, 1886-08-19
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THURSDAY. AUGUST ~. 1886.
That Congress Has Done.

Measures Cf Importance hiCh were
enacted by the recent congress, in
addition to tho regular appropriation
bills, lGay be opitomized Is fellows:
PresldentIGl succession bill.
To provide for the study OF the
Lature and effect Of alcoholic drinks
and narcotics.
To remove the charge Of desertion
against soldiers who re enlisted with
out having received 4 discharge from
the regiments IN which they had pre-
Yiously served.
To leSaliZe the incorporation Of na-
tional trades unions.
To give receivers of national banks
power 10 buy any property of Il bank
sold under foreclosure. when neces-
saTy TO protect his trust
Bills II regulate the promotion of
graduate Of the United States mill
tary academy.
Blll to permit owners Of United
States merchant vessels, and of any
property on board thereof, to sue the
United States for damage by collision
arising from the mismanagemcnt OF
any government vessel.
Accepting the Grant medals and
trophies.
Bill to provide that surveyed lands
granted to railroad companies coter-
minOus with. completed portions of
Such roads. III organized counties.
shall not be exempt from local taxa
ton on account of the lien of the
United States upon them for the cost
of survey, selecting or conveying. 1t
also makes provisions for selling sucn
lands on refusal or neglect of the
companies to pay the costs of survey.
Oleomargarine bill.
Bill for increase of the navy.
Bill To provide that homestead set
tiers within railroad limits. restricted
to less than 160 acres, shall he emit
tied to have their additional entries
patented without any further ploof
of settlement and cultivation.
Bill to reduce fees on domestic
money orders for sums not exceeding
So from s to scents.
Bill to allow steam towing vessels
to carry, in addition to their crews, as
many persons as the supervising in
spector may authorize.
Bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter.
Bill to provide for the sale of the
Cherokee reservation.
Bill to enable national banking as
sociations to increase their crpital
stock and to change their names of
location.
Bill to authorize the construction
of the congressional library.
Bill providing that after July 1,
1856, no fees shall be charged to
American vessels for measurement of
tonnage, issuing licenses, granting
certificate ofregistry, etc, and amend
ing the laws relative to the shipping
and discharging of crews, liabilities
of owners, licensing vessels, etc.
Bill to forfeit lands granted to the
Atlantic and Pacific Railway compa-
ny; and restore the same to settle
nent.
Bill to increase TO So a month the
pensions of widows and descendant
relatives of deceased soldiers and
sailors
Bills declaring forfeited certain
land grants made to the states of
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
Bill to amend section 1884 of the
revised statutes, so as to require
brewers commencing business to give
bond in a sum equal so three times
the amount of 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 silverware, Jew
elry, etc, captured by the United
States army during the late war, and
to sell at public auction all such arti-
cles not claimed within one year
Bill to direct commissioner of la
bor to make an investigation as t.
convict labor.
Bill to establish life-saving sta
tions ON the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans and on the great lakes.
Providing that manufactured to-
bacco, snuff and cigars may be re-
moved for export without payment OF
tax, and repeating the law provid-
ing for inspection of tobacco.
Bill to extend the immediate de-
Bill to increase the pensions of sol
diers who have lost an ann or leg.
In addition to the above, bills have
been enacted into laws in several ap
preparation bills as follows:
In the agricultural appropriation
bill. directing the commissioner OF
agriculture to purchase and destroy
diseased animals, whenever in. his
Judgment 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, directing the secretary of the
treasury to issue silver certificates in
denominations of one, two and five
dollars; also appropriating $4,000
for the establishment of an industrial
home in Utah for women who re-
nounce polygany and for theil
children.
Maine republicans do not mean
to be beaten if they can help it, and
they are generally in the habit Of
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