The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-05
The Fifty-First Congress Has
Passed Into History.
SCENES OF THE LAST SESSION,
Democrats Refuse Q Complimentary
Vote to Speaker Reed.
Bidding Goodby to the Defsssed Sen.
ators-All the Apprsssissdsns Posed
Review OF Work Accomplished

WASHINGTON CRY, March A-Of the wcrk a
the Fifty first congress three measures, any a.
which in importance and popular iute9us1
would be sufficient for . national Issue. stnna
forth pre-eminent before all others: First, tho
Mckinley tariff bill, which became . Law; -.
ond, the silver bill, on which ct the first union
. compromise was affected, based on the
monthly purchase OF 100000 ounces Of silver,
which bill in turn was followed by more radis
cal measure that failed of passage, and third,
the federal elections bill, which, altar peu.
tracted struggle. failed In the Senate to rooch :
decisive vote. Radical innovations in the rules
of the House added interest to Its proceedinGA
and determined but fruitless efforts to adoDt IL
most vital of these innovations formed = poEt g
the history Of the latter part Of the senIioa g
the Senate.
Even in its mortuary record congress ~ n.
no less than twelve of its representative ana
three Of its senator's
The total appropriations for this conRrsoe win
probably reach 8, 600 100000 During tho F1foio1n
congress l6l bills were vetoed and during IL
Flfty-first congress 140
Among the bills which became Laws are t6oooa
The copyright bill; private land court bin; 80
tai subsidy bill; Indian depredation1 hill: ouD.
toms administrative bill; general land toeSoitupo
bill: bill to relieve the supreme court by the -
tse sssss q urr Gcu5 e
fair bill; Wyoming and Idaho admlnr1na hlllS
anti-l0ttery and antitrust bill: re-onoo1 1f0ns
agreements % % WITTY VARIOUS ,do D'' indian di,a %
friendly Sioux. $4,000; to reduce the ~ Il
pension agents; to pay French spoliatiOn cla11nes
importation @ of adul.erased ns iood Sa and i"f: -
live cattle and hog inspection til; -.
propriating 100000 for the improvemenf q u
mannfsctRnrers SRi so to use @ alcohol without 49,
of tax; to limit to 60 per cent Of G16 tn1nG
charged private parties the rates that land Sron6
ernment troops and supplies; for the relisd g
settlers on Northern Pacific indemnity 1audos -
permit the export of fermented liquors 70 lu1e1Gn
the proceeds Of sales Of public lenlb al &.
ceipts from certain land grant railroads - tho
support Of agricultural and industrial co1loGogs
in cases Of failure Of crops; to set ast0o th1 III
tree tract In CalifOfnia - public payk; lug tn
inspection Of cattle steamers TO secure Wogo
rhs Blair educational bill, the bill ior tho ~
pointment of an alcoholic liquor commiun168
and the eight hour claims bill were defeGtod e
ing one house failed of action in the othef af6s
The bankruptcy bill, the Congcr lard hill. The
army reorganization bill - :. -..3
nal bill, the Pacific railroad funding bill, H.
Interstate commerce bill and the bill 20 limit:
pooling are among the measures which faited -
Following are come Of the Senate bills vhicx
failed to pass the House: To provide loe ~
free coinage OF silver; enlarging the Ileh1s O
homesteadefs and pfe-emptOrs on public 1ou6D5
reviving the grade Of lieutenant gUneeel q ~
army; for the exploration and survey Of tn h.
The following House bills failed 70 pass ~
Senate: To transfer the revenue maSluo ~
vice to the navy; for tho rslief of oo1oGruQb
operation during the war. - -a
Among the measures a vhich nsf1hor hoel1>
acted, except In some coees BY commiteelx
were the sub treasury and farm mmegaGs bll1;
the service pension bill; the Canadian iselpe6s
city resolution; the bill 20 encourage ~ CO.
struction of an inter-contineutal ratlWnY; ~
postal savings bank and postal telegraph 6llGS
the Cutler bill 20 aid negfoes TO eDfgru1e -
Africa: the woman suffrage and .peohlhftio9
constitutional amendments; the income ~
bill, and various other radical hnancial 9
political measures.
In the Fifty.arst consrsss. i4lss halls ysso
introduced in the House and Sia y - 49,
duced in the House and S.Oo In the ssnatsI y
the Fifty.nrxt eougress 81 joint rss4lrtioao, ~
twenty-eighs more than In the gf6slseh, vegQ
introduced In the Houss. and In ths eso6ee -
joint resolutions, twenty-f four mog0 t1on n ~
Fiftieth, were introduced Tbo olID ~ -.
came laws during the eongrsss juss 49, 49,
bered 2,i76. In the ftitissh ccngrom - o1lo
were enacted