The Springdale news., 1888-10-26
THE LONGEST SESSION.

Work Cut Out and That Accomplished-
 One Hundred and Twenty Nine Setoes.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-The first session of the Flftieth Congress. which closes this afternoon, will exceed by nine- teen days the length of the session of amy previo4s Congress since the foundation of the Government. When the Uaitel Press, at the close of the first nine months Of the session, on the tenth Of last month, gave a resume of the work accomplished, there had been introduced in the house during the session Il, 362, and in the Senate 3,529 bills and joint reso- lutions-in all. II SS2.
 There had been submitted from the committees to the House s 407 and to the Senate ?, 172 written reports. The Presi- dent had seut to the House Gi vetoes, and to the Senate 33-in all 97, during the ses. sion. Of the total number os bills iatro- duced i'll the House ], S65 were for private pensions, while 523 similar bills came from the Senate. These were referred to the committee on invalid pensions ia the House, together with l95 general biIls-in all 4,5S3, and that committee had made l,025 favorable and 273 adverse reports, while the Senate committee on pen sions had received f,19i Senate and 55) house DIlis-a IOI1l OL l. liz dIOD which favorable reports were mad to the aggregate of 1,36S Senate and 5f5 House bills. There were also 33) adverse re- ports made by tie Senate commtttee-a total of 1,23i reports upon the whole |, It bills referre to taas conmittaa From thls immense mass Of legislative suggs5- tons, 21S general measures became laws and GJ6 pension ani other private bills had fha ha1a-s 4fft-irr rr the first uiue months of the session. A. though the time Of the Senate has been apparently almost exclusively confined to the discussion o3 the tariff, and tAe House has been waiting upon the pleasure Of tAeapper branch of Congress, the above figures haye been very mate. rially increased since September n. The number Of bills iateoluc Il ia tie House has been increased to Il, j93, in the Sea- ate to 3, 639, and the reports from con- mittees iu the House have gone Hp to ., 552 while the Senate has iaefeasal is reports to 2.3H. The House has brought up it's total number Of iolnt resolutions introduced o=231, aal the Saaate to IL. The House executive docum eat5 haFa ia- creased in number ta 455, its miscallaae9us documents to 593, while ia the Senate the executive documents h1v} inereasal i'll number to 2sf, and the miscellaneous documents te 2gs making ths total num- Der of executive and miscellau sou3 docd- ments received by both Houses duringtae session which will end to-morrow, ,539.
 The President has sent 10 the Ssaate lo vetoes. and to the House S9 during the session--a total Of f29
 The public or general acts (law,1 aggre- gate 307, and joint resolutions 4L=while the private acts have beaa iH- creased to 762 and private reso- lutions number g. making total Of 1, 1l3 acts during the session. These are the figures shown oa tho off sIaI rae- ords kept by Mr \. Smith suDeriatsud- ent of the Senate document room. and the total number, he informs the United Press, will be brought up to about 1.17j when the records are complete, there being probably sixty general aud private laws not yet recorded, but siyned by the President, or will be permitte to become laws without his sign atUre.
 The bills Of general importance which have become laws since the resume of the sesS.on given by the UIited Press at the close of the first nine months are as follows:
 Restricting Chinese Immigration (twol.
 Making appropriation for appraisers warehouse iu New York City.
 Detailing officers O. the army and navy for educational purposes iu State eol- leges.
 Broadening the scope of tAe present law relating to postal crimes.
 Making appropriations for numerous light houses aud fog signals oa t.Ie great lakes.
 Providing for boards of arbitration for railroads.
 Three regular appropriation bills have become laws since September 19-the Sundry Civil, which was approved Octo- Der ,; the regular A rmy appropriation bill and the Fertilization Appropriation bill. The latter tso were signed bT the President September - The GeneraIDs- feiency bill is yet in the hands Of the President.
 Very voluminous calenders go over in each House to the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, which conyanes on Monday, December 3. The House calen- dar is composed of 102 pages, and gives the titles to about 1,5)0 bills, while th5 Senate calendar has 2S pag 5 and about 20 bills. These figures are exclusive of the indexes to the calendars. It is ar ranged that as soon as Congress con- Venes Ill Us second session, the Senate wIll. go right along with it's dls- cusson of the tariff, while the House will immediately take up the fourteen regular annual appropriation bills, with view to sending them to the Senate by the time the latter body has completed it's consideration of the tariff It is also understood that there will not be tue reg ular two weeks vacation during the Christmas and New Year holidays There may be vacation of three or four days at Christmas.