The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-08

I private, g. The number enacted thus taf IN
| the Fifty first Congress Is: Pubic laws <oi'
| pr ,vate 90; publ resolutions, u; private,
| & these figures will be sweiled constdera-
Div I the action of the PresidSnt On large
| number of bills now In his hands.
The number If bills and joint resolutions
| intr. ducsd at this session to date) were:
| Senate bills 4i41, resolutions 129; House bills
| II, i5s resolutions 23l9 The number intro
| Guced in the first session If the Fiftieth
| Congress was: senate bills 500. resolutions
lis; House bills l1.sO9 reso utions 2ss.
| Although the first session of the Fiftieth
| Congress asted until october Is, the pes
emf Sc siCn by reason of its longer da1
| sessions, has far exceeded 1t in working
| time In figures the business CT the session
| ia EXPRESSED as fellows: Bills and joint res
| oIut ons introduced In the House. IA IN
| the Senate 30 or a total Of 1922, against
Is 59S in the first session of tn" LAST Coh.
gress which in this matter lar exceeded Ill
previous records Reports mace In the
House. a2!5; in the Senate, ,sll, no account
being taken in the Senate OF other than
written reports; bills passed by the house
/ ~ of which the Senate has passed Sa9, AL
except a few of which have become laws or
are awaiting the Presidents approval; ny
the Senate, l.l00 OF which is6 have been sent
to the President, making a total number OK
about l s35 acts or laws. against l,.9J Tor the
6Oj House and z75 Senate bills were for pen
sions to individual
To COMPLETE the LIST of results accom-
plished during the present session there
must be mentioned the radical charges in
the rules of the House made at its very be-
ginning and its action upon election cases.
There were eighteen contested election
cases before the House and seven of the Re-
pubiica contestants have been seated The
Goodrich VS.. Bullock Florida case and the
McGinnis- Anderson West Virginia case, in
which the seating of the publican on.
testants was recommended, are yet to be de.
cidcd. Breckinr ridge, Democrat, was I'M
seated The other eight cases wcre decided
by tho committee in favor of the Democratic
sitting members. The Senate decided its
only election contest by seating the Repub-
lican Senate. from Montana.
Seven bills have been vetoed BIZ the Presf-
dent 50 follows: Authorizing the city of Oy-
den. Utah, to assume an increased indebted
ness; for public buildings at Dallas. Tex,
Hudson, n Y, and Tuscaloosa, Ala: author
izing the board of supervisors of MaricOpa
County, Ariz ma, to issue bonds in aid of q
certain railroad; changing the boundaries
of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation,
and extending the time for the payment OF
lands purchased from the Omaha tribe OF
Indians;
Among the bills which have passed the
are the following (bills in conference being
included in this category) The Federal
Election hi /: the National Bankruptcy bill;
the bill to create a court of appeals for the
relief OF the Supreme Court; the Conger
Compound Lard bill to prevent the enlist.
ment of aliens in the United States naval
service; to prevent the product of convict
labor ing furnished to or for the use OF
any department, or upon public buildings
or other public works; the Eight Hour lack
Pay bill: to repeal the timber Culture law
lin cOnference), constituting light hours
days work r workmen employ ed by Gov
ernment contractors. and to ratfy the
agreement with The Sac and Fox and Iowa
Indians.
Among the Senate bills which have not re-
ceIved final action by the House are the fol.
lowing: The Shipping and subsiding bills;
granting authority for the removal of the
Apache niian prisoners to Fort sill, L to
promote tn. efficiency of the enlisted force
Of the army; to grant right of way through
public lands for irrigation purposes for the
compulsory education of Indian children,
and for the inspection of live cattle and OF
Eeef produ Is for export.
The appropriations made ty the Fifty first
Congress for the fiscal year ended June 20,
1891, aggregated about S46l, 100. 81, an in.
crease OF SIS al ,5:5 over those made by the
Fiftieth Congress for the year ended
June 30. 1890 The River and Harbor bill
did not become a law, however, in the sec
ond session of the FIT eth Congress. The
largest increase made in appropriations by
the Fifty first Congress over the appropria-
tions 10y the Fittieth Congress at its second
session are follows: Fertilization, in
crease, s2,999. 3i1: pensions, including de.
ficiencies, Ss4 .0l0,66S; postal service, s5,611.-
354; sundry civil, .4,440.9lo; deficiencies, ex-
elusive of pensions, si,S591l5 The miscel
laneCus appropriations for the session of
the Fifty first Congress just ending were
"A, 735 795 less than similar ones made Tor the
previous year by the Fiftieth Congress- The
Deficiency bill (Which is in conference be-
tween tn. two houses) is the only one of the
general appropriation bills which has not
received the Pres dents signature.