Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-02

Adjournment VIII Come This Week
| The Work That Has Been Done BY
| The Two Houses During The Session
| WASHINGTON, August 1.-"This will IN
doubtedly be the last week of Congress"
said Mr.. Allison, chairman OF the Senate
Committee on Appropriations, in forecasting
the work to be done at this session; eve can
adjourn on Tuesday if we are only to COM
plete appropriation bills and by Wednesday
in any event. 1t does not occur to me that
anything further than the appropriations
will be DONE" Speaker Carlisle and Chair
mai Randall of the Committee on Appropri-
atoms are both of the opinion that the session
will reach over Thursday at the farthest and
may..close on Tuesday or Wednesday. Work
in both houses will be confined to conference
reports on the sundry civil, deficiency, forti
fcations and the river and harbor bills, when
they are ready. Only the first named bill is
necessary before Congress adjourns. The
other three bills can go over to the next ses-
sion, but the impression prevails that they
all will be disposed of. The conference com
mittee on the sundry civil bill was in session
nearly all of to-day, and while there are a
number of disagreeing clauses and other con-
very serious disagreements. The Interstate
commerce and the Northern Pacific forfeit
ure bills will attract some attention in
both branches of Congress, but there is
such wide range in the views of the two
houses on these subjects they are not regard
ed seriously and will not be allowed to con-
sumo time so as to interfere with the day of
adjournment. They will come up at times,
if at all, when the measures which must be
passed are not ready for consideration.
In the House tomorrow there will be heard
conference reports on the river and harbor,
the deficiency and the sundry civil bills.
There will be no order in the consid Grafton
of any measure henceforth. The first eport
will be first served. Special orders and the
hours and days heretofore fixed for work
upon certain subjects will be disregarded |
Everything is to be relegated to the end |
that the four or five bills |
determined upon for completion may be |
completed. During the morning hour in the |
Senate Mr.. Evarts expects to debate his reso- |
luton contemplating convention of the |
various nations for the purpose of securing |
uniform currency and directing that CORE
spondence be opened by this government to
that end. There will be frequent DISPOSE
tions of conference reports as in the House /
and considerable time will be given to exec
uiive sessions for the consideration of nom
nations.
The first session of the Forty ninth Con-
gress, which will close this week, has lasted
q little over eight months. During this pc
riod Il, SS7 bills and 264 joint resolutions
have been introduced in the two houses;
sc, 1856 and 208 joint resolutions in the House
and 1881 bill and Sc joint resolutions in |
no SaJ,Qf fhiS ct1lJ1t in fha
Legislative hopper only about $50 bills (other
than pension and other private bills) |
have become laws, and strange |
to say, less than twenty of these
bills can be considered to affect general in
terests. The most important of these are: /
The act providing for the performance of the |
duties of the Office of President in case of /
the removal, death, resignation or inability |
of both the President and Vice President; |
the act legalizing the incorporation of nation
al trades; the act reducing the fee on domes-
tic money orders for sums not exceeding 50; ]
the Dingley shipping bill, and the act au-
thorizing the construction of congressional
library. Six hundred and forty two private
laws have been enacted during the session. |
OF the public bills passed by Congress the |
President has vetoed six, while of the private |
acts he has vetoed 101. The following are |
among the most important measures which |
it is conceded will fail of action: The |
bankruptcy bill; the Blair educational bill; |
the Interstate commerce bill; the several |
land forfeiture bills; the tariff bills; the ar
bitration bill; the eight-hour bill; the Eads |
ship railway bill; the Pacific railroad fund |
ing bill; the bill increasing the annual APP
preparation for the militia; the Mexican PEN
sion bill; the electoral count bill; several |
general pension bills the bill for the admis |
sion of Dakota to Statehood; the bill pro- |
viding for opening to settlement the Sioux |
Indian reservation; the bill providing for the |
equalization of bounties; the bill granting |
pensions to prisoners of war, also count /
ing the electoral votes; Mexican pen
sion; repeal of the presumption law and |
Chinese immigration bills.
The following comparative statement is in |
teresting showing the rapid growth of the
work of Congress-: