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Show WORK OF CONGRESS. What Was Done During the Flfty.tevj. enth Session. Aloxander McDowell, clerk of the houso of representatives, has mado' public an official compilation mado by-Tally by-Tally Clerk Wakefield, showing tho work dono by tho houso during the-Flfty-soventh congress. It shows that tho longest day of tho session lasted,, with recesses, 114 hours, during whlclr j( oighty rollcalls wero taken. Tho numbor of bills and resolutions! introduced In tho houso during the two-sessions two-sessions of tho congress wns 18,420, and reports wero mado on 2,810 bills' 1 and resolutions. Tho senate sont to- 1 tho houso 1,030 scnato bills and rcso- I lutlons. I Tho houso disposed of 2418 of tho- I measures originating with It, and of' 1 1,012 of tho senate bills and resolu- H tlons, making a total of 3,430 bills and resolutions acted upon. Congress left on Its calondars 405-houso 405-houso and 118 scnato bills and restitutions. resti-tutions. Fifteen members of tho house dledT during tho congress, seven resigned,, nnd Messrs. Ithca (Ky.), and Dutler (Mo.), wero unseated, tho latter twice. |