The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-20
IT ADJOURNS TODAY
The First Session Of the
Fiftieth Congress.
BILLS AND MEASURES PASSED
Tho Longest Session on Record
Some Statistics Regarding Its
Work.
Work by Congress.

mOrk Dy OOuSrese.
WASHINGTON, October 19.-To.morrow
at O'Clock the first session of the
Fiftieth Congress will end, and the
longest continuous session in history in
nearly century, Congress having
lasted 321 days. The longest previous
session ran 302 DAYS, ending September
Both. Apart from the protracted dis
cussion of the tariff question in both
houses, and the unparalleled deadlock
in the consideration of the bill to re
fund the tax, the session has been
REMARKABLE IN SEVERAL WAYS,
But in nons more than the enormous
number of measures introduced in both
branches of Congress. In the Senate
3,O4I bills and 116 joint resolutions
were presented, and in the House the
record ran up to the unequalled figures
of II ,59S bills and 230 Joint resolutions,
making a grand total of Is, 585 measures
introduced in one session. Id the Sen
ate 1914 measures were repofted back
from the committees and pladed on the
calendar, a much larger proportion
than in the House, were s .305lmeasures
of the total number III, 82S) Introduced
still slumber in the committee rooms.
Among the
MEASURES OF PUBLIC INTEREST
that have become laws. are the follow.
ing: Relating to permissible marks on
mail letters; for division of the Sioux
reserva ton; for a conference with
South and Central America; limiting
the hours of letter carriers; making
Lieutenant General Sheridan the gen.
eral of the army; to establish the de-
partment of labor; for international
maritime commerce; requiring Pacific
Railroad companies to maintain tele-
graph lines;
TO PROHIBIT THE COMING OF CHINESE
laborers to the United States; for the
establishment of rules in respect to ST..
Marie and other canals; to create a
board of arbitration to settle eontrover-
sizes between common carriers and their
employees: to prevent this return of
Chinese laborers to this country; to aid
States homes for disabled soldiers, and
changing the date OF meeting of the
electoral colleges. In the next stage,
that is since the conference between the
two houses, are
TWO BILLS OF PIRsT IMPORTANCE,
viz: Repeating the presumption and
timber culture laws and providing a
general homestead law, and declaring
the forfeiture of unearned railroad
grants. Pending before the House is
the tariff bill and the Senate substitute.
The Senate passed bills to divide
Dakota and admit the southern half as
State, and to aid common school
education and the Blair bill. but they
never reached the House for action.
In the Senate the sam, thing can be
said of the following bills which passed
the House. The fisheries retaliation
bill, whose passage was recommended
by the President; authorizing the issue
of fractional silver certificates; allowing
the regulation by States of railways
chartered by the United States. Fol-
lowing are
THE MOST IMPORTANT BILLS ENACTED
upon the Senate calendar: For adm s.
sion of Montana and Washington Ter
ritories; to prohibit alcoholic liquor
traffic; to declare trusts unlawful. The
following measures of Importance were
reported from the House calendar: To
refund the direct tax, vote on which
will be taken early in December next,
under an argument by which
THE MEMORABLE DEAD LOCK
over this bill was broken; for the pay
ment of arrears of pensions; requiring
the investment of national bank to the
redemption fund IN circulating notes;
Pacific road funding bill, debated but
never reached point OF action; to
include telegraph companies under the
interstate commerce act, to promote
q commercial union with Canada; to
incorporate the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany; for the organization of the Ter
ritory of Oklahoma, debated but not
finally voted on Following are the
important Senate bills which slumber
In the committee rooms: Requesting
the President to open negotiations
with Great Britain, looking
TO THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA
to the United States; for the free coin
age Of silver; to repeal the oleomargar-
inc act; to provide naval reserve;
Rennepin Canal bill; to reduce letter
postage to one cent; to grant woman
suffrage, and measures proposing radi-
cal changes in the governments fnan-
clal policy. Following are
THE ORIGINAL HOUSE BILLS,
which likewise never got out of the COM
mittees: To repeal the internal revenue
and tobacco tax; to prohibit the mail
ing of newspapers containing lottery ad-
vertisements; to aid gra 1uated income
tax; for bounty on sugar; to repeal
the civil service law: for full recipro-
city between the United States and
Canada; directing judicial proceedings
to be brought against the Pacific Rail-
road; to provide a more efficient mail
service between the United States and
South America; to break up trusts.
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