Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — WORK OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF CONGRESS.

Twelve Out of 1.152 Senate Bill* Intre dueed Were P****d Beeord of —— the House. The bill of next greatest the repeal bill which has passed both Houses of Congress is the bill extending the time in which Chinese laborers can register under the Chinese act, known as the Geary law. Much interest attached to the bill providing for a bridge across the Hudson at New York. This bill passed both Houses. The other bills which have passed the Senate are as follows: Making appropriations for the purchase of ground in Washington for a building to be used as a hall of records. Granting to Californiai Spar icehthjnof the net proceeds of the cosh sales of public lands in that State. To extend the time for making final payments on entries under the desert land act. Authorizing certain Cherokee allotees or claimants to purchase certain tracts held and claimed by them. To donate to the county of Laramie, Wyo., certain bridges on abandoned Ft. Laramfc" military reservation. To authorize the Chattanooga Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee river near Chattanooga. To grant the right of way to the Kansas, Oklahoma Central & Southwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory. To aid the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and South Dakota to support schools of mines. The Senate also passed four joint resolutions which originated in that body and twelve which originated in the House. The only one of the Senate joint resolutions of importance is the one which provides for the construction of a hall of records in Washington, which also passed the House. There have been Introduced in the House at this session 4,390 bills and eighty-seven joint resolutions; of this entire number 166 have been reported from committees and fifty-eight have passed the House. Most of those which have passed are of local interest. Of those that have become laws the act next in importance originating in the House after the silver purchasing result is the Chinese bill. This passed the House Oct. 16 and the Senate Nov. 2. A joint resolution passed donating abandoned cannon to the Grand Army encampment, to be held at Pittsburg in 1894. An important joint resolution, which became a law, provides for an international agreement for the marking and removal of derelic a and wrecks in the ocean. One of the number of joint resolutions passed tenders the acknowledgements of the United States to the foreign governments who participated in the World’s Fair at Chicago. Another restores to the Mormon church in Utah money and property that has been in the hands of a receiver since 1887.