St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-20
SOLONS AND THEIR WORK.
What the National Law Makers Have
Accomplished This Session.
TALKING AGAINST TIME
Legislative Suggestions That Ran the
Gauntlet of Both Houses and
Have Become Laws.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the Gl ODE.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 19.-The first ses-
sion of the fiftieth congress, which will
close tomorrow afternoon, will exceed
by nineteen days the length of the ses-
sion of any previous congress since the
foundation of the government. When
the GLOBE, at the close of the first nine
months of the session, on the tenth of
last month, gave a result of the work
accomplished, there had been INTRO
duced in the house during the session
1852 and in the senate $3.50 bills and
joint resolutions, in all 1852. There
had been submitted from the commit
tees to the house 3,407 and to the senate
2,172 written reports. The president
had sent to the house Ga vetOes and to
the senate SIN all, 81 during the
session. OF the total number of bills
introduced in the house, 1866 were
private pensions, while 523 similar bills
came from the senate. These were re-
ferred to the committee on invalid pen
siOnS in the house, together with 195
general bills-in all, 1883; and that
committee has made l,025 favorable and
237 adverse reports, while the senate
LIZA senate and $50 house biIls-a total
of 1,774-upOn which favorable reports
were made to the aggregate of 1853
senate and house bills; there were also
$50 adverse reports made by the senate
cOmmittee-a total of l .2S4 reports upon
the whole LIZA bills referred to that
committee. From this immense mass of
LEGISLATIVE SUGGESTIONS
2fS general measures became laws, and
CSC pension and other private bills had
gone upon the statute books during the
first nine months of the session. AL
though the time of the senate has been
apparently almost exclusively confined
to the discussion of the tariff, and the
house has been waiting upon the pleas
ures of the upper branch of congress,
the above figures have been very ma
terially increased since September TO-
The number of bills introduced in the
house have been increased to 11,59S; in
the senate to 1859. and the reports from
committees in the house have gone I'D
to 1852. while the senate has Increased
its reports to 1884. The house has
brought up its total number OF joint res
olutiOnS introduced to 230. and the
senate to lis. The house eyecu-
tive documents have increased in
number to 455, its miscellaneous dOcu-
ments to sos, while in the senate the
executive documents have increased to
2S1, making the total number of execu-
tive and miscellaneous documents re-
ceived by both houses during the ses-
sion, which will end tomorrow, 1,539.
The president has sent to the senate 40
vetoes, and to the house 50 during the
session, total of 129. The public or
general acts Qaws) aggregate 307, and
Joint resolutions fl, while the private
acts have been increased to 762, and
private resolutions number 8, making a
total of 1.113 acts during the session.
These are the figures shown on the
official records kept by a. Smith. super
intendent of the senate document room,
and the total number, he informs the
GLOBE representative, will be brought
up to about |, rs when the records are
complete, there being probably 60
GENERAL AND PRIVATE LAWS
not yet recorded, but signed by the
president, or will be permitted to be-
come laws without his signature. Hhe
bills of general Importance which have
become laws since the resume of the
session given by the GLOBE at the close
of the first nine months are as follows:
Restricting Chinese immigration two;
making appropriation for appraisers
WdItllOuSG III new VI
officers of the army and navy for educa-
tiOnal purposes in state colleges; broad
ening the scope of the present law re-
lating to postal crimes; making appro-
priationS for numerous lighthouses and
fog signals on the great lakes; and pro-
yiding for boards of arbitration for rail-
roads. Three regular appropriation
bills have become laws since Sept. 10
the sundry civil, which was approved
Oct. 2; the regular army appro-
priation bill and the fOrtifica-
ton appropriation bill. The lat
ter two were signed by the
president Sept. p. The general de-
ficieney bill is yet in the hands of the
president. Very voluminous calendars
go over in each house to the second SEES
sion of the fiftieth congress, which con-
venes on Monday, Dec. 8. The house
calendar is composed of 102 pages, and
gives the titles to about 1900 bills, while
the senate calendar has q pages and
about 400 bills. These figures are ex-
elusive of the indexes to the calendars.
1t is arranged that as soon as congress
cOnYeneS in its second session the sen
ate will go right along with its discus
sion of the tariff, while tho house will
Immediately take up the fourteen regu-
lar annual appropriation bills, with a
view to sending them to the senate by
the time the latter body has completed
its consideration of the tariff. 1t is also
understood that there will be the regu-
lar two weeks vacation during the
Christmas and New Year holidays.
There may be vacation of three or four
days at Christmas.