The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-05

trust bills; the reapportionment bill: the
! immigration BILL the bill to ratify agree
menus with various Indian tribes and
friendly Sioux, $4,000; to reduce the fees
| OF pension agents; to pay the French
spoliation claims; the meat inspection bill;
the bill to prevent the importation of adult
Grated food and drink; the live cattle and
hog inspection bill; the bill to appropriate
$1,000, 0OO for the Improvement of the Miss
| lss1ppl river; to permit sorghum sugar
man ufacturers to use alcohol without the
payment Of the tax; to limit to go per cent.
| OF the rates charged private parties the
| rates land grant railroads shall charge for
the transportation of government troops
| and supplies; for the relief of settlers on
Northern Pacific railroad indemnity lands;
| to permit the export of fermented liquors
to foreign country without the payment of
the tax; to apply the proceeds of the sale
! OF public lands and the receipts from GER
tain land grant railroads to the support
OF agricultural and industrial colleges:
to extend the time for the payment of pub
lie lands in cases of failure of crops; to set
aside the big tree tract in California as q
public park; for the inspection of cattle
steamers to secure more humane treatment
| OF cattle. The Blair educational bill; the
Dill Tor the appointment of an alcoholic
liquor commission and the ''eight-hours"
claims bill were defeated on testvotes.
While among those which,. after passing
in the House failed of action in the other
orancn, are the bankruptcy bill; Conger's
land bill and the army Reorganization bill !;
the Paddock pure food bill; the Nicaragua
canal Dill the Pacific railroads funding bill,
ana the interstate commerce bill to permit
limited pooling. are among the measures
| which failed to reach vote In either house
Inc following are some of the Senate
bills which failed to pass the House: The
| no fnts ttxA -xOf,
yer; charging the rights of settlers and
pre- emptors on public lands reviving the
grade OF acknowledgement of the army for
the exploration and survey Of the interior
of Alaska
| The following House bills failed to pass
the Senate: To transfer the revenue
marine service to the navy; for the relief of
telegraph operators during the war.
| Among the measures on which neither
house acted, ''eXcept in some cases by COM
m1ttee," were the sub-treasury and farm
mortgages bill; service pension bill; the
Canadian reciprocity resolution; the bill to
encourage the construction of an inter con-
| tlnental railway: the postal savings bank
and postal telegraph bills; the Butler bill
to aid negroes Ito emigrate to Africa; the
woman suffrage and provision for constitu-
tlonal amendments; the income tax bill,
and various other radical financial and
| political measures.
| In the Fifty first Congress 14,1S3 bills
| were introduced in the House and ), 129 in
the Senate. In the F'iftieth Congress IL, 654
were introduced in the House and 4, 900 in
| the Senate. In the Fifty-first Congress
297 Joint resolutions, or twenty eight more
than in the Fiftieth, were introduced.
The bills that became laws during the
Congress just ended numbered 2,1S6. In
the Fiftieth Congress 1924 bills were en-
acted,