Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-20
FITTIETH CONGRESS.
A Review OF the Work Of the First
Session.
THE LONGEST ON RECORD.
In the House IL ,59s Bills Have Been In
trodnced, and in the Senate 5000.
An Enormous Amount of Bust
ness OF Other Kinds.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-By the adjourn
ment OF congress closes the longest session,
by nineteen days, of any congress since tho
foundation Of the government. At the close
of the first nine months OF the session, on the
tenth Of last month, there had been intro
duccd in the house during the session IL ,362
and IN the senate $3.50 bills and joint resolu-
tions-in all 1882. There had been sub
mitted from the committees to ssthe house
3,407 and TO the senate 2, III written reports.
The president had sent TO the house sixty -four
vetoes aud 10 the senate thirty three-in all
ninety-seven during the session. OF the total
number OF bills introduced in the house ,S65
were for private pensions, while 523 similar
bills came from the senate. These were re-
ferred to the COMMITTEES on invalid pensions in
the house, together with 105 general bills; in
oil 4, 5S3; and that committee had made OPS
favorable and 257 adverse reports, while the
senate committee on pensions had received
] l94 senate and $50 house bills - total
OF 1,7l4 - upon which favorable reports
were made 10 the aggregate of 1868
senate aud 5i5 house bills. There were
also $50 adverse reports made by the senate
committee, total of 1884 reports upon the
whole IA bills referred to that committee
From the immense mass of legislative sug-
gestions, seventy-eight general measures be-
came laws and CSC pension and other private
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 exclusively confined to the
discussion OF the tariff, and the house has
been waiting upon the pleasure of the upper
branch of congress, the above figures have
been very materially increased since Sept.
10 Tho number OF bills introduced in the
house has been increased TO II sos; in the
senate to $500 end the reports from the COM
mittscs in the house have gone up to 3,552,
while the senate has increased its reports
20 2,S9i The house has brought up its total
number OF joint resolutions introduced to
80, and the senate TO 115. The house execu-
tive documents have increased In number TO
40, It's miscellaneous documents to sos, while
In tie senate the executive documents have
increased in number TO PSI and the miscella-
neous documents to 20S; making the total
number of executive and miscellaneous docu-
ments received by both houses during the
session 1880
The public or general acts laws number
301 and joint resolutions Al, while the private
acts have been increased to 769 and private
resolutions number 3, making a total of 1,113
acts during the session These are the fig
ures shown on the official records kept by
Mr.. Amzi Smith, superintendent of the SEN
hte document room, and the total number,
he informs the United Press, will be brought
up to about j ,lI5 when the records are COM
plete, there being probably sixty general and
private laws not yet recorded, but signed by
the president, or which will be permitted to
become laws without his signature.
The bills of general Importance which have
become laws since the close of the first nine
months are as follows: Restricting Chinese
immigration two, making appropriation for
appraisers warehouse in New York city,
detailing officers of the army and navy for
educational purposes in state colleges; broad
ening the scope of the present law relating TO
postal crimes, masking appropriations for
numerous lighthouses and fog signals on the
great lakes, and providing for boards of arbi-
tration for railroads
Three regular appropriation bills have be-
come laws since Sept 10-ths sundry civil.
which was approved Oct ,; the regular
army appropriation bin and the fertilization
appropriation bill The latter two were
signed by the president Sept. - The general
deficiency is yet in the hands of the president
Very yoluminous calendars 60 over in each
house TO the second session of the fiftieth
congress, which convenes ON Monday, Dec.
). The house calendar was composed of 103
pages and gives the titles to about 1900 bills,
while the senate calendar has twenty weight
pages and about 420 bills. These figures are
exclusive of the indexes to the calendars.
1t is arranged that as soon as congress con-
venes in its second session the senate will go
right along with its discussion of tho tariff.
while the house viii Immediately take up the
fourteen regular annual appropriation bills,
with view of sending them to the senate by
the time the latter body has completed its
consideration of the tariff. 1t is also under
stood that there viii not be the regular two
weeks vacation during the Christmas and
New Year holidays. There may be vaca-
ton of three or four days at Christmas.
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