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Enclosed Cad 15 cents, for widen please tend toe Catalogue No. ju Kflume. SxprcM Offioe-Cottnty Write very plain. Post Ofisc- -8ft- A Twe-BlIHon-DolIar Congress. Senator Allison, republican, says that the expenditures of the Fifty-seventh congress which recently ad journed, amounted to $1,654,103,514. The totaL appropriations made by the Fifty-sixth congress amounted to ?1, 440,489,438. Thus it will be seen that according to Senator Allison's figures, the appropriations made by the Fifty seventh congress exceeded those of its predecessors by more than $118, 000,000. But Congressman Livingston, one of the democratic members of the house committee on appropriations, says that Senator Allison has failed to in clude appropriations amounting to more than $500,000,000. Mr. Livings ton says that his figures show that the congress- recently adjourned made appropriations amounting to $2,000,- 000,000. The Washington correspondent of the New York World sends to his pa per an interesting statement under the head-line of "What Congress Accom plished and What Was Left Undone." The World's correspondent says: The three months' session ending to day shows a fairly good record in the number of important bills passed and general legislation enacted. A major ity of the republicans regard the anti trust legislation as the greatest achievement of the session. A com prehensive plan for controlling trust3 and corporations was made operative by the passage of three bills, each dove-tailing with the other. These provide for publicity, prevent the giv ing or receiving of rebates, prohibit discriminating rates and give suits against trusts precedence in federal courts over ordinary cases. Their value depends on how vigorously the president enforces them. The ninth executive department of the government was created, being designated as that of commerce and labor. Efforts to secure this legisla tion have been made in many previous congresses without success. An act was passed creating a gen eral staff corps for tho army, thereby placing it on the same footing as the European organizations. This has been one of Secretary Root's chief am bitions. The reorganization of the army will be made effective after the retirement of General Miles. Provision was made for creating a militia service which will be of great utility In time of war. A newimmigration law was passed which will do much to restrain the in coming of objectionable aliens. It will render the contract labor law more rigid, and puts into execution stringent regulations for the exclusion aid control of anarchists. The bankruptcy act was amended so as to remove the objections raised against the existing law and to pre vent fraudulent transactions by debt ors. The duty on anthracite coal was re moved, permitting large importations of fuel from Nova Scotia and Canada. This afforded some relief to the bor der states from the coal famine caused by the strike in the anthracite re gions. The sum of $3,000,000 was given to relieve famine and suffering due to the recent hostilities. Provision was made for redeeming tho Hawaiian silver coin with United States money and extending the Amer ican financial system to that territory. Authorization was given for con structing a new home for tho depart ment of agriculture, and $1,500,000 was appropriated for that purpose. The efficiency of tho Philippine con stabulary was increased, thereby re moving the necessity for maintaining so many soldiers in the islands. An act was passed to increase the pensions of those who have lost limbs in the military or naval ser vice of the United States. The safety of employes and travel ers on railroads has been increased by additional legislation requiring the use of automatic couplers, continuous brakes and driving-wheel brakes. The pension laws were amended to prevent the practice of young women marrying aged ex-soldiers for the pur pose of receiving widow s pensions al ter their deaths. A union railroad station was au thorized for Washington which will cost several million dollars. Persons accused of crime can here after be removed to and from tho Philippine Isjands for trial. This has heretofore been impossible, and many criminals escaped punishment for ser ious offenses. An additional judge was allowed the district court for the southern district of New York, thereby relieving the congested condition existing in the metropolis. A bill was passed establishing a coinage system for the Philippines. THINGS THAT WERE NOT DONE? Included in, the work which failed of completion' at the short session is the appropriation of $000,000 neces sary to secure tne site for a new up town po8tofilco in New York city. The bill to protect the president, vice president and cabinet officials, after passing both branches of con gress and being agreed to in confer ence, failed to become a law. The bill reducing the tariff on all importations from the Philippines to tho United States to 25 per cent of the Dingley act rates, which passed the house, was talked to death in tho senate. This measure was urgently de sired by the president, who sent his last special message to congress on that subject Tho Fowler currency bill in the house and the Aldrich financial bill in the senate failed to pass either body. The omnibus statehood bill, which passed tho house last session, provid ing for the admission of Arizona, Nov Mexico and Oklahoma as states, was filibustered against In the senate for nearly fourteen weeks and its passage prevented, although a pronounced ma jority of tho senate favored it. The Littlefield anti-trust bill, passed almost unanimously by the house and favorably reported by the senate judi ciary committee, failed of action, the republicans maintaining that adequate anti-trust legislation had already been enacted. Tho Panama canal treaty and the Cuban reciprocity treaty failed of ratification, and will be considered at the special session of the senate. What Is Needed. Jacob Miller, a pioneer Cape Nomer who enjoys tho soubriquet of "Tun dra Jake," remarked to a friend in tho corridor of tho Fifth Avenue Ho tel: "I have just been reading an in terview with Colonel W. J. Suther land upon the present needs of Alas ka. The colonel is well posted in matters territorial. He touches upon tho mining laws, tho judiciary, home stead claims, transportation, etc., but he omits tho great crying need Alas ka has at present" "What is that?" interrogated his friend. "Warmer weather." New York Times. The Aldrich BUI. The defeat of the Aldrich bill can not be regarded as a calamity. The bill provided that government funds could be deposited In the banks upon such deposits being secured by state, city and railroad bonds. Another fea ture of the bill was the provision that the bonds to be issued in the con struction of the Panama canal should be used as a basis for the issue of ad ditional bank currency. The purpose of this bill is to get rid of the enormous surplus with drawn from circulation and piled up in the treasury as the result of un necessary and burdensome taxation Instead of reducing the taxes and al lowing this money to flow back in tho channels of trade in a fair and normal way, the republicans desire to turn it over to a favored class to be operated upon by them to their profit. The Aldrich bill was a mere scheme to increase the power of the national banks and further entangle tho gov ernment with the banking business. -Memphis News. A State of Mind. In the state of Mass. 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