Iron County register., 1888-10-25
THE LONGEST SESSION.

THE LONGEST SESSION.
Tho session Of Congress inst Closed tils
Longest ON Ttccord-- Some Idea Of the
work Cut Out and rhAt Accomplsshed-
One Hundred and Twenty Nine vetoes.
WAsHINGroS, Oct 2o.Ths frst session
OF the Flftieth Congress. which CLOSES
this afternoon, will exceed by ntne-
teen days the length Of the session OF any
previous Congress since the foundation
Of the Government. When the United
Press, at the close of the first nine
months OF the session, on the tenth OF
last month, gave q resume or the WORK
accomplished, there had been introduced
In the house during the session II, S64 ana
in the Senate 3, $40 bills ana joint reso.
Iutions-in all. II, ,SS2
There had been submitted from tho
committees to the House 8. 407 and to tho
Senate 2, 172 written reports. The Presi-
dent had sent to the House 81 vetoes, ana
to the Senate 33-in all 81, during the ses.
sion. OF the total number OF bills intro-
duced in the House 8, S65 were for private
pensions, while 523 similar bills came
from the Senate. These were referred 70
the committee on Invalid pensions In the
House, together with 1876 general biils-in
all $50, and that committee had made
1,025 favorable and 273 adverse reports,
sions had received 1.19i Senate and $50
House bills--a total Of 1.74A upon
which favorable reports were made to the
aggregate of 1.36S Senate and oA5 House
bills. There were also 33) adverse 70.
ports made by the Senate committees
total Of 1924 reports upon the whole i, IA
bills referred TO that CO mmittee. From
this immense mass of legislative sugges-
tions, 27S general measures became laws
and 656 pension and other private bills
had gone upon the statute books during
the first nine months OF the session Al-
though 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 mate.
rally increased since September 10. The
number of bills introduced in the House
has been increased to II, ,59S, in thu Sen
ate to 1889, aud the reports from COM
mittees in the House have gone up to
1857 while the Senate has increased its
reports to 1884. The House has brought
up its total number of JOINT resolutions
introduced to 23), and the Senate to 115.
The House executive documents havs iu-
creased in number To 455, its miscellaneous
documents to sos, while in the Senate the
executive documents have increased In
number to 2S1, and the miscellaneous
documents to 208, making the total mum.
ber of executive and miscellaneous docu-
ments received by both Houses during the
session which will end tomorrow. 1859.
The President has sent TO the Senate 40
vetoes. and to the House 80, during the
session-a total of 129.
The public or general acts (laws) aggre-
gate 3O7, and joint resolutions Al. while
he ,,,ir 10 oofS hoU n
creased to 762. and private reso-
lutions number 3, making a total
Of Lib acts during the session. These
are the figures shown on the official rec
ords kept by Mr.. A. Smith. superintend-
ent of the Senate document room. and the
total number, he Informs the United
Press, will be brought up to about L175
when the records are complete, there
being probably sixty general and private
laws not yet recorded, but signed by the
President, or will be permitted to become
laws without his sign ature.
The bills Of general Importance which
have become laws since the resume of
the session given by the United Press OF
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 coll
leges.
Broadening the scope OF the present law
relating to postal crimes.
Making appropriations for numerous
light houses and fog signals on the great
lakes.
Providing for boards of arbitration for
railroads.
Three regular appropriation bills have
become laws since September 10-the
Sundry Civil, which was approved Octo-
ber 2: the regular A rmy Appropriation
bill and the Fertilization Appropriation
bill. The latter two were signed by the
President September q The General De-.
fciency bill is yet In the hands Of the
President.
Very voluminous calenders 60 over in
each House to the second session Of the
Fiftieth Congress, which convenes on
Monday. December q The House calen-
dar is composed of 102 pages, and gives
the titles to about ], 500 bills, while the
Senate calendar has % pag IS and about
400 bills. These figures are exclusive Of
the indexes to the calendars It Is ar
ranged that as soon as Congress con.
venes in its second session, the Senate
will go right along with its dis
cussion Of the tariff, while the House
will Immediately take up the fourteen
regular annual appropriation bills. with
a view to sending them to the Senate by
the time the latter body has completed
its consideration of the tariff. It is also
understood that there will not be the reg
ular two weeks' vacation during the
Christmas and New Year holidays. There
may be a vacation OF three or four days