The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-08-12
CLOSE OF CONGRESS-
Congress, After an Eight Months
Session, Quietly and Orderly
AdjOurAs Sine Die
The River ane HarbOr Bill and
Other Appropriation Bills
Signed by the President.

WASHINGTON. Aug. o.-lno Hrsb seSsiou Va
tho Forty ninth congress, which ended to-
day, covered period of 241 days, exclusive.
Of Sundays or this time the senate was IN
session 104 days, and the house $50 days
During that time there were introduced In
the two houses Is, 2O2 measures, OF which
1904 were house bills, and Fla house joint
resolutions. and 2,S91 bills and So joint
resolutions Of the senate. The measures
proposed for enactment into laws exceeded
in number by 2,949 those introduced at the
first session Of the FOrty-eighth congress,
which sat for 165 days OF actual working
time They covered all sorts OF subjects,
from the payment Of a laborer at the capitol
for extra services to the complex questions
of tariff legislation and legislation with
respect to national finances or the
entire number comparatively few were
Of what may be termed of national
Importance very small percentage of the
whole number Of bills introduced, OF either
general or private nature. became laws
The total number Of measures that passed
both houses was L. O1, being 241 senate
bills and $50 bills which originated in the
house or this total. 500 became laws with
the presidents approval, and ISL became
laws by limitation One hundred and thir-
teen were vetoed, and one failed by reason
of adjournment without action by the presi-
dent OF the new laws, TAG were house
measures and PAL senate measures The
laws that became such by limitation were,
with two exceptions. private pension ana
relief bills Twenty eight Of the senate bills
vetoed were private pension bills and three
were for the erection of public buildings Or
the house bills disapproved by the president.
seventy -four were private pension bills, ana
three were for the erection Of public build
ings The number OF
MEASURES VETOED
during the session was four more than have
been vetoed from the foundation of the gov
ernment 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 presidents
objection, and while similar action was taken
ON some of the house bills, only one was
passed by the two houses oven the veto.
The measures Of general Importance that
have been enacted into laws during the ses-
sion, in addition to the regular appropri-
alton bills. are as follows:
The presidential succession bill: to provide
for the study of the nature and eject OF alc0-
holic liquors and narcotics; to remove the charge
without having received discharge from the
regiments In which they had previously served;
to legalize this Incorporation OF national trades
unions: to give the receiver OF national
bank the power to buy in any property OF the
bank sold under foreclosure when necessary to
protect his trust; accepting the Grant medals
and trophies; to provide that surveyed
lands granted to railroads coterminus with
the completed portions Of such roads and IN or.
eanized counties. shall not BIO EXEMPT from local
taxation ON account of the lien OF the United
States upon them for the costs Of surveying. Sc
Letting or conveying them. lit also makes pro-
vision for selling such lands on the refusal OF
veSl the oleomargarine bills the bill for tho in-
crease Of the navy: to provide that homestead
settlers within the railroad limits, RESTRICTED TO
less than 16O acres. shall be entitled TO nave
their additional entries patented without any
furthsr cost or proof of settlement and cultlva-
ton: to reduce the fees on domestic money Or
ers for sums not F from 9ohn Porter
to provide for the sale OF the Cherokee
leservation to enable national thsr aanif
TO shsnqe their she names
Iocatiors: authorizing the construction
of a building for the accommodations Of the con:
gressional library to forfeit me iamns nd
restore the same to settlement; TO increase 20
$I2 month the pensions 81 widows ana ae-
pendent relatives OF deceased soldiers anu san.
to the States Of NJ ssissippi Alabama and Louis
lana: to increase the pensions OF the soldiers
who have lost an arm or leg.
In addition to the foregoing. the subject
matter of various special bills has been en-
acted into law in the several appropriation
bills as follows:
Directing the commissioner Of agriculture to
purchase and destroy diseassd animals when.
ever in his judgment it is essential TO prevent
the spread Of pleuro- pneumonia from one state
into another; creating the office OF assistant
commissioner Of Indian affairs; authorizing :ne
secretary of the treasury to issue silver cert IN
Gates in denominations of 81. ~. and 70, also
anpropriating $4O,O 900 for the establ1Eqment OF
an industrial home in Utah for women WHO re-
nounce polygamy and for their children.
The important measures which. after de-
bate. were defeated in the house In which
they originated. ale as follows:
The senate bill to increase the efficiency OF the
army: the house BLAND bill for the free coin.
age Of silver and Senator Vance's bill to repeal
the civil service act
Among the bills upon ghich further action
Inv congress is necessary berors they can be-
come laws are the following:
The CulIos3 interstate commerce bill: thf
| Mexican pension bill; the bill to repeal the tim
| her culture, pre-emptio4 and desert land laws
| the Morrison and Randall tarin bills; the house
| bill to prevent aliens from acquiring ~ owning
| land in any Of the territories; the bankrHptci
| bill: the house bill to terminate the HaWallar
treaty: the anti-polygamy pills and the Ghines'
| indemnity bill.
| The Morrison surplus resolution faflee
l. by reason Of the adjournment, OF congress
| before executive action had been taker
| on it