People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — THE EXTRA SESSION ENDED. [ARTICLE]

THE EXTRA SESSION ENDED.

Congress Adjourns on Friday—Resume of Its Work. , Washington. Nov. 6. —Both branches of congress, in special session, adjourned sine die at 3 p. m., on Friday. President Cleveland’s nomination of Mr. Hornblower, of New York, for the United States supreme court was held off until the last moment and was finally defeated by inaction. At the extraordinary session sixteen joint resolutionsand seventeen bills became laws. Three of these joint resolutions were signed Friday and nine of the bills. The last propostion to become law was the joint resolution amending the act approved April 25, 1890, relating to the admission of articles intended for the World’s Columbion exposition. Other bills signed Friday were as follows: Transferring the model battleship Illinois to the state of Illinois as a naval armory: donating abandoned cannon to the G. A. R. at Pittsburgh, Pa.; act amending the Geary Chinese law; to regulate terms of the United States circuit and district courts in the state of South .Dakota; increasing the number of officers of the army and navy to be detailed to colleges; to regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States court for the Indian territory; amending an act to provide for holding terms of United States court in Idaho and Wyoming' amending section 2324 of revised statutes relating to mining claims: providing for the construction of steam revenue cutter for service on the great lakes, and an act in regard to the world’s fair prize winners exposition to be held in New York city. Additional important bills which were signed by the president during the extra session included the famous silver bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Also the following: Authorizing acknowledgements to the various foreign governments who participated in the commemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus; for the reporting, marking and removing of derelicts; act in aid of the California Midwinter International exposition: act to extend the time for completing the work of the eleventh census: act amending the act to repeal timber culture laws; several bills relating to the Cherokee outlet, and a bill to settle the Mormon church fund.