The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-01

Mr.. Butler offered resolut ution Tor the
Appointment Of select committee OF
to inquire into the manner Of ventilating
the hall OF the House and the necessity
OF increasing the air passages, and directs
enquirers and engineers for that purpose
to also inquire into the practicability oi
changing the location OF tho hall go as 10
bring into it air and light without pump
ing one and straining the other through
stained glass; also TO examine and report
what changes can be made in the confgu-
ration and extent Of the hall to secure
such acoustic properties as will enable
the members to hear the proceedings so as
to transact the public business intelligent.
y. The resolution was adopted.
The Speaker proceeded With the call
Of committees for reports.
Mr.. Wood, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported resolutions
referring 10 the Committee on Approprl-
ations such parts Of the Presidents mes
sage as relate to appropriations for the
army and navy and courts and for repairs
10 the patent Office, and referring TO the
Committee on Foreign Affairs those por.
tfons Of the message relating to tho
Paris exhibition, and TO the proposed
prison congress at Stockholm. Adopted.
Mr.. Ewing, from the Committee on
Banking and Currency, reported the fol.
lowing bill:
"That the third section Of the act en-.
titled AN act to provide for the resump.
tion ofspecie payments, approved Janu.
nary 14th, 1875, be and the same ia hereby
repealed" - -s-
Mr.. Fort presented the views Of the
minority Of the committee, in the shape
OF an amendment to the bill, as follows i:
"a bill to repeal all that part Of the act
approved January 14lh, 1875, known
as the resumption act, which author.
lied the Secretary OF the Treasury TO
dispose Of United States bonds and re-
deem and cancel greenback currency.
~Be u enacted, de-, That all that por.
ton Of the act which reads as follows
Quoting as above from the third section)
be and the same is hereby repealed"
Mr.. EWipg-I move The bill be printed
and recommitted. sl rG .T--
Mr.. Gartield-Aud also the bill Of the
gentleman from Illinois (Fort), rs the
pending amendment.
The Speaker-It can be printed as an
amendment proposed 10 be offered.
Mr.. Kelly-Is 1t in order now TO offer
substitute?
The speaker-NOt without unanimous
consent.
Mr. Fort-I understood I had the con.
sent Of the committee 10 make minority
report and to move it a. an amendment
to the bill. II have that privilege I
desire TO exercise ii.
The Speaker-The control Of the sub.
iect Is in the hands Of the gentleman from
Ohio, The chair has given every facility
10 the gentleman from Illinois which he
was capable OF giving him, BY fixing the
status Of his bill as q proposed amend,
ment. The chair has not the power to
take from the gentleman from Ohio
(EWing) the right to demand the previous
question.
Mr. Burchard-HOw will it be II the
proposition to recommit b voted down.
The speaker-Then the bill will be be-
fore the House. EE f,f'i9 3
A motion to recomnit was agreed to
without division, aud then Ewing moved
to reconsider that vote, his object being
thus to retain control Of the bill and to be
able to call II up at any time.
Mr.. Conger moved 20 lay the motion
toreconsider on the table.
The Speaker-The vote on that motion
will be practical test Of the sense Of the
House. ..-h fUs Ha
Mr.: sptinger-Ths gentleman from
Ohio has entered a motion 10 reconsider
Has be not the right to call up that mo,
tiou ut any time. sril III
The speaker-Where a motion to re-
consider is entered In the morning hour
It has been the practice Of the House 10
allow the reconsidetahou 70 be called ,lp
in the morning hour The Chair thinks,
however, that aAmole equitable mode