St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-29
Congress Likely to Adjourn
About the Middle Of the
Week.
Nearly Seventeen Thousand
Bills introduced in the
Two Houses.
The Session the Longest but
One in the History Of the
Organization.
A List Of the Important Meas
upeS Which Have Become
Laws.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-In two or
three days the long session of the Fifty
first congress will come to an end, and
its work is already practically finished.
1t has been almost the longest ever held,
and, in many respects, the most inter-
esting session for many years. Although
the first session of the Fiftleth congress
lasted until Oct. 2Sth, the present ses-
sions, has far exceeded it in working
time, and the amount of legislative
work actually accomplished has been
extraordinary, viewed in the light of
previous congresses. and of the un-
usually important character of the
measures considered. In figures.
the business of the session is
expressed as follows: Bills and JOINT
resolutions introduced-in the house
12,402. in the senate 4,750. or total of
1872 against 1868 in the first session
of the last congress, which in this mat
ter far eXcelled all previous records.
Reports made-ln the house 3,215, in
the senate 1,S17 (no account being taken
in the senate of other than written re-
ports). Bills passed-By the house
1892, of which the senate has passed
S49. All except few of these $40 have
become laws or are awaiting the presi-
dents approval. By the senate, 100,
of which 4S6 have been sent to the pres
ident, making total number of about
1885 acts. or laws, against 1,79O for the
whole of the last congress. Of these
acts COG house and 275 senate bills were
for pensions to individuals.
May BE Increased.
1t Is probable that in the few remain
ing days of the session the list of SEN
ate bills enacted into laws will be con-
siderably increased, as the house will
have opportunity to dispose Of num-
Der of others now on the calendars
while awaiting the senate's passage of
the tariff bill. 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 measures enacted
into law may be named as
the most Important: The bill pro-
viding for the monthly purchase of
4,500,000 ounces Of silver, the customs
administrative bill, the dependent aud
disability pension bill, the antitrust
bill, the anti-lOttery bill. the provision
for worlds fair in Chicago in 1892 to
celebrate the 400th anniversary of the
discovery Of America, the admission of
Wyoming and Idaho to statehood, the
meat inspection bill, the land grant for
feiture bill, the original package bill,
the bill recommended by the Interna-
tiOnal maritime conference to prevent
collisions at sea and the provisions Gn
the naval appropriation bilD to add to
the new navy three line of battle ships,
one protected cruiser. one torpedo
cruiser and one torpedo boat. Among
the other public measures of Importance
that have been pushed to enactment
during the present session, in addition
to the thirteen regular annual apprO-
priation bills, are the following: Pro-
viding for the classification of worsted
cloths as woolens: repeating the act of
1855, which withdrew practically all the
Western Public Lands
from settlement and providing that
hereafter only actual reservoir sites
shall be withdrawn from entry, and
that no one person shall under any or
all of the land laws enter more than 800
acres lin the sundry civil billy; to set
apart as public park the tract of land
containing the mammoth trees of Cali
fOrnia: to provide certificates of honor
able service to those who have lost their
certificates OF discharge; to make hat
braids dutiable at 20 per cent
ad valorem; to authorize the sale
of certain United States property
in Pittsburg. Pa; for the
relief of the Mississippi Valley food
sufferers; the Portage lake and Henne-
pin canal and the Galveston deep water
projects Qhe river and harbor bilD; for
the employment of 600 and more clerks
in the pension Office, to adjudicate
cases arising under the senate depend
ent and disability pension act; appro-
priating S1.000.00O for the purchase of
nickel for the navy: to provide for town.
site entries of land in Oklahoma; to au-
thorize the appointment of John G. FIRE.
mont as major general on the army re-
tired list; for the relief of sufferers by
the disaster to the United States steam
ers Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic at
| Apia. Samoa; to appropriate $4,000 for
branch of the national soldiers home
| for the fiscal year 1890: for the relief of
| settlers on the Northern Pacific railroad
| indemnity lands; for the sale of the site
| OF Fort Bliss, Tex. military reServa-
tion and the selection of new site; to
admit
Duty Free
Mexican articles intended for the st.
Louis exposition in 1890; for an addi-
tional associate justice of the supreme
court of New. Mexico; to permit affida-
| Wits in land entry cases to be made be-
| fore court commissioners when through
| distance or infirmity they cannot be
made before the land officers; to divide
| the judicial district of North Dakota
| into four divisions: for the relief of the
| Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin: re-
| questing the secretary of war to make
| further report as to the practicability
and cost of tunneling Detroit
river; to provide for new designs
of United States coins; that no person
in time of peace shall be tried for
desertion, after the lapse of two years:
| to prevent deSertion in the army by en-
abling recruits to "buy out;" for the
| disposal of abandoned military reserva-
| tiOnS in Wyoming; extending the act
for the relief of railroad land settlers
to all persons who have been OH rail-
road lands five years. but whose entries
have not been recorded; authorizing
the secretary of the interior to negoti-
| ate for the sale of the western part of
the Crow reservation in Montana: for
| the disposal of part of the Baton
| Rouge reservation in Louisiana; to