The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-08-12
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
The Session Closes at 4 P. NJ,
August B.
Work OF the Session-II0w Congress Em-
ployed Its Timc--The Veto Record Un-
rnrNlleled.

The first session of the 4Dth congress, just
ended, began Monday, Dec, 7, 1885, and has
lasted seven months and twenty-eight days,
or pa days, exclusive of Sundays, The Som
ate was in session l6i days and the House
lS5, There was introduced in the two
houses lS,202 measures, 1904 being House
bills and PA House joint resolutions; and
2sol bills and So Joint resolutions of tho
Senate. The measures proposed for enact
ment into laws exceeded in number by 29i9
those introduced at the 4Sth Congress, which
sat for seven months and four days, or 165
days of actual working time,
The total number of measures that passed
both houses was 1l0l, being I'll Senate bills
and $50 bills which origina Cd in the House;
1905 of these We're received by the president,
and of that number Sl4 We're approved. l51
became laws without the presidents sigma
ture, ll5 were vetoed, and failed for want
of signature at the time of adjournment, ~
days not having expired siuce they reached
the president. OF the new laws TAG were
House measures and PAL Senate measures.
Tho laws that became such by limitation
were with two exceptions, private pension
and relief bills
OF the measures vetoetl by the president, SO
were Senate and n House bills. Twenty
eight of the Senate bills vetoed were private
pension bill, three We're for the erection of
public buildings, one was to grant to rail-
roads the right of way through the Indian
reservation in northern Montana, one to
make Springfield, Mass, a port of delivery,
one to provide that the bodies of paupers,
criminals and strangers dying within the
District of Columbia, unclaimed within a
specified time after death, shall be turned
over to the medical college, and one to quit
titles to settlers on the Des Moines River
lands, and one to provide, for tho construc.
ton of a bridge over Lake Champlain. or
the n House bills disapproved by the presi-
don't "a were private pension bills, and three
were for the erection of public buildings.
The number of measures vetoed during the
session was four more than have been vetoed
from the foundation of the government to
the beginning OF the session just closed Only
ono bill THAT granting pension to Joseph
Romsel) was passed by the two houses over
the veto.
Among the measures of general Importance
that have been enacted into laws in addition
to the regular appropriation bills, are the
presidential succession BILL tho bills to pro
vide for the study of the nature and eff
feet of alcoholic drinks and narcot-
les, to remove the charge of desertion
against soldiers who ro-enlisted without
regiments in which they had previously
served to legalize the incorporation of ma
tional TRADES unions; to give the receiver OF
q national bank the power to buy in any
property of the bank sold under foreclosure
when necessary to protect his trust; to ex-
tend the immediate delivery system; to in
crease the pensions of soldiers who have lost
a leg or an arm; to Iernllt the owners OF
United States merchant vessels, and of any
hro In Gun hp
States for damage by collision arising from
mismanagement of any government vessel;
to provide that surveyed lands granted to
railroads conterminous with completed por-
tions of such roads and in organized coun-
ties shall not be exempt from local taxation
on account of the lien of the United States
upon them for the costs of surveying, select
ing or conveying them; the oleomargarlne
bill; the bill for the increase of the navy; to
reduce the fees on domestic money orders,
for sums not exceeding IS, from to cents;
TO allow steam towing vessels to carry, IN
addition to their crews, as many persons as
the supervising inspector may authorlzei Tor
the relief of Fitz John Porter; to provide for
the sale of the Cherokee reservation; to
enable national banking associations to in
crease their capital stock, aud to change
thernames or locations; providing that after
July /, 1856, NJ fees shall be charged to
mage, issuing of licences granting of certiii-
cate of regist y, ETC., and amending the laws
relative to the shipping and dischargng of
crews the liability OF owners OF vessels, the
licensing OF vessels etc; to forfeit the land
granted to the Atlantic Il Pacific Railroad
Company and restore the same to settlement:
to increase to Sl2 month the pensions of
widows and dependent relatives of deceased
| soldiers and sailors; authorizing the tempo
rary appointment of an acting assistant
treasurer of the Uuited States in the absence
| of both the treasurer and assistant treasurer;
| to direct the commissioner Of labor to make
an Investigation as to convict labor; to eS-
tablish additional lfe saving stations at va
rious points on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts and on the great lakes; providing that
manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars may
Q removed for export without payment of
tax; repeating the law providing for inspec-
tors of tobacco.
In addition to the foregoing, the subject
matter of various special bills has been en-
acted into law in the several appropriation
bills as follows: In the agricultural appio-
priation bill, directing the commissioner of
| agriculture to purchase and destroy diseased
animals whenever in his Judgment it is es-
| sential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pncu-
monia from one state into another. In the
sundry civil appropriation bill, authorizing
! the secretary of the treasury to issue silver
certificates in denominations of 81, 80 and
IS. Also appropriatlng $40, 900 for the es-
tablishment of an industrial home In Utah
for women who renouco polygamy and for
their children.
Of the more important matters submitted
for the action of Congress, upon which
| further action is necessary before they can
/ become laws are the following: The Cullom
interstate commerce bill, passed by the Sen
ate and amended in the House by the
substitution of the Reagan" or House
bill, Is now in conference. The
Mexican pension bill passed the House
and was amended in the S:nate and sent to a
conference committee where 1t is still pend
ing. The Morrison tariff bill was reported
favorably from the ways and means com
mittee, but its consideration was objected to
in the House and it remains on the House
calendar. The Randall tariff bill was re-
ported adversely from the ways and means
committee, but was placed on the calendar
where it remains. The Blair educational
bill passed the Senate early in the session,
was referred to the House committee on ed
ucation, but has not yet been reported from
that committee Bills to establish uniform
system of bankruptcy were introduced in
both houses That introduced in the Senate
by Senator Hoar was reported favorably,
and is OIL the Senate calendar. That intro
duced in the House by Mr.. Collins was also
favorably reported, and is on the calendar.
The bill to prevent members of Congress
acting as attorneys for railroads passed the
Senate, but that action was afterward re
considered and the measure sent to the judi
ciary committee, from which substitute
measure was reported, which is now on the
Senate calendar. The Edmunds bill, to give
the president the power to appoint postnas
tiers and large class Of subordinate federal
officials under the several departments of the
government without the consent of the Sem
ate was referred to thu judiciary committee
but no further action on it has been taken
The Senate resolution for the consideration
of exec itive nominations in open session, ad
versely reported from the committee on rules
was debated at length early in the session
and made a special order for Dec. 8.
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