The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-13
CLOSE OF CONGRESS.
Congress, After an Eight Months
Session, Quietly and Orderly
Adjourns Sine Die.
The River ane Harbor Bill and
9th er Appropriation Bills
Signed by the President.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5-The first session of
the Forty ninth congress, which ended to-
day, covered period of 241 days, exclusive
of Sundays OF this time the senate was in
session 164 days, and the house 185 days
During that time there were introduced in
the two houses Is, ,202 measures, of which
10,014 were house bills, and 214 house joint
resolutions, and 1881 bills and SO joint
resolutions of the senate. The measures
proposed for enactment into laws exceeded
in number by 2,949 those introduced at the
first session of the Forty-eighth congress,
which sat for 165 days of actual working
time. They covered all sorts of subjects,
from the payment of a laborer at the capitol
for extra services to the complex questions
of tariff legislation and legislation with
respect to national finances OF the
entire number comparatively few were
of what may be termed of national
Importance very small percentage of the
whole number of bills introduced, of either
a general or private nature. became laws.
The total number of measures that passed
both houses was /, ,101, being 24l senate
bills and $50 bills which originated in the
house OF this total, S06 became laws with
the presidents approval, and Isl became
laws by limitation. One hundred and thir-
teen were vetoed, and one failed by reason
of adjournment without action by the presi-
dent OF the new laws, TAG were house
measures and 241 senate measures The
laws that became such by limitation were,
with two exceptions, private pension and
relief bills Twenty-eight of the senate bills
vetoed were private pension bills and three
were for the erection of public buildings OF
the house bills disappgoved by the president,
seventy-four were private pension bills, and
three were for the erection of public build
ings The number OF
MEASURES VETOED
during the session was four more than have
been vetoed from the foundation of the gov
eminent to the beginning of the session just
closed While nearly all of the vetoed bills
of the senate were reported back from the
committees with the recommendation that
they pass Notwithstanding the presidents
objection, and while similar action was taken
on some of the house bills, only one was
passed by the two houses oven the veto.
The measures of general Importance that
have been enacted into laws during the ses-
sion, in addition to the regular appropri-
alton bills, are as follows:
The presidential succession billie to provide
for the study of the nature and effect OF alco-
holic liquors and narcotics; TO remove the charge
of desertion against soldiers who re-enltsted
without having received a discharge from the
regiments in which they had previously served;
to legalize the incorporation OF national trades
unions; to give the receiver OF national
bank the power to buy in any property of the
bank sold under foreclosure when necessary TO
protect his trust; accepting the Grant medals
and trophies; to provide that surveyed
lands granted to railroads coterminus with
the completed portions of such roads and In or
ganized counties, shall not be exempt from local
taxation on account of the lien of the United
States upon them for the costs OF surveying, Sc
lecting or conveying them. Ut also makes pro-
vision for selling such lands on the refusal or
neglect of the companies to pay costs of sdr-
veyl; the oleomargarine bill: the bill for the in
crease Of the navy; to provide that homestead
settlers within the railroad limits, restricted TO
less than 160 acres, shall be entitled to have
their additional entries patented without any
further cost or proof of settlement and cultiva-
tion; to reduce the fees on domestic money or
ders Tor sums not exceeding 50 from eight cents
to five cents: for the relief OF Fitz John Porter
to provide for the sale OF the Cherokee
reservation; to enable national banking
associations TO increase their capital
locatiors: authorizing the constructions
of q building for the accommodation OF the con-
gressional library; TO forfeit the lands granted
to the Atlantic az Pacific Railroad company and
restore the same to settlement: to increase to
S12 q month the pensions OF widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers and sail
to the States OF Mississippi Alabama and Louis
lana: to increase the pensions OF the soldiers
who have lost an arm or q leg
In addition to the foregoing. the subject
maIJer OF VARIOUS Bpeclal DlilS mas Deem en-
acted into law in the several appropriation
bills as follows:
Directing the commissioner of agricultuTe 30
purchase and destroy diseased animals when-
ever In his Judgment IL is essential to prevent
the spread Of pleuro- pneumonia from one state
into another: creating the office of assistant
commissioner of Indian affairs: authorizing the
secretary OF the treasury to issue silver cert i-
appropriating $4,000 for the establishment Of
an industrial home in Utah for women who re-
nounce polygamy, and for their children.
The important measures which. after de-
bate, were defeated in the house in which
they originated, are as follows:
The senate bill to increase the efficiency Of the
age Of silver. and Senator vance's bill to repeal
the civil service act.
Among the bills upon which further action
by congress Is necessary before they can be-
come laws are the following:
The Cullom interstate commerce bill: the
Mexican pension bill; the bill to repeal the tim
ber culture, presumption and desert land laws;
the Morrison and Randall tariff biiis the house
land in any Of the territories the bankruptcy
bill; the house bill to terminate the Hawaiian
treaty: the anti-polygamy bills and the Chinese
indemnity BILL
The Morrison surplus resolution" failed
by reason OF the adjournment Of congress
before executive action had been taken
on it
RIVER AND HARBbR BILL.