly pertaining to his duties,
as prescribed by law; to provide for the
appointment of a Missouri river commits
sion; to appropriate S3,75O,0OO to pay the
rebate tax on tobacco to reduce the rate OF
postage by increasing the limit of weight of
first class matter which may be carried for
one rate of postage of two cents to one ounce
or fraction thereof, and to admit all news
papers and other publications of the second
class, including sample copies, when sent
from the Office of publication or from a
news agency to actual subscribers or to other
news agents, to the mails at one cent per
pound or fraction thereof.
DEATHS OF VETERANs.--Mr. jerome
Miller, a Mexican war veteran, a member
of Company H, Palmetto regiment, died at
his residence, near Columbia, on Saturday
Of last week.
Mr.. VIM. Gaylard, of Sumter, a veteran
of the Florida war, died on the 10th ultimo.
Mr.. B. ID. Culp, veteran of the Mexican
war, died at his home at Union G. H., on
the 18th instant. Mr.. Culp was native of
Chester county, but for some years had
been a citizen of Union, in which town he
was prominent merchant In his youth
he did gellant service in Mexico as men,