Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DID. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DID.

Statement Prepared Giving in Figure* Kesalt of th: Work Done. R. S. Platt, enrolling clerk of tbe Senate, has prepared a statement giving in figures the results of the work of the last Congress. The statement shows that 1.457 bills and joint resolutions became laws out of a total of 18,463 introduced in both houses. Of the measures introduced 12.606 were presented in the House ami 5.555 in the Senate. Of those which became laws !*42 originated iu the House and 315 in the Senate. There were only two direct votes during the Congress, urn* of these applying to a Senate bill and the other to a House measure. There were in addition to these four pocket Tetoes—bills which failed to become laws because they were not approved by the President. The record shows that the Senate passed 1,173 of its own bills and that the House acted favorably upon only 517. or fewer than half of them, while of the 1.061 House bills passed by the House the Senate acted favorably upon !M6. A larger number of bills were introduced than iu any previous Congress.