Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-06

ernnent vessel; Accepting lne Uranl
Medals and Trophies; To Provide that
Surveyed Lands Granted to Railroads
Co-terminus with Completed Portions Of
such Roads and in Organized Counties
shall not be Exempt from Local Taxation
on Account of the Lien of the United
States upon them for the Costs of Survey.
ing, Selecting or Conveying them; the
OleOmargarine Bill; the Bill fol
the Increase of the Navy
Provide that Homestead Settlers within
the Railroad Title Restricted to Less than
100 Acres shall be Entitled to Have theii
Additional Entries Patented Without any
Further Cost or Proof of Settlement and
Cultivation; To Reduce the Fees on Domes,
tic Money Orders for Sums not Exceeding
s. from Cents to Cents; To Allow
Steam Towing Vessels to Carry in
Addition to their Crews rs
many Persons as the Supervising Inspector
may Authorize; For the Relief of Fitz
John Porter; TO Enable National Banking
Associations to Increase Their Capital
Stock and to Change Their Names or LOca-
tons; Authorizing the Construction of q
Bulldog for the Accommodation of the
Congressional Library; Providing that
After July 1st, 1886, no Fees Shall
Be Charged to American Vessels for
Measurement of Tonnage, Issuing no
Licenses, Granting Certificates of Registry,
etc, and Amending Laws Relative to Ship
ping and Discharging; To Forfeit the Lands
Granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Rail
road Company and Restore the Same to
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the Pensions of Widows and Dependent
Relatives of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors;
Declaring Forfeited Certain Lands
Grants Made to States of Mississippi, Ala
bama and Louisiana; TO Amend Section
8, 336 of Revised Statutes so rs to Require
Firms Commencing business 10 Give Bond
in 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 Re
quired; Directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to Deliver to the Proper Claim
ants or Owners the 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 with
in One Year; To Direct tho Commissioner
of Labor to Make an Investigation rs to
Convict Labor; Providing that Manulac-
turcd Tobacco, Snuff and Cigars may be
Removed for Export without payment
of Tax and Repeating the law prOvid-
ing for Inspectors of Tobacco; to establish
Additional Life Saving Stations ut Various
Points on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
and on the Great Lakes
In addition to the foregoing, the subject
matter of the various special bills has been
enacted into laws in the several appropria-
tiOn bills rs follows:
In the Agricultural Appropriation Bill
to the Commissioner of Agriculture to pur-
chase and purchase and destroy diseased
andimalS whenever in his judgement it 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 Affairs; in the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill, authorizing 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
pOlvgamy and for their children.
The important measures which after de-
bate were defeated in the House in which
thep originated are aSiollowS: The Senate
hill To increase the efficiency of the army,
the House (Bland) bill for the free coinage
of silver and Senator Nancc's Jill to repeal
the civil service act.
Among the bills uron which further ac-
ton by Congress is necessary before they
can become laws are the following: The
COllum Interstate Commerce bill; the
Mexican Pension bill; the bill to Repeal
the Timber Culture, Presumption and
Desert Land Laws; the Morrison and
Randall Tariff bills; the House bill TO
Prevent Aliens for Acquiring or
Owning Land in any of the Territories.
the Bankruptcy Bills, the House bill TO
Terminate the Hawaiian Treaty, the Anti
Polygamy Bills, and the Chinese Indcmni-
ty bills The Morrison surplus resolution
failed by reason of the adjournment of
Congress before Executive action had been
taken on it,