Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01

viding local Government for Utah and
requiring all railroads to provide themselves
with automatic car couplers.
The policy announced by the majority
party in the House. in favor of q retrench-
ment of appropriations resulted in an un,
usually close scanning Of the estimates and
nearly all new work, or for work
which existing law did not ma Ike
necessary. Considerable legislati on
poration pa Of parasraphs in these inddispensa
BILE annual appropriation bills. In the naval
bill provision is made for one new cruiser
secured by the Senate as a compromise on
the Senate amendment authorizing the
construction of number OF new
xsssss bill BY nreedns in ae
done away with and payments are proh1b-
tied to be made by Government officers for
OF trSsps oyer S
1t was decided in conference that. the pro-
vision should not apply to lines leased or
operated but no owned by either the Central
OF Union Pacific Railway Company.
Sunday Closing of the Fair.
Mhe Worlds fair was closed on Sunday by
a paragraph in the sundry civil bill, not yet
passed.
A provision of interest to soldiers in one
of the bills makes the action of the Second
Auditor on all back pay and bounty claims
final, except that an appeal may lie
within six months to the controller.
Another provision abolishes the office
of marshal in the new courts
to over expectations by railroads is provided
Tor, no statistics except coastwise statistics
being now obtainable, so that our exports to
Canada and Mexico are matters of guess
In Indian bills start is effected in a policy
of supplanting civilian Indian agents by
army officers.
In the river and harbor bill the policy en-
m rE od nf
permitting contracts to be entered into
for the completion of some of the
largest OF the public improvements
latiye bill! a provision was inserted which
stops the gauging Of liquors coming ont OF
rectifying houses. 1t is always gagged as it
this provision is expected to make an annual
saving OF $l50,000 Money order reports are
to be made only monthly instead of at least
once q week as at present.
Among the bills originated in the House
which have become laws are the following:
To appropriate $50, 900 for the preparation of
site and the sg erection Of pedsssal for
to add the Secretary OF Agriculture to the
list of officers entitled to succession to the
Presidency for the o?ening of part OF the tn
investigation of mining debris in California.
The >enate's Bills Now Laws.
Among the bills originating in the Senate
to become laws were the following: To au-
thorize the day of the tour hundredth ami
versary of the discovery OF America to be
proclaimed q general holiday; increasing to
$50 q month the pensions to persons totally
incapacitated for labor but not totally help
less: to repeal the law requiring life saving
projectiles to be carried on steamers, so far
as concerns vessels navigating the lakes,
bays or sounds exclusively.
Among the bills in conference are the fol-
lowing: To promote the safety OF national
banks by torbidding loans to bank en-
ployes: to establish iineal promotions in the
army; to give claimants the right to sue the
United States TO obtain land patents and to
exclude beer and malt liquors from the In
dian Territory.
Among these bills, other than previously
fate are: To define the crimes of mur.
der IN first and second degree, federal law
having no provision on this subject; to dis
pense with proof of loyalty during the late
war as perquisite to being restored or ad-
mitted to the pension roll; to oprotect the
title OF bona flde settlers or unsurveyed
Government lands in cases where the lands
subsequently prove to be within railroad
land grant.
Among the bills passed by the Senate, but
Which have not yet finally got through the
house. are the following: the grain classifica-
tion bill; to increase the pension for deaf
eral bill for the erection Of public
buildings in cities where the postal
receipts for the three years preceding have
exceeded s., 600 annually; for the construc-
ton OF two revenue cutters for service on
the Pacific Coast and two on the great lakes;
making large appropriation for the i'm
provemen5 of the Mississippi river; to de-
clare lands containing phosphates to be
mineral lands and subject to entry as such.
There was also number Of other import
ant bills, such as the Torrey bankruptcy
bill, which failed of consideration in either
branch OF Congress.