The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-09
ITS WORK,

What the Extra Session Did and Did Not Accomplish Many Bills I troduced and but Few Passed. -, NY l WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-The session of the senate will be long memorable for the contest oyer 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 2S, and was not passed by the senate until October 30. For these two months the senate contended over the issue involved, but at last brought the bill through and passed 1t 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 house accepted the substitute
 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 la borers can register under the Chinese act, known as the Geary law
 Much interest attached to the bill providing for bridge across the Hud- son at New York. This bill passed both houses.
 Of the 1,152 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 presi- 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 hall of records; granting to California 5 per cent of the net proceeds of the cash sales of public lands in that state; 10 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, cer- tain bridges on the abandoned Fort Laramie military reservation; to au- thorize the Chattanooga Western Rail- road Co. to construct a 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. l, for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the sherman 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 private character.
 The senate also passed four joint res 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 50,000 additional copie, of the compendium of the elev- enth census; that for the removal of ocean derelicts, and that conferring diplomas upon worlds fair artisans throu gI the board of lady managers.
 THANKSGIVING DAY.