The Portland daily press., 1877-11-01

Morgan.
The following bills were referred:
BY Mr.. Anthony providing for discussing
officer for the Congressional printing Office
By Mr.. Burnside to remove all restrictions
now existing in regard to the enlistment of
colored citizens in the army.
A number of unimportant bills were intro.
duced
Mr.. Gordon presented petition of citizens of
Augusta, Ga, praying Congress to take some
action in regard to Freedmen's Bank, SO sas to
restore to them their deposits.
The Senate at 1915 went into executiva Sea-
sion.
After the executive session, at 1877, the Sem
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The reading of the journal was not con-
cluded until 2.35, when papers in large nnm-
Der of election cases were presented by the
Speaker and referred to the Committee on
Elections.
On motion of Mr. Goode of Virginia, the
Committee on Accounts was instructed to re-
port what committees are entitled to clerks.
Mr. Butler of Massachusetts offered reso-
luton for the appointment of a select COM
mlttee OF seven to inquire into the manner of
ventilatiDg the hall of the House, the compe-
tency OF the machinery, air passages and ducts,
engines and engineers for that purpose; also
into the practcability CT changing the location
of the hall so as to bring into it air and light
without pumping the one or straning the other
through stained glass; also to examine and
report what changes can be made in the con-
| iguratoniand extent of the hall to secure such
acoustic properties as will enable the members
| to hear the proceedings, so as to be able to
| transact public business intelligently.
The resolution was adopted, and the Speaker
proceeded to call committees for reports
Mr.. Wood, from the Committee of Ways
and Means. reported resolution referring to
the Committee on Appropriations such parts of
thelPresidents message as relate to appro-
priatons for the army and navy and courts,
| and for the repairs of the Patent Office. and
| referring to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
those portions of the message relating, to the
| Paris exhibition, and to the proposed prison
| congress at Stockholm. Adopted.
MIR. Ewing of Ohio, from the Committee on
Banking and Currency, reported the following
| bill;
That the third section of the act entitled 'an
| act to provide for the resumption of specie pay
ments, approved January IA, 1875, be and the
| same is hereby repealed"
Mr.. Fort of Illinois presented the views of
the minority committee in the shape of an
| amendment to bill as follows:
"a bill to repealsall that part of the act,
/ approved January IA, 1876 known as the
resumption act, which authorized the Secretary
| of the Treasury to dispose of United States
bonds and;redeem land cancel the greenback
currency"
''Be it enacted, Sc, That all that portion of
thelact which reads as follows Quoting as
above from the third section) be and the same
1 is hereby repealed"
Mr.. Ewing of Ohio-I move that the bill be
| printed and recommitted
Mr.. Garfield of Ohio-And also the bill of
the gentleman. from Illinois (Fort, as pending
amendment.
The Speaker-It can be printed as an amend
| ment proposed to be offered.
Mr.. Kelley of Pennsylvania-Is it in order
| now to offer substitute?
The Speaker-Not without unanimous con-
| sent.
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the committee to make minority report and
l to give it as an amendment to the original bill.
| If have that privilege, desire to exercise it.
The Speaker-The control of the subject is
in the hands of the gentleman from Ohio. The
chair has given every facility to the gentleman
from Illinois which it was capable of giving to
him by fixing the status of his bill as pro-
| posed amendment. The chair has not the
| power to take from the gentleman from Ohio
(Ewing) the right to demand the previous
/ question.
Mr.. Burchard of nlinois-How will it be if
the proposition to recommit be voted down?
The Speaker-Then the bill will be before
| the House.
out division, and then Mr.. Ewing moved to
] reconsider that vote, his object being thus to
| retain the control of the bill and to be able
| to call it up at any time.
Mr. Conger of Michigan moved to lay the
/ motion to reconsider on the table.
The Speaker-Tha vote on that motion will
be practical test of the sense of the House.
Mr.. Springer of lllino:s-The gentleman
| from Ohio has entered motion to reconsider.
Has he not the right to call Iup that motion at
| any time?
The Speaker-Where motion to reconsider
| is entered in the morning hour, it has been the
practice of the House to allow that reconsider
alton to be called up in the morning hour The
Chair thinks, however, that the more equitable
| mode would be, where a bill is reported in the
| morning hour and a motion to reconsider
made, to allow that motion to be called in the
| House after the expiration of the morning
occupied in that way every day, to the exclu-
sion OF its regular business. The gentleman
from Illinois is aware that the practice here
| tofore has been to allow motions to reconsider
l to be entered during the morning hour and to
be considered when called up in the morning
hour, although. as the Chair again states, that
| course is not. in the interest of facilitating
| business.
