Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-09
WHAT WAS DONE.
Synopsis of the Work of the Fifty
Second Congress.
A List of the More Important Bills which
viii he Placed on the Statute Books
Some of the Measures
Which Failed.
It's WORK REVIEWED.


in questions, the anttopuon bill and reduction
OF appropriations were the leading topics OF
consideration by the Fifty-second congress
which expired by constitutional limitation at
IL o'clock noon Saturday, and secondary snly in
Importance to these matters were measures re-
lating to the worlds fair, equipment of rail
roads with automatic caT-copplers, national
quarantine and immigration, Behring sea and
Hawaiian annexation.
Nothing of an Affirmative nature, except 10
prevent two items in the Mckinley act taking
effect, was actually accomplished so far as re
speets silver, the tariff OF anti-options, the &C,
tion taken on each OF these questions in one
branch OF congress being negatived by the ac-
ton or nonaction OF the other branch
approximately 425 house and 235 senate bills
and joint resolutions became laws, making go
acts put on the statute books as the result OF
the work OF congress. majority OF these
measures were OF interest only to individuals
localities, being for the relief OF citizens for
the bridging OF streams, for the District OF Co
lumbia, for rights OF way, etc An unusual
proportion OF the claims bills was for the relief
OF southern men.
The house passed in round numbers COS bills
OF which 900 failed OF passage in the senate, ana
in the neighborhoOd of 625 bills passed by the
senate failed in the house, including long list
OF public building bills, many private pension
bills and other measures involving increased
expenditures
The pension and census ofrces, the whisky
trust Panama Canal and Pacific Mail com
panes, the Watson. Cobb charges, the Pinker-
ton system and Homestead troubles, the Maver.
ick and Spring Garden bank failures the Ellis
island immigration station were investigated by
congressional committees, but nothing came OF
the reports submitted
Not single public building bill passed the
house and ii was only by putting a number OF
them on the sundry civil appropriation bill that
any appropriations whatever for public build
ings were secured.
STRUGGLE OVER SILVER
The silver question was kept steadily before
the attention OF congress by the alternate ef-
forts OF the advocates OF free coinage and OF the
repSal OF the sherman law. The coinage com.
mittee OF the HOUSE IN the first session reported
q free-silver bill. which, after an exciting de,
bate, was saved from defeat by the casting vote
OF the speaker, but was, afterward flibustered
10 death, the friends OF the bill failing 10 secure
the signatures OF q majority OF the democrats
20 petition for q closure rule in its behalf
The senate then passed . free-c coinage
bill, but when the free silver men renewed
their fight in the house they were outnuu bered
by fourteen votes, and, Of course. failed. The
anti-silver men met similar fate in their Of
forts to secure . repeal OF the present law, tina
senate refusing by a decisive yete 70 consider
il, and the house killing the Ar8f<w-Cate bill
by declining 70 vote so a. 70 give its friends the
parliamentary right to move closure on il, with.
out which IL conccdedly couid never be forced
to vote in the closing hours OF the congress
TARIFF IrctsTAT1oS
On the tariff tho dominant party In the house
adopted policy OF attacking the Mckinley act
in detail largely for political reasons and part
iy for the. reason that in view OF the polite
nj comnIerion ~ the senate II was nracticary
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