Wichita eagle., 1888-11-09
WHAT CONGRESS DID.


WHAT CONGRESS DID.
Was in session Sa1 days-the longest
session ever held.
Established department Of labor.
Limited the hours for letter carriers.
Debated in the house on the Oklahoma
bill.
Left prohibition bill on the senate
calendar.
Pensioned Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Frank
P. Blair.
Passed bill for the Sioux reservation
division.
Voted aid to state homes for disabled
soldiers.
Left the pension arrears bill on the
house calendar.
Arranged for an international mara
time conference.
Made Lieutenant General Sheridan
| general of the army.
Debated on the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill in the house.
Changed the date of the meeting of the
electoral college.
Prohibited the return of Chinese labor
ers to this country.
Left on the senate calendar bill de-
| claring trusts unlawful.
Passed bill relating to permissible
marks on mail matter.
Left in senate committee the bill to
reduce postage to l cent.
Left the woman suffrage bill in the
hands of a senate committee.
Required the Pacific railroad compa-
MES to maintain telegraph lines.
Passed as far as the senate the Dakota
division bill and the Blair bill.
Provided for conference with South
and Central American nations.
Left pending in the senate the Mills
tariff bill and the senate substitute.
Passed as far as the senate bills to pen
sion Mrs. Waite and Mrs. Sheridan
Was in deadlock for an unparalleled
time-on the direct tax refunding bill
Left the internal revenue law and to-
bacco repeal bill in house committee.
Left the bill for the admission of Mon
tana and Washington on the senate cal
endar.
Left in conference between the two
houses bill FORGETTING unearned railroad
grants.
Left the direct tax refunding bill on
the house calendar to be voted on early
in December.
Created board of arbitration to settle
controversies between common carriers
and their employees.
Left on the house calendar the bill to
include telegraph companies in the inter-
state commerce act.
Left the bill prohibiting the mailing of
newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments IN sthe hands of a house COM
mittee.
Left bills to promote Canadian COM
mercial union and to incorporate the
Nicaragua canal company on the house
calendar.
Was the parent of 3,641 senate bills,
621 senate joint resolutions, II ,59S house
bills, and $50 house joint resolutions,
total OF IL, $50 measures.
Left in conference between the two
houses bill replacing the presumption
and timber-culture laws and providing a
general homestead law.
Left the Canadian annexation bill. free
silver coinage bill. oleomargarine repeal
bill, navel reserve bill and Hennepin
canal bill in senate committee.
Passed as far as the house the retalia-
ton bill, the fraction silver certificate
bill, and the bill allowing the state regu-
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States.
Among the measures that failed to
pass are the following: The tariff bill;
the bill to quiet the title of settlers on
the Des MONIES river lands; bill for the
settlement OF private land claims; the
postal telegraph bill; the interstate tele-
graph bill; the bill to amend the inter-
state commerce law; the dependent pen
sion bill; bills to admit Dakota and Wash
ington and to create the territory of Okla
homa; the Blair education bill; bill rails
ing district judges salaries toss, 900;
the bill for the repeal of the
and timber culture laws and
the amendment of the homestead law;
Pacific railroad funding bill; forfeiture
of the Northern Pacific grant and for
fixture of all unearned grants; antitrust
bills; bill to refund the direct tax; bill to
prevent the differentiation of imports;
to incorporate the MaratiIne Canal com
pany of Nicaragua; to pay the remaining
losses of the deDositors in the Freedmen's
bank; the Canadian retaliation bill: bill
for the purchase of bonds; Indian dep
claims settlement; bill to create
an exclusive department of agriculture;
copyright bill; bill for the
erection of coast defenses; eight-hour
claims bill; bill for the taking of the |
next census; bill for the inspection of |
meat for export.