Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DID. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DID.

Statement Prepared Giving in Figures Result of the Work Done. B. 8. Platt, enrolling clerk of the Ben-j ate, 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 intros duced 12,608 were presented in the House and 5,855 in the Senate. Of those which became laws 942 originated in the House and 515 in the Senate. There were only two direct votes during the Congress, one of these applying to a Senate bill and the other to a House measure. There were in addition to these four pocket vetoes—bills which failed to become laws oeeause 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 tbe 1,081 House bills passed by the House the Senate acted favorably upon 946. A larger number ot trills were introduced than ia any previous Congress.