mittee a further conference may be asked by either House, but the papers must be in the possession of the House asking the conference at the time the motion or resolution to that effect is presented for consideration.-Journal, 1, 52, p. 229.

REPORTS OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.

The presentation of reports of committees of conference shall always be in order, except when the Journal is being read, while the roll is being called, or the House is dividing on any proposition. And there shall accompany every such report a detailed statement sufficiently explicit to inform the House what effect such amendments or propositions will have upon the measures to which they relate.-Rule XXIX.

Under the practice reports of conference committees may be received at any time (except when the rules are suspended), even during the pendency of a motion to adjourn, and may interrupt a Member who is on the floor speaking.

A conference report takes precedence of a privileged question.-Journal 1, 51, p. 1082.

It was held that a conference report has given to it a very high position of privilege and may be received while the House is proceeding under a special order.-Journal, 1, 55, p. 101.

The report of a conference committee must be signed by a majority of the Members of each House composing the said committee.

The report of a committee of conference can not be amended or altered as that of another committee may be.—Manual, p. 176; Journal Senate, May 24, 1796.

The committee may report agreement as to some of the matters of difference, but inability to agree as to others.-Journal, 1,29, p. 1302. In such a case, if the conference report is agreed to, the amendments undisposed of may be concurred in or dis agreed to, or a further conference may be asked thereon.

A motion to recommit a conference report is not in order, for the reason that making a report has the effect of dissolving the committee; also for the reason that such reports are not subject to the rules governing ordinary proceedings, the only question in order, upon its presentation, being on agreeing to the report. Record, 2, 49, p. 880.

If the committee of conference should embrace in its report to the House an agreement upon some proposition which would

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not have been in order in the House originally, a point of order could not be made against it. No point of order can be made 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. 2454.

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 germane; 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 divisible, and which can not be laid on the table as other propositions. 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 refused 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 Thich 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 Representatives 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