nothing shall be paid for travelling home when the witness has been summoned at the place of trial-June 5, 1832

139. Maps accompanying documents shall not be printed, under the general order to print, without the special direction of the House.-March 2, 1837; September 11, 1837.

140. No extra compensation shall be allowed to any officer or messenger, page, laborer, or other person in the service of the House, or engaged in or about the public grounds or buildings; and no person shall be an officer of the House, or continue in its employment, who shall be an agent for the prosecution of any claim against the government, or be interested in such claim otherwise than an original claimant; and it shall be the duty of the Committee of Accounts to inquire into and report to the House any violation of this rule.-March 8, 1842.

141. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the House.--November 13, 1794.

142. When a question is postponed indefinitely, the same shall not be acted upon again during the session.-December 17, 1805.

143. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate shall be necessary, shall be read to the Honse, and laid on the table, on a day preceding that in which the same shall be moved, unless the House shall otherwise expressly allow.-April 7, 1789.

144. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Jefferson's Manual shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.-September 15,

1837.

145. No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor-November 13, 1794; nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least twothirds of the members present-March 13, 1822; nor shall the order of business, as established by the rules, be postponed or changed, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present; nor shall the Speaker entertain a motion to suspend the rules, except during the last ten days of the session, and on Monday of every week at the expiration of one hour after the journal is read—April 26, 1828-unless the call of States and Territories for bills on leave and resolutions has been earlier concluded, when the Speaker may entertain a motion to suspend the rules.-June 8, 1864.

146. All elections of officers of the House, including the Speaker, shall be conducted in accordance with these rules, so far as the same are applicable; and, pending the election of a Speaker, the Clerk shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide all questions of order that may arise, subject to appeal to the House.-March 19, 1860.

147. These rules shall be the rules of the House of Representatives of the present and succeeding Congresses, unless otherwise ordered.-March 19, 1860.

148. An additional standing committee shall be appointed at the commencement of each Congress, whose duties shall continue until the first session of the ensuing Congress, to consist of five members, to be entitled a "Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights, and Measures;" and to this committee shall be referred all bills, resolutions, and communications to the House upon that subject.-January 21, 1864.

149. The names of members not voting on any call of the ayes and noes shall be recorded in the journal immediately after those voting in the affirmative and negative, and the same record shall be made in the Congressional Globe.-June 8, 1864.

JOINT RULES AND ORDERS

OF

THE TWO HOUSES.

1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other house shall also appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their chairman, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon.-November 13, 1794.

2. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.-November 13, 1794.

3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a messenger shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate.-November 13, 1794.

4. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each house may determine to be proper.—November 13, 1794.

5. While bills are on their passage between the two houses, they shall be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each house, respectively.-November 13, 1794.

6. After a bill shall have passed both houses, it shall be duly enrolled on parchment by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other house, before it shall be presented to the President of the United States.-November 13, 1794.

7. When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by a joint committee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully compare the enrolment with the engrossed bills as passed in the two houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective houses.-November 13, 1794, and February 1, 1827.

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, then by the President of the Senate.—November 13, 1794.

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each house, it shall be presented, by the said committee, to the President of the United States, for his approbation, (it being first indorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which house the same originated; which indorsement shall be signed by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, of the house in which the same did originate,) and shall be entered on the journal of each house. The said committee shall report the day of presentation to the President; which time shall also be carefully entered on the journal of each house.―November 13, 1794. 10. All orders, resolutions, and votes which are to be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed; and shall be pre

sented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in the cases of bills.-November 13, 1794.

11. When the Senate and House of Representatives shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both houses.-November 13, 1794.

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.-June 10, 1790.

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one house shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session without a notice of ten days and leave of two-thirds of that house in which it shall be renewed.-June 10, 1790.

14. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.—June 10, 1790.

15. After each house shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.-June 10, 1790.

16. No bill that shall have passed one house shall be sent for concurrence to the other on either of the three last days of the session.-January 30, 1822. 17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be presented to the President of the United States for his approbation on the last day of the session.-January 30, 1822.

18. When bills which have passed one house are ordered to be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may be necessary for the use of the house making the order.-February 9, 1829.

19. No spirituous liquors shall be offered for sale or exhibited within the Capitol, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto.-September 18, 1837.

20. There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the library, and to perform such other duties as are or may be directed by law.―December 7, 1843.

21. After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports which originated in either house, and at the close of the next preceding session remained undetermined in either house, shall be resumed and acted on in the same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place.-August 14, 1848.

"22. When, during the present rebellion, any member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall rise and in his place state that the President desires the immediate action of Congress upon any matter pertaining to the suppression of the present rebellion, the galleries of the house in which the statement is made shall be immediately cleared; and after such member shall state the action desired by the President, and the reasons for immediate action, such house shall determine, without debate, whether the proposed measure shall be considered. If decided in the affirmative, debate shall be confined to the subject-matter, and be limited to five minutes by any member; provided that any member shall be allowed five minutes to explain or oppose any pertinent amendment; and provided that this rule shall not affect the operation of the previous question in the House of Representatives. During such session no communication shall be received or made to or from any person not a member then present, except through the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House. If any member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall betray, publish, disclose, or reveal any debate, consultation, or proceeding had in such secret session, he shall be expelled; and if committed by any officer of either body, or other person, such punishment shall be inflicted as the body to which he belongs may impose."-January 29, 1862.

QUESTIONS OF ORDER,

DECIDED BY THE SPEAKER AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH

CONGRESS.

SCHUYLER COLFAX, OF INDIANA, SPEAKER.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1864.-Page 368.

Mr. Arnold, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported a bill (H. R. 321) to construct a ship canal for the passage of armed and naval vessels from the Mississippi river to Lake Michigan, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time.

It having been proposed to proceed to the consideration of the bill,

Mr. Holman made the point of order, that inasmuch as the fifth section provided for the payment of certain money into the treasury of the United States, and also makes an appropriation whereby it may be taken out of the treasury, it must receive its first consideration in the Committee of the Whole.

The Speaker sustained the point of order.

In which decision of the Chair the House acquiesced.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1864.-Page 506.

During debate upon the resolution for the expulsion of Alexander Long, Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne called Mr. Benjamin G. Harris to order for the following words just used by him in debate, viz: "The south asked you to let them live in peace. But no; you said you would bring them into subjugation. That is not done yet; and God Almighty grant that it never may be. I hope that you will never subjugate the south."

The Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Edward H. Rollins) sustained the said point

of order.

And Mr. Harris thereupon took his seat.

In which decision of the Chair the House acquiesced.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1864.-Page 518.

Pending the consideration of the resolution for the expulsion of Alexander Long,

Mr. Broomall proposed to submit the following amendment in the nature of a substitute for the same, viz:

Whereas Alexander Long, a representative from the second district of Ohio, by his open declarations in the national Capitol, and publications in the city of New York, has shown himself to be in favor of a recognition of the so-called confederacy now trying to establish itself upon the ruins of our country, thereby giving aid and comfort to the enemy in that destructive purpose-aid to avowed traitors, in erecting an illegal government within our borders-comfort to them, by assurances of their success, and affirmations of the justice of their cause; and whereas such conduct is at the same time evidence of disloyalty and inconsistent with his oath of office and his duty as a member of this body: Therefore,