Evening journal., 1893-11-04
CONGRESS TAKES WINGS
After Hasty Adjournment Mem
bers Hurry Away.
PRESIDENT WILL GO SHOOTING.

Work 1t Was Called to DO. but Leaves
Many Important Measures In an Uniin-
lshed State.
WASHINGTON, Nov 4-The session of
the senate just closed will be long memora-
Bile for the contest over the bill providing
for the repeal Of the purchasing clause Of
the silver purchasing act of 1890 known as
the Sherman law. The extraordinary ses-
sion was called for the purpose of accom-
plishing this repeal, and the other work ac-
complished was merely incidental. That
bill reached the senate after passing the
house on the 2Sth of August and was not
passed by the senate until the 3Oth of Oc-
tober. How for these two months the SEN
ate contended over the issue involved, but
al last brought the bill through and passed
it by a safe majority, is all a matter Of rec
ord familiar to the public
The bill provides in effect for the cessa-
tion 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 il was the house bill
which became law, that is only technical
ly true, as the senate substituted a meas
substitute.
The bill Of next greatest Importance to
the repeal bill which has passed both
houses 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 attaches to the bill
providing for bridge across the Hudson
at New York. This bill passed both houses.
Only Three Bills Become Laws.
OF the LISP bills which have been intro
duced in the senate during the session only
u have passed that body, and Of these only
three have passed the house of representa-
tives, received the presidents signature
and become laws. OF the three new laws
originating in the senate one is in aid of
the Midwinter 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 Co
lumbia
The other bills which have passed the
senate are as follows:
Making appropriations for the purchase
Of ground in Washington for building to
be used as 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 pay
ments on entries under the desert land act;
authorizing certain Cherokee allotees or
claimants to purchase certain tracts held
and claimed by them; TO donate to the
county Of Laramie, Wy, certain bridges on
the abandoned Fort Laramie military res.
srvation; to authorize the Chattanooga
| Western Railway company to construct a
/ hid ffa rfrr
| Cbattanooga to grant the right of way to
| the Kansas, Oklahoma Central aud South.
western Railway company through the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma territory;
to aid the states Of California, Oregon
Washington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada,
| Colorado and South Dakota to support
| schools of mines; for the relief of w. II
| Ward
The senate has in addition to those bills
of its own passed on several houses bills
the most important of these being house
bill No. for the repeal Of the purchasing
clause Of the Sherman act.
The other house bills passed by the sen
ate related to lands in the Sioux Indian
reservation in Nebraska and South Dakota
to the United States courts in Idaho, Wy
oming and South Dakota; to the New Y Yorb
and New Jersey bridge; 20 steam revenue
cutters for the great lakes and for the New
England coast; to the annual work on un
patented mining claims; to the increase o
officers of the army detailed at colleges; t
the amendment of the Chinese exclusion
act, the others being bills Of a private char
acter.
The senate also passed four joint resolu
tions which originated in that body and 1;
which originated in the house. The only
one of the senate joint resolutions of i'm
portance is the one which provides for thl
construction of a hall Of records in Wash
ington, which also passed the house
1t will be seen that the session of th'
senate has not been noteworthy on account
of the numbar of bills and resolutions
which have passed that body. The total o
senate bills and joint resolutions and o
house bills and joint resolutions, all told
is only AZ.
The senate will not be without materia
to work upon when it shall convene in De
cember The calendar just issued show
65 bills and resolutions reported by com
mittee and ready for the attention of tn
. senate. A large proportion of these bill
and resolutions relate to private claims
and there are also several relating to tn
/ finances which had connection with the re
peal bill and which are now pertinent.
, Probably the most important bill upol
the senate calendar now is that for the re
peal of the federal election laws. A simila
bill has passed the house.
I The Work of the House.
, The chief bill that failed in the extra ses
sion of the house was that providing 70
urgent deficiencies. The most importan
item in this measure was that which pre-
vided for the ianitors and custodians O
, public buildings throughout the country
e There was an item Of 5000 to pay clerk
= to members, but that can be passed late
, without causing any hindrance 70 publ
. . business like the first named appropriation
A house joint resolution passed the hous
providing for reduction of 80 per cent c
the duty on all goods sold for the World
fair.
1t was amended so as to admit duty frC
such goods as might be used for the Chic
L go museum to he established in the Al
/. building on the Worlds fair grounds, bl
/. the 80 per cent reduction for other gooC
Il was stricken out. There have been intr
duced in the house at this session 4. 800 bill
/ and NJ mint racolutfonc nc tlf. -, a.