Few measures of importance except those named above have become law at this session of Congress. Most notable among the others are those repealing the war revenue taxes, extending and making mre effective the Chivese exclusion laws, establishing a tariff for woods to and from the Philippines, extending the characters of national banks for twenty years, estabishing a permanent census otice,
a high tariff on imitation butter, providing' ing the sale of oleowatyarine, by plating a consular and diplomatic service for Cuba, establish ug an extensive system by which the Government will aid in_ the irrigation of the atid sectims of the west. The irrigation act is of special import ance to the development of the West. creates an irrigation fund in the treasury department, into which is to he paid the proc-ells of the sales of public lands in the arid states. This fund, in turn, is to be use! in storing water' and establishing irrigation systems, the irrigated sections to be open to homesteaders. who are to be charged a proportionate shat of the cost of the improvement.
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