The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-01
HOUSE.

HOUSE.
Mr.. Butler offered resolution for the
appointment OF select committee OF
10 inquire into the manner OF vertila-
ting the hall OF the House and the neces-
sity OF increasing the air passages, and
directs that engineers be employed tor
that purpose; also, to inquire into the
practic1bilty of changing the location OF
the hail So us TO bring into it air and
light without pumping the one and
straining the other through stained
glass, and also TO examine and report
what changes should be made 10 th3 con
fguration and extent OF the nall to secure
suCh acoustic properties as Will enable
the members to hear the proceedings, so
rs to be able to transact the public busi-
ness inteligently. The resolution was
adopted.
The Speaker then proceeded to call the
committees for reports.
Mr.. Wood, from the Committee on
Ways AID Means, reported resolution
referring to the Committee on Approprl-
tioDs such parts OF the Presidents 'smnsS "
As relate to the appropriations for the
Army and Navy and the Courts, and
Tor repairs to the Patent Office and re-
terring TO the Commlttee on Foreign
Affairs those portions OF the mess ge re
ating to the Paris Exhibition and to
the proposed Prison Congress at Stock.
holm. Adopted.
Mir. Ewing, from the Committee on
Banking and Curr nCy, reported the
following bill: That the third section of
ne act entitled an act TO provide for the
resumption OF specie payments, approved
January IA, 1865. be and the same is
hereby repealed.
Mr.. Fort presented the views OF the
minority of the committee in the shape
OF An amendment to the bill rs follows:
a bill to repeal sll that part OF the act
approved January Ia, 1875 known as
the resumption act, which authorized the
Secretary of the Treasury TO dispose Of
United States bonds and redeem and
cancel the green back currency.
BE il enacted, That all portions oi the
act which read as follows, Quoting as
above from the third s5cLion,) be and the
same are hereby repeated
Mr.. Ewing move that the bill be
printed and recommtted.
Mr. ,rtield-AEd also the bill of the
gentleman from Illinois, Fort rs
pendIng amendment.
The Speaker-lL can be printed as
sn amendment proposed to be offered.
MIR Kelley-Is ii IN order now to offer
the sub ,titute2
The Speaker-Not without unanimous
consent.
Mr.. Fort-I understood had the con-
sent of the committee 20 make minority
report and to move 1t rs sn amendment
TO the bill. II have that privilege de-
sire to exercise 1t.
The Speakcr-The control OF the sub
iect is in the hands of the gentleman
from Ohio The Char has given every
facility to the gentleman from Illinois
which he was capable of giving hin by
fixing the status OF his Dill as proposed
amendment. The Chair has not the
power 10 take from the gentleman from
Ohio Mr.. Ewing] the right to demand
the previous question.
Mr.. Burchsrd How will it, if the pro-
position to recommit be voted down?
The Speaker me bill! will be be-
fore the House.
The motion TO recommit was agreed TO
without division, and then Mr.. Ewing
moved to reconsider that vote, his object
beng thus t. retain control OF the bill,
and TO be able to call 1t up At any time.
MIR. Conger moved to lay the motion
to reconsider on tae table.
The Speaker-The vote on that motion
would be practical test OF the sense OF
the House.
Mr.. Springer-The gentleman from
Ohio mas entered motion to reconsider.
Has he not the right to call up that mo-
ton a. any time?
The Speaker Where motion TO re-
consider Is entered IN the morning hour,
it has been the practice OF the House to
allow the reconsideration to be called up
in the morning hour. The chair thinks,
however, that more equitable mode
would be, when bill is reported
in the morning hour, and mo-
ton 70 reconsider made, TO allow
that motion TO be called up after the eI
piration OF the morning hour, otherwise
the morning hour might be occupied in
thst way each day, to the exclusion OF its
regular business. The gentleman from
lInois Sprlnger] is aware that the
practice heretofore has been TO allow
motions 10 reconsider 10 be entered dur
ing the morning hou., and TO be cOnsid-
cred when called up in the morning
hour, although, as the chair again ststes,
that course Is not in any way facilitating
ousI ness,
Mr.. Ewing-l merely entered the mo.
tion under the impression that it was tie
privilege OF the member of q comm .ttee
VINO entered motion TO reconsider to
/ call II up 81 his discretion.
The Speaker That has been the uni
form practice OF the House, but the Chair
recognizes the TACT that any mem Der of
the House can make a motion to lsy 1t
on the table.
Mr.. Ewlng-I was under the impress
sion that no other member could move TO
| lay it on the table.
The Speaker-The Chair thinks that
it IS u mistake, but the gentleman does
not suffer unless majority of the House
is against his bill, for when his commit
tee Is De1t called ne can again report the
bill and force action upon it.
Mr.. kwing-lf the motion 70 lay on