The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-08-12
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.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-The first session of
the Forty ninth congress, which ended To-
day. covered period OF III days, exclusive
Of sundays OF this time the senate was In
session 164 days, and the house $50 DAYS,
During that time there were introduced IN
the two houses l3, 2O2 measures, OF which
1904 were house bills, and LII 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 2,9i9 those introduced at the
first session of the Forty eighth congress,
which sat for 16o 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 We're
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., 1Ol, being III senate
bills and $50 bills which originated i'll the
house. OF this total, SOC became laws with
the presidents approval, and Isl became
laws by limitation. One hundred anu thlr-
teen were vetoed, and one failed by reason
of adjournment without action 10y the presi-
dent OF the new laws, 1l6 were house
measures and 241 senate measures Tho
laws that became such by limitation We're,
with two exceptions, private pension anu
relief bills. Twenty eight OF the senate bills
vetoed were private pension hllls ana three
were for the erection of pubic buildings or
the house bills disapproved by the president,
seventy four We're private pension bills, and
three were for the erection OF pubic 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 10y the two houses ovel the veto.
The measures of general Importance that
have been enacted into laws during the SEES
SION in addition to the regular approprl-
alton bills. are as follows:
The presidential succession bill: to provide
for the study of the nature and effect or alco-
holie liuuors and narcotics; to remove the charge
of descrtion against soldiers who re-eullsted
without having received Il 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 i'll 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 cotermlnus with
the completed portions OF such roads ana III or
ganized counties. shall not BIO exelEpt from local
taxation on account OF the lien of the United
States upon them for the costs of surveying Sc
Letting or conveying them ut also makes pro-
vision for selling such lands on the refusal or
neglect OF the companies to pay costs of sur
yryl: the oleomargariue bill: the bill Iot the IN
crease of the navy: to provide that homestead
settlers within the railroad limits, restricted to
less than 100 acres, shall be entitled to have
their additional entries patented without any
furthsr cost or proof OF settlement and cultiva-
ton: to rcd..ca the fees on domestic money Or
ders for sums not caGarding 10 from eight cents
to five cents; for the relief q 'tz John Porter.
to provide for the sale OF i dns Iner1kee
associations 10 increase their capltal
stock and to change their names or
locatiors: authorizing thl construction tri tan
of a building for the accommodation - the con
cressional library; to forfeit the lands granted
to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad company, anu
restore the same to settlement TO increase ~
Sl2 a month the pensions q widows ana de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers ana SAIL
ors: declaring forfeited certain land gram made
TO the States Of NJ ssissippl, Alabama and Louis
lana: to increase the pensions OF the soiuiefs
who have lost an arm or leg
I'm 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 commits sioner of agriculture TO
purchase and destroy diseased animals When-
ever in his judgment 1t Is essential 70 prevent
the spread OF pleuro- pneumonia from one seat 9
into another; gfeating the office OF assistant
commissioner Of Indian affairs; authorizing me
secretary of the treasury To issue SILVER cef1ih-
Gates in denominations of 81, ~, and 50, also
appropriating $1,000 tor the establishment or
an industrial home III Utah for women Nlp 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 Nances bill to repeal
the civil service at
Among the bills upo,. -yhich further action
hy congress is necessary berors hey can be-
come laws are the following:
The Cullo.j interstate commerce bill: the
Mexican pension oi: the bill to repeal the tim
Der culture pre-emptiolt aad desert land laws
the Morrison and Randall tarin bills: the house
land in any of the territories; the bankrnptcg
bill: the house bill to terminate tie HaWala
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.