The evening times., 1899-03-04
THE SESSIONS STATISTICS.
Few of the Thousands of Measures
%AAcoHie Laws.


sHeconie Laws.
1t is somawhat surprising to find how
few acts of as general character become
laws during the term of Congress. While
some $4,000 bills and resolutions were in
| troduced in the House and some $500 in
the Senate of the Congress which
| ceased today, only about $50 pass
ed both houses and received the
approval of the President. or these only
about 75 were of general character. The
rest were laws for the District of Column
bia acts granting rights of way, authoriz-
| ing bridges, establishing ports OF entry,
| granting American register to vessels, con-
structing lighthouses and granting rights
of way through reservations. Besides there
| were hundreds of acts for private claims,
corrections of military records, and lndi-
| vidual pension claims OF the others, flrst
come the great appropriation bllls, ~ OF
which, including deficiency acts, were
! passed at the first session and Il at the
| second.
The miscellaneous appropriation bills
were: Providing for national exposition
at Philadelphia; for increased work of
Adjutant Generals Office; for increasing
efficiency of the Paymaster Generals De-
partment; increasing efficiency of the Sub
! sistence Department.; reimbursing COVER
| nors fer war expenses; for relief of
Klondikers; for Methodist relief claim;
supplying vessel for Yukon; paying Ber-
| ing Sea award; increasing Inspector Gen
! erals Department, and increasing Ord
| nance Department.
! Next comes the two great revenue bills,
the Dingley and the war tariffs, the bank
J ruptcy law, the various army bills, the
/ Spanish Cuban resolutions, the declaration
peliing the use of safety devices on rail-
ways, the patent revision law, and the
various bills authorizing extra pay to SOL
diers. Others of less Importance are the
| following:
Amending laws relating to seamen; con-
corning sailing vessels; appointing COM
mission TO allot Indian lands; regulation to
prevent collision on rivers; prohibiting
! killing OF seals; authorizing two addition
! al regiments of artillery; licensing mates
on steamers; disposng of abandoned i'm
ported merchandise; appointing military
storekeeDer; amending act limiting Terri
! toriai Indebtedness; amending navigation
laws; ratifying Seminole agreement; re-
lieving miners from assessment work; pro-
| viding for engineer brigade: relieving des-
| titute Cubans; establishing postotfices at
| military camps; relating to hospital stew
| ards; organizing volunteer signal corps;
| removing Confederate disabilities; prOvid-
ing pay for volunteers; protecting home
/ stead settlers; authorizing suspension of
| discriminating duties; amending govern
| ment of Alaska extending homestead laws
| 10 Alaska; locating capital of New Mex
| leo; granting general rights of way;
| changing compact with Arkansas; amend
I ing postal card law; extending commuta-
! ton rights TO Oklahoma; granting new
powers TO railways in Indian Territory;
declaring war revising patent and trade
I M lie Iir,y ,f I
providing for an industrial commission;
| organizing the hospital corps: adjusting
| clothing accounts; immediate transporta-
ton OF dgtiable goods; paying session
employees; . for the relief of Ameri-
cans in Cuba; accepting invita-
ton to International Fisheries Congress:
fixing pay of chaplains; relating TO pay of
volunteers; endowing Secretary of War
with discretion; increasing number of
| quartermaster sergeants; enlisting cooks;
distributing public documents: tents for
Mississippi food sufferers; transportation Of
! famine supplies to India; rations for flood
| sufferers; tents for Grand Army of the
| Republic; map of Alaska; authorizing
| monument to Union soldiers; suspending
| War Department laws; prohibiting export
of coal during war; providing sword for
Dewey; protecting harbor defences: :elat-
ing to Engineer Corps. and amending laws
of appointment; amending the army court
martial law; amending the volunteer army
bill
The District laws enacted By the Fifty
fifth Congress are as follows;
Protecting fish: relating TO tax sales;
regulating plumbing; forbidding candy
aduiteTation; relating to the execution of
certain writS; extending Capital TRACTION
Companys tracks; relating TO negotiable
Instruments amending the charter of the
lexington Road amending the charter of
afi1ir,
the rights of purchasers OF The Belt Line:
amending the deadly weapon law amend
ing the criminal laws; regulating barbed
wire fences; reassessing water mains; in
cooperating the Washington and Universi-
~ Railway Company; extending the CO.
lumbia Railway; vesting the parking in
the Commissioners; repeating the highway
act; establishing building lines; requiring
the Brlghtwood line to abandon overhead
wires; incorporating the East Washington
Heights Railroad Company; relating to
the prevention OF smoke; regulating GEM
eteries; accepting bequest for public
schools: relating to food adulteration;
compelling removal of abandoned tracks:
granting Washington and Glen Echo Rail-
way right of way: regulating refuse dis
posal; organizing Naval Reserve grant
ing Supreme Court Of District certain iu-
risdction: supplementing act incorporat-
ing Columbia College; Incorporating the
Masonic Temple Association inspecting
flour; Incorporating the Social Science As
sociation; regulating sitting of United
States courts; providing rules for admis-
sion to Government Hospital for Insane;
relating to arrearages OF taxes; authoriz-
ing the Use Of book typewriters; for the
extension of Pennsylvania Avenue south
east and for Street; against the intro
duction of intoxicating liquors into the
District on Sundays; protecting game and
birds in the District; authorizing the re-
moyai or dangerous buildip~s Furnishing
seduction; regulating the height of build
ings; for the removal of weeds: disposing
of assessment certificates; confirming title
TO certain lots; regulating the patrol sys-
TEN of the District; improving the Ana
costa River; paying the expenses of the
Postal Congress; cleaning away snow.
clearing the Potomac to prevent food. for
the prevention Of smallpox.
CreOsOting Plant.
(From the Portland Oregonian.l
The creosoting plant of the Southern Pa
eiac has recently begun operations at La
than, in Lane County, under the superyi-