Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — WORK OF THE LAST CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF THE LAST CONGRESS.

Over Twelve Thousand Bills Introduced, but Very Few Became Laws. According to figures prepared by B. S. Platt, enrolling- clerk of the Senate, 720 bills and joint resolutions became laws during the third session of the Fifty-third Congress. Of these 215 were Senate and 505 House bills and resolutions. During the entire Congress 12,223 measures were introduced in the two houses, of which 2.952 originated in the Senate and 9,271 in the House. The Senate passed 527 of its own bills, but only 239 of these received favorable action in the House,’ while of the 711 House bills which passed the House, 569 also passer] the Senate. The President vetoed or failed to sign 24 of the Senate bills sent to him, while 54 House bills met the same fate at the hand of tlie executive. It appears from this statement that less than 6 per cent, of the bills introduced during the Congress became laws.