Mr.. Ewing-I merely entered the motion to
| reconsider under the impression that it was
the privilege of a member of a committee who
entered motion to.reconsider to call it up at
his discretion.
The Speaker-That has been the uniform
practice of the House, but the Chair recognized
/ the fact that any member of the House can
make the motion to lay it on the table.
Mr.. Ewing-I was under the impression that
table,
The speaker-The Chair thinks that mis-
take, but the gentleman does not suffer unless
l a majority of the House is against his bill, for
when his committee is next called he can
again report his bill and force action upon it.
Mr.. Ewing-If the motion to lay on the
table is in order, I am quite willing to test the
| sense of the House on the question now
Vote was therefore taken by yeas and nays
| on Mr.. Conger's motion to reconsider the vote
recommitting the bill to the Committee on
Banking and Currency, and the motion was
rejected yeas 116, nays 138-as follows:
Yeas-Aiken, Bacon, Bagley. Baker of N. Y, Bal
| lou, Banks, Bisbee, Blair Boyd, Brentano, Brewer
Briggs, Bundy. Burchard, Burdick, Cain, Campbell
Caswel, Chittenden, Clafin, Clark Of N. j., Cole,
Darrall, Davis Of Call Deering, Dennison, Dunnell,
Dwight, Eames Eyckhof, Ellsworth. Field, Foster,
bergh. Harris Of Mass Hart, Hayes. Hazslton, Hen
dee, Henderson, Hewitt of N. c., Hiscock, HubbelI,
Humphrey, Hungerford, Ittner. Jones Of n. IN
Landers; Latham, Lathrop, Lindsey, Ltutrell, May
ham. McCook, McGowan, McKinsley, Mitchell,
overton, Pacheco Page, Patterson, Peddie, Pollard,
Potter, Pound. Powers, Price, Rainey, Reed Rice,
Ross, Robinson Of Mass, Sampson, schleicher, Sin
| of Iowa, Strait, Thornburgh, Townsend of Ohio,
Townsend Of N, Y, Wait, Ward, Warner, Watson,
WEIGH, Willetts, Williams of Wis. Williams of Del,
Williams of Oregon, Willis of N. Y, Wood, Wren
/ No.
| Nays-Atkins. Baker of Ind, Banning, Bayne,
| Bell, Bicknen. Blackburn. Bland, Blount. Boone,
Bouck, Buckner. Butler, Cabell, Caldwell OF KY,
Caldwell of Tenn, Calkins, Gambler, Cannon, Car
Isle, Chalmers, Olark of Mo-, Clymer, Cobb, Cook
Cox of N. Y, Cravens Chittenden, Culberson, Cum
mings, Davidson, Davis Of N. c., Dibrell. Dckey,
Durham, Eden, ELAN, Ellis, Errett, Evans OF Ind,
Evins of S. c. Ewing, Fellows, Finley Forney, Fort,
Franklin, Fuller Gardner Garth, Giddings Glover,
Goode. Gunter, Hamilton, Hanna, Harris of Ca,
Harrison, Hartridge, Hartzell, Hatcher, Hendee,
Henry, Hewitt of Ala, Herbert, Harker, House,
Hunter. Hunton, Jones of Ala. Kelley, Kenna, Kill
linger, Kimmil, Knapp, Knott Lynde, Mackey,
Marsh, Manning, Maish, Martin, Mckenzie McMa-
hon, Mills, Morgan, Muldrow, Neal, Oliver, Phelps
Phillips, Pridemore, Randolph Rea, Reagan, Rice,
| Riddle, Robbins, Roberto, Robertson. Robinson of
Ind, Ryan, Sapp, Sayler, Scales, Sexton Shelter.
barger, Shelley. Singleton, Slemons, Smith of Ga
Springer, Stenger, Thompson, Throckmorton Tip,
ton, Townsend of ILL.,, Turner, TurneY. Vance, Van
Voorhees,, Waddell, Walker, Walsh, White of Pa,
White of Ind, Whitthorpe Williams of Ala Willis
of KY, Wilson, Wright, Yeates. Young-13s.
The last member to have his vote recorded
was Mr. Butler of Massachusetts, who had not
voted when his name was called. He voted in
the negative.
The result of the vote is to leave the control
of the bill in the hands of the Banking and
Currency Committee, or to Ewing, who re-
ported it, and who can at any time call up his
motion to reconsider, and thus have action
taken on the bill 1t will be in his power to
cut off all amendments, even that proposed by
Mr.. Fort, by moving the previous equstion.