The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-25
rHE LONGEST SESSION.

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| The Session Of Congress just Closed ths
| Longest on Record-some idea of the
| Work Cut Out and That Accompli h ed
| Une Hundred and Twsnty-Nine vetoes.
| W AsHryaroN. Ont. 21 This firss session
| of tho Fiftieth Congress, which closes
| this afternoon, will exceed by nine
teen days the length of the session OF any
| previous Congress since the foundation
| of the Government. When the uE4sed
! Press, at the close 81 81 ~ nrst nine
months of @sossfon, on the tenth of
last month, gave resume of the work
| accomplished, there had been introduced
| In the house during the session IL, 362, and
in the Senate $500 bills and joint reso-
| lutions-in all, 1882
There had been submitted from the
committees to the House y, sJ and to the
| Senate 2172 written reports The Presi-
! dent had sent to the House 81 vetoes,J and
to the Senate 33-in all 81, during the ses
sion. or the total number of bills intro
| duced in the House 1896 were for private
| pensions, while 528 similar bills came
from the Senate. These were referred TO
the committee on Invalid pensions in the
| House. together with 1876 general bills--in
all 4,5s3, and that committee had made
| 1,025 favorable and 273 adverse reports,
sions had received 1.194 Senate and $50
| House bills--a total of 1,744, upon
which favorable reports were made to the
aggregate Of 1.36S Senate and 545 House
bills. There were also $50 adverse re-
! ports made by the Senate committee--a
total of 1,234 reports upon the whole l, 744
| bills referred to that committee. From
| this immense mass of legislative sugges-
| tions, 2TS general measures became laws
| and CSC 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 beeni 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 1858. in the Sem
ate to 3,639, and the reports from COM
mittees in the House have gone up to
| 3,552 while the Senate has increased its
reports to 1894. The House has brought
up its total number OF JOINT resolutions
| introduced to $50, and the Senate to lis.
| The House executive documents have in
| creased in number to 455, its miscellaneous
| documents to 595, while in the Senate the
| executive documents have increased in
number to 281, and the miscellaneous
| documents to POS, making the total num-
ber of executive and miscellaneous docu-
ments received by both Houses during the
session which will end tomorrow. 1883.
The President has sent 10 the Senate 40
vetoes. and to the House SO, during the
| session--a total of 129.
sol ,ko Iau
gate BOT, and joint resolutions Al. while
the private acts have been in
creased to 762, and private reso-
lutions number 8, 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 l, 175
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 at
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 col
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 fer
railroads.
Three regular appropriation bills have
become laws since September 10-the
Sundry Civil, which was approved Octo-
Der 2; the regular A rmy Appropriation
bill and the Fertilization Appropriation
bill. The latter two were signed by the
President September % The General De-
iciency bill is yet In the hands OF the
President.
Very voluminous calenders go 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 1,500 bills, while the
Senate calendar has 2S pages and about
400 bills. These figures are exclusive OF
the indexes to the calendars. II is ar
ranged that as soon as Congress con-
venes in it's 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
view to sending them to the Senate by
the time the latter body has completed
its consideration of the tariff. 1t 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
at Christmas