Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-12

agricultural department; providing for ma
val armament with nickel ore and matte.
and authorizing the postmaster general to
test the free delivery system in small towns.
The attempt to enact silver legislation and
the federal election bill resulted in much
waste of time, and an extra session would
not nave been avoided if the senators had
not been disposed of as they were During
the last days of the congress a struggle
against time ensued to pass all the appro-
priation bills in order to prevent the possi-
bility OF the fifty second congress being i'm
medtately convened to make proper provis-
ion for carrying on the necessary work of
the government Every appropriation bill
passed, however, and extra session was
thus avoided.
Frequent complaints concerning the in
efficiency of our federal immigration laws
brought about the enactment, in the seconr
session, of measure aimed to correct the
alleged abuses This bill was prepared by
JOINT committee of the senate and house
after thorough investigation. 1t makes
the contract labor law more binding il
some particulars and less obnoxious ir
others, and extends and strengthens tho
laws concerning the exclusion from the
United States of improper persons from for
eign countries.
The enactment of a measure to extend tho
jurisd lotion of federal courts will undoubt-
edly relieve the oycrcrowded docket of the
United States supreme court. The act pro
Vides for additional circuit judges who will
call, in conjunction with justices of the fed
eral supreme court, an intermediary appel
late circuit court, in certain cases, between
the lower courts and the highest judicial
tribunal in the country.
Another measure of Importance that be-
came Il law in the second session was the
direct tax bill, which provides for refund
ing the amounts levied in certain states
under the direct war tax of 1861. This bill
became famous in the fiftieth congress
through the long and weary deadlock in the
house of representatives cluSed by the ef-
forts to pass it, 1t was disposed of quietly
and without any great show of resistance i'll
the congress just ended.
For years American authors had been
clamorng at the doors of congress for the
enactment of ii law to give them protection
by means of an international copyright
their writings. y bill having such an in
tention was rejected blythe house, but later
another measure of a similar character was
reported to that body and passed. 1t was
amended in many particulars by the senate,
and afterwards it was agreed to in confer
ference just at the end of the session.
Among other measures enacted by the
congress were those providing for the set
Element of the Indian Expectations claims by
the cOurt OF claims; creating court for the
judicial Investigation and settlement of pr-
vate la / claims; providing that the reci-
prOcity lause of the tariff act of 1890 shall
not be 1nstrued as affecting the treaty be-
tween the United states and the Hawaiian
islands; repeating the timber culture law;
providing for the inspection of live cattle,
hogs anI the carcasSeS thereof, which are
subjects of Interstate commerce; providing
for The payment of judges of the court of
claims Tor army supplies under the Bowman
act; authorizing the payment of drawback
or reDa on tobacco and snuff in certain
cases lowing the president to fill for thirty
days vacancies caused by the death or resig-
nation of n head of department, and for a
TUNE! ,Imder New York bay.
Amt ilg the bills of a general character
that f. led to become laws were the follow
ing: L create court of patent appeals; for
the re, eff of female nurses in the late war;
for til; settlement of church and school
property war claims; tie service pension
bills; for government ship canal around
Magyar falls; providing for railway to
connect North and South America; impoS-
ing d ;scriminating duty on tea imported
from countries discriminating against the
United States to cede the arid lands to the
states and territories in which they are stu
ated, and to provide for irrigation and til Q
protection of forest and pasturaGe lands to
establish postal savings banks to encour-
age small savings; for the rccoin-
age of the subsidiary silver coins OF
the United States; to enforce the eight hour
law or government promises; the Canadian
reciprocity measure; for a commission to
adjust questions affecting the interests of
Mexico and the United States; for cOnStitu-
tional amendments i'll regard to woman
suffrage and prohibition; to prohibit 8liens
from acquiring title to lands in the United
States; for the incorporation of She interna-
tional American bank and the pan AIneri-
can transportation company; providing that
no person employed by the government
shall receive less than two dollars per day;
for the retirement of national bank circula-
ton; to absolutely prohibit the coming
of Chinese into the United States, whether
subjects of the Chinese empire or not; for
a uniform standard of cereals; the Butter
worth anti option bill; the resolution citing
and protesting against the treatment of
Jews in Russia; to prohibit the tmporta-
ton, expectation and inter state transporta-
ton of alcoholic beverages; the govern
ment postal telegraph bill; transferring the
revenue marine service to the navy depart
ment; to prevent the sale of fire arms and
to Indians; for the reorganiza-
ton of the army, and creating commisS ion
to investigate the effect of the use of alco-
holic beverages.