Show IF THE number of bills passed by Congress Con-gress is any criterion by which to judge the amount of work accomplished the Fiftieth Fif-tieth Congress will peer any of its predecessors prede-cessors There ware 4003 > bills introduced in the Senate < and in Senate joint resolutions resolu-tions Of this nunibsr 112 passed the Senate S54 ware either postponed indefi nitey or referred to the court of claims so that the total number on which final action was taken by the Senate was 1681 bills and i resolutions The committee on enrolled bills examined 067 Senate bills and joint resolutions and sent them to the President 591 of which became law The House of Representatives passed 1561 House bills and sent them to the Senate which passed 1347 of them leaving by the wayside 214 of them The House also passed 50 House joint resolutions 48 of which the Senate sanctioned Balancing the work done it will be found toat the House passed 2284 > kv > L = r < House and Senate bills and the Setate 1 2533 So that the Senate passed 233 more bills than the House |