Griggs courier., 1891-03-13

Gons, or % more than the number
introduced in the Eiftieth, were
introduced in the house. In the senate
1859 joint resolutions, "a more than in
the Fiftieth, were introduced. In the
Fiftieth congress President Cleveland
vetoed 161 bills and joint resolutions,
while in the Fifty-frst President Harri-
son vetoed only II. The bills that be-
came laws during the congress just
ended numbered 2,1s6. In the Fiftieth
congress 1924 were enacted.
Among the bills which have become
laws are these:
The copyright bill: the private land court bill;
| the postal-subsidy bill; the Indian depredations
claim bill; the timber and pre-emption law and
repeal bill; the customs administrative bill; .
general nd.forfeiture bill; the bill to relieve
the supreme court by the establishment of in.
| termediate courts Of appeal; the United States
| judges salaries bill. The worlds
fair bill; the Wyoming and Idaho ad.
mission bills; the anti-lottery and anti trust
bills; the reapportionment bill; the immisra-
ton bill; the bill to ratify agreements with va
rious Indian tribes and to pay the friendly
Sioux 100000; to reduce the fees of pension
| agents; to pay the French spoliation claims;
the meat-inspection bill; the bill to prevent
the importation Of adultersted food and
| drink; the ive.cattle and hog-ln-
spection bill; the bill appropriating
sippi river; to permit sorghumsugar manu-
facturers to use alcohol without payment Of
tax; to limit to 60 per cent. Of the rates
charged private parties the rates the land
grant railroads shall charge for trans
portation Of government troops and
supplies; to authorize the construc-
ion OF tunnel under the waters OF
he bay Of New York; for the construction
of deep.water harbor on the coast OF Texas;
for the relief OF settlers on the Northern Pacic
railroad indemnity lands; to permit the export
of fermented liquors to a foreign country " ith-
uot the payment Of q tax; to apply the proceeds
OF the sales of public lands and the receipts
from certain landgrant railroads to the
support of agricultural and industrtA
colleges. Joint resolution congratulnting Bra
I'll on the adoption OF a republican form of gov
ernment; bill to establish the Chickamauga
military park; providing for town.site entries
In Oklahoma; authorizing the use OF the
Louisville and Portland canal basin; to
mend the interstate commerce act SO as
to give the commission fuller powers
in respect to making inquiries; providing
that applications to purchase forfeited
railroad lands shall begin to run from the date
OF the restoration Of the lands to settlemen
and sale; for . military post at Sun Diego,
CAL; for an Alaskan census; to extend the
ure OF crops; to issue 1,OQO stands of arms to
North and South Dakota, Wyoming. Montana
and Nebraska; to set aside the big. tree tract in
California US public park; for the inspection
OF cattle steamers in order to secure more hu.
name treatment of cattle; providing that the
hie.savlng appliances act shall not apply to the
lakes and bays Of the United States; to enable
the postmaster-general to expend $4,000 to test
freedelivery system in small towns; to create
the customs district Of North and South Da-
kota and Puget sound and for the erection re-
pair or enlargement Of many public buildings
heretofore noted.
The Blair educational bill, the bill
TOR the appointment of an alcoholic.
liquor commission and the 'eight-hour"
claims bill are measures which were
defeated on test votes; while among
those which. after passing one house
failed of action in the other, are
the bankruptcy bill, the Conger
lard bill and the army reorgani-
zation bill. The Paddock pure-food
bill, .he Nicaragua canal bill, the Paci-
tic railroad funding bill and the inter-
state commerce bill to permit limited
pooling of earnings by railroad COM
panies) are among the measures which
failed to reach a vote in either house.
The following are some of the senate
bills which failed to pass the house:
TO provide for the free coinage Of silver; en-.
larging the rights Of homesteaders and pre-
emptors on tne public lands; reviving the grade
OF 1heutenant-general Of the army; for a board
ing vessel ut Chicago. and for the exploration
and survey Of the interior of A!aska.
The following house bills failed to
pass the senate:
To transfer the revenue marine service IN
the navy; to authorize the conservation Of =
tunnel under the Detroit river at Detroit
Mich; for the relief Of telegraph operators dur.
ing the war.
Among the measures on whic
neither house acted Except in some
cases by committees) were the sub
treasury and farm-mortgaye bills, the
e-pension bill, the Canadian REQ
lproclty resolution, the bill to encour-
age the construction of an inter-
continental railway, the postal
savings bank and postal telegraph
bills, the Butler bill to aid negroes to
emlgrate to Africa, woman suffrage and
prohibition constitutional amendments.
the income tax bill and various other
radical financial and political measures.
William r. Wells Dead.
DETROIT, March 5.-William p. Wells.
one OF the most distinguished Michigan
lawyers, dropped dead in the county
court just after he had finished an
argument. He had been collector Of
customs under President johnson; was
chairman OF the general council of the
American Bar association; was profes-
sor OF law in the University of Michi.
gan, and one of the leading democrats
of the state. He had annearea in an