The new North-west., 1888-10-26
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS-.
The Longest Session in Century Ends-Some
of the Work Accomplished.

adJOurned shortly after ~ O'CLOCK TO DAY.
The House adjourned at P. NJ. There
were only a few persons present in either
House or in the galleries.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-To-morrow at l
o'clock the first session of the Fiftieth Con-
gress will end the longest continuous ses-
sion in nearly century, Congress having
lasted 321 days. The longest previous ses.
sion ran SO2 days, ending September 30th.
Apart from the protracted discussion of the
tariff question in both Houses and the un-
paralleled deadlock in the consideration of
q bill to refund tax, the session has been
remarkable in several ways, but in none
measures introduced in both branches of
Congress. In the Senate 34O1 bills aud 116
joint resolutions were presented, and in the
House the record ran up to the unequaled
figures of 1858 bills and 230 joint resolu.
tions, making grand total of 1895 meas
ures introduced in one session. In the Sen.
ate 2394 measures were reported back from
the committee aud placed on the calendar,
q much larger proportion than in the House
where S305 measures, out of total number
Of 11,82s introduced, still slumber in the
committee rooms.
Among the
MEASURES OF PUBLIC INTEREST
That have become laws are the following:
|. Relating to permissible marks on mail
letters.
For the division of the Sioux reservation.
For conference with the South and Cen
trail American nations.
Limiting the hours of letter carriers.
Making Lieutenant General Sheridan
General Of the Army.
To establish = Department of Labor.
For International maritime commerce.
Requiring the Pacific railroad companies
to maintain telegraph lines.
To prohibit the coming of Chinese labor
ers to the United States.
For the establishment of rules in respect
to St. Marie and other canals.
To create boards of arbitration to settle
their employees.
To prevent the return of Chinese laborers
to this country.
To aid State homes for disabled soldiers.
Changing the date of the meeting of the
Electoral College.
In the next stage, that is in conference be
tween the two Houses, are two bills of the
first importance, viz: The repeating of the
pre-emption and timber culture laws and
providing general homestead law and de.
claring the forfeiture of the urearned rail-
road grants.
A pending bill is the House tariff bill and
the Senate substitute.
The Senate passed bill to divide Dakota
and admit the southern half as a State, aud
to aid common school education (the Blair
billy, but they never reached the House for
action. In the Senate the same ching can be
said of the following bills which passed the
House: The fisheries retaliation bill, whose
passage was recommended by the Presi.
dent.
Authorizing the issue of fractional silver
certificates.
Allowing the regulation by States of rail.
ways chartered by the United States.
The following are the most important
bills enacted upon the Senate calendar:
For the admission of Montana and Wash.
ington Territories.
To prohibit the alcoholic liquor traffic.
To declare trusts unlawful.
The following measures of Importance
were reported from the House committees
| and are still on the House calendar:
To refund the direct tax, a vote on which
| will be taken early in December next, under
an agreement by which the memorable dead
lock over this bill was broken.
For the payment of arrears of pensions;
the Pacific road funding bill, debated but
| never reached the point of action; to include
| telegraph companies under the Interstate
Commerce act; to promote commercial
| union with Canada; to incorporate the Mica
ragua Canal Company; for the organization
of the territory Of Oklahoma, debated but
not finally voted on.
Following are the important Senate bills
which slumber in the committees:
Requesting the President to open negotia
| tions with Great Britain looking to the an-
nexation of Canada to the United States.
For the free coinage of silver.
To repeal the oleomsrgarine act.
To provide naval reserve.
The Hennepin Canal bill.
To reduce letter postage to one cent.
To grant woman suffrage, and measures
proposing radical changes iu the Govern
ments financial policy.
Following are the original House bills,
which likewise never got out of the commit
| tees:
To repeal the internal laws and tobacco
| tax.
To prohibit the mailing of newspapers
COutaluAuS AottcFy oQVeltlSemeutS.
To lay graduated income tar for bounty
on sugar.
To repeal the civil service law.
For full reciprocity between the United
States and Canada.
| Directing judicial proceedings to be
brought against the Pacific railroads.
| To provide more efficient mail service
| between the United States and South Amer
| lea.
To break up trusts.