Show legislative LABORS what the congress has accorn in its first session BIT by western asad press to the july 7 the following measures passed both houses and were tt ere signed by the president in addition to the re regular slur annual appropriation pria tion bills and river and harbor bills Eria ills bills to reduce the rate of postage on newspapers and periodical publication of the second class when sent by others that publishers or news agents to 1 cent for ounces to pr provide ovidea a civil government fo for r alaska laska I 1 F to extend the duration of the court of commissioners of alabama claims until december im to p r ebent a and d punish counterfeiting ou in the be united ted states of bonds or ua II 11 I 1 ot other her securities e e of f foreign governments to gr franl nl fifteen days leave of ab bence sence with pay in each jear to letter carriers carriers to authorize the secre secretary ary of war to offer a reward of for the re covery cov cry of the thi greeley Gre eloy arctic exploration i party I 1 to establish a bureau Burea of labor statistics ulf y to make all roads a arid d highways post roads f to authorize the tile legislatures of the states of illinois arkansas louisiana and tennessee toil to sell or lease certain land appropriated for school purposes to remove certain i burdens from american merchant marine narine commonly k known aa as the dingley shipping bill to establish a bureau of animal andus industry T prevent the exportation of diseased disease cattle and provida provide for the suppression and exair extirpation 01 aaion of rod pneumonia an and other ier contagious diseases among domestic animals to make it a felony for any person to personate any officer or em of the united states acting under authority of the united states rates or any department thereof tc to repeal the test oath act of 1862 to authorize the fitting out of an expedition forthe for the relief of li lieutenant f eaten nt greeley and party in the arctic seas T to limit the time in in which prose t cautions may begun against pert persons soni for violation of internal revenue laws to three years j to relieve from the charge of desertion certain soldiers sol diora of tho the late war who after having served faithfully till after the close of the war left their commands without beave to provide in a stata west of the mississippi river a branch home for fot volunteer soldiers of the late war ivar and war of 1812 hose whose disabilities were not incurred in service against the united states to provide for the disposal of abandoned and useless military reservations to reorganize the tile corps of judge advocates of the ar army my to establish a bureau of navigation in the tile treasury department the follow ln ing g measures have been incorporated in the regular appropriation pria tion bills and anti b become a come laws to I 1 appoint p c a commission to visit severa several abc countries 0 un tries offen of Central aral and south america to collect information as to the beat best mode of securing more in intimate t i international commercial relations between those countries and the united states to all estimates of appropriations and estimates of deficiencies in appropriations in fo for r consideration of Cou Coti giess shall b be transmitted to congress through the secretary of the treasury and in no other manner to provide that lie the number of deputy collectors internal revenue gaugert gan gau gers storekeepers and clerks employed in the internal revenue bers iser vice shall not be increased to create a board of pension ap up s peals to be appointed by the secretary of the interior to provide for the tile appointment of a scientific com commission which may in in ahe he name of the united states government conduct a national con ferenc 4 of 1 electricians in philadelphia in the autumn of ISM 1881 1 to authorize case of threatened or actual epidemic to use nee the unexpended balance of jt ions not to exceed in aid of stat and local boards or otherwise I 1 in n hia his discretion in preventing and a n d suppressing pr e s s in g the spread of the is bame a n ie 0 and n pd r maintaining a a i nt aaning quarantine at points of danger to permit admission to the government Hospi hospital for the insano insane inmates of tho the soldiers home who are now or ma may hereafter become insane to provi provide e that it shall not be lawful for the head of any executive de patt payment ment or any bureau branch or officer of the government to cause to be printed nor for the public printer to print any docil document ment or matter of any character whatever except that which is fir authorized by law and necessary to administer public business nor for any bureau officer to embrace in ills s annual ot 01 other report to be printed any matter not directly pertaining to the tile duties of his pruce allce as prescribed by law to provide far the appointment of a missouri river commission with powers and duties similar to those of the mississippi sippi river commission to appropriate OW to pay tho rebate tax on tobacco |