The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-16
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So the amendment Of Mr.. Thurman 10 his
amendment was rejected-ayes, H;Snoes,
GO. rThe rejected amendment appears in.
the first paragraph Of this report ;.5
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Mir. BILE offered a further amendment
providing that the Washington and Rich
rnond Railway Company shall purchase the
States interest In the Richmond, sFreder.,9
ieksburg and Potomae road, if IT. shall not;
have been previously sold. 81 "a siss /.
MIR. CRENsHAw said there ought to bea
provision that the Richmond, FredcIiyks-a
burg and Potomac Company should have
the preference as q purchaser IL the States /
interest Is sold. ~ s., ,t4
MIR. BELL said that his own opinion was
that, if possible, the States interest In the,
road should be sold to the highest bidder,
If sold at all. .<s,ls.st 4
The amendment Of Mr.. Bell was agreed,
to. .e46 @ ssti b. .,t,a.-.,,.
A STRANGE PIECE OF BUSINESS, ,srs ~
Mr. THURMAN, of Bedford, here said :, 80
| He desired to call the attention of the
House to what, either Intentionally oriun-,
Intentionally, designedly or otherwise, is
nevertheless a change, alteration, and mu-
I.tilation of records Of this House, which, in
my opinion, may very materially affect the
bill now before the. House.. The member
from Loudoun offered an amendment to-
the amendment of my own, then pending,
to come in after the first line, which was
distinctly SO stated by him. and was SO
voted for by this House !; and nowEt this
amendment precedes my amendment, and
| the original paper shows the alteration;
and thus the words elf the General AS.
sembly so determine are made to pre-.
cede the whole sentence, while, as it was
in the original, they came after one of Its
provisions-a difference which may beovery
material. And the clerk, in reading the
whole amendment just now, read itEin Its
altered and mutilated shape. I desire to
know if this is to pass by in this way, and
the records of this House thus toybe
changed2 If so, l protest against 1.-The
whole thing. " . iasI3sp.ia ~
The Clerk 1t is proper that l should
state that the member from Bedford is
right, and that the amendment, as offered
and voted upon, did come in where he says,
and has since been changed on the original
paper. fDi haa
Mr.. WOOD / rise to point Of order,
and that is that the record must stand as it
has been read, unless it is changed by the
House upon motion, and that ne cannot
raise the question as to which is the true
record without making q motion to change
it to what he says it was. a. ID Nafal
Mr.. SPEAKER The point of order swell
taken. The member from Bedford cannot
question the record as read without making
a motion to change. 5Esis&I
| Mr.. THURMAN: Do understand ----
Mr.. SPEAKER trappingl: The member
cannot speak unless he appeals from the
decision of the Chair. @ 3ft III
MIR. THURMAN: desire to know exactly
what the Chair - fegal ,FfFs
Mr.. SPEAKER [rappingl Does the gentle
MN appeal! .a,
Mr.. THURMAN: do. You have q right
to be heard first. Do you desire to speak?
Mr.. SPEAKER: / do not. ..,q IL
Mr.. THURMAN Then will state the de-
cision from which l appeal, and my rea-
sons for it. The member from Halifax
raised the point of order upon me that the
record must stand as it had been read,
and that I could not question It's
genuinepess without moving to change
Lit from the garbled and mutilated
record read, to the real record, and the
ISpeaker of this House has sustained the
point of order, thus in effect deciding that
changed, altered, garbled, mutilated re-
cord-admitted to be $3.50 stated by the
clerks and shall remain the record OF
this House unless changed by vote Of the
House that the record of your proceed
ings here is not the record, but the altera'
tions, changes, and manipulations made by
some one member of this House, or by
some one else, is the record, and by that
we shall abide unless we formally vote out
that false, spurious, and fictitious record
and in lieu thereof insert the true record.
MIR. SPEAKER: The member is mistaken, l
did not so decide. ! merely decided that
the record could not be changed without
motion to that effect. ,,.
Mr.. THURMAN: But ]. assert that this sspu-
rious record which has been received is no
record at all, and that the original record,
as kept by the clerk, which Is fresh In the
mindso members, is the only record, and
that no decision of the Speaker of this
House can change tina. record and require
| it to be voted back.
Here. followed considerable confusion by
the Speaker, Mr.. r., and others, all at
tempting to speak at once, which was finally
quieted by Mr.. 7. asking to have the record
| read by the clerk as it was. F. ~
[The clerk then read the amendment, and
nut in the other amendment at the point
Mr.. L. said it belonged, and not as It had
been read.l ....-..,..... 49,,
Mr.. THURMAN: This / assert to be the
true and only record, and that any attempt
to change it must come from those who
seek to put this amendment into the other
at place this House never voted to put 1t.
Mr.. SPEAKER: have not undertaken to
determine which was the record, and il the
gentleman had not been quite 80 hasty ne
would not have been led into this mistake.
/ Mr. THURMAN: 'Tis you have made the
| mistake. You mean to say you woilld not
have had to back down from your polt'on.
| lThe appeal was then withdrawn.
c, AS ANESpzR .sJesR.
! The amendment as aInended Was ' 'uen