CONTESTS FOR SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. The following is a list of contests for seats in the House of Representatives for the Fifty-first Congress, as shown by a letter from the Clerk of the last House, submitted in compliance with the act of March 2, 1887 (see ante, page 384): G. W. Atkinson against John O. Pendleton, from the first Congressional district of the State of West Virginia. Henry Bowen against John A. Buchanan, from the ninth Congressional district of the State of Virginia. James R. Chalmers against James Bright Morgan, from the second Congressional district of the State of Mississippi. L. B. Eaton against James Phelan, from the tenth Congressional district of the State of Tennessee. L. P. Featherstone against W. H. Cate, from the first Congressional district of the State of Arkansas. Fred L. Goodrich against Robert Bullock, from the second Congressional district of the State of Florida. James Hill against Thos. C. Catchings, from the third Congressional district of the State of Mississippi. Henry Kernaghan against Charles E. Hooker, from the seventh Congressional district of the State of Mississippi. John M. Langston against Edward C. Venable, from the fourth Congressional district of the State of Virginia. J. V. McDuffie against Louis W. Turpin, from the fourth Congressional district of the State of Alabama. J. H. McGinnis against John D. Alderson, from the third Congressional district of the State of West Virginia. Thomas E. Miller against William Elliott, from the seventh Congressional district of the State of South Carolina. Sidney E. Mudd against Barnes Compton, from the fifth Congressional district of the State of Maryland.. Francis B. Posey against William F. Parrett, from the first Congressional district of the State of Indiana. Charles B. Smith against James M. Jackson, from the fourth Congressional district of the State of West Virginia. Frank H. Threet against Richard H. Clarke, from the first Congressional district of the State of Alabama. Edmund Waddill against George D. Wise, from the third Congressional district of the State of Virginia. NOTE. The cases of Atkinson vs. Pendleton, and Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia; Featherston vs. Cate, Arkansas; Mudd vs. Compton, Maryland, and Waddill vs. Wise, of Virginia, have been settled in favor of the contestants; and those of Bowen vs. Buchanan, Virginia; Posey vs. Parrett, Indiana, and Threet vs. Clarke, Alabama, in favor of the sitting members. INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL. A. Page. provision in cases of even by.... Address, how presented Adhere, question discussed effect of a vote to Absence, not allowed without leave.. Accusation. Common fame a good ground to proceed by inquiry, and 119 119 124 121 164 164 question shall be: 1st to agree, 2d to disagree, 3d to recede, there are instances of having gone to a second adherence____ 174 the form fixed by adherence cannot be departed from by the 174 for more than three days, to be by concurrent votes... 183 Page. Amendment to bills, the House cannot recede from or insist on its own if House refuse to strike out a paragraph, it cannot be 158 158 158 if an amendment be agreed to it cannot be afterward a new bill may be ingrafted on another.__. mode of proceeding on amendments between the Houses. on amendments between the Houses, question is: Ist to not identical or equivalent to one lost may be proposed... Arrest, discussion of privilege from.......... terminates with the session... Assault and affrays in the House, how settled_ Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting... Ayes and noes, how questions are determined by....... 175 175 164 144 158 158 158 159 116 136 109 134 130, 131 180 170 .B. Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into. 128 mistakes not to be corrected without the knowledge of the com- Bills, amendments fall if recommitted a particular clause may be recommitted.. cannot be amended on the first reading. proceedings on second reading.. if second reading refused, the bill is rejected.... time for attacking or opposing.. one bill may be ingrafted on another. one House may pass with blanks and be filled in the other... Page. 142 141 137 157-161 142 138 163 144, 164 on third reading, forms observed.__. on third reading, may be committed___ on third reading, amended by riders__ on third reading, blanks filled... preamble to be last considered cannot be altered after passage. at the close of session no new bill, unless sent from the other House, to be brought in...... to receive three readings, &c.... how brought in on notice and leave. forms in introducing...---. proceedings on second reading.--. how and to whom committed shall be read twice before commitment not to be referred to avowed opponents referred, may be delivered to any of the committee.. by whom to be taken from House to House may be specially commended to notice of the other House amending House with a further amendment.... dangerous practice of passing bills before being engrossed ... amendment to an amendment of the other House takes prece- |