Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-20
UNPRECEDENTED.
THE FIRST SESSION or CONGRESS
THE LONGEST EVER KNOWN.
A RESUME OF THE WORK ACCOM-
PLISHED by BOTH HOUSES.

Very voluminous Calendars Go Over to
the Second Session, Which VIII Convene
Tnken--che Sioux Reject the PROPOSE
tion of the G0yernment-w Washington
Notes.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-The first session
of the NfJeth congress, which will close
Saturday afternoon, will exceed by nineteen
days the length Of the session of any prev-
Gus congress since the foundation of the
government When the United Press, at
the close of the first nine months Of the ses
sion, on the 10th of last month, gave resume
Of the work accomplished, there had been
introduced in the house during the season
IL, 1862 and in the senate $3.50 bills and joint
resolutions in all l4,SS2 There had been
submitted from the committees to the house
3,401 and to the senate 2,172 written re-
ports.
The president had sent to the house sixty
four vetoes and to the senate thirty three, in
all ninety seven, during the session. OF the
total number OF bills introduced in the house
1856 were for private pensions, while 523
similar bills came from the senate These
were referred to the committee on invalid
pensions in the house. together with 1876 gen
eral bills, in all 4,5S3, and that committee
had made l,025 favorable and 237 adverse
reports while the senate committee ON PEN
s;ons had received ,1S4 senate and $50 house
bills, total of l,i4i, upon which favorable
reports were made to the aggregate of ,56S
senate and $40 house bills; there were also
$50 adverse reports made by the senate COM
mittee, a total of 1884 reports upon the
whole l. 744 bills referred to the committee.
From this immense mass of legislative sug-
Gestions, 278 general measures became laws,
and $50 pension and other privaUe bills had
gone upon the statute books during the first
nine months of the session.
Although the time of the senate has been
apparently almost exclus vely confined to
the discussion Of the tariff and the house has
been waiting upon the p,easure of the upper
branch of congress, the above figures have
been materially increased since September
10. The number of bills introduced in the
house has been increased to II, ,59S; in the
senate to 3,639; aud the reports from COM
mittees in the house have come up to 8, ,552,
while the senate has increased its reports to
S,'Jf Iu0 mouse mas brought up lUS UOUa4
number of joint resolutions introduced to
$50 and the senate to ll5. The house execU-
tive documents have increased in number to
455, its miscellaneous documents to 595
while i'll the senate the executive documents
have increased in number to PSI, and the
miscellaneous documents to POS, making the
total number of executive and miscellaneous
received by both houses during the session is
1884
The public or general acts Qaws) aggregate
800, and joint resolutions al, while the pri-
vate acts have been increased to 762 and pri-
vate resolutions number 5, making a total of
LIB acts during the session These are the
figures shown on the official records kept by
MIR Anizl Smith, superintendent of the SEN
ate document room, and the total number,
be informs the United Press, will be brought
up to about one thousand one hundred and
seventy five when the records are complete,
there being probably sixty general and pri-
vate laws not yet recorded, but signed 10y
the president, or will be permitted to become
laws without his signature. The presiden
has sent to the senate 40 vetoes and to the
house 30 during the session-a total of l29
The bills Of general importance which have
become laws since the resume of the session
at the close OF the first nine months are as
follows: Restricting Chinese immigration
GTo}; making appropriation for appraisers
warehouse in New York city; detailing
officers Of the army and navy for educa-
tional purposes in state colleges; broadening
the scope of the present law relating to
postal crimes; making appropriations for
numerous lighthouses and fog signals on the
great lakes; and providing for boards of
arbitration for railroads Three regular
appropriation bills have become laws since
Sep5elnber l0-the sundry civil, which was
approved October 2; the regular army ap,
preparation bill and the fortification appro-
priation bill The latter two were signed by
the president September 90
Very voluminous calendars go over in
each house to the second session of the Fif-
tieth congress, which conveneS ON Monday,
December g. The house calendar is COM
posed Of 102 pages and gives the titles to
about one thousand five hundred bills, while
the senate calendar has twenty eight pages
and about four hundred and twenty bills.
These figures are exclusive Of the indexes to
the calendars. 1t is arranged that as soon as
congress convenes III its second session the
senate will 60 right along with its discussion
Of the tariff while the house will iinmedi-
ately take up the fourteen regular annual
appropriation bills, with view to sending
them to the senate by the time the latter
body has completed its consideration Q: the
tariff 1t is also understood that there
will not be the regular two weeks vacation
during the Christmas and New Year holi-
days. There may be a vacation of three or
four days at Christmas.
House.
WASHINGTON, Oct. O.-The house trans
ectad M h,,eipaSs Mr ~ NJ