26. Providing for donation of certain personal property of United States to South Dakota and North Dakota. Approved June 12, 1890.

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27. To provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. Approved June 30, 1890. 28. To provide for the unexpended balance, $99,439 07, for discharging claims letter-carriers for extra compensation under the eight-hour law, approved May 24, 1888. and appropriated for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888. Approved July 2, 1890. 29. To print the eulogies upon Samuel Sullivan Cox. Approved July 16, 1890. 30. To continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution approved June 30, 1890, entitled a "Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government." Approved July 30, 1890.

31. To permit the Secretary of the Treasury to sign consent for a cable railway in front of the New-York Postoffice and Army Building. Approved August 8, 1890. 32. To amend the "Act to establish two additional land offices in the State of Montana," approved April 1, 1890. Approved August 8, 1890.

33. To continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. Approved August 14, 1890.

34. To accept from the National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic a statue (and pedestal) of the late General Ulysses S. Grant. Approved August 14, 1890. 35. Directing the Librarian of Congress, the Librarian of the Senate, the Librarian of the House of Representatives and the Librarian of the Department of Justice, respectively, to deliver extra or duplicate copies of law books to the law department of Howard University. Approved August 28, 1890.

36. Extending the privilege of the Library of Congress to the members and Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Chief of Engineers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army. Approved August 28. 1890.

37. Providing that nothing in the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill shall be construed to interrupt the publication of the Reports of the International American Conforence. Approved August 30, 1890.

38. Amending and construing the act approved July 1, 1890, in relation to oaths in pension and other cases. Approved September 1, 1890.

39. Appropriating money to the Territory of Oklahoma to relieve destitution therein. Approved September 1, 1890.

40. To print eulogies on Honorable David Wilber. Approved September 19, 1890. 41. To print eulogies on the Honorable Newton W. Nutting. Approved September 19, 1890.

42. To print eulogies upon Samuel J. Randall. Approved September 19, 1890. 43. To print the Annual Reports of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the years 1889 and 1890. Approved September 25, 1890.

44. Providing for the printing of the Agricultural Report for 1890. Approved September 25, 1890.

45. Granting permission to officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the United States to wear the badges adopted by military societies of men who served in the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the war of the Rebellion. Approved September 25, 1890.

46. To authorize the President to appoint an additional ensign in the United States Navy. Approved September 26, 1890.

47. Authorizing the transfer of certain appropriations for the Indian Service on the books of the Treasury. Approved Septeniber 26, 1890.

48. To correct an error in the act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890. Approved September 27, 1890.

49. Providing for the printing of eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late James Laird. Approved September 29, 1890.

50. Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to purchase nickel ore or nickel matte for use in the manufacture of nickel-steel armor, and for other naval purposes. Approved September 29, 1890.

51. To correct an error in the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,' approved September 19, 1890. Approved September 29,

1890.

52. To enable the commission having charge of the preparation and erection of the statue, with suitable emblematic devices thereon, on one of the public reservations in the city of Washington, to the memory of General Lafayette and his compatriots, to execute the purpose expressed in the concurrent resolution adopted by the two houses of Congress on the 28th day of August. 1890. Approved September 30, 1890.

53. To surrender certain bonds, drafts, and other papers in the Department of State to Robert S. Hargous, administrator of Louis S. Hargous, deceased." Approved September 30, 1890.

54. To extend the time of payment to settlers on the public lands in certain cases. Approved September 30. 1890.

55. To permit the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to use a pier, as petitioned by vessel-owners of Chicago, Ill. Approved October 1, 1890.

56. Authorizing the use of a portion of the United States military reservation at Chattanooga for a public park by the city of Chattanooga, Tenn. Approved October 1,

1890.

57. Extending the "Act fixing the rate of interest to be charged on arrearages of general and special taxes now due the District of Columbia, if paid within a time Approved, October 1, 1890. specified," to October 31, 1890.

58. To allow the Postmaster-General to expend $10,000 to test at small towns and villages the system of the free-delivery service, and for other purposes. Approved October 1, 1890.

THE RECORD OF THE CONGRESS.

TITLES OF THE VETOED BILLS-11.

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H. R. 7,170. An act to authorize the City of Ogden, Utah, to assume an increased indebtedness. April 26, 1890.

H. R. 848. An act to authorize the construction of an addition to the public buildApril 29, 1890. ing a Dallas, Texas.

S. 1,306. An act for the erection of a public building at Hudson, New-York.

4, 1890.

June

H. R. 7.175. An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a June 12, 1890. public building thereon at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama. H. R. 3,934. An act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona, to issue certain bonds in aid of the construction of a certain railroad. 20, 1890.

June

S. 1.762. An act to change the boundaries of the Uncompahgre Reservation. June 19, 1890.

H. R. 5.974. An act extending the time of payment to purchasers of land of the July 9, 1890. Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska, and for other purposes. of Captain

Charles B.

H. Res. 39. Joint resolution declaring the retirement Stivers, of the United States Army, valid, and that he is entitled as such retired office to his pay. September 30, 1890.

