Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
WORK or THE SESSION..

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OF 1885 Dllis and RESOLUTIONS Intro
Y duced In Congress Defiittte Action Has
4 Been Taken on OhlysAbOut Osie- Third
q Some nj tho Most Important Measures.
Oct. 20 day at O'Clock
the frst3session Of the .Fiftieth Congress
will END, the:lonRest continuous session Il
the history Of nearly q century of Con-.
,gresses, having lasted 32t days. The,
'lgngest previous session ran sQ2 days, end
Ing September, 80. In the Senate 384l bills
and 116 joint resolutions were pro
scented, ard in the House the record ran
up to the unequaled figures Of 1883
bills and 220 joint resolutions, making
grand total OF 10, 565t measures introduced
In one session. In the Senate 1894 meas
ures werer reported back from the commit
tees and placed on the calendar, . much
ilarger proportion than in the House, where
i6s305 measures still slumber in the commit
tee room Among the measures Of publio
interest that have become laws are the fol-
lowing: 90. ~. - go = +,' So ~ !:
III: Relating to permissible marks, on mail mat
ter; for the division Of the sioux reserva.ion;,.
for 9 conference with the South and Central
American; nations; limiting the hours Of
::le1ter-csrriera; making Lieutenant General
Sheridan General OF The army; TO
establish "a :. department Of. labor;
curing the Pac. &c railroad companies TO
maintain telegraph lines; 10 ~ prohibit
The coming Of Chinese laborers TO the
United States; for the establishment Of rules
IN respect to Sahlt Ste. Marie and
iother canals; to create boards Of arbitration to
settle controversies between common carriers
and their employees; to prevent the return Of
Chinese 1aborers to this country; 10 aid State
homes for disabled soldiers and changing the
date Of meeting Of the electoral college, s.
: In the next stage--that is. in conference be-
tween the two houses-are two bills OF, the
FIRST importance-namely, repeating the Pre-
emption and ber-culture laws, providing q.
general Homestead law and declaring for.
feiture Of unearned railroad land grants. Pend
Ing before the Senate is the House Tariff bill
and the Senate substitute.
: The Senate passed bills to divide Dakota and
admit the southern part as a State and to aid
common school education (the Blair bib, but
they never reached the House for action. ~
In the Senate the same thing con be said of
The following bills, which passed the House:
The Fisheries Retaliation ball, whose pass
age was recommended by the President;
authorizing the issue OF fractional silver cor
hficates; allowing the regulation BY States OF
railways chartered by the, United States.
t. The following are the most important bills
Enacted upon on the Senate calendar: For the
admission OF Montana and Washington Terri:
tories: to prohibit the alcoholic iiQuor traffic;
to declare trusts unlawful
{ The following measures Of importance were
reported from House committees and are sta;a
on the House calendar. To refund the direct
tax "a vote on which will be taken early in De-
cember next, under an agreement by which
the memorable deadlock over this bin was
broken); for the payment: OF. Arrears, of
pens ons; requiring the investment - OF:
the National bank redemption fund in circulat
ing notes; the Pacific Railroad Funding bin
debated. but never: reached the point Of &C.
ton); to include telegraph companies under
the Interstate Commerce act; to promote
Commercial union with Canada; TO incorporate
the Nicaragua Canal Company: for the organi--
cation Of the Territory Of Oklahoma debated,
but never finally voted on). -: ;.:.;.
+. The following are important Senate bills
which s'umber in committees: Requesting the
Pres dent TO- open Negotiations with Great
Britain looking to the annexation of Canada to
the Emitted. States; for the free coinage OF sill
yer; 10 repeal the Oleomargarne law; to pro-
vide naval reserve; the Henoepln canal bill;
to reduce letter postage to one cent; to grant
woman suffrage, and:measures proposing rad
ical 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 the tobacco
tax; to prohibit: ma ling of newspapers con
ia ming lottery advertisements; to lay gradu.
ated income tax; for Q bounty on sugar:
to repeal the Il Civl-Service law; for fnu
reciprocity between the United States and
Canada; directing judicial procee diugs to be
brought against the Pacific railroads: to pro
VIDE more efficient mail service between the
United States and South America; to break up
trusts, and various measures proposing
changes in our pension, tariff and financial
laws. ; ....:... '""
The most important private bills of This ses-
>:ny,5 rro hgro MI
Mrs: Frank p. Blair, both of. which becam.
laws, and the bills to pension Mrs. Waite and
Mrs: Sheridan, VIII CHI passed the Senate but
never were acted on by the House.