The Green Forest tribune., 1893-03-09
ONE appointed,
Ninety-nine disappointed.
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THE FIFTY SECOND CONGRESS.

OuflnU inc session Or congress
which closed last Saturday no real
action was taken on the tariff or
on financial questions Of pressing
interest, nor was there any notice
able retrenchmenti in expenditures,
reductions in some lines being offset
by increases necessitated by laws
passed by the previous congress.
Not single public building bill
was passed and it was only as riders
to appropriation bills that provis-
ions were made for any public
buildings.
The silver question was kept con-
stantly before one house or the
other, but all efforts to provide for
free coinage or to repeal tho Sher-
man silver purchase law failed ut
terly.
Among the important bills pass
ed by the house but pigeon holed in
the senate were those providing
for free wool, lower duties On
WOODEN goods, free cotton bagging
machinery, free binding twine, free
ores, and tree tin plato.
The anti-options bill passed both
houses, but was killed by the
houses refusal TO vote to accept
the senate amendment. The pure
food bill passed the Senate, but died
in the house.
The automatic freight car coupler
bill was enacted into u law as were
also q national quarantine bill and
an Imagination law, imposing ad-
dltional restrictions on immi-
grants.
The opening of the Cherokee
outlet was also provided for in the
shape OF y rider on the Indian ap-
preparation bill. Acceptance by
the Chcrokees is still rosossary.
In all, $50 bills were enacted in
To laws, bat many of these were
private measures. Among the
most important which have be-
come laws are the follow ing: 81
car coupler bill, the Chinese exeIu-
sion bill, national quarantine bill,
migration bill, to grant an Amer
lean registry to two Inman line
ships, to pension survivors of the
Black Hawk and Seminole Indian
wars, to increase to increase the
pensions of vetefns OF The Mexican
war, the immediate pension bill,
the eight honr bill for adjustment
Of accounts Of men who have work
ed overtime, to amend the inter
state commerce act, to relieve poor
saitoTs, to incorporate the AR erl-
can university at Washington, to
amend the general land grant for
feitrrc act, to free land patents in
SIX years, many measures applica-
bic TO the army, to close the W ord's
Fair on Sunday ,and granting it2 l-2
million dollars in souvenir half
dollars, authorizing the construct
ion Of one new cruiser, one line Of
battle SHIPS and three gunboats; ap-
propriating $500, 900 for the expon-
ses OF the international naval re-
view; prohibiting payments by gov
eminent officers Tor travel over non-
bonded lines owned by the Pa
citlo railroad lines, those leased
aHd operated by the Union and
Central Pacific roads hot being IN
elndvd, however; fer the replace
ment Of civilian Indian agents by
army .'1ilcoia.
Among the moro important or
much discussed measures which
tailed were: for the admission OF
y CIV Mexico, Arizona, and Okiaho-
ma; TO provide a veal government
Tor Utah; to defae and punis',
black mailing; for the relief Of set
tiers on unsurveyed government
lands lying within certain railroad
grants; to regulate the education
and citizenship II Indians; to cs-
t;.biish lineai promotions in the
army; making citizens OF Indians
q years old who have attended
governinent schools for ten years,
/, tor the erection Of q stlb-treasul.v
system; tor u u4:itorm system Of
bankruptcy; foi the taxation Of
federal notes and the repeal oI'he
tax on S ate banks; for an alcohol
io Iiquor omnission; constitutions
| nj amend ,FtftlS INakfnlr iilt. pr.psi
q e Mt Ineligible 10 ie-elt elton;
changing tao time Of meeting IT
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