The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-23
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MONDAY, AUGUST 2S, 1886.
A REHABILITATION.

The first session of the Forty
ninth Congress, which ended August
9th, began ON Monday, December
9TH, 1885, and covered period of
seven months and twenty-eight days,
or PAL days, exclusive of Sundays.
OF this time the Senate was in ses-
sion 1874 days, and the House 1876
days. During that time there were in
troduced into the two Houses 3,202
measures, of which l0,0l4 were
House bills and PA House Joint
resolutions and 1881 bills and SO
joint resolutions Of the Senate.
Measures proposed for enactment
into laws exceeded in number hy
2.949 those introduced at the first
session of the foriy-cighth Con.
gress, which set for seven mouths,
or 100 days of actual working time.
They covered all sorts of subjects
from the payment of Il laborcr ut the
Capitol for extra services to the COM
pick question of tariff legislation
with respect to National finance.
OF the entire number compara-
lively few were of what may be
termed of national Importance. The
The greater number were measures
of private nature or of merely local
Importance, such as relief and pen
sion bills. bills for the erection of
public buildings, for bridging rivers,
for granting right of way to rail
roads through military or Indian
reservations, for removal of political
disabilities. for changing judicial dis
tricts, for establishing new Land
Offices, for changing names or loca-
ton or increasing capital stocks of
National banks, for printing public
documents. etc., etc. A very small
percentage of the whole number of
bills introduced, of either general
or private nature, became laws, a
comparatively small number sue
ceeded in getting through the COM
mittees to which they were referred
and touching the calendar of their
respective Houses, some secured
passage in the House in which they
originated, but failed 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, be-
ing PAL Senate bills and $50 bills
which originated in the House. OF
this total, SOC became laws, with
the Presidents approval; ISL be-
came laws by limitation, the Presi-
dent failing to either approve or dis
approve them within ten DAYS after
presentation to him; 113 were
vetoed, and one failed by reason of
adjournment, with action by the
President.
New laws, TAG were House meas
ures and 24l Senate measures.
Laws that became such by limitation
were, with two exceptions, private
pensions and relief bills. The ex-
ceptions were bill to authorize the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
Railway to construct railroad
through the Indian Nation, and that
to retire Lieutenant Randall. Of
the measures vetoed by the Presi-
dent, 36 were Senate bills and II
bills of the House. Twenty-eight
OF the Senate bills vetoed were pri-
vate pension bills; three were for
the erection of public buildings Cat
Dayton, Ohio; Sioux City, Iowa,
and GAINESVILLE, Ohio). One was to
grant to railroads tho right of way
through the Indian reservation in
northern Montana one to make
Springfield, Mass, a port of de-
livery; one to provide that the
bodies of paupers, criminals and
strangers, dying within the District
of Columbia, unclaimed within a
specified time after death, shall be
turned over to medical colleges, and
one to quiet titles to settlers on Des
Moines river lands, and one to pro-
vide for the construction bridge over
Lake Champlain. OF the House
bills disapproved by the President,
"A were private pension bills, and
three were. for the erection of public
buildings. The proposed public
buildings were for Asheville, n. G.. !;
Duluth, Mimi, and Springfield, 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 recon.
mendations that they pass, notwith-
standing the Presidents objection,
and while similar action was taken
on some, of the House bills, only
one, that granting a pension to
Jacob Romizer, 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 tWo-thirds