Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — Bills Still in Progress. [ARTICLE]

Bills Still in Progress.

Aside from these important laws there are a number of other measures of general importance which have passed one or both houses, but have not progressed to the final stage. These include the anti-anarchy legislation, which grew out of the assassination of President McKinley. Bills, restricting anarchy and throwing safeguards about the President have passed both branches of Congress, but it has been impossible to reach an agreement in conference, so that the subject goes over until next December. A bill giving statehood to Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, known as the omnibus statehood bill, passed the House and the Senate has determined to take up the matter early in the next session. Other Important Laws. The ship subsidy bill secured early attention in the Senate, but the end of the session has come without the measure being reported to the House. As it passed the Senate the bill grants graded subsidies to steam and sailing vessels of American build. In the House it has been deemed desirable to let the subject go over until the short session, when it is expected a bill on the subject will be reported and urged to passage. The bill creating the Apalachian forest reserve, including a vast tract in the Apalachian mountain section of the South, has received favorable attention in both houses, but has gone over for final adjustment of differences until next December. Another bill passed by the Senate and likely to become a law changes the marine hosjiital service to a national health bureau hnd gives the bureau larger powers and facilities for co-operating with the State health authorities in quarantine and health affairs. The bill to establish a cable between the United States, Hawaii and the Philippines was retired by defeat in tj>e House of Representatives. Halt by the Way. Several other measures have advanced to a certain stage and have then halted without much prospect for fufther ad-