Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-11
COME TO AN END.
First Session of the Fifty-Second
Congress Closed.
The Worlds Fair BIN Passed by Both
Houses-Review of the Work Done
During the Past Eight
Months.
IT Is FINISHED.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. The first ses-
sion of the Fifty-second congress has
passed into history. The final adjourn
ment came at II o'clock last night.
One of the last acts of the session was
the passage of the Durborow bill giving
81, 500, 900 to the worlds fair, and
President Harrison signed the bill at
$40 o'clock. The measure passed the
senate without division. In the house
the vote stood lSl to So.
Senators Allison 0a) and German
Md were named the committee from
the senate to wait on the president,
and then Senator Harris Tenn pre-
scented a resolution thanking Vice
President Morton for his impartial
services. etc. Senator Cocxrell Mo
presented similar one in regard
to the president pro tenn, Senator
Henderson. Both were adopted and
the senate took a recess to 1885.
When the recess was up the commit
tee reported that President Harrison
had no further communication to make,
the vice president watched the wheels
of the big clock go around for nearly
two minutes, and then made his pleas
ant speech of thanks and farewell,
timing it so that he was able to drop
the gavel and declare the senate adj
journed within a few seconds of IL.
In the house, after the customary
resolution of thanks to the speaker and
others was made, Speaker Crisp prompt
ly at IL p. m. declared the house adj
journed without day. Two hundred
representatives joined in applauding
the welcome announcement, and the
corps of Washington correspondents
arose in the press gallery and sang
with JUNCTION Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow" The crowd of
spectators in the public and private gal
leries and the congressman joined in the
singing and loudly applauded.
THE WORK DONE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. -Senator Man
derson before the senate adjourned
made some remarks as To the business
of H. session. 1t was unprecedented,
he said. at least for many years. that
the calendar of cases was as reduced as
ii is now. There were on the calendar
not exceeding six house bills vet I'M
disposed of and there were com
paratiyely few senate bills on
the calendar. The senate had
passed 700 senate bills, and of those the
house had passed 100. The house had
passed 400 house bills, and of these the
senate had passed 3l6. OF all the pres
idential nominations that had come to
the senate there had not been a single
rejection, and but three nominations
had died on the executive calendar of
the senate.
Senator Allison Ua) said that he
would state in general terms the appro-
priations of this session as compared
with the appropriations of the
first session of the Fifty first
congress. The appropriations of
that session were, in round numbers
S463, 600, 600, and those of the
present session S5O7, 600, 600, showing
an increase at this session of S44. 900, :
900 The principal increases were in
the appropriations for pensions and for
the post office department. There
were some diminuations in the present
session, notably in deficiencies, to the
amount of $1,000, 600. There was
also a diminution of $4,000, 900 in mis-
cellaneous appropriations. 1t was OBJ
vious to all that postal facilities and
postal expenditures were constantly in
creasing, and so there had been S., 900, =
900 added to the post office appropria-
ton bill at this session, as compared
with two years ago, yet the postal
appropriations fall short Of meeting
the necessary expenditures for
the fiscal year 1898 Large de-
fciencies for the post Office depart
ment and for other departments of the
government would be necessary at the
next session. For instance, the appro-
priation for United States courts was
about $1,000, 600 less than was neces-
sary, and that was true in regard to
other departments of the government.
Mr.. German Md, a member of
the committee on appropriations, com
mended the chairman of that commit
tee for his fair and candid statement.
The fact remained, however, that the
appropriations at this session would
exceed $500, 000 900, Notwithstanding
the extraordinary efforts of the house of
representatives to keep them within
reasonable bounds. 1t was not alto
gether party matter. for these inn
mense appropriations were partly
made necessary because Of the growth
of the country, the extension of the
postal system and the expansion Of
the pensions and other permanent and
necessary expenditures, for which
neither party should be held response
BILE.