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against any provision inserted in a conference report, except upon the ground that it changes or strikes out some provision previously agreed to by both Houses.-Record, 2, 50, p. 2154.

Amendments reported by a conference committee are in order, though not germane to the original measure, provided they are germane to the amendment which is the subject of disagreement.-Record, 1, 49, p. 7932.

Although the Senate had amended a bill of the House by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting a different proposition in some respects yet having the same object in view, the question presented was not whether the provisions excepted to in the conference report were germane to the original House bill, but whether they were germane to the Senate amendment. In the opinion of the Chair they were clearly ger mane; for though different from the provisions contained in such amendment, they related directly to the same subjects, and under the common parliamentary law and practice might be made, by way of amendment, a substantially different proposition from that originally passed by the House.-Record, 1, 49, p. 7932.

A conference report is not subject to the point of order that it must be first considered in Committee of the Whole, even though it recommends legislation not previously considered by the House, which, if presented as an original proposition, would be subject to that point. The unbroken practice of the House has been to consider conference reports as presenting questions of the highest privilege, and as possessing peculiar qualities, such, for instance, as not being amendable or divis ible, and which can not be laid on the table as other proposi tions. The main object of committing a proposition to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union is to afford the widest latitude for amendment and debate, and as a conference report could not be amended in the House it could not be sent to the Committee of the Whole for that purpose, but in all respects must be treated as an entirety, and adopted or rejected by a single vote.-Journal, 1, 49, p. 2515.

The point being made that a conference report contained matter not the subject of difference between the two Houses,

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and the question being submitted to the House by the Speaker, the House retused to receive it.-Journal, 1, 42, pp. 190, 191.

A conference report can not be laid on the table.—Journal, 2, 42, p. 1129. Nor is it in order to demand the reading of the engrossed bill at length upon presentation of a conference report.-Journal, 1, 44, p. 1423.

It is not for the Chair to determine whether the submission of a paper purporting to be a detailed statement of the effect of a conference report is sufficient compliance with the rule. The House may, if it desires, receive the report without any detailed statement whatever.-Record, 2, 49, p. 2437.

A conference report may be presented pending a motion to adjourn, subject, however, to the right of the House to refuse to consider it; and pending the consideration of such report a motion to adjourn is in order.-Record, 1, 51, p. 7880.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CONFEREES.

Conferees may be instructed by the House, but this course is not usual until they have made their first report.

The motion to insist, etc., takes precedence over the motion to instruct, but instructions to conferees are in order after the House has insisted and asked or agreed to a further conference and before the conferees are appointed.-Record, 1, 49, p. 7598.

A report by a conference committee making recommendations contrary to instructions of the House is not for that reason out of order, the proposition reported being still within the control of the House.-Journal, 1, 49, pp. 2458, 2459.

A resolution to instruct conferees may be offered before the House has voted to insist and ask a further conference; but the motion to recede and concur in the Senate amendments or to insist and ask a further conference have precedence over it in the order named.-Record, 1, 49, p. 7404. But where the House has taken action on the matter reported, as by insisting on its disagreement, asking a further conference, and appointing conferees, the subject is no longer before the House, and it is then too late to move an instruction to the conferees.— Record, 1, 49, p. 7405.

It was held not in order to move to instruct conferees to insist on a proposed amendment inconsistent with the text upon which both Houses have agreed.-Record, 2, 51, pp. 3610, 3611.

CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY.

By the act of May 12, 1876 (Sess. Laws, 1, 44, p. 54), it is provided:

That hereafter, whenever any deceased Senator or Member of the House of Representatives shall be actually interred in the Congressional Cemetery, so called, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, in the case of a Senator, and of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, in the case of a Member of the House, to have a monument erected, of granite, with suitable inscriptions, and the cost of the same shall be a charge upon and paid out either from the contingent funds of the Senate or the House of Representatives, to whichever the deceased may have belonged, and any existing omissions of monuments or inscriptions, as aforesaid, are hereby directed and authorized to be supplied in like manner; and all laws upon the subject of monuments in the Congressional Cemetery are hereby repealed.

CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

The Congressional Directory contains a list of the Senators and Members, also a short biographical sketch of each, showing the district represented, vote by which Representatives are elected, and the term of office of Senators; also a list of the officers of each House and of the more important officers of the Government, with a statement of the principal functions of the several executive bureaus. It also contains a list of the diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, and of the ambassadors and ministers from other countries to the United States, together with useful information local to the seat of Government.

A Congressional directory shall be compiled at each session of Congress, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, and the first edition for each session shall be ready for distribution within one week after the commencement thereof.-R. S., secs. 77 and 3801.

It shall be lawful for the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives on Printing, to print for sale, at a price sufficient to reimburse the expenses of such printing, the current Congressional Directory and the current numbers of the Congressional Record. The money derived from such sales shall be paid

into the Treasury monthly to the credit of the appropriation for public printing, and no sale shall be made on credit.22 Stat. L., p. 642.

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

(For table of volumes see Appendix.)

When a bill, resolution, or memorial is introduced "by request," these words shall be entered upon the Journal and printed in the Record.-Rule XXII, clause 4.

Messages received from the Senate and the President of the United States, giving notice of bills passed or approved, shall be entered in the Journal and published in the Record of that day's proceedings.-Rule XLI.

All reports of committees, except as provided in clause 57 of Rule XI, together with the views of the minority, shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper Calendar under the direction of the Speaker, in accordance with the foregoing clause, and the titles or subjects thereof shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the Record.-Rule XIII, clause 2.

Members having petitions or memorials or bills of a private nature to present may deliver them to the Clerk, indorsing their names and the reference or disposition to be made thereof; and said petitions and memorials and bills of a private nature, except such as, in the judgment of the Speaker, are of an obscene or insulting character, shall be entered on the Journal with the names of the Members presenting them, and the Clerk shall furnish a transcript of such entry to the official reporters of debates for publication in the Record.-Rule XXII, clause 1.

The Public Printer shall furnish the Congressional Record as follows, and shall furnish gratuitously no others in addition

thereto:

To the Vice-President and each Senator, forty-four copies; and to the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, each twenty copies, and to the Secretary for office use ten copies; to each Representative and Delegate, thirty copies, of which number eight copies shall be sent by the Superintendent of Documents one each to such public or school libraries other than designated depositories as shall be designated for this

purpose by each Representative and Delegate in Congress, and to the Clerk and Doorkeeper of the House, each twenty copies, and to the Clerk, for office use, ten copies; to be sup plied daily as originally published or in the revised and permanent form bound only in half Russia, or part in each form, as each may elect.

To the Vice-President and each Senator, Representative and Delegate there shall be furnished two copies of the daily Record, one to be delivered at his residence and one at the Capitol.

To the President, for use of the Executive Office, four copies of the daily and one bound copy.

To the Chief Justice and each of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the marshal and clerk of the said court, one daily and one bound copy.

To the governor of each State and Territory, one copy of the daily and one bound copy of the Record.

To the Official Reporter of the Senate and each of his assistant reporters, and to the official reporters of the House, each two copies of the daily and one copy of the bound Record.

To the superintendent of the Senate and House document rooms, each one copy of the daily and one bound copy. To the Library of Congress, forty-five bound copies. To the Senate and House libraries, ten bound copies to each. To the library of each of the eight Executive Departments, and to the Naval Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, and the United States National Museum, one bound copy.

To the Soldiers' Home, and to each of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and to each of the State Soldiers' Homes established for either Federal or Confederate soldiers, one copy of the daily.

To the Superintendent of Documents, five hundred bound copies for distribution to depositories of public documents. To each of our legations abroad, one copy of the daily Record, to be sent through the Secretary of State.

To each foreign legation in Washington whose Government extends a like courtesy to our legations abroad, one copy of the daily Record, to be sent through the Secretary of State and furnished upon his requisition.