The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-12
The Work Performed by the Fifty
first Congress.
Some of the Most Important Measures
that Became Laws, and Others that
Failed OF Passage-Memora-
BILE Sessions.


A general land forfeiture bill
The bill to relieve the supreme court by the
establishment of intermediate circuit courts
of 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
Iudlan tribes, and to pay the friendly Sioux
10000.
Torcduce the fees of pension agents.
To pay the French spoliation claims.
The meat inspection bill
The bill TO prevent the importation OF
adulterated food and drink.
The live. cattle and hog inspection bill
The bill appropriating 81 ,OOO, 900 for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river.
To permit sorghum sugar manufacturers
to use alcohol without payment of tax.
To limit TO 90 per cent. of the rates charged
private parties the rates the land grant rail
roads shall charge for transportation OF gov
eminent troops and supplies.
To authorize construction of tunnel I'M
der the waters of the bay of New York.
For the construction of a deep water har-
Dor on the coast of Texas.
For the relief of settlers on the Northern
Pacific railroad indemnity lands.
To permit the export of fermented liquors
to a foreign country without the payment OF
a tax.
To apply the proceeds of the sales OF pub
lie lands and the receipts from certain land
grant railroads to the support of agricultural
and Industrial colleges.
Joint resolution congratulating Brazil on
the adoption of a republican form of govern
ment.
Bill to esta blish the Chickamauga military
park.
Providing for town site entries in Okla
homa.
Authorizing the use of the Louisville &
Portland canal basin.
To amend the inter state commerce act so
as to give the commissioners 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 settlement and sale.
For a military post at San Diego, Cal.
For an Alaskan census.
To extend the time of payment for public
lands in cases of failures of the crop.
To issue LOCO stand of arms to North and
South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Ne
braska
To set aside the big tree tract in California
as a public park.
For the inspection of cattle steamers in
order to secure more humane treatment of
cattle.
Providing that the life saving appliances
act shall not apply to the lakes and bays of
the United states.
To enable the postmaster general to ex-
pend $4,000 to test free delivery system in
small towns.
To create the customs districts of North
and South Dakota and Puget Sound, and for
the erection, repair or enlargement OF many
public buildings heretofore noted
Tho plair hill tho hill
for the appointment of an alcoholic
liquor commission and the ''eight-
hours" claims bills 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 reorganization bill.
The Paddock pure food-bi1l, the Mica
ragua canal bill, the Pacific railroad
funding bill and the interstate COM
merce bill Ito permit limited pooling of
earnings by railroad companies) 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.
Enlarging the rights of Eomesteaders and
pre- emptors on the public lands.
Reviving the grade of lieutenant general
of the army.
For boarding vessel at Chicago.
For the exploration and survey of the in
terror of Alaska.
The following house bills failed to
pass the senate:
To transfer the revenue marine service to
the navy.
To authorize the construction OF a tunnel
under the Detroit river at Detroit, Mich.
For the relief of telegraph operators dur.
ing the war.
Among the measures on which neither
house acted Except in some cases by
committees) were:
The sub treasury and farm mortgage bills.
The service pension bill.
The Canadian reciprocity resolution.
The bill to encourage the construction of
an intercontinental railway.
The postal savings bank and postal -tele =
graph bills.
to Africa.
Woman suffrage and prohibi ton constitu-
tional amendment.
The income tax bill and various other
radical, financial and political measures.
In the Fifty-frst congress 14,033 bills
were introduced in the house and 5, 129
in the senate. In the Fiftieth congress
IL, 654 bills were introduced in the house
and 1000 in the senate. In the Fifty
first congress 297 joint resolutions Tor
twenty-eight more than the number in
troduced in the Fiftieth) were intro
duced in the house. In the senate 1863
joint resolutions (twenty-four more than
in the Fiftieth) were introduced.
The bills that became laws during the
congress just ended number 2, 1876. In
the Fiftieth congress 1924 bills were
enacted. The number of bills, ETC., in
troduced in the Fifty-first exceeded by
20 per cent. the number introduced in
the Fiftieth congress.
The following measures became laws
throughout the congress without the
presidents signature:
Act for the relief of the suretles of George
w. Hook.
Act giving the court of claims jurisdiction
Of claims on account of property of the
Chesapeake female college.
Act for the relief of j. Hollis McBlair.
Act authorizing the president to restore
Tendore Teneyck to the army and place him
on the retired list.
Act for the relief of A. s. McCreary, ad.
ministrator of j. NJ. Hyatt, deceased.
Act to provide American registers for the
steamers Montauk and Mineola.
Ten private bills which had passed
congress failed to become laws because
Of their failure to receive the presidents
signature.
Contests for. seats held by democrats
in the house were made by eighteen re-
puhlicans. The elections committee de-