Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
The Long Session of Congress, ana What
IL Has Accomplished.


IL Has Accomplished.
Copyright 1855 6ys.e California Assoeiated Press.
WASHINGTON, October 19tb.-when the Speak
er's gavel falls at / o clock tomorrow afternoon
for the final adjournment the first session of the
Fiftieth Congress Will go upon record as OF
greater length than any other continuous ses-
sion of the National Ii gislature since the or
ganization of the Government
Apart from the great amount of time con
sumed in both houses in the discussion of the
tariff, a pr0digious amount of legislative work
has been performed he number of bills in
tToiuced in the House Is ], ,5yS, and in the Sen
ate 5 ,639; reports from committees III the House,
1852; in the Senate, > 39i. OF Joint resolutions
there have been introduced in the House 80,
and in the Senate 1l5 Of the House Executive
documents there are i55, ana of miscellaneous
documents 595. The Senate Executive doeu-
ments number 2Sl, and miscellaneous docJl-
ments 20S making a total of Executive and
miscellaneous documents in both houses for the
session OIL $50.
duced 307 have become laws, and OF the Joint
resolutions forty-one have received The approval
of the President. Seven hundred and siXty-two
private bills and three private resolutions have
become laws, making an aggregate of ,il3 Acts
as the result of the sessions work.
When the records are completed it is expected
that the total number VIII be brought III to
about l,l75, as there are nearly sixty public and
private bius passed and awaiting The action 0!
the Executive.
The President has sent to the Senate and
House 129 vetoes during the session the great
majority of which were messages expressing his
disapproyal Of pension bills.
THE NEXT SESSION.
The calendars are loaded down with business
TO be transacted at the second session of the
present Congress, which viii convene Monday
December 80. The House calendar is composed
OF 102 pages :, con aiming the titles of about 50
bills, while on the Senate calendar there are
420 bills.
It is understood that when Congress couyeues
the Senate viii address itself to the considera-
ton of the Finance Committees substitute fiI
the Mills tariff bil while The House viii devote
its time t. the appropriation bills, with the
view of having them out Of the way ut as ear
day as possible.
ACTS PASSED AND NOT rAssED
WASHINGTON, Oc.ober 10Th. Among the
measures of public interest that have become
laws are the following:
Relating to permissible marks on mail matter.
For the division of the Sioux Reservation.
For conference with South and Central
American nations.
Limiting the hours of ofletter-earTiers
Making Lieutenaut-GeneralS Sheridan General
of the amy.
To establish Department of Labor.
For an International Maritime Conference.
Requiring the Pacific Railroid Companies to
maintain telegraph lines.
To prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers.
For the establishment of rules in respect to
the St. Marie and other canals.
To create Boards of Arbitration to settle con.
troversies between common carriers and theiI
employees.
To prevent the return OF Chinese laborers to
this country.
To aid State Homes for Disabled Soldiers. and
changing the date of the meeting of the Eiec-
toral College.
In the next stage-that is, in conference
between the two houses-8re two bills of the
first Importance, namely: Repeating the pre-
emption and timber culture laws, ard Irovid-
ing general homestead law and declaring the
forfeiture of unearned railroad land grants.
Pending before the Senate is the House tariff
bill and the Senate substitute
The Sena passed bills to divide Dakota and
admit the southern hall as State, and to aid
common school education (the Blair bilD, but
they never reached the House for action.
In the Senate the same thi g can be said Of
the following bills which passed the House
The fisheries retaliation bill, whose passage was
recommended by the President; authorizing the
issue of fractional silver cert fcates; allowing
regulations by States Of railways chartered by
the United State.
The following are the most important bills
unacted upon on the Senate calendar For the
admission of Montana and Washington Terrific
rieS; to prohibit the alcoholic liquor traffic TO
declare trusts unlawful.
The following measures of Importance were
reported from the House committees, and are
still on the House calendar To refund the
direct tax Ia vote on which Will be taken early
in December next, under an agreement by
which the memorable dead lock over this bill
was broken; for the payment of arrears of PEN
slons; requiring the investment of the national
redemption fund in circulating notes Pacific
Railroad funding bill debated, but never
reached q point OF dctionl TO inclCde telegraph
companies under the Interstate Commerce Act
to promote commercial union with Canada to
incorporate the Nicaragua Canal Company for
the organization OF the Territory of Oklahoma
debated but not finally voted on
The following are important state bills which
slumber in committees Requesting the Presi-
dent to open negotiations with Great Britain,
looking toward the annexation of Canada to the
United States; fol the free coinage OF silver TO
repeal the 0leoms rgaIine Act; toprovide naval
reserve the. Hennepin Canal bill; to reduce
letter postage to one cent: to grant woman
Suffrage, and measures proposing radical
changes in the Governments financial policy.
The following are original House bills which
likewise never got out of committees To re-
peal the internal revenue laws and tobacco tax;
to prohibit tae mailing Of newspapers contain
ing lottery advertisements; to levy 4 graduated
income tax for bounty on sugar; to repeal the
civil service law; for full reciprocity between
the United States and Canada; directing judicial
proceedings TO be brought against the Pacific
railroads; to proyi5e more efficient mail service
between the United States and South America;
to break uD trusts