The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-06

also makes provision for selling such lands oE
the refusal or neglect OF the companies TO pay
costs of SURVEYS the oleomargarine bill; the bill
Tor the increase OF the navy; to provide that
homestead settlers within the railroad limits re-
stricted to less than 160 acres shall be entitled 10
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 s. from
cents to 5 cents; to allow steam towing vessels
to carry, In addition to their crew, as many
persons as the supervising 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; author
izing the construction of building for the ac-
commodation of the congressional library; pro-
viding that after July l. 1885, no fees shall be
charged to American vessels for measurement
OF tonnage. issuing OF licenses, granting certlh-
Gates 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 81 Pacific Railroad Company, and re-
store the same to the settlement; to increase tc
$l2 month the pensions of widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers and
sailors; declaring forfeited certain land grants
made to the States of Mississippi, Ala.
1886 of the Revised Statutes so as to require
hreweries commencing business to give 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 new bond whenever
required directing the Secretary OF the Treasury
to deliver to the proper claimants or owners the
silverware, iewelry. etc.. captured by the United
States army during the late war, and to sell at
public auction all such articles not claimed
within ono year; to direct the Commissioner of
Labor to make an investigation as to convict
labor; to establish additional life 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; to extend the Immediate delivery sys-
tenn: TO increase the pensions Of soldiers who
have lost an arm or leg.
In addition to the foregoing. the subject-mat-
ter 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 Agricusture to purchase
and destroy diseased animals whenever, in his
Judgment 1t is essential to prevent the spread of
pleuro pneumonia from one State into another.
In the legislative appropriation bill. creating the
Office of Assistant Commissioner Of Indian AT
fairs. In the sundry civil appropriation bib, au
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
silver certificates in denominations OF one two
and five dollars; also appropriating $40. 600 for
the establishment of an industrial home in Utah
for women who renounce polygamy and for their
children a
The important measures which, after debate.
were defeated in the House. in which they origi-
mated are as follows: The Senate bin to increase
the efficiency of the army, the House BlandI
bill for the free coinage Of silver and Senator
Vances bill to repeal the civil-seryice act
Among the bills upon which further action by
Congress is necessary before they can become
laws are the following: The Cullom interstate
commerce bill. the Mexican pension bill, the bill
to repeal the timber-cuIture presumption aud
desert-land laws, the Morrison and Randall tariff
bills, the House bill to prevent aliens from ac-
quiring or owning land in any of the Territories,
the bankruptcy bills, the house bill to terminate
the Hawaiian treaty, the anti-polygamy bill and
the Chinese indemnity bill The Morrison sur
rlus resolution failed by reason of the adjourn.
ment of Congress before executive action had
been taken on it.