The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-20
CLOSE OF CONGRESS-
Congress, After an Eight Months
Session, Quietly and Orderly
Adjourns Sine Die.
Tho River ane Harbor Bill and
Other Appropriation Bills
Signed by tie President.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-The first session of
the Forty y-ninth congress. which ended to-
day. covered period of 24l days, exclusive
of Sundays OF this time the senate was IN
session 164 days. and the house lSj days
During that time there were Introduced in
1O,O14 were house bills, and 214 house joint
resolutions, and 1891 bills and S3 Joint
resolutions of the senate The measures
proposed for enactment into laws exceeded
In number by 2, ,949 those introduced ut 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 q laborer at the capitol
for extra services to the complex questions
of tariff legislation and legislation with
respect to national tinancea 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
general or private nature. became laws
The total number Of measures that passed
both houses was 1,1O1, being PAL senate
bills and $50 bills which originated in tho
house. OF this total, SO6 became laws with
the presidents approval, and 1Sl 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
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 disapproved by the president,
seventy-four We're private pension bills and
three We're for the erection Of public build
ingA The number of
MEASURES VETOED
during the session was four more than have
been vetoed from the foundation of the gov
ernment 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 bill: to provide
Tor the study OF the nature and eject OF a1co-
Of desertton against soldiers who re-enlisted
without having received q discharge from the
regiments in which they had previously served;
to legalize the incorporation of national trades
unions: to give the receiver of a national
bank the power to buy in gnv 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
ganized counties. shall not be exempt from local
taxation account of the lien OF the United
States upon them for the costs Of surveying,
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 sur
vey); the oleomarCarine bill: the bill for the in
crease Of tho navy: to provide that homestead
settlers within the railroad limits restricted to
less than l6O 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
ders for sums not exceeding S5 M from eight cents
to five cents; for the relief of Fitz John Porter;
provide
reservation: to enable national banking
sssosa'ons sso ions to nmre their capital
locations: authorizing the construction
Of a building for the accommodation of the con-
gressional library: to forfeit the lands granted
to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad company, and
restore the same to settlement: to increase to
SO month the pensions OF widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers and sail
ors: declaring forfeited certain land grants made
to the States of M ssissippi, Alabama and Louis
lana: to increase the pensions OF the soldiers
who have lost an arm or leg.
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:
Directing the commissioner of agriculture to
purchase aud destroy diseased animals when
ever in his judgment it 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 certiti
| Gates in denominations of 81. So. and $5. also
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The important measures which. after de-
bate, were defeated in the house in which
they originated, a1e as follows:
The senate bill to increase the efficiency OF the
army; the house tBlandl bill for the free COIN
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, e-emption and desert land laws;
| the Morrison and Randall tariff bills; the house
| bill to prevent aliens from acquiring or owning
| 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