The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-08-17
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by the President seventy-fcur were
private pension bills, and three were
for the erection of public buildings.
The proposed public buildings were
for Ashcville, n. G., Duluth, Mimi,
and Springfield, Missouri.
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.
While nearly all of the vetoed bills
of the Senate were reported back
from committees with the recon-
mendation that they pass notwith-
standing the Presidents objection,
and while similar action was taken
on some of the House bills, only one
(that granting pension to Jacob
ROmiser) was passed by the two
Houses over the veto.
The Des Moines River bill passed
the Senate over the veto but failed
to receive the requisite wo-thirds
vote in the House. Motions to pass
the bills to grant pension to Mary
Anderson and Andrew J. Wilson
over the Presidents veto were de-
feated in the House. The consider
alton of the other veto messages has
been postponed until the next ses-
sion. The measures of general i'm
portance that have been enacted in
to laws during the session in addi-
tion to the regular appropriation
bills are as follows:
The Presidential Succession bill {;
to provide for the study of the ma
=t.ra and effect OF afcon0TIc drinks
and narcotics; to remove the charge
of desertion against soldiers who re-
enlisted without having received a
discharge from the regiments in
which they had previously served
to legalize the Incorporation of ma
tional trades unions; to give the re-
ceiver of a national bank the power
to buy in any property of the bank
sold under foreclosure when. neces-
sary to protect his trust; to regulate
the promotion of graduates of the
United States Military Academy; to
permit the owners of United States
merchant vessels and of any prop
erty on board thereof to sue the
United States for damage by coils.
ion arising from acknowledgement OF
any Government vessel; accepting
the Grant medals and trophies; to
provide that surveyed Lands granted
to railroads co-terminus with com
pleted portions of such roads and in
organized counties, shall not be ex-
empt from local taxation ON account
of the lien of the United States up
on them for the costs of surveying.
selecting or conveying them. (It
also makes provision for selling such
lands on the refusal or neglect of the
companies to pay costs of survey.
The Oleomargarine bill; the bill for
the increase 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 cultivation: to re-
duce the fees on domestic money Or
ders for sums not exceeding So, from
8 to 5 cents; to allow steam towing
vessels to carry in addition to their
crews as many persons as the super
vising Inspector may authorize; for
the relief of Fitz John Porter; to
provide for the sale of the Cherokee
reservation to enable National Bank
ing Associations to increase their
capital stock and to change their
names or locations; authorizing the
construction of a building for the
accommodation of the Congression-
al Library; providing that after July
l, 1886, no fees shall be charged to
American vessels for measurement
of tonnage issuing of licenses, grant
ing certificate of registry, etc, and
amending the laws relative to the
shipping and discharging of crews,
the liability of owners, the licensing
of vessels, etc.; to forfeit the lands
granted to the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company, and restore the
+, same to settlement; to increase to
$12 month the pensions of wild
ows and dependent relatives of de-
, ceased soldiers and sailors; declar-
ing forfeited certain land grants
made to the States of Mississippi,
Alabama and Louisiana; to amend
section 1886 of the revised statutes
so as to require brewers commencing
business to give a bond in a sum
equal to three times the amount of
the tax which they will be liable to
pay during any one month, and to
execute a new bond whenever re-
quired; directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to deliver to the prop
er claimants or owners of silver
ware, jewelry, etc, captured by the
United States army during the late
war and to sell at public auction all
such articles not claimed within one
year; to direct the Commissioner of
Labor to make an investigation as
to convict labor; to establish addi-
tional Life Saving stations at va
rious points on the Atlantic and Pa
cific coasts and on the great. lakes:
providing that manufactured tobac-
co, snuff and cigars may be remov-
ed for export without payment of
tax and repeating the law providing
for inspectors of tobacco: to extend
the immediate delivery system; to
increase the pensions of soldiers who
have lost an arm or a leg.
In addition to the foregoing the
subject matter of various special
bills has been enacted into law in
the several appropriation. bills as
follows:
In the Agricultural Appropriation
bill, directing the Commissioner of
Agriculture to purchase and destroy
diseased animals whenever, in his
judgment, it is essential to prevent
the spread of pleuro-pneumonia from
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