It is the successor to the Congressional Globe, the publication under the present title commencing March 4, 1873. The edition for each session is denominated a "volume," though each consists of a number of separate volumes styled "parts," the pages being numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end of a session without respect to separate bound parts. In the two libraries of the House of Representatives these so-called parts have been, for the sake of convenience, serially numbered, each as a separate volume, Vol. 1, Part 1, being numbered Vol. 1; Vol. 1, Part 2 being numbered Vol. 2, and so on down; the entire series at the close of the Fiftysecond Congress amounting to 132 such volumes.

Rules for the publication of the Congressional Record, adopted by the Joint Committee on Printing on May 5, 1886, first session Forty-ninth Congress:

First. When copy is taken out for revision by Senators, Representatives, or Delegates it should be returned to the Government Printing Office not later than 12 o'clock midnight, in order to insure its publication in the Record on the morning following; and if said copy is not furnished at the time specified, the Public Printer is authorized to withhold it from the Record for one day, and in no case will a speech be printed in the Record on the day after its delivery if the copy be furnished later than 12 o'clock midnight.

Second. The copy of speeches containing large tabular statements to be published in the Record should be in the hands of the Public Printer not later than 6 o'clock p. m, on the day prior to their publication.

Third. Proofs of "leaves to print" and advance speeches will not be furnished on the night of the day on which the copy is received, but will be sent on the following day, should it be possible to do so without causing delay to the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress.

Fourth. Corrections in speeches for the bound edition of the Record should be sent to the Public Printer within four days after the delivery of the speech to be corrected, as it is then stereotyped.

Fifth. If copy or proofs have not been returned within the time above mentioned, the Public Printer will insert the words " Mr. withholds

his remarks for revision, and they will appear hereafter," and proceed with the printing of the Record.

Sixth. The Public Printer is not authorized to insert any maps or diagrams in the Record without the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. All requests for such approval should be referred to the Joint Committee on Printing, and may be submitted to the chairman of the Committee on Printing on the part of the Senate or of the House, in whichever the speech illustrated may have been delivered, and no maps or diagrams shall be inserted that exceed in size a page of the Record.

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Seventh. The Public Printer will arrange the contents of the Record as follows: First, the Senate proceedings; second, the House proceedings; third, the speeches withheld for revision: Provided, That should the copy of the regular proceedings, either in the Senate or in the House, be delayed, the Public Printer is authorized to at once begin the make-up, on the first page, with either Senate or House proceedings or with such speeches as are on file, giving precedence to those first received, in their order.

No person shall be employed as a reporter for the House of Representatives without the approval of the Speaker.-R. S., sec. 54.

On the 3d March, 1873, the following preamble and resolu tion were agreed to, viz:

Whereas the present contract for publication of the debates expires with this session; and whereas the sundry civil appropriation bill, about to become a law, provides that until a new contract be made the debates shall be printed by the Congressional Printer, but makes no provision for reporting, leaving each House to adopt such arrangements on that subject as it may deem best: Therefore,

Resolved, That the report of the House proceedings and debates shall be furnished to the Congressional Printer by the present corps of Globe reporters, who shall hereafter, until otherwise ordered, be officers of the House, under the direction of the Speaker, who shall receive the same compensation new allowed to the official reporters of committees.-Journal, 3, 42, pp. 582, 583.

There shall be five official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House of Representatives who shall be paid monthly, at the rate fixed by law.-Sess. Laws 1, 43, p. 5.

The Congressional Record, or any part thereof, or speeches or reports therein contained, shall, under the frank of a Member of Congress or Delegate, to be written by himself, be carried in the mail free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe.-Sess. Laws, 2, 43, p. 343.

It shall be lawful for the Public Printer to print and deliver, upon the order of any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Delegate, extracts from the Congressional Record, the person ordering the same paying the cost thereof.— Sess. Laws, 2, 43, p. 347.

By a resolution of the House, of February 10, 1875, the Public Printer was authorized to furnish one copy of the bound volumes of the Congressional Record to the Clerk, Sergeant-at

Arms, Doorkeeper, Postmaster, and each of the official report ers of the debates.-Journal, 2, 43, p. 438.

The Public Printer is required to furnish each State and Territory having, or that shall hereafter have and maintain, a State and Territorial library, one bound copy of the Congressional Record of each session of Congress.-Stats. at L., vol. 22, p. 390.

