The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-12

days of actual working time. They
covered all sorts Of subjects, from the
payment of . laborer at the capitol for
extra services to the complex questions
of tariff legislation and legislation with
respect 10 national finances. Of the
entire number comparatively few were
of what may be termed of national inn
portance. A very small PERCENTAGE of
the whole number of bills introduced,
of either q general or private nature,
became laws. The total number of
measures that passed both houses was
1,10l, being 241 senate bills and $50
bills which originated in the house. OF
this total, 806 became laws with the
presidents approval, and 181 became
laws by limitation. One hundred and
thirteen were vetoed, and one
failed by reason of adjournment
without action by the presi-
dent. OF the new laws, TAG were house
measures and PAL senate measures.
The laws that became such by limita-
ton we're, 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 presi-
dent, seventy-four were private pension
bills, and three were for the erection of
public buildings. The number of meas
ures vetoed during che session was four
more than have been vetoed from tho
foundation of the government to the
beginning of the session just closed.
While nearly all of the vetoed bills of
the senate wore reported back from
the committees with the recommends
ton 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 over the veto. The
measures of general Importance that
have been enacted into laws during
the session, in addition to the regular
appropriation bills, are as follows:
The presidential succession bill: to pro-
vide for the study of the nature and effect
of alcoholic liquors and narcotics; to re
diers who re-enlisted without having re.
ceived discharge from the regiments In
which they had previously served; to
legalize the incorporation Of national
trades unions. to give the receiver Of
6s % the od to by IN
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 organized
counties, shall not be exempt from local
United States upon them for the costs Of
surveying, selecting or conveying them.
Ut also makes provision for selling such
lands on the refusal or neglect Of the COM
panies to pay costs of survey; the
oleo%argarine bill; the biz for the increase
s. si' . a:Ss to wRsH the sh';
limits, restricted to less than 100 acres,
shall be entitled to have their
additional entries patented without any
further cost or proof of settlement aud
cultivation; to reduce the fees on domestic
money orders for sums not exceeding S
from eight cents to five cents; for the re-
lief of Fitz John Porter; to provide for the
sale of the Cherokee reservation; to Gu.
able national banking associations to in
crease their capital stock and to change
their names or locations; authorizing the
mediation of the congressional library; to
forfeit the lands granted to the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad company, and restore the
same to settlement; to increase to $12 a
month the pensions of widows and depend
ent relatives of deceased soldiers and sail
made to the States Of Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana; to increase the pensions of
the soldiers who have lost an arm or leg.
In addition to the foregoing. the SUBJ
ject matter of various special bills has
been enacted into law in the several
appropriation bills as follows:
Directing the commissioner of agricul-
ture to purchase and destroy diseased ami
mails whenever in his judgment it is essen
tial to prevent the spread Of pleuro-pneu-
monia from one state into another; Great
ing the office of assistant commissioner of
Indian affairs; authorizing the secretary
in denominations Of 81, 81, and s., also ap-
propriating $40 coo for the establishment Of
an industrial home in Utah for women who
renounce polygamy, and for their chill
dren.
The important measures which, after
debate, we're defeated in the house in
which they originated, are as follows:
The senate bill to increase the efficiency
Of the army; the house (Bland) bill for the
free coinage of silver, aud Senator Vance's
bill to repeal the civil service act.
Among the bills upon which further
action by congress is necessary before
they can become laws are the follow
ing:
The Cullom interstate commerce bill; the
Mexican pension bill; the bill to repeal the
timber culture, REDEMPTION and desert land
laws; the Morrison and Randall tariff bills
the house bill to prevent aliens from acquir'
ing or owning land in any of the territories;
the bankruptcy bill the house bill to term
mate the Hawaiian treaty !; the anti-poly'
gamy bills and the Chinese indemnity bill