The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-13
FROM WASHINGTON.

TIE following is O brief summary of the
work of the session OF the Forty ninth Con-
gress which closed on the 9Th: 1t was in
session 24l days; 13,202 measures were in
troduced, 10,32S originating in the House
and 1854 in the Senate; 1,10l passed both
houses, 24l being Senate bills and $50 House
measures; 806 became laws with the Presi-
dents approval, 1sI became laws by LIMIT
alton, 1l3 we're vetoed, and s bills and res
olutions were in the hands of the President
when Congress adjourned.
IN the United States and Canada the
July fire record shows loss of propert,
valued at $10,000,000. That is twenty per
cent. greater than the average loss for
twenty years.
THE River and Harbor, Deficiency and
Sundry Civil bills were approved by the
President on the 5th, the surplus resolu-
ton remained unsigned before the adj
journment of Congress, and the probable
ity was that it would not be allowed to go
into effect. About forty nominations were
left Enacted upon by the Senate before it's
adjournment.
The following is the Presidents record
in the veto line during the recent session of
Congress: Of 113 measures disapproved
thirty-six were Senate bills, twenty eight
being for private pensions, three for the
erection of public buildings, one to grant
railroads the right of way through the In
dian reservation in Northern Montana, one
to quiet title to the DDS Moines river set
tiers and three for other objects Of
tho seventy seven House bills vetoed
seventy-four were private pension meas
uros and three for the erection of public
buildings.
VERY few Congressman remained in
Washington on the 9th.
AT the last session of the United States
Senate the President sent to that body
2,A3J nominations t. office, including with
drawals and denominations, thirty of which
the Senate rejected, and about fifty re-
manned over without any action.
TIE President decided on the 9Th after
consulting with his Cabinet that bonds
should be called for time in accordance
with the terms of the surplus resolution as
If it had become law. The first call would
be made for SIS, 10000
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 9th, 1874 business failures
occurred, against 1872 the previous seven
days.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the 9TH aggregated $685.
S23,57l, against SS0l els, S3S the previous
week, As compared with the correspond
ing week of 1885, the increase amounts to
400 per cent.
DIRECTOR JAMES P, KIMBALL of the
mint, in his report on the 18th on the pro-
duction of gold and silver i'll the United
States during the year 1885, estimated the
production of gold at So, 500, 900, an in
crease of 81, 900, 600 over 1854, and the pro-
duction of silver at SOL ,6O0 900, an increase
of So, 100000.
THE appropriation bills passed at the re-
cent session of Congress amount to 1894,
1888, $40. Of this sum the Pension Office re
ceives sac, 075, 200 and the Post office Depart
ment $5i, 1865, S63
WASHINGTON advices of the 9TH state that
Commissioner Miller had begun prepare
tions for carrying into effect the provisions
of the Oleomargarine bill.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT has issued an order
placing Fitz John Porter on the retired
list
THE new one-dollar and two-dollar sill
yer certificates, it is stated will be ready
for issue in September.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has reappointed
W. G. Matthews, the Albany colored man
whose nomination was rejected by the
Senate, as recorder of deeds for the Dis
trict ofColumbia.
AT the Post-office Department on the 9th
it was estimated that the deficiency for
the last fiscal year would be about ST.
100000.
IT was stated on the 9th by Secretary
Bayard that he thought there was no
doubt of satisfactory and peaceabie set
element of the trouble between the United
States and Mexico. Cutting had appealed
to Governor Ireland, of Texas, for protec-
tion,