Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-06
5ISt CONGRESS.
List Of the Transactions of the
House and Senate.
Three Measures of More Than 0rdi-
nary Importance,
The Tariff Bill, the Silver Bill
and the Elections Bill.

which Became Laws and Also Those
airy List, Three Senators and Twelve
Representatives Dying-Other Inter
esting Reading About the Cong'eos
just Ended
WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE work
ing or business feature was perhaps the
most distinguishing characteristic of the
Fifty-first congress.
Three Important Measures.
Three measures, any of which in in
trinsic Importance and popular interest
would be sufficient for National issue,
stand forth pre-eminent among all 9th
ers. First the Mckinley tariff bill,
which became a law; second. the silver
bill, on which in the first session, a
compromise was effected based on
monthly purchases Of 4,500,000 ounces
Of sill er, which in turn was followed by
a more radical measure that Jailed Of
pas age, and third, the Federal elections
bill, which, after a prOtrac,ed, bitter,
hotly fought and intensely exciting I re-
liminary strug le failed in the senate
to reach decisive vote on its merits
Innovation in the Rules.
Radical innovations in the rules of the
house added interest to its proceedings,
and determined, but fruitles5, efforts to
adOpt the most vital Of these innoVa-
tions formed a part of the history Of the
latter part Of the sessions of the senate.
Nortuary Record.
Even in the mortuary record the con
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having summoned no fewer than twelve
of its representatives and three Of its
senators. The list contains the names
of Senators Beck of Kentucky, Wilson
of Maryland. and Hearst, of California,
and Representatives W. d, Kelley, Sam
uel j. Randall and Lewis +. Watson, of
Pennsylvania; S. S. Cox. David Wilber
and Newton j. Nutting, of New York;
Richard Townsend of Illinois; J. NJ,
Burnes and James p Walker, of Mis-
souri,, James Lair, Of Nebraska, Edward
j. Gray. of Louisiana, and James Phe-
Ian, of Tennessee.
appropriations.
The total appropriations for this con
gress will probably reach $1,000, 600, 900.
During the tiftieth congress 1Gl bills
were vetoed and during the Fifty first
COugIeSS lOul lcGll
Measures Enacted and Approved.
Among the bills which have become
laws are these: The copyright bill; the
private land court bill; the postal sub
sidy bill; the Indian depredations claim
bill; the timber and pre-emption law re
peal bill; the customs administrative
bill a general land forfeiture bill; the
bill to relieve the supreme court
by the establishment of intermedi-
ate circuit courts to appeal; the
United States judges salaries bill; the
worlds fair bill; the Wyoming and Idaho
admission bills; the anti-lottery and
antitrust bills; the reapportionment bill
the immigration bill; the bill to ratify
agreements with various Indian tribes
and to pay the friendly Sioux 800, 900,
to reduce the fees of pension agents; to
pay the French spollation claims; the
meat inspection bill; the bill to prevent
the importation Of adulterated food and
drink; the bill appropriating 81 .0JO,O 600
for the improvement of the Mississippi
river: to permit sorghum sugar manu-
faCturers to use alcohol without pay.
ment of tax; to limit to go per cent
of the rates charged private parties
the rates the land-grant railroads
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