Show CONGRESS ADJOURNS THE first session of the fifty second congress came to a close at 11 last evening after a loog long fight an appropriation of was made for the worlds pair fair at chicago the session will not figure in history abone remarkable for any large and important legislation perhaps the bill which attracted most moist attention was the chinese exclusion measure the rull full text of which was published in these columns at the time of its passage the other bills of note passed during the session just closed are the inman registry bill the blackhawk and seminole wars ware pension bill the eight hour bill the army nurse bill the intermediate pension hill bill the bill to increase inore aee the pay of members of the lifesaving life saving service and the bill enabling the president to enforce reciprocity canal arrangements with canada the great topics of the time were free silver coinage the tariff and dealing in options nothing has been done in either measures relating to all three were killed next to these in importance were retrenchment in appropriations and the worlds fair bill As to retrenchment there does not seem to I 1 have been any reforms effected in that line and as an to the worlds fair bill congress can hardly be censured for its reluctance to pass paea that measure when chicago was selected a distinct and emphatic assurance was given by the people ot of illinois that congress would not be asked for any aid beyond the funds necessary for federal exhibits the total number of bills resolutions introduced in the house was nearly and in the senate the house pawed passed bills of which pawed passed the senate aud went to the president the senate passed parsed bille of which passed the house and went to the president who vetold two of them namely the mcgarrahan claim bill and the bill to amend the court of appeals act the president permitted three bills to become law without his signature of the measures pawed passed by the house were private pension billa 48 to remove charges of desertion and 41 private bills of a miscellaneous character only about measures measure of a really public nature were pasted and a number of these related to the district of columbia so that out of the bills and joint resolutions introduced in the house only about measures relating to the nation at large were passed |