The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-11-02
A Re,nnrkable se.sion.

Saturday at 1 o'clock the first session Of
the Tiftieth ended the longest continuous
session in nearly q century of congress,
having lasted 32l days. The longest previ-
u session ran 3O2 days, ending septem-
Der 80. Apart from a protracted but in
teresting discussion Of the tariff question
in both houses, and the unparalleled dead
lock i'll the consideration Of the bill to re-
fund the direct tax, tue session has been
remarkable in several ways, but in none
more than in the number Of
measures introduced in both branches of
congress.
In the senate 3.64l bills and 116 Joint
houss the record ran up to the unequallei
figures of II, 598 bills and $50 joint resolu-
tions, making n grand total Of IL, 5S5
measures introduced in one session. In
the senate 1884 measures we're reported
back from committees and placed on the
calendar, u much larger proportion than in
the house, where 1906 measures of the
total number of 1928 introduced still
slumber in committee rooms.
Among the measures of public interest
that have become laws are the following:
Relating to permissible marks on mail
matter; for o division of the Sioux reserva-
ton; for q conference with the South and
Central American nations; limiting the
hours OF letter carriers; making Lieutenant
General Sheridan general of the army; to
establish a department Of labor; for I'm In
ternational maritime conference, requiring
the Pacific railroad companies to maintain
telegraph lines; to prohibit the crossing of
Chinese laborers to the United States; for
the establishment of rules in respect to the
So Maria on1 nthor oo,no0o, ~ o...h.
boards of arbitration to settle 0%0ntrover.
sizes between common carriers and their
employees: aiding state homes for disabled
soldiers, aud changing the date Of meeting
of the electoral college.
In the next stage-that is, in conference
between the two houses-two IRE bills Of
the first importance, namely, repeating the
presumption and timber culture laws and
providing a general homestead law, and de-
claring forfeiture of unearned railroad
land grants.
Pending before the senate is the house
tariff bill and the senate substitute. The
senate passed bills to divide Dakota and
admit the southern half as a state and to
aid common school education (Rlair BILLY,
but they never reached the house for
action.
The following are the most important
RlAlb Anacte0 upOn on the senate calendar:
For the admission of Montana and Wash.
ton territories; to prohibit the alcoholic
liquor traffic; to declare trusts unlawful.
The following measures of importance
were reported from the house committee
calendar and are still on the house:
To reform the direct tax vote on
which will be taken early in December
next, under agreement by which the me.
morial deadlock over this bill vas broken)
for the payment Of arrears Of pensions; re.
curing the investment ef the national
bank redemption fund in circulating notes;
to include telegraph companies under the
Interstate commerce act; to promote com.
mescial union with Canada.
The following are some important sem
ate bills which slumber in COMMITTEES:
Requesting the president to reopen neRo.
tiations with Great Britain Looking to the
annexation Of Canada to the United States;
for the free coinage Of silver; to repeal the
eleommargearine act;the Hennepin canal bill;
to reduce letter postage to l cent; to grant
woman eu&rsses and measures proposing
radical changes In the sovsrnmspt's Anan.
ciAl policy.
Tho following are . few Of the original
house bills which lkswise never got out OF
committees: To repeal the internal nv.
snua laws and to. base Q tai to prohibitth
mailing OF newspapers containing lottery
advertisements; to lay Q graduated n.
sons tas;t 70 sspeal ths civil service lav;
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