The act of March 31, 1884 (Sess. Laws, 1, 48, p. 6), provides:

That the Joint Committee on Printing be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to make the necessary provisions and arrangements for issuing the index of the Congressional Record semi-monthly during the sessions of Congress; that the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to print and distribute the same number of copies of said semi-monthly index as he prints and distributes of the daily issue of the Record, and to the same persons, and in the same manner; that the Public Printer shall employ such person to prepare said index as shall be designated by the Joint Committee on Printing, who shall also fix and regulate the compensation to be paid by the Public Printer for the said work, and direct the form and manner of its publication: Provided, however, That the rate of compensation allowed for preparing the said semi-monthly indexes, including also their compilation into a complete session index, shall not exceed, for each page of the printed Congressional Record, the average that it cost per page of the Congressional Record for compiling the session index of the Forty-sixth Congress: And provided further. That there may be employed and paid on said work, at times not interfering with their ordinary employment, persons who are also-employed and paid in any other office or employment under the Government.

SEC. 2. That the joint resolution approved, February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled “Joint.resolution to provide for printing and distributing the index of the Congressional Record semi-monthly,” is hereby repealed.

Citations or other matter not actually delivered in the course of debate, but simply referred to, can not be printed in the Record without consent of the House.-Journal, 1, 53, p. 114. (See also Reporters.)

CONSIDERATION.

Any motion made and entertained respecting a proposition, such as to amend, to commit, or even to postpone, or any debate. thereon, constitutes consideration in a parliamentary

sense.

A motion to recommit is one mode of consideration, and when a bill is being considered in the House as in Committee

of the Whole it is in order at any time to move to recommit the bill thus being considered.-Speaker pro tempore McMillin, Journal, 1, 52, p. 32.

QUESTION OF.

When any motion or proposition is made the question "Will the House now consider it?" shall not be put unless demanded by a member.-Rule XVI, clause 3. And it is competent for a member to raise the question of consideration upon a report even though a question of privilege is involved in the report.— Journal, 1, 35, pp. 1083, 1085. But after a question has been stated, and its discussion commenced, it is too late to raise the question of consideration.-Journal, 1, 17, pp. 296, 297.

It is always in the power of the House to decide, if it so chooses, that it will not proceed to take up the consideration of any particular matter.-Speaker Carlisle, Congressional Record, 1,50, 2514.

The House never deprives itself of the right to determine whether it will or will not consider a question.-Congressional Record, 2, 49, p. 1684.

When a special order has been made, setting apart a day for a certain class of business, on the day so set apart the question of consideration can not be raised against the class of business mentioned in the special order. It may be raised, however, against each bill therein embraced, as it comes up in its order. -Journal, 217, p. 1540, Congressional Record, 1, 49, p. 7335. So, even when a day is set apart for the consideration of a single bill, the question of consideration may on that day be demanded against such bill.-Journal, 1, 49, p. 2297; 2, 49, p.581. It follows that if the House refuses to consider a bill on the day so set apart, it may then proceed to the consideration of other business, as on other days.

When a special order provides that, immediately upon its adoption, the House shall proceed to consider a measure, the question of consideration is in effect decided affirmatively by the adoption of the order.-Journal, 2, 53, pp. 484, 485.

The question of consideration can be demanded against any proposition presented by the Committee on the District of Columbia on the second and fourth Mondays.-Journal, 2, 50, p. 239.

The question of consideration can not be demanded against unfinished business on which the yeas and nays have been previously ordered but which, by reason of an adjournment were not taken.-Congressional Record, 1, 51, p. 8432.

The question of consideration can not be raised against a motion.-Congressional Record, 1, 51, p. 433.

The question of consideration can not be demanded against a motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole generally, or for the purpose of considering a certain class of business (Journals, 2, 52, p. 56; 2,53, p. 145); opposition to the consideration of such business being available by voting down the motion. It was held in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses that the question of consideration could not be demanded against a report from the Committee on Rules.-Journals, 1, 52, p. 91; 1, 53, p. 97; 2, 53, p. 72.

The previous question having been ordered on the third reading of two bills, and the same coming up on a subsequent day as unfinished business, the bill which has been first considered is first in order. The question of consideration may, however, be raised inasmuch as the House should have the right to determine which bill should be first considered.— Congressional Record, 1, 48, p. 5543.

A privileged report retains its privileged character until disposed of, notwithstanding an intervening adjournment. It is subject, however, when again called up, to the question of consideration and to questions of higher privilege.-Congressional Record, 1, 49, p. 7602.

The point that a bill should be first considered in Committee of the Whole may be made after the House has, by a vote, determined to consider it, if such consideration has not actually commenced.-Congressional Record, 1, 51, p. 2133.

The question, "Will the House proceed to consider a propɔsition?" terminates with the day on which the proposed matter is presented for consideration, and, where undisposed of at the time of adjournment, does not recur as unfinished business on the succeeding day.-Journal, 2, 53, pp. 57, 67.

It was held that the question of consideration can not be demanded against a bill returned to the House with the objections of the President.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 312.