The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-10
ITS WORK.
What the Extra Session Did and Did Not
Many Bills 1 trOduced and
hut Few Passed.

ITS WORK.
| What the Extra Session Did and Did Not
Accomplish Many Bills L trOduced and
but Few Passed.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-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 Sherman act of 1890. The
extraordinary session was called for
the purpose of accomplishing this re-
peal, and the other work accomplished
was merely incidental. That bill
reached the senate, after passing the
! house, August %, and was not passed
by the senate until October So For
! these two months the senate contended
over the issue involved, but at last
brought the bill through and passed
it by safe majority. The bill pro-
vides in effect for the cessation of
the purchase and coinage of silver, and
may be said to mark revolution in the
| financial history of the country. While
the records show that it was the house
| bill, which became law, that is only
technically true, as the senate substi-
| tuted a measure of its own, and the
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The bill of next greatest Importance
| to the repeal bill, which has passed
both houses of congress, is the bill eX-
tending the time in which Chinese Ia
borers can register under the Chinese
act, known as the Geary law.
Much interest attached to the bill
| providing for a bridge across the Hud-
son at New York. This bill passed
both houses.
Of the 1852 bills that were intro
| duced in the senate during the session,
only twelve passed that body and OF
| these only three have passed the house
| of representatives, received the pres1-
dents signature and became laws. OF
the three new laws originating in the
senate, one is in aid of the midwinter
national exposition to be held in San
| Francisco; another grants certain set
tiers in Oklahoma territory the right
| to commute their homestead entries,
! and the third relates to clerks in the
Office of the commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The old bills which have passed the
| senate are: Making appropriations
for the purchase of ground in Wash
! ington for building to be used as a
hall of records; granting to California
per cent of the net proceeds of the
| cash sales of public lands in that state;
| to extend the time for making final
payments on entries under the desert
land act; authorizing certain Cherokee
allottees, or claimants, to pur-
chase certain tracts claimed and
held by them; to donate to the
| county of Laramie, Wyoming, GER
| tain bridges on the abandoned Fort
Laramie military reservation; to au-
thorize the Chattanooga Western Rail-
road Co. to construct Il bridge across
| the Tennessee river near Chattanooga;
to grant the right of way to the Kan
sas, Oklahoma Central & Southwestern
Railroad Co. through Oklahoma and
| the Indian territory; to aid the states
of California, Oregon. Washington,
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming,
| Colorado and South Dakota to support
schools of mines; for the relief of W..
| II. Ward.
The senate has, in addition to these
bills of it's own, passed fourteen house
| bills, the most important of them be-
ing house bill No. 1, for the repeal of
tuc puI CtduSC u IhC u
! act. The other house bills passed by
| the senate relate to lands in the Sioux
| Indian reservation in Nebraska and
| South Dakota; to the United States
courts in Idaho and Wyoming and
| South Dakota; to the New York and
| New Jersey bridge; to steam revenue
cutters for the great lakes and for the
New England coast; to the annual
work of union patented mining claims;
| to the increase of officers of the army,
detailed at colleges; to the amendment
| of the Chinese exclusion act. The
| others are bills of a private character.
The senate also passed four joint res
I olutions which originated in that body
and twelve which originated in the
house. The only one of the senate
joint resolutions of import nee is the
one which provides for the construc-
ton of hall of records in Washington,
which also pa sed the house. OF the
| house resolutions which passed the
senate, those worthy of note are: That
! relating to the Mormon church prop
erty in Salt Lake City; that providing
for the publication of $4,000 additional
copie, of the compendium of the elev-
enth census; that for the removal OF
| ocean derelicts, and that comforting
diplomas upon worlds fair artisans
throu G the board of lady managers