Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-29
EIGHT MONTHS WORK.
What the fifty-Third Congress Has
Thus Far Done.


WAsHIyGTOE, May 2S.- Special. Fl
All the world is out Of town. Conoressmen
and citizens are comrnenora.ino tha pa
t,;ot;c do,d rnr.ho -, .;,,,o
a., -
-1n $50 vi i''eiy '
oeh'cecry arc iiIicu Win vast throngs' anu
the graves are strcwn with flowers. AS
all business Is suspended, this Is as good a
time as any to look over the record and sec
what the Fifty-third congress has done in
the nearly eight months Of Its sitting. AS
. everybody knows that the special session
was devoted to the repeal Of the Sherman
law OF 1890, that may he passed without
further comment.
The More Important Work.
First I'm the regular session. of course
was the question OF supplies. and the first
urgent deficiency bill appropriated 81. 237.
2S5. .g6 and contained n provision a,Ithoriz
ing the commissioner of labor To prcpare
ut once an abstrnct Of the main facts col
lected at the last census bearing on the
subiects dealt with by this deuartment.
Tho pext annronriated s33s o5e Including
$50. 600 for the enforcement of the Chinese
exclusion act and $40. 600 to be expended
IN prct,rtinp the intcrcsts of the limited
States IN suits affecting the Pacific rail
roads. Tho third bill OF this class aUUrO-
priated $500, 600 and included the provi-
sion that no pension granted under exist
ing laws should be withheld or suspended
without 80 days notice to tho pensioner,
and that such notice must contain spe-
cific statement Of any charges against the
pensioner All these went rapidly through
the senate, of course, and so did the much
discussed bill repeating all federal election
laws el-f
Tho foregoing attracted public attention
at the time of their passage, but several
bills Of less popular interest have become
laws and among them these Bill chang
ing the method Of accounting in the treas
ury department; bin to provide an Amer
lean register for the steamer FL Callao;
bill for tho appointment of n commission
to the Antwerp International exposition;
bill appropriating $45, 900 for the recovery
of tho armament and fragments Of the
United States warship Kearsargo; Joint
resolution for comforting diplomas upon
designers, inventors and expert artisans
various bills providing for stricter meth
ods of accounting and taking bonds In the
postal department and numerous private
bills, and bills for the erection of bridges
over nnvigabe rivers.
Ellis Yet to he Acted On,
Of bouse biJ1s which bnvc not vet nassed
tho sonoto ,bo I,st is ,,,,,to lon,, hao,nri,,t,
~ co,rsc with tho famous Wi,son hill
and thc ost ,iecrcd,ted nronbets arc now
,rn,,bosv,no ,nc,v tb,t IN a ,.,y dayv more
Il ,Iso ,yIlJ ,,,sa tho oen,te hv . mn;nr;tv
of fo,r cert,inIv and noss;bIv ciyht Tbov
bosc their nronbecv on tho statements Of
Ie,diny RemI,licons that tbev vii, po
Iongcr trv to delay r.. IN the action of
Senator f;ormap who generally comcs in
,,ith bia enooch ;,et h.foro , ,n,,nro,n;so
,s n,,ln ofrrctiy. ona ON IN, now, cnnco,od
fnct TINT tho ponuIist sonoto,s will vntc
for tbo hin Tho house b,s also naesed
hin, far the admission of ITtob and Ar;-
yona nc states md for tho oncniny 10 set-
tlnn,ont ~ c,rt,in ,hond,nod niIit,rv roc
crv,tions The ;,nnortant New Yort md
Nav Jersey hridrc bilI ,,nnn,,ol to r,cot
IN. oI,ioctinns ,ss,gnnd I'm tho rrosidcnt,s
,,nt, nIsn an,,,t, nnI,, tha no+;nn ~ tb,
senate 10 hnco,,o a law Anntbcr hin nf
oon,o i,,,or,,,,co 10 thnt 10 roouir, stoo,,
,,ous.,s nf onn tons ~, moro tn b,vo nnc
ongineer ami h,,rcr ,lyva,s ON watch v,bon
,,,,anr ,,,,,. ,,a tn ,.orrv Iiconsod on,,;nan,s
when unJcr stcon far 10 hours SIN nn.
othor IL I'm, ,bolishi,g tbc ,f,icos of com
,nissionor az customs and denutv commits.
sian,r
Matter. of Little Importapce,
huony tho minor hills nessod Inv the
bousc arc tbcs,. mn ,nrnd,po and codifv
ing the ,,,vs relative 10 rrroynizancrs
stinu,otions bonds and updcrtakinys and
IN allow certain cornorations tn be accent
cj no surety thereon. bllI ncrmittiny boteI
lenses In tbo yellowstono MARK. hill to pro
foot IN, INSIGNIA and name of the Red
Cross soc,ctv. iii, authorizing officers of
tbe navy To a,lr1ipistcr oaths. bill amend
ING the regulations for pryentinu colli-
s,ons MT son. Joint resolution authorizing
IN, wearing of the Distinctive badge adopt
~, nv the Repular Army and Navy union
,,non nil occasions Of ceremony. and mis-
cel,on,ous mass of private bills. OF the
"a annual anpropriation bills the house
h,s n,ss,d - and I'm them has nut some
tolcrablv important amendments One of
these declares that the law of 1856 for de-
,luotinr the my of members when absent
is no longer In force, and the other cuts
down the appropriations for the civil scrv-
leo commission to "A point which is expect
cd to leave IL unite n harmless affair.
In the Indian appropriation bill as in
troduccd the committee has made many
nl,n ~ bn, a Of