S. 473. An act for the relief of the Portland Company, of Portland, Maine. tober 1, 1890.

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S. 3,830. An act to prohibit bookmaking and pool-selling in the District of Columlumbia. October 1, 1890.

S. 1,857. An act for the relief of Charles P. Chouteau,survivor of Chouteau, Har rison & Valle. October 1, 1890.

UNSIGNED AT TIME OF ADJOURNMENT (POCKETED)—11.

S. 117. An act for the relief of Edward H. Leib.

S. 1,552. An act granting a pension to Louise Selden.

S. 3,414. An act granting a pension to James Melvin.

H. R. 4,367. An act for the relief of D. H. Mitchell.

S. 2.531. An act granting an increase of pension to Benjamin T. Baker.

S. 1,187. An act for the relief of the Washington Iron Works.

S. 968. An act for the relief of Amos L. Allen, survivor of the firm of Larrabee & Allen.

S. 270. An act for the relief of the assignees of John Roach, deceased.

S. 125. An act for the relief of Reany, Son & Archbold.

S. 145. An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry S. French.

S. 3.721. An act for the relief of A. J. McCreary, administrator of the estate of J. M. Hiatt, deceased, and for other purposes.

PUBLIC ACTS,

With a Statement of the Votes upon their Passage.

THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ACT.

This act appropriates from the sales of public lands to each State and Territory, for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agri. culture and the mechanic arts, $15,000 for 1890, an annual increase for ten years of $1,000 over each preceding year, and the annual amount thereafter to be paid to each State and Territory shall be $25,000, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life and to the facilities for such instruction. A distinction of race or color is not to be made in the admission of students, but the maintenance of separate colleges for white or colored students shall be held to be a compliance with the act, and the funds be equitably divided. The grants are made subject to the legislative agent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grant.

This act passed without a division in either house.

The bill to give National aid to common schools in the various States and Territories was defeated in the Senate March 20, 1890, by a vote of 32 to 36. The affirmative was 24 Republicans, 8 Democrats. The negative vote was 20 Democrats, 16 Republicans. In this computation, Mr. Blair, of New-Hampshire, the author of the bill, who, having first voted for the bill, changed his vote to the negative when he found it defeated, and then made a motion to reconsider, is counted in the affirmative. This motion to reconsider was not called up.

ANTI-LOTTERY LEGISLATION.

The act provides that Section 3,894 of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"Section 3,894. No letter, postal-card or circular concerning any lottery, so-called gift concert, or other similar enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, or concerning schemes devised for the purpose of obtaining money or property under false pretences, and no list of the drawings at any lottery or similar scheme, and no lottery ticket or part thereof, and no check, draft, bill, money, postal note, or money-order for the purchase of any ticket, tickets or part thereof, or of any share or any chance in any such lottery or gift enterprise, shall be carried in the mail or delivered at or through any postoffice or branch thereof, or by any letter carrier; Lor shall any newspaper, cir. cular, pamphlet, or publication of any kind containing any advertisement of any lot tery or gift enterprise of any kind offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, o containing any list of prizes awarded at the drawings of any such lottery or gift enterrise, whether said list is of any part or of all of the drawing, be carried in the mail or delivered by any postmaster or letter-carrier. Any person who shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited, or who shall knowingly send or cause to be sent, anything to be conveyed or delivered by mail in violation of this section, or who shall knowingly cause to be delivered by mail anything herein forbidden to be carried by mail, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine o not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each offence. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section may be proceeded against by information or indictment and tried and punished, either in the district at which the unlawful publication was mailed or to which it is carried by mail for delivery according to the direction thereon, or at which it is caused to be delivered by mail to the person to whom it is addressed."

Sec. 2. That Section 3,929 of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

or

"Sec. 3,929. The Postmaster-General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or that any person or company is conducting any other scheme or device for obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretences, representations or promises, instruct postmasters at any postoffice at which registered letters arrive directed to any such person or company, or to the agent or representative of any such person or company, whether such agent or representative is acting as an individual or as a firm, bank, corporation or association of any kind, to return all such registered letters to the postmaster at the office at which they were originally mailed, with the word "Fraudulent" plainly written or stamped upon the outside thereof; and all such letters so returned to such postmasters shall be by them returned to the writers thereof, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe. But nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to authorize any postmaster or other person to open any letter not addressed to himself. The public advertisement by such person or company so conducting such lottery, gift enterprise, scheme or device, that remittances for the same may be made by registered letters to any cther person, firm, bank, corporation or association nan:ed

therein shall be held to be prima facie evidence of the existence of said agency by all the parties named therein; but the Postmaster-General shall not be precluded from ascertaining the existence of such agency in any other legal way satisfactory to himself." Sec. 3. That Section 4,041 of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 4,041. The Postmaster-General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance or drawing of any kind, or that any person or company is conducting any other scheme for obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretences, representations or promises, forbid the payment by any postmaster to said person or company of any postal money-orders drawn to his or its order, or in his or its favor, or to the agent of any such person or company, whether such agent is acting as an individual or as a firm, bank, corporation or association of any kind, and may provide_by regulation for the return to the remitters of the sums named in such money-orders. But this shall not authorize any person to open any letter not addressed to himself. The public advertisement by such person or company so conducting any such lottery, gift en terprise, scheme or device, that remittances for the same may be made by means of postal money-orders to any other person, firm, bank, corporation or association named therein shall be held to be prima facie evidence of the existence of said agency by all the parties named therein; but the Postmaster-General shall not be precluded from ascertaining the existence of such agency in any other legal way."

