Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-22
IMroRr4yr NATIONAL MEASURES.
Which for liant of Time UTH be Deferred ia
ne Hest Session Of Congress.


ne Neat Session Of Congress.
Washington dispatch: There are yari-
ous important bills which viii come be-
come the next session of the Fiftieth con-
gress. Among them are the bills maxi
ing states out of Washington, Montana
and North Dakota territories, which are
in the senate, and bills of similar char
rating the Nicaragua Canal company
which was endorsed by the republican
national convention and mentioned in
its platform. The special committee of
the house investigating the subject of
foreign immigration will, members of it
say, report bill in December regulat-
ing immigration, which will doubtless
attract widespread attention and make
prolonged debate. The general food
adulteration bill will also come up in the
next session, if not in the present one,
and will be source of earnest conten-
ton. Members of the committee on
public lands in both houses do not antic-
ipate any legislation in this congress
to deprive railroad companies of any
of their land grants The PROPOSE
ton to extend the interstate COM
merce law over the telegraph COM
panies, and also to amend the existing
laws SO as to prohibit shippers owning
private cars, will come in for attention
during the next session, which conyenes
on December and adiourns on March
/. covering exactly three months, but
excluding the regular holiday adjourn
ment, consume only about nine weeks.
Efforts will be made at the next session to
put npon the regular army, navy and
fertilization appropriation bills addition
al provisions for Notifications, heavy
ordnance and men-of-war, torpedo
boats. dynamite cruisers, etc. 1t is be-
lieYed, however, by the oldest and
strongest men in congress that the sub
iect of the tariff will consume nearly all
Of the next session of congress which
will remain after the regular appropria-
ton bills have been passed. Many also
predict that there viii be sufficient time
TO enable tine two houses to accomplish
the work desired ON the tariff, trusts
and other important questions, and that
the president will call an extra session
shortly after his Inauguration.
/ The Fiftieth congress was in session
exactly nine months one week ago yes
/ terday. it having commenced on the 4th
4 Vi 1AG 6ESoADA4 AA1o dAANhltF
/ been the longest, but one, during the
/ last half century, and it promises to be
| the largest since the foundation of the
government There were, during the
| last nine months which ended ON last
/ Wednesday, introduced in the house
/ II 1862 bills and joint resolutions, against
| 10 1874 in the first session of the last con-
| gress In the senate there were intro
! duced 3, $50 bills and 107 joint resolu-
/ tions, against 2,SS1 bills and 30 joint
/ resolutions in the first session of the
/ last congress. While in the senate
| there were submitted 2,172 written re-
\ ports. against ISL in the first session
/ of the last congress, there were reported
| from committees to the senate approx
imately) $50 bills and joint resolutions
4 without written statements All of the
bills reported from committees to the
house were accompanied by written re-
ports. as the rules of the house require
written statement with every measure
reported from committee, while IN the
senate bills may be returned from COM
mittees and placed upon. the calendar
without written reports but with the
simple word favorable" or "unfaYor-
able"
Among the most important bills of a
general character pending in a more or
| less degree of completion are ~
yjdinr Tor l..e territory OF Oklahoma.
providing for the issue of circulating
national bank notes tc the par value Of
bonds deposited with the treasurer: es-
tablishing additional life-saving stations
\ throughout the country, and the bill en-
4 acting an entirely new system of gener-
/ al land laws All of these measures are
unfinished business of the calendar and
are privileged They Will be among the
first measures for action in the next ses-
sion of this congress if they are not
/ passed in this session.