Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-03-06
NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
Important Measures Which Passed and
Some Which F0led.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Some of the
more important measures which became
law during the 50th congress are az fol-
lows:
A conference of South and Central
American nations in Washington in May
next; to divide the great Sioux reserva-
ton, Dakota; the Chinese exclusion act;
for the protection of United States officials
in Indian territories; to authorize the
condemnation of land for sites for public
buildings creating department OF agri-
culture the head of the department to be
a cabinet officer; to establish depart
ment of labor; to create boards OF arbltra-
ton or commissioners for settling contro-
versies and differences between inter
state common carriers and their en-
ployees; to provide for warehousing fruit
brandy; to increase pensions for the loss
of both hands, and also for deafness; to
inco-porate the Nicaragua Canal company; ;
to provide aid to state homes for the sup
port of disabled soldiers; to prohibit the
cor,i,iq of Chinese laborers into the
United States; to allow any honorably
discharged soldier or sailor who has
abandoned or relinquished homestead
entry to make another; to change the
time of meeting OF the electoral college ;
ratifying the Creek Indian agreement; to
enable the president to protect the in
terests of the United States at Panama ;
to protect Alaskan fur, seal and salmon
fisheries; directing the secretary of the
interior to investigate the practlcabillty OF
constructing water storage reservoirs in
arid regions, and the erection OF public
buildings, or the enlargement or chan .e
of existing buildings ut several cities.
Important house measures which tailed
are as follows: The general land bill and
the general forfeiture bill !; to prevent the
product of convict labor being used in any
government department or upon public
buildings or public works; to amend the
internal revenue laws by relaxing the
rigors of the laws; authorizing the five
civilized tribes to lease their lands, subject
to the approval of the secretary OF the IN.
terror; authorizing the issue OF fractional
silver certificates to prevent the employ
ment of alien labor upon public buildings
or other public works and in the various
departments OF the government; to forfeit
the northern Pacific land grant; to pro
vide for q revocation and withdrawal ol
land grants made for the benefit of certain
railroads; Pacific funding bill; bill fol
thg admission of Utah, Idaho, New Mex
leo and Wyoming territories; to declare
trusts unlawful; to promote commercia
union with Canada and authorize the
president to open nslptiations with view
10 the annexation of the Dominion; tt
grant women suffrage; to repeal the clvi
service law, the internal revenue laws ant
the tobacco tax ; to lay graduated income
tax for bounty on sugar; for free com
age of silver; to repeal the oleomarga-in'
act, and various measures proposing radl
cal departures in our pension, tariff ant
financial system.
Six hundred and eighty-four bills, afte
passing the senate, failed through on
cause or another to reach the president
The most important are as follows: DE
claring the sense of the United State
government with reference to foreigl
control of the Panama canal; the Blal
educational bill; the dependent pensio
bill providing for the inspection OF meat
= and prohibiting the importation of adu
, terated articles the swamp land bills; t
/ increase the pension for total disability
for compulsory education of Indian Chi
dren to authorize the sale OF certain miI
e1al lands to aliens; to make telegrap
companies subject to regulation by tn
: interstate commerce commission to TO
felt wagon road land grants in Oregon
to retire Gen. John C. Fremont:
y ratify the Southern Ute Indian agreemen