Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-16
WORK OF THE REPUBLICANS.
Magnificent Showing Made by the
Congress Which Has Just
Closed.
Far From Being An Idle Body, Its Ac-
c0mplishments Are Simply
Amazing.
Tariff. Pension. Silver and Antitrust
Among the Most Important Mat
tiers Passed Upon.

present session, by reason OF It's longer
daily sessions, has far exceeded it in work
ing 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
portant character of the measures consid
cred. In figures the business of the SEES
sion is expressed as follows:
Bills and joint resolutions introduced
In the house, IL, 402; in the senate, 1850.
or = total of 1922. against is, 598 in the
first session of the last congress, which IN
this matter far excelled all previous rec
ords.
Reports made In the. house, 3,215; in
in the senate, 1,817 mo account being
taken in the senate Of other than written
reports.
Bills passed By the house, 1892, of
which the senate has passed 849. All ex-
cept few of these 849 have become
laws or are awaiting the presidents APP
proval.
By the senate, 100, Of which 1856 have
been sent to the president, making total
number of about 1885 acts of laws,
against 1,79O 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 measures
enacted into law may be named as The
most important: The bill providing for
the monthly purchase of 100000 ounces
of silver the customs administrative Dill
L. 1 I L ! H.
bill; the antitrust bill; the anti-lottery
bill; the provision for a worlds fair IN
Chicago in 1892 to celebrate the 400th 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 lin
the naval appropriation bill) to add to the
new navy three line of battleships, one
protected cruiser, one torpedo cruiser, and
one torpedo boat
Among the other pubic measures OF
Importance that have been pushed tC
enactment during the present session lin
addition to the eighteen regular annual
appropriation bills) are the following
Providing for the classification of worsteC
cloths as woOlens; repeating 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
that no person shall, under any or all OF
the land laws, enter more than 800 acres
I'm the sundry civil bilD; to set apart as a
public park the tract of land containing
ba ~ fr..aC IF Col,for,,io, 70
vide certificates of honorable service to
those who have lost their certificates of dis
charge: to make hat braids dutiable at &c
cents al 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 an0
Hennepin canal and the Galveston deer
water projects I'm the river and harbol
bill; for the employment OF 900 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
wooIens; appropriating 81 1000, 0t0 for the
for town-site entries of land in Oklahoma:
to authorize the appointment of John c.
Fremont as major general on the army
1CtllttN llSl. III VIC VI SuucI6Is
by the disaster 30 the United States steam
ers Trenton, Vandalia, and Nipsic al
Samoa; to appropriate $4,000 for the
maintenance of the Marion. Ind, 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 Texas
military reservation and the selection of a
new site; to admit duty free Mexican
articles intended for the st. Louis exposi.
ton in 1890; for an additional Associate
Justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico; to permit atfidavitS IN land entry
eases to be made before court commission
ers when through distance or infrmity
they can not be made before the land Of
fcers; to divide the judicial district o.
North Dakota into four divisions; for The
relief of the Chippewa Indians in Wiscon
sin; requesting the secretary of war t.
make a further report as to the practical
bihty and cost of tunneling the Detroi
river to provide for new designs of United
States coins; that no person in time O
peace shall be tried for desertion, after thu
lapse of two years; to prevent desertion il
the army by enabling recruits to ''buy
out, = for the disposal of abandoned mill
tary reservation in Wyoming: extendins
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 entire
have not been recorded: authorizing tn
secretary of the interior to negotiate 70
the sale of the western part of the CroN
reservation in Montana; for the dispose
of Part of the Baton Rouge reservation
in Louisiana; to ratify the agreement wit
the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians G
Dakota: for a census of the number c
people who own their own home
and farms and the amour
of mortgage thereon, also
census of the Chinese; for the appoint
ment of an additional assistant secretar
of war and of an additional a ssistant sec
rotary OF the navy; TO increase the pen
sion for total hel pessness: for the relief c
soldiers who served during the late wa
under assumed names; for the removal c
distractions to navigation in the Missoul
rivel; for taking the census in Alaska: t
relieve restitution in Oklahoma: to pre-
vent the introduction of contagious di:
eases from one state to another: to cor
stltute Minneapolis a SUPPORT of entry an
delivery; to pension Mrs. Fremont an
Mrs. Crook; creating the offices of SUI
veyer General of North and South Dakots
establishing q national geological parl
directing the collection of full informi
ton as to the condition of the fur seal il
dustry; to remit the penalty on u
Charleston: for the erection of pnbl
buildings or additions to existing bull,
ings at Galesburg, H., Baton Rouge. La
Springfield, Mo-, Fremont, Neb., Pari
Texas, Ashland, Wis, Fort Worth, Texa
Duluth Mimi, San Jose, CAL; for Il