Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-25
WORK OF THE S0L0NS.
a sNWmary of What the Fiftieth
Congress Has Accomp.
lished. --
Some Important Bills Passed in
the Last Forty
Days.
The Session Lasts Nineteen Days
Longer Than Any Of Its
Predecessors.

Longer Than Any Of Its
Predecessors.
WAsHlNGroN, Oct. 20.---The first ses-
sion of the fiftieth congress will exceed
by nineteen days the length Of the ses-
sion 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 10th of
last month, gave result of the work
accomplished, there had been introduced
in the house during the session Il, 1862
bills and in the senate $500 bills and
Joint rcsolutions-in all 1892. There
had been submitted from the committees
to the house 3,4G7 and to the senate 8, 172
written reports. The president had sent
30 ::';'. in all 81 during the session. OF the to-
tai number of bills introduced in the house
., SG5 We're for private pensions, while
523 similar bills came from the senate.
These were referred to the committee on
invalid pensions in the house, together
with 1875 general bills, in all 1853; and
that committee had made 1,O25 favor
able reports and 237 adverse reports,
while the senate committee on pensions
had received 1,194 senate and $50 house
bills, total of 1,774, upon which favor
able reports were made to the aggregate
OF 1888 senate and 545 house bills.
There were also $50 adverse reports made
by the senate committee, total of ,2e4
reports upon the whole 1,744 bills re-
ferred to that committee. From this
immense mass Of legislative suggestions
27S general measures became laws and
658 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 pleas
ure of the upper branch of congress, the
above figures have been very materially
increased since Sept. 10. The number of
bills introduced in the. house has been
increased to 1858; in the senate to
3, ,739, and the reports from committees
in the house have gone up to 3,552, while
the senate has increased it's reports to
1884. The house has brought up its
total number of joint resolutions intro
duced to 23O, and the senate to 115. The
The house executive documents have in
creased in number to 455; it's miscellane-
Gus documents to 595, while in the senate
the executive documents have increased
in number to 281 and the miscellaneous
documents to EOS, making the total num-
ber of executive and miscellaneous dOcu-
1nents received in both houses this ses-
sion 1,539.
The president has sent to the senate
forty vetoes and to the house eighty-nine
during the session, total of 129. ~.
The public or general acts Qaws) ag-
gregate 3O7, and joint resolutions Al,
while the private acts have been in
creased to ,762 and private resolutions
number 3. making total of lib acts
during the session. These are figures
shown on the official records kept by
Mr.. A. Smith, superintendent Of the
senate document room, and the total
number, he informs the United Press
will be brought up to about 1,175, when
the records are complete, there being
probably sixty general and private laws
not vet recorded, but signed by the
president or will be permitted to be-
come laws without his signature.
Tie bills of general importance which
have become laws since the resume of
the session given at the close of the
first nine months are as follows: Re-
stricting Chinese immigration (two),
making appropriation for appraisers
warehouse il New York city; detailing
officers of the army and navy for educa-
tional purposes in state colleges, bread
ening the scope of the present law re-
lating to postal crimes, making appro-
priations for numerous light houses
and fog signals on the great lakes, and
providing for boards of arbitration for
railroads. Three regular appropriation
bills have become laws since Septem-
her 10, the sundry civil, which was ap-
Hon bill and the fortification appro-
priAtion bill. The general deficiency
bill is yet in the hands of the presi-
dent Very voluminous calendars go
over in each house to the second ses-
sion of the Fifitieth congress, which
convenes on Monday, December 3. 1t
is arranged that as soon us congress
convenes in it's second session the
senate will go right along with it's discus
sions Of the tariff, while the house will
Immediately take up the fourteen reg
ular annual appropriation t..,, with
a view to sending them to the senate
by the time the latter body has COM
pleted it's consideration of the tariff.
1t is also understood that there viii not
be the regular two weeks vacation
during the Christmas and New Year
holidays. There may be vacation of
three or four days at Christmas.