The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-09
THE WORK or C.NGRESS.
WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHMENT THE
SPECIAL SESSION.
SILVER Repeal md the Chinese Bill
the Only Measures of Prime ImpOr-
lance Which Become LaWs-Digest
or Results in Ench House.


or Results In Each House.
Washington, Nov. 3.-The session of
the senate will be long memorable for
the contest over the bill providing for
the repeal of the silver purchasing clause
of the act Of 1890 known as the Sher-
man law. The extraordinary session was
called for the purpose of accomplishing
this repeal, and the other work accom-
Dlished was merely incidental. That bill
reached the senate after passing the
house on Aug. %. and was not passed.
by the senate until Oct. 50. How for
these two months the senate contended
over the issue involved, but at last
brought the bill through and passed it
by safe majority, is familiar to the
public. I he bill provides in effect for
the cessation of the purchase and coin
age of silver, and may be said to mark
a revolution in the financial history Of
the country. While the records show
that it was the house bill which beclnle
law, that is only technically true, as
the senate substituted a measure Of it's
own and the house accepted the su!;sti-
tute.
The bill of next greatest Importance
to the repeal bill which has passed both
l.ouses of congress is the bill extending
the time in which Chinese laborers can
register under the Chinese act, known
as the Geary law. Much interest at
tached to the bill providing for bridge
across the Hudson at New York. This
bill passed both houses OF the 1852
bills introduced i'll the senate during the
session which closed to-day only twelve
passed that body, and of these only
three. passed the house, received the pres
ident's signature and became laws. Of
the three new laws originating in the
senate one is in aid of the mid-winter
international exposition to be held in
San Francisco; another grants certain
settlers in Oklahoma Territory the right
to commute their homestead entries, and
the third relates to clerks in the Office
of the commissioners Of the District Of
Columbia.
These Also Passed.
The other bills which passed the SEN
ate are as follows: Making appropria-
tons for the purchase of ground in Wash
ington for building to be used as a
ball of records; granting to California
5 per cent of the net proceeds of the cash
sales of public lands in that state; to
extend the time for making final pay
ments on entries under the desert land
act; authorizing certain Cherokee allot-
tees or claimants to purchase certain
tracts held and claimed by them; to
donate to the county of Laramie, Wyo,
certain. bridges on the abandoned Fort
Laramie military reservations: to author
ize the Chattanooga Western Railway
company to construct bridge across
the Tennessee river near Chattanooga; ;
to grant the right of way to the Kansas,
Oklahoma Central & Southwestern Rail
way company through the Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma Territory; to aid the
States of California, Oregon, Washing
Colorado and South Dakota to support
schools of mines; for the relief of W. H.
Ward.
The senate has in addition to those
bills of it's own passed fourteen house
bills, the most important of these being
house bill No. l, for the repeal of the
purchasing clause Of the Sherman act
The others relate to lands in the Sioux
Indian reservation in, Nebraska and
South Dakota, to the United States
Dakota; to the New York & New Jer-
sey bridge; to steam revenue cutters for
the great lakes and for the New England
coast; to the annual work on unpatented
mining claims. to the increase of officers
Of the army detailed at colleges and to
the amendment of the Chinese exclusion
act, the rest being bills of private
character. The senate also passed four
Joint Resolutions
which originated in that body and twelve
when originated in the house. The
only one of the senate joint resolutions
Of Importance is the one which provides
for the construction of a hall of records
in Washington, which also passed the
house. Of the house resolutions which
passed the senate, those worthy of note
property in Salt Lake City; providing for
the publication Of $4,000 additional
copies of the compendium of the eleventh
census; for the. removal of ocean dere.
licts, and comforting diplomas upon
worlds far artisans through the board
of lady managers. The total of the sen.
ate bills and joint resolutions, and of
house bills and joint resolutions, all told
is only forty-two.
The senate will not be without mate.
rial to work upon when it reconvenes in
December. The calendar issued to-day
shows siXty-fye bills and resolutions re-
ported by committee and ready for the
attention of the senate. A large proper
ton OF these bills and resolutions relates
to private claims, and there are also sew.
eral relating to the finances which had
connection with the repeal bill and which
are not now pertinent. Probably the
most important bill upon the senate cal
endar now 1 is that for the repeal Of the
passed the house. Senator Voorhees, has
bill concerning national bank note cir.
culation. Mr.. Morgan's resolution for a
joint committee of the two houses tc
consider questions of finance, has place
resolution concerning the coordinate
branch of the government, and also Mr.
PETERS relating to interstate com
merce. Senator Palmer's bill concerning
invalid pensions paid to non-residents i
in shape for consideration at any time
There are on the table resolutions by
Senators Hoar and Martin relative t.
the election of senator's by the direct
vote of the people, and resolution by
Senator Call dispensing with the civi
service commission.
Results in the House.
The chief bill that failed in the extr
session of the house was that providing
for urgent deficiencies. The most i'm
portant item in this measure was that
which provided for the janitors and Gus
todians of public buildings. There was
all item of 100000 to pay clerks to mem
bers, but that can be passed later without
causing any hindrance to public bust
ness like the first-named appropriation.
house joint resolution passed the house
providing for a reduction of SO per cent
of the duty on all goods sold at the
worlds fair. It was amended so as tt
admit duty free such goods as might BIZ
used for the Chicago museum to be es