New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-11
CLOSE OF CONGRESS.
Congress, After an Eight Months
Session, Quietly and Orderly
AdjOurns Sine Die.
The River ane Harbor Bill and
Other Appropriation Bills
Signed by the President.

OCucT AppTOpIldClOu Dll1S
Signed by the President.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-The first session Of
the Forty-ninth congress- which ended to-
of Sundays. OF this time the senate was in
session 1874 days, and the house l85 days
During that time there were introduced In
the two houses Is, 2O2 measures, of which
1904 were house bills, and 214 house joint
resolutions, and 1881 bills and 80 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 ForCy-eighth congress,
which sat for 165 days Of actual working
time They covered all sorts of subjects,
from the payment of laborer at the capitol
of tariff legislation and legislation with
respect to national inanceR OF the
entire number comparatively few were
of what may be termed of national
Importance A very small percentage of the
whole number of bills introduced, Of either
The total number Of measures that passed
both houses was IL Ol, being 241 senate
bills and $50 bills which originated in the
house OF this total. SOC became laws with
the presidents approval, and 181 became
laws by limitation. One hundred and th1r-
~
of adjournment without action by the presi-
dent OF the new laws, 746 were house
measures and 241 senate measures Tho
laws that became such by limitation were,
with two exceptions, private pension and
relief bills Twenty eight of the senate bills
were for the erection of public buildingR OF
the house bills disapproved by the president,
seventy-four were private pension bills. and
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
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 owe, 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 effect Of alco-
hollc liquors and narcotics; to remove the charge
Of desertion against soldiers who re-enlisted
without having received discharge from the
regiments in which they had previously served:
unions: to give the receiver of national
bank the power to buy in any property OF the
bank sold under foreclosure when necessary to
and trophies; to provide that surveyed
lands granted to railroads coterminus with
the completed portions Of such roads and in or
eani1ed counties. shall not be exempt from local
States upon them for the costa Of surveying, Sc
Letting or conveying them. Ut also makes pro-
vision for selling such lands on the refusal or
neglect OF tho companies to pay costs OF sur
vey); the oleomarRarine bill; the bill for the in
crease OF the navy: to provide that homestead
settlers within the railroad limits. restricted to
less than 16O acres, shall be entitled to have
their additional entries patented without any
further cost or proof Of settlement and cultiva-
ton; to reduce the fees on domestic money or
to 1--WE cents; tor the relief Of Fitz John Porter;
RESERVATION; to enable national banking
:seS .na TO o9s she their ssp
locations: authorizing the construction
Of a building for the accommodation of the con-
gressional library: to forfeit the lands granted
restore the same to settlement: to increase to
$12 month the pensions OF widows and de-
pendent relatives Of deceased soldiers and sail
to the States Of NJ ssissippi Alabama and Louis
lana: to increase the pensions Of the soldiers
who have lost an arm or a leg.
In addition to the foregoing. the subject
matter of various special bills has been en-
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bills as follows:
Directing the commissioner of agriculture to
purchase and destroy diseased animals when
ever In his JUDGMENT it is essential to prevent
the spread of pleuro-p pneumonia from one state
into another; creating the Office of assistant
commissioner Of Indian affairs: authorizing the
secretary Of the treasury to issue silver certii-
Gates In denominations Of ST.. So. and IS. also
appropriating $40, 600 for the establishment of
m industrial home in U tab 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, a1e as follows:
The senate bill to increase the efficiency of the
army; the house (BlanO bill for the free COIN
age Of silver and Senator Vance'R bill to repeal
the civil service act.
Among the bills upon which further action
by congress is necessary before they can be-
come laws are the following:
The Cullom interstate commerce bill: the
Mexican pension bill; the bill to repeal the tim
Der culture, presumption and desert land laws;
the Morrison and Randall tariff bills; the house
bill to prevent aliens from acquiring or owning
land in any of the territories; the bankruptcy
bill: the house bill to terminate the Hawaiian
treaty; the anti-polygamy bills and the Chinese
indemnity bill.
The Morrison surplus resolution" failed
by reason of the adjournment of congress
before executive action had been taken
on it