This bill passed each house without a division.

ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION.

The act provides that every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 2. Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize. or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 3. Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in any Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the Distict of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or States or foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4. The several Circuit Courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several District-Attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney-General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations. Such proceedings may be by way of petition setting forth the case and praying that such violation shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of snall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed, as soon as may be, to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree, the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in the premises.

Sec. 5. Whenever it shall appear to the court before which any proceeding under Section 4 of this act may be pending, that the ends of justice require that other parties should be brought before the court, the court may cause them to be summoned, whether they reside in the district in which the court is held or not, and subpoenas to that end may be served in any district by the marshal thereof.

Sec. 6. Any property owned under any contract or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy (and being the subject thereof) mentioned in Section 1 of this act, and being in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.

Sec. 7. Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act, may sue therefor in any circuit court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover three fold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.

Sec. 8. That the word "person." or "persons." wherever used in this act shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the

laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.

The above bill, when reported by a committee of conference, passed both houses without a division.

ARMY LEGISLATION.

This act provides that after July 1, 1890, $4 a month shall be retained from the pay of each enlisted man in the Army for the first year of his enlistment, to be paid him a discharge from the service, and forfeited unless he serves honestly and faithfully to the date of discharge-this sum to be treated as a deposit and bear interest from the end of the year in which it shall have accrued. Enlistments shall continue to be made for five years, but at the end of three years every soldier whose antecedent service has been faithful shall be entitled to a furlough for three months and at the end of such furlough, in time of peace, shall be entitled to his discharge on application, but soldiers so discharged shall not be entitled to the allowances provided in Section 1,290 of the Revised Statutes.

In time of peace the President may, in his discretion and under such rules and upon such conditions as he shall prescribe, permit any enlisted man to purchase his discharge from the Army. The purchase money to be paid under this section shall be paid to a paymaster of the Army and be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of one or more of the current appropriations for the support of the Army, to be indicated by the Secre tary of War, and be available for the payment of expenses incurred during the fiscal year in which the discharge is made.

The Army ration now provided by law shall be increased by the addition thereto of one pound of vegetables, the proportion to be fixed by the Secretary of War.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF. The act authorizes the President, whenever it shall be made to appear to his satisfaction, that cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or plague exists in any State or Territory, or in the District of Columbia, and that there is danger of the spread of such disease into other States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, to cause the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate such rules and regulations as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent the spread of such disease from one State or Territory into another, or from any State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the District of Columbia into any State or Territory, and to employ such inspectors and other persons as may be necessary to execute such regulations to prevent the spread of such disease. Proper penalties are provided.

CUSTOMS LEGISLATION.

These bills were passed in the first session of the LIst Congress:

I. To modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and the collection of the revenue.

This bill corrected a manifest error in the Tariff Act of 1883 relating to silk ribbons. It passed both houses without a division.

II. Providing for the classification of worsted cloths as woollens. This bill passed the House-Yeas 138 (Republicans 129, Democrats 9), nays 0-not a quorum of the body. The Speaker, under the rules, counted 75 members present and not voting, thereby making a quorum, and declared the bill passed. The vote in the Senate was-Yeas 32 (Republicans 31, Democrat 1), nays 20 (all Democrats).

III. To simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues. This is popularly known as the Administrative Customs Act. It passed the House-Yeas 138 (all Republicans), nays 121 (all Democrats). It was amended and passed the Senate-Yeas 35 (Republicans 34, Democrat 1), nays 18 (all Democrats). The report of the Committee of Conference, being the existing law, was agreed to in the Senate without a division. In the House the yeas were 127 (all Republicans), nays 13 (all Democrats)-no quorum. The Speaker counted 62 present and not voting, making a quorum, and declared the bill passed.

The bill contains 29 sections, of which this is an abstract:
Section 1. Defines who is the owner of imported goods.

Sec. 2. How invoices shall be made out.

Sec. 3. How declarations on invoices shall be indorsed thereon and what the declaration shall embody.

Sec. 4. Duly certified invoice or affidavit must accompany merchandise admitted to entry. Collector authorized to compel production of papers, and to examine parties under oath.

Sec. 5. Forms of different declarations prescribed.

Sec. 6. Penalty for making false declarations.

Sec. 7. Methods of making additions to invoice value of purchased goods. Penalty to attach for undervaluation above 10 per cent. Forfeiture to attach to goods undervalued more than 40 per cent. To what article forfeiture shall apply. -1 Duty not to be assessed on less than invoice value.

Sec. 8. Additional papers and declarations required with invoice of consigned goods at time of entry. Sec. 9. Penal provision for fraudulent acts in connection with preceding

sections.

Sec. 10. Prescribing duty of appraising officers and collectors in ascertaining actual market values of imported merchandise at time of exportation to United States.