The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-04

for urgent deficiencies. The most i'm
pOrtant item of this measure was that
which provided for the ianitors and GUS
tOdians of public buildings throughout
the country. There was an item of $780,
coo to pay clerks to members, but that
can be passed later without causing any
hindrance to public business like the first
named appropriation.
The House joint resolution passed the
House providing for reduction of 80 per
cent. of the duty on all goods sold at the
worlds fair 1t was amended SO as to adj
nit duty free such goods as might be
used for the Chicago museum TO be estab-
1shed in the art building on the worlds 5
fair grounds, but the so per cent. reduc-
tion for other goods was stricken out.
TOTAL OF 1890 BILLS.
There had been introduced in the House
at this session 1890 bills andS7 joint reso-
lutions; of this entire number l66 have
been reported from committees and 5S
have passed the House. Most of those
which have passed are of local interest
in the sections where they apply, and
have been pressed to meet some necessity
which existed. Some of these have be-
come laws by favorable action in the
Senate and receiving the Presidents APP
proval. Others are yet in committee or
on the calendar of the Senate.
THE CHINESE BILL.
OF those that have become laws, the
act next in Importance originating in the
House after the silver purchase repeal is
the Chinese bill. This passed the House
Oct. 16, and the Senate Nov. 2.
A joint resolution was passed donating
abandoned cannon to the grand army en-
campment to be held at Pittsburg in 1894.
An important joint resolution which be-
came law provides for an international
agreement for the marking and removal
of derelicts and wrecks in the ocean.
One of a number of joint resolutions
passed tenders the Acknowledgements of
the United States to the foreign govern
ments who participated in the worlds
fair at Chicago. Another restores to the
Mormon church in Utah money and prop
erty that has been in the hands of
a receiver since 1887; another
fixes the qualification of voters
on the Cherokee strip, Oklahoma;
another authorizes the state of Wisconsin
to place in the capitol a statute of Pere
Marquette; another authorizes the board
of commissioners of the Chickamauga
National Park, to allow states and asso-
Citations building monuments on the battle
field, to use materials in the park.
One of the acts passed extends the time
for completing the work of the eleventh
census until Dec. 81, 1898, and authorizes
Ine IfeSlueuG 10 ulfecb UnB work per
formed by the commissioner of labor.
Another provides for certain urgent de-
dciencies; the coinage of subsidiary
coins; to pay clerks to members of the
House, and repairs to the Ford's theatre
building in Washington
A joint resolution making former laws
in Oklahoma relating to town sites ap-
plicable to the Cherokee strip town sites,
was passed.
A Joint resolution was passed providing
for the cOmmemoration of the Tooth ami
versary of the laying of the corner stone
of the capitol building in Washington
A joint resolution providing for the pay
ment Of mileage to the senator's and mem
bers, and others made available the APP
preparation of .he last congress for the
regular session at the extra session.
An act was passed making the law re-
pealing the timber culture laws applicable
to little strip of the Sioux reservation
in Nebraska.
Two laws were passed providing for
times and places of holding courts in
South Dakota, and in Idaho and Wyo-
ming.
Two acts passed providing for revenue
cutters, one on the great lakes, and the
other on the New England coast.