vided, That the amount furnished to members of Congress my be embraced in a single item. And he is required to deliver to every member of the House the usual articles of stationery now furnished to members to an amount not exceeding in value that authorized by law, at the cost price, in the stationery-room, or, at the option of the members, to pay them the proper commutation in money; that he keep a true and accurate account of all stationery which he may so deliver to the several members of the House; and if in any case a member shall receive a greater amount of stationery during any session than is above provided, the Clerk shall, before the close of such session, furnish to the Sergeant-at-Arms an account of such excess beyond the amount above specified, who is hereby required to deduct the amount of such excess from the pay and mileage of such member, and refund the same into the Treasury: Provided, That this limitation is not intended to be made applicable to the use of wrapping paper and envelopes which may be required in the folding-room. And he is also authorized and required to deliver to every chairman of the committees of the House, for the use of sych committees, and to the Postmaster, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Doorkeeper, for the use of their respective offices, at every session of Congress, similar articles of stationery, not exceeding in value an amount which from time to time shall be fixed upon by the Committee on Accounts and approved by the Speaker. By the act of the second session Fortieth Congress it is provided that no Representative shall receive any newspaper except the Congressional Globe; or stationery, or commutation therefor, exceeding $125 for any one session of Congress.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XV, p. 35. STATUTES AT LARGE. TABLE showing the contents of the twenty five volumes of the Statutes at Large. Jan. 1, 1824, to Mar. 3, 1835. 4 Statutes of the 18th to the 23d Congresses 5 Statutes of the 24th to the 28th Congresses, inclu- Jan. 14, 1836, to Mar. 3, 1845. sive. 6 Private laws enacted by the first twenty-eight 1789-1845. Congresses. 7 Indian treaties made during the first twenty- 1789-1815. 8 Foreign treaties made during the first twenty. 1789-1845. [NOTE. The synoptical index to the laws of the United States is an excellent analyt ical index to the first nine volumes. The Revised Statutes, second edition, contains the amendatory acts passed up to the close of the second session Forty-fourth Congress, ending March 4, 1877. The Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia and postroads, passed first session Forty-third Congress, contain also the public treaties in force on December 1, 1873. The supplement to the Revised Statutes, published in 1881, contains leg. islation of Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses, volumes 18, 19, 20, and 21.] STENOGRAPHERS. (See REPORTERS.) STRIKE OUT, MOTION TO. A motion to strike out and insert is indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor motion to strike out and insert.-RULE XVI, clause 7. "If it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments before the question is put for striking it out."-Manual, p. 158. Where it is voted affirmatively to strike out certain words and insert A, it is not afterward in order to strike out A and insert B.-Ibid., p. 159. After A is inserted, however, it may be moved to strike out a portion of the original paragraph comprehending A, provided the coherence to be struck out be so substantial as to make this effectively a different proposition.-Ibid., p. 159. (See AMENDMENT.) A motion to recommit with instructions to strike out a paragraph or section inserted by the House is not in order, for the reason that it would not be in order as an amendment.-Journal, 1, 49, p. 2363. For the reason that it is not in order to do indirectly that which the House can not do directly. STRIKE OUT ENACTING CLAUSE. (See ENACTING CLAUSE, MOTION TO STRIKE OUT.) SUBPOENAS. (See also PROCESSES OF THE HOUSE.) The question of the right of the file clerk of the House to produce before a court-martial a certain paper on the files of the House, under a subpœna duces tecum, having been referred to the Judiciary Committee in the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress, that committee, through its chairman (Mr. Knott), made an elaborate report on the question on the 22d of April, 1879, concluding with the following resolutions, which were adopted by the House on that day (see Journal, 1, 46, p. 186, and House Report, 1) viz: Resolved, 1. That no officer or employé of the House of Representatives has the right, either voluntarily or in obedience to a subpœna duces tecum, to produce any document, paper, or book belonging to the files of the House before any court or officer, nor to furnish any copy of any testimony given or paper filed on any investigation before the House or any of its committees, or of any other paper belonging to the files of the House, except such as may be authorized by statute to be copied and such as the House itself may have made public, to be taken without the consent of the House first obtained. 2. That the consent of the House is hereby given to either party in the case of the United States against Col. D. S. Stanley, now pending before the general court-martial sitting in the city of New York, to have made and properly proven such copies of the papers mentioned in the subpoena duces tecum issued by the judge-advocate of said court and directed to Ferris Finch, esq., file clerk of the House of Representatives, on the 16th instant, as may be desired, but that the originals thereof shall not be removed from the files of the House. (See also FILES.) SUBSTANCE. (See clause 2, RULE XXIV.) To be in order under this rule a Senate bill is not required to be verbatim et literatim a copy of the House bill, but should be substantially identical.-Journal, 1, 51, p. 541. SUBSTITUTE. Under the practice of the House for many years, where a substitute is reported by a committee for a bill, the substitute alone was considered, the original bill being without objection laid on the table. If there was objection, however, to that course, then the original bill was sent to the proper calendar, and the proposed substitute treated as an "amendment in the nature of a substitute." The substitute is read a first and second time, is numbered, and becomes to all intents and purposes an original bill. This has been found much more convenient than the old practice, when bills were not printed as now. Formerly it was the practice to treat a substitute as an "amendment in the nature of a substitute," viz, by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the matter proposed or recommended by the committee in lieu of that referred. In that case the bill is reprinted, the original text in type "stricken through" and the proposed substitute in italic. (See decision of Speaker Coax, Con. Globe, 1, 40, p. 129.) A substitute for a bill in the form of a "joint resolution" (or vice versa) is in order, as both are legislative propositions.Journal 1, 49, p. 379. This decision was a reversal of the previous uniform practice of the House, but has not been since followed. Its practical result was to produce confusion and permit errors. (See also AMENDMENT.) SUNDAYS. It is for the House, and not the Speaker, to determine whether the House shall continue in session after 12 o'clock on Saturday night.—Journal, 1, 24, pp. 577, 582. SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. (See RULES.) TAXES. (See RULE XXIII.) TELLERS. (See RULE I, clause 5; RULE XXVIII, clause 2.) It is the practice, whenever a quorum fails to vote on a division, and the point of "no quorum" is made, for the Speaker to direct the vote to be taken by tellers without counting the House (or committee) under clause 5 of RULE I. In the election of a Speaker, it is the practice of the Clerk to name four members to act as tellers of the vote; and in the election of the other officers, if by ballot, the same number of tellers are named by the Speaker. Such tellers are usually selected from the different political parties of which the House is composed. When a rising vote is taken and the Chair announces the result, it is in order for any member, if no quorum has voted, to make that point, and it then becomes the duty of the Chair (under RULE I, clause 5) to appoint tellers. But if tellers are demanded and refused by the House (or committee), it is then too |