Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
MAGNIFICENT Showing Made by the
Congress Which Has Just
Closed.
Far From Being An Idle Body, Its Ac-
complishments Are Simply
Amazing.
Tariff. Pension. Silver and Antitrust
Among the Most Important Mat
ters Passed Upon


most the longest ever held and in many re-
snects the most interesting session for
many years Although the first session of
the Fifth congress lasted until Oct 20. the
nresent session. by reason of its longer
daily sessions, has far exceeded it in work
inc time, and the amount of legislative
work actually accomplished has been ex-
traordinary. viewed in the light of pre-
vious congresses and of the unusually i'm
nortant ch racter of the measures cunsid-
cred In figures the business of the SEES
sion is expressed as follows:
Bills and joint resolutions introduced
In the house, l2,402; in the senate 4, $50
or total of 1892, against 1888 in the
first session of the last congress- which in
this matter far excelled all previous rec
ords.
Reports made In the 3,215; in
in the senate, 1877 (no account being
taken in the senate Of other than written
reports.
Bills passed BY the house, 1892, of
which the senate has passed $40 All ex-
cent a few of these $40 have become
laws or are awaiting the presidents APP
proyal.
By the senate 100, of which 4S6 have
been sent TO the president, making total
number of about 1885 acts of laws,
against 100 for the whole Of the last
congress. OF these acts 606 house and
275 senate bills were for pensions to indi-
viduals.
In the completed work of the session.
aside from the revision of the tariff and
Internal revenue laws by the Mckinley
Aldrich tariff bill, the following mea Jres
enacted into law may be named as the
most important: The bill providing for
e monthly purchase of 4 100000 ounces
of silver: the customs administrative Dill !;
the dependent and disability dependent
bill; the antitrust bill; the anti-lottery
bill: the provision for a worlds fair IN
Chicago in 1899 to celebrate the 4o0th an
niversary of the discovery of America;
the admission of Wyoming and Idaho to
statehood; the meat inspection bill; the
land grant forfeiture bill; the original
package bill; the bill recommended by the
international maritime conference to pre-
vent collision at sea, and the provision tin
the naval appropriation bill) 10 add to the
new navy three line of battleships, one
protected cruiser, one torpedo cruiser, and
one torpedo boat.
Among the other public measures of
enactment during the present session lin
addition to the eighteen regular annual
appropriation Bills are the following
Providing for the classification of worsted
cloths as wooens: repea inc the act Of 1888,
which withdrew practically all the west
nrn public lands from settlement, and pro-
viding that hereafter only actual reservoir
sites shall be Withdrawn from entry. and
,b.l nf
the land laws, enter more than 800 acres
lin the sundry civil bilD; to set apart as a
public park the tract of land containing
the mammoth trees of California;; to pro-
vide certificates of honol able service to
those who have lost their cert, fcates of dis
charge: to make hat braids dutiable at 20
cents ad valorem; to authorize the sale of
certain United States property in Pitts
burg, Pa. for the relief of the Mississippi
valley food sufferers; the Portage lake and
Hennepin canal and the Galveston deep
water projects I'm the river and harbor
bin; for the employment OF 600 and more
clerks in the pension Office to adjudicate
cases rising under the senate department
and disability pension act; providing for
the classification of worsted cloths as
wooens; appropriating 81 100000 for the
for town-site entries OF land in Oklahoma;
to authorize the appointment of John G.
Fremont as a major general on the army
retired list: for the retirement of sufferers
by the disaster 20 the United States steam
ers Trenton. Vandalia, and Nipsic at
Samoa; to appropriate $40 900 for the
maintenance Of the Marion Ind, branch
Of The National Soldiers home for the
So ,n Of Of
on the Northern Pacific railroad
indemnity Lands; for the sale of
the site of Fort Bliss { rexas)
military reservation and the selection of a
new site; to admit duty free Mexican
articles intended for the st. Louis eAposi-
ton in 1890: for an additional Associate
Justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico: to permit affidavits IN land entry
cases to be made before court commission
ers when through distance or iniirmity
they can not be made before the land Of
teers; to divide the judicial district of
North Dakota into four divisions; for the
relief of the Chippewa Indians in Wiscon-
SIN; requesting the secretary of war to
make a further report as to the practica-
blIity aud cost of tunneling the Detroit
river; to provide for new designs of United
NA'pAA
Teate shall be tried for desertion, after the
I4nse Of two years; to prevent desertion in
the army by enabling recruits to buy
out, for the disposal of abandoned mill
tary reservation in Wyoming; extending
the act for the relief of railroad land set
tiers to the persons who have been on rail-
road lands for FIVE years but whose entries
have not been recorded; authorizing the
seen 'tary of the interior to negotiate fer
IT, ale Of the western part of the Crow
i1seryation in Montana; for the disposal
o. g art Of the Baton Rouge reservation
n Louisiana; to ratifv tie agreement with
,he Slsseton and Wahpeton Indians of
Dakota; for census of the number of
people who own their own homes
and farms and the amount
u mortgage thereon, also a
census Of the Chinese; for the appoint
Aent Of an additional assistant secretary
u war and of an additional 'sistant sec
1etTy Of the navy; to increase the pen
.-5q for total helplessness; for the relief Of
,9'llers who served during the late war
5Ader assumed names; for the removal of