St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-06
of action in the other branch. and very

of action in the other branch. and very
large number still remain unconsidered by
the committees to which they were referred.
The total number of measures that passed
both houses was 1,101, being 241 senate
bills and $50 bills which originated in the
house. Of this total, SOC became laws with
the presidents approval and 1S1 became
laws by limitation, the president failing
either to approve or disapprove them within
ten days after their presentation to him, 113
were vetoed and one failed by reason of adj
Journment without action by the president
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
The exceptions were the bill to authorize
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf railway
to construct railway through the Indian
Territory and that to retire Lieut.. Randall,
Of the measures
VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT,
thirty-siX were senate bills and seventy
seven bills OF the house. Twenty-eight of
the senate bills vetoed were private pension
bills; three were for the erection of public
buildings (at Dayton. o., Sioux City, Ia,
and GAINESVILLE, o.; one was to grant to
railroads the right of way through
the Indian reservation in Northern Mon
tana; one to make Springfield, Mass, a
port OF delivery; one to provide that the
bodies OF pauper and criminals and stran-
gers dying within the Dstrictlof Columbia,
unclaimed within specified time after
death, shall be turned over to the medical
colleges; and one to quiet title to settlers
on the Des Moines river lands; and one to
provide for the construction of a bridge
over Lake Champlain. Of the house bills
disapproved by the president, seventy-seven
were private pension bills and three were
for the erection of public buildings. The
proposed public buildings were for Ashe-
vile, n. c., Duluth, Mimi, and Spring
field, Mo. 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
the committees with the recommendation
that they pass, Notwithstanding the presi-
dents objection, and while similar action
was taken on some of the house bills. only
one (that granting a pension to Jacob Ro
miser) was passed by the two houses over
the veto. The Des Moines river bill passed
the senate over the veto, but failed to re-
ceive the requisite 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 consideration
the other veto messages has been postponed
until the next session. The measures of
general Importance that have been
ENACTED INTO LAWS
during the session, in addition to the regu-
lar appropriation bills, are as follows:
The presidential succession bill; to provide
for the study of the nature and effect of al
cohol and narcotics; to remove the charge Of
deSertion against soldiers who re-enliSted
without having received discharge from the
regiments in which they had previously
served; to legalize the incorporation Of ma
tional trades unions; to give the receiver of a
national bank the power to buy in any prop
erty OF the bank sold under foreclosure when
necessary to protect his trust; to regulate
the promotion of graduates of the United
States military academy; to permit the own
erS OF the United States merchant vessels and
of any property on board thereof, to sue the
United States for damage by collision arising
from miSmanagement of any government
vessels; accepting the Grant medals and
trophies; to provide that surveyed lands
granted to railroad coterminus with COM
pleted portions OF such roads and in organized
counties, shall not be exempt from local tax
alton on account of the lien of the United
States upon them for the costs of surveying,
selecting or CONVEYING them. ut also makes
provision for selling such lands on the re-
fusal or neglect Of the companies to pay costs
OF survey; the oleomargarine bill; the bill
Tor the Increase of the navy; to provide that
homestead settlers within the railroad limits
restricted to less than 100 acres shall
be entitled to have their additional entries
patented without any further cost or proof of
settlement and cultivation; to reduce the
fees on domestic money orders for sums not
exceeding So from cents to 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 ma
tional banking associations to increase their
capital stock and to change their names or
locations; authorizing the construction of q
building for the accommodation of the congress
sional library; providing that after July L,
1885, no fees shall be charged to American
vessels for measurement of tonnage, issuing
Of licenses, granting certificate of registry,
ETC., and amending the laws relative to the
shipping and discharging Of crews, the liabil-
ity of owners, the licensing of vessels etc. ;
to forfeit the lands granted to the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad company and restore the
same to settlement; to increase to S12 a
month the E.c
PENSIONS OF WIDOWS
and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers
and sailors; declaring 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 bond
IN sum equal to the amount of the tax
which they will be liable to pay during any
one month, and to execute a new bond when
ever required; directing the secretary of the
treasury to deliver to the proper claimants
or owners the Silverware, jewelry, etc. cap
4r,rl nv limited dI1ri t,crf lo
late war, and to sell at public auction all suc CHI
articles not claimed within one year; to direct
the commissioner of labor to make an inyesti-
cation of lfe-saving stations at various points
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and on the
great lakes; providing that manufactured
tobacco. snuff and cigars may be removed for
export without payment of tax, and repeating
the law providing for inspectors of tobacco.
In addition to the foregoing the subject mat
tiers 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 agricul-
ture to purchase and destroy diseased
animals whenever in his judgment
it is essential to prevent the spread
of pleuro-pnemonia from one state
in. o another. In the legislative appropriation
bill. creating the Office of assistant commits
sioner of Indian affairs In the sundry civil
appropriation bill authorizing the secretary
of the treasury to issue silver certificates in
denominations of 81, So and So; also appro-
priating $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 debate,
WERE 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, and Senator
vance's bill to repeal the civil service act
| Among the bills upon which further action
by congress is necessary before they car
become laws, are the following: The Cullon
interstate commerce bill, the Mexican pen.
sion bill, the bill to repeal the timber culture
presumption and desert land laws the Morri
| son and Randall tariff bills, the house bill tC
prevent aliens from acquiring or owning
land in any of the territories, the bankruptcy