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Abram Comingo Allen Barber amendment Austin Blair Benjamin F bill H. R. Boardman Smith Boyd Winchester Butler Clinton Clinton L Committee Crebs Creely Dawes Dwight Townsend Edward Crossland Eli Perry Elizur H Elliott Frank Hereford Frank Morey G. A. Finkelnburg George Ginery Twichell Golladay Hale Sypher Hazelton John Henry Sherwood Henry W Henry Waldron Holland Duell House Jabez G Jackson Orr James Buffinton James H Jasper Packard Jeremiah John Critcher John F John P. C. Shanks John Taffe Joseph H Lamison Lawrence Getz Legrand W Leonard Myers McCrary Milo Goodrich Milton Speer nays being desired Niblack ordered petition Philetus Sawyer Pierce M. B. Young printed Rice John Richard T. W. Duke Robert Samuel Hambleton Samuel Hooper Samuel Shellabarger Senate Seth Wakeman Stevenson Archer T. W. McNeely Thomas Swann Ulysses Mercur unanimous consent voting W. C. Whitthorne Washing'n Townsend William E William H William H. H. Stowell William McClelland yeas
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Page 196 - Senators present concur," the House of Representatives do not claim any agency in making treaties ; but that when a treaty stipulates regulations on any of the subjects submitted by the constitution to the power of Congress, it must depend for its execution, as to such stipulations, on a law or laws to be passed by Congress ; and it is the constitutional right and duty of the House of Representatives, in all such cases, to deliberate on the expediency or inexpediency of carrying such treaty into...
Page 203 - ... no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be again allowed on the same day, and at the same stage of the bill or proposition.
Page 213 - No appropriation shall be reported in any general appropriation bill, or be in order as an amendment thereto, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law, unless in continuation of appropriations for such public works and objects as are already in progress.
Page 201 - April 21, 1836. 20. The clerk shall cause an index to be prepared to the acts passed at every session of Congress, and to be printed and bound with the acts.
Page 205 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called...
Page 208 - Columbia to take into consideration all such petitions and matters or things touching the said District as shall be presented, or shall come in question, and be referred to them by the House;' and to report their opinion thereon, together with such propositions rela'.ive thereto as to them shall seem expedient.
Page 205 - No member shall speak more than once to the same question without leave of the House, unless he be the mover, proposer, or introducer of the matter pending, in which case he shall be permitted to speak in reply, but not until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Page 207 - Committee of Ways and Means to take into consideration all such reports of the Treasury Department, and all such propositions relative to the revenue...
Page 203 - When a question is postponed indefinitely, the same shall not be acted upon again during the session. 48. Any member may call for the division of a question, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct, that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House.
Page 206 - The first named member of any committee shall be the chairman ; and in his absence, or being excused by the house, the next named member, and so on, as often as the case shall happen, unless the committee, by a majority of their number, elect a chairman.