The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-01-04
A. X. YERKES. Publisher.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

During the session of the Fort, Ninth
Congress, fully 10000 bills were intro
duced, of which number about 1000
failed to pass, but it is among the proba-
hilities that at least 90 per cent of these
same old bills will again he brought for
ward before two mouths will have passed.
In the Finieth Congress, one fourth Of
the Senate is new and one third of the
House is new, and in consequence, there
will be much new legislation proposed
for it is a historical fact that newly
elected members of Congress are am
bitions to distinguish themselves in the
first term Of service, in order to impress
their constituents with the conviction
that q second election of the Ludding
statesmen is necessary to the salvation
of the country.
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The Oft recurring question of whether
it would not be best to abolish the Con-
gressonal Record, again presents itself;
the Record was originally designed to he
merely condensed official report of the
proceedings of Congress; this is shown
by reference to the files oftlie old Globe,
the predecessor of the present publica-
tion. From being simply an ineligible
SYNOPSIS of the doings of Congress, en-
enactment was gradually made upon
the space of the Record until it las be-
come the medium through which long
winded Congressman mflict, upon the
public and their own constituents,
speeches, many of which were never
delivered for it is often the case when
the House or Senate wishes to avoid
being bored by tiresome speaker. that
the orator is both sienced and satisfied
by "leave to print his remarks" 1t il
all the same to the statesman so he i:
successful in his purpose to reach the
voter, So it is safe to say that the Con
prcssional Record will moi he abolished
but that it will continue to he The
medium of Congressional C hatu'cncc an,
el,qnenR.
For the past y, ar the prosperity ofth
Post Office Department las been l'ttl
short of marvellous, the result of pro
eressive business methods and economical
management; the recocds of the Otlic
show that there has been an increase il
one year of four million dollars in TIL
u.x,a,,-t ,,f ,nplo,ya cfanons apll TIL
Postmaster General gives it rs his opinio
that there will be no deficiency as fn
merly, and that the mail service is no'
on SELF sustaining basis.
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This Department has lately made
new regulation that is of special intei es
to The. general public, particularly durin
this the holiday season. when so man
presents arc being sent through tn
mails. Heretofore persons tsansportin
second, third, or fourth class parcels i
this manner, were requested to specif
on the outside thereof in writing tn
class of kind of such matter; but this
no longer permissible, for, under the lat
ruling, packages of the three classes,
written upon in the way described, c'
cpt 10 give the sender's address, al
subject to letter rates.
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The new vault for silver in the mort
court yard Of the Treasury Departmcr
is finished, and will soon give place
many millions of the peoples money !;
has capacity for storing one hnndre
million standard silver dollars.
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In the Senate, the Blair Educationi
Bill has again been taken up, and ,her
is strong probability that it will pas
both Houses, and be vetoed by Presidcn
Cleveland the Dependent Pension Bill
will also be pushed forward to passag
and will likely meet similar fate.
general Bankrupt bill will be introduce
in the House, and apparently it has
good chance of becoming law it give
five hundred dollars as the minimum
and provides that bankruptcy cases sha
have precedence ofall except State case
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