The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-08
A BUSY DAY.
The President Approved Many
Bills Yesterday.
MANY OTHERS WERE not SIGNED
List of Those Which Became Laws ano
Also Those Which Failed-The Fort
Hayes Military Reservation
Not Signed.

WASHINGTON, March all the ap.
preparation bills have become laws, the
president yesterday morning having
affixed his signature to the last of them
to reach him-the naval and general
deficiency bills. Among the bills APP
proved by the president yesterday were
the following: The agricultural
appropriation bill, the fortified
ton appropriation, invalid pen.
sion bill, TO authorize the Wiscon.
sin & New Duluth Bridge Co. &c
Construct a bridge across the st. Louis
river between Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, authorizing the construction of
bridge across the Illinois river neal
Hennepin, many bills granting pen.
sions or to increase present pensions
increasing to 500 the pension pei
month to Gen. John A. McClernand
of Illinois, granting power to the CHIEF
justices of the United States il
the territories to appoint commission.
ers to take proof in land cases, to
amend the act authorizing the Kansas
City. Pittsburgh Is Gulf railway to con.
struct and operate railway, telegraph
and telephone lines through the
Indian territory; to amend the act
Incorporating the American univer'
sity, an act to amend an act for
the relief of volunteers and regular
soldiers of the late war and the wal
with Mexico, passed March ., 1850: &c
amend an act to regulate the liens OF
judgments and DEGREES of the courts of
the United States, approved August l.
1855; the sundry civil, legislative. eX-
eeutive and judicial appropriation
bills; to amend an act for the erection
of a government building at Chicago:
joint resolution authorizing the de-
livery of certain cannon to the Louis.
vile G.. A. X. committee; a joint resO-
luton to continue the present officers
and courts in the Indian territory until
the bill for the reorganization of the
judiciary has become law; to amend
an act providing for the reduction OF
the gross tonnage of vessels of the
United States; joint resolution for the
printing of a digest of the laws and de-
cisions relating to the compensation OF
officials of United States courts: joint
resolution to extend the time in which
members of Fifty-third congress may
distribute documents: joint resolution
calling on the president to take such
measures as he may deem necessary &c
consumate the agreement between the
governments of Spain and the United
States for the relief of Antonio Maxi.
mo Mora: providing for the salaries of
judges and other officers of the United
States court in the Indian territory:
an act for the suppression of the
lottery traffic through national and
interstate commerce and the postal
service subject to the jurisdiction and
laws of the United States this bill is
intended to make more fully effective
previous lottery suppression legisla-
tom: amending section 1905, chapter
3. title 60 of the revised statutes of the
United States relating to copyrights;
the diplomatic and consular and the
naval appropriation bills.
The following bills failed to receive
the signature of the president and
therefore failed to become laws: To
protect the insignia and the name of
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vide for the time and places of holding
terms of the United States courts in
the state of Washington; to amend an
act authorizing the TeXarkaua x
Fort Smith Railway Co. to bridge the
sulphur river in Arkansas or in Texas,
approved April II. 1884," for the
relief of telegraph operators during
the war of the rebellion, to grant to
railroad companies in the Indian ter
ritory additional powers to secure
rights of way. depot grounds. etc; to
grant the Gainesville, Nc Alester <
st. Louis Railroad Co. the right to
build two branch lines and to grant
the right of way thereof through the
Indian territory; granting to the state
of Kansas the abandoned Fort Hays
military reservation for the purpose of
establishing western branches of the
Kansas agricultural college and of the
state normal institute thereon and for
public parks: to authorize the auditor
of the war department to audit certain
quartermasters' vouchers alleged to be-
long to John Finn, of st. Louis; also a
number OF private bills, being meas
ures either for the relief to grant pen
sions or to correct military records.