The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-03

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g. Dependent pension bill passed by the senate.
10 Bill authorizing the issue Of SIS 900 900 of frac
tionai silver certificates passed by the house
% Bill to provide for q commission TO investigate
the liquor traffic passed by the senate. also
bill authorizing the president TO provide for q
conference with South American republics
q The president transmitted TO tho senate the
new Chinese treaty. with an explanatory let
ter by Secretary Bayard The treaty prohib-
its the coming Of Chinese laborers to the
United States for twenty years
40 Bills granting pensions TO the widows Of Gems.
Logan and Blair passed by the house
APRIL
T. House began the famous direct tax bill dead
lock
r. Deadlock In the house over the direct tax bill
broken by a vote Of l4S to 1877 after duration
of eight days
II Debate on the Mills tariff bill opened in the
house
IS Bill TO create department Of labor passed by
the house; also q bill providing for boards Of
arbitration
10 Bill for the admission Of South Dakota passed
90 Pension and Indian appropriation bills passed
by the house
z Chinese treaty ratified by the senate in execu
tive session
River and harbor bill passed by the house un
der Suspension of the rules.
O. Chace international copyright bill passed by
the senate also railroad land forfeiture ILL.,
TO- New treaty with Peru ratified by the senate.
II Pension appropriation bill amounting to $50,
OOOOOO passed by the senate
q Bill to establish a department OF agriculture
passed by the house
% Bill TO establish department Of labor passed
by the senate
% The president authorized to confer the ranl
of general Of the army on Gen Philip FL
Sheridan.
u Ford resolution for special committee to in
vestigate evasions of the contract labor Law
passed 10y the house
Il Bill to provide adjustment Of accounts Of gov
eminent laDorers under the eight hour Law
passed by the senate
90 Nomination Of, Melville " Fuller as chief jus
tee Of the United States supreme court con
frmed by the senate
q Freedman's bank bill passed by the senate
appropriation 81 ,0oOO0O)
Mills tariff bill passed by the house by vote O
1G2 to l49, three Republicans voting for thu
measure and four Democrats against it.
- AUGUST.
8 Chinese exclusion Till passed by the senate
without division.
10 Bill to regulate interstate commerce by tele
graph pesse4 by the senate
ID Fortifications bill passed by the house, with
out division
20 Chinese exclusion bin passed by the house
FL Fisheries tr'.aty rejected by senate by vot,
of 80 tO2
SEPTEMBER
An anti Chinese immigration bill passed b.
the house.
The Chinese exclusion bin passed.
Tho Canadian retaliation bill passed by tn
house only three negative votes being cast
II Resolution to appropriate 100000 TO guar
against the spread Of yellow fever passed b,
both houses
s. Joint resolution to provide for an internationa
commission to settle Mexican boundary Ques
tions passed by the house
OCTOBER.
message from the president with his sigma
nature of the Chinese exclusion bill
Substitute for the house tariff bill reported Il
the senate
10 Bill to pay to the widow Of Chief Justic
Waite his salary for the remainder of the yea
passed by the senate
10. Both houses adjourned sins die.
g. Last session of Fiftieth congress opened .
message from President Cleveland trani
mitted
g. Consideration Of the substitute for the hous
tariff bill reopened in the senate
"a Congressman Butterworth introduced q bl
providing for the annexation of Canada to tn
United States