| Show coig GRESSIONAL congressional P proceedings no j U S HOUSE rouse OF representatives fen FEB IL 9 REPORTS ON territorial SURVEYS mr wr TOWNSEND by unanimous consent submitted the following resolution which was read and r referred e under under the law jaw to ane the committee co in on printing resolved He solved by the souse of representatives presenta cives tives the senate concurring that there be printed four thousand copies coples of or the annual report of the geological and geographical h survey of the territories nor for 1874 two thousand copies for the department apart ent of the interior and two thousand t ou nd copies for the smithsonian in institution tit ution he also aiso by unanimous consent submitted the following resolution which was read and referred under the law to the committee on oll printing resolved by the mouse house of representatives presenta tives the senate concurring that there be printed and bound in quarto form one thousand copies of each of the final reports on the geological survey of the territories ri tornes tories foi foe distribution by the smithsonian Smith ionian institution F AMENDING THE REVISED STATUTES mr sir POLAND this work of revision was done by three commissioners sio ners tile the work being davi divided tied between the three there was occasionally sio hio nally some somo matter that was left out we have endeavored as far as in our power to supply every omission of that th atkind kind I 1 shall be glad alad to answer any my 0 question in reference to any one of the matters we have corrected corl 1 but I 1 feel it my duty to ca call cali l I 1 the attention of the house to two matter matters 3 that otherwise would have escaped their attention the committee have felt bound as we assured reathe the tho house when we had bad the levision before the house at the last session that it was the intention mention of or the committee to make no change in the law whatever we have feltie felt feit it our duty where any error has come to our notice to bring it before the house that it shall not be said bald there has lim been any change of law through the action of the committee that has not been sanctioned by congress on the nath page of this bill bili beginning at the ninety sixth line section 1845 1842 is amended by adding thereto the following proviso provided that so bo much of th this is 19 section as provI provides ples pies for making any aay bill passed by the legislative As of a territory a law without the approval of the governor shall not apply to the territories of utah and arizona I 1 the commissioners who made the revision were undoubtedly authorized by the law under which they were appointed to make changes in the law to a greater or less extent so as to produce harmony harmon yand nd symmetry these territorial acts providing for the formation of territories were all alike int in belr their genera general scope but there were differences in detail in their provisions and perhaps there was no pa part rt of the the commissioners where they had done more in tho the way ol 01 change than they had in these t hes 0 acts establishing territories they endeavored deavo red to make them symmetrical and to make thein them all alike alikes so that these minor differences between the various aeta acta they struck out making them all substantially ly akikie alike the organic acts establishing the territories contained provisions that where a bill passed by a terral territorial legislature was disapproved by the governor or lie he refused io sign it the bill might be bypassed passed over veto or his objection by a two thirds majority of the legislature but that provision did not apply to the territories of bf arizona and utah the organic laws of those two territories gi give tho the governor an absolute veto upon the me acts the legislature but the revis ers in going over the territorial laws out this difference and put utah and arizona on the same footing bootin j in I 1 n this respect as the other territories ri e and in in a great many other particulars they had assimilated the territorial acts before this revision kasac was accepted by thel the committee on the revision of tho the laws under the act passed at the end of the last congress mr durant was employed to go ovel ovet the work of the commissioners and strike out every change they had made the committee determined that it would be impossible to get jet the work vork of revision through congress if it contained any new legislation they therefore employed mr durant to ab go over the work of the eom com missioners commissioners ners and eliminate every change which the commissioners had ma made debut but this change hel heu failed to notice and t 11 e committee have therefore deem ed edib edit J t th their el r d duty u ty to bring I 1 it t b before Con congress gress grees with a proposition to make the law precisely the same as aa it was before in reference to the territories of arizona and andT Itah utah there is one other matter immediately follo following wing this on the same page I 1 will read the paragraph section se tion 2169 is amended by inserting sert ingin in the first line after the word alien the ther words being freo free white persons and to a aliens allens lens mr POL pon POLAND I 1 de demand in and tb the e previous P tito us question I 1 the previous question wast was seconded ed dand and the main quest question lon ion ordered and under the operation thereof the bill as aih ath amended ended was wa 9 ordered to be engrossed and read a third tinier and being engrossed it was accordingly read the third time and passed mr POLAND moved to recon sider the vote by the bill was wag passed and also moved ov ed that the motion to re reconsider consla consiA be laid on I 1 the table I 1 I 1 the latter motion was agreed to 0 o distribution OF TIE tle REVISED D mr air POLAND I 1 am not yet through with reports from the committee on the R revision of the laws I 1 now report back a bill H it no providing for the distribution of the revised statutes of the united states with an hn amendment the tito bill which was read p provides ra that the secretary of state is hereby directed to furnish for the use of the senate one thousand copies of the revised statutes of the united states and for fop the tho use uge of the house of representatives three thou thousand and copies of the fame same to be distributed to the me in bers berh of th the e present Con cou congress grew grem mr RANDALL it is proposed that these revised statutes hall hali be published at lat a nixed fixed price to be sold to anybody who may desire to purchase them mr POLAND these Ite luo revised statutes are already printed the price has been fixed by law lim this bill merely provides for distribution to members of congress RANDALL Mr I 1 wish to ask gentleman whether we ought to make this provision for their distribution trib ution when they the v can be purchased by everybody at a very emiil small smail percentage above cost mr POLAND I 1 ask that lle tle jile tile lie amendment of the committee be read it iss to udd an additional section the clerk read as follows SEC 2 that the secretary 0 state is hereby authorized to make arrangement with persons engaged in the business of selling books to keep for sale the revised statutes utes of the united states but in any such arrangement it shall shall be provided the tho same shall be sold at the govern government men t price to a all ali 11 purchasers and the ka secretary ecret ary may allow to any such person keeping the revised statutes for sale such part of the 10 per der cent above the tha actual co as he may dham deem just and reasonable the SPEAKER does the gentleman wish the bill io to be to the committee on printing mr hir POLAND POLA ad no I 1 desiro desire shall be put on its passage it merely provides for the distribution of af these documents they are arti pub dished under the direct direction loft of th the e secretary of state hels heis he ls required to sell them at cosy with 10 per cent added it if of course C the secretary shou should lil ill boa boi required to do this business him himi i I 1 self therefore the second section merely authorizes hini him to 0 o arra arrange arranged ngeT 1 with booksellers throughout t the 0 country to keep these books fo for 41 1 1 sale tobe to be sold at the govern government in ih tji bli price and hild further to allow thema such sueh part of the 10 per cent above the cost as he may deem just antt anil reasonable 1 if the amendment was alreed agreed A io to am X ia the tho bill was ordered to be enla onla en n 11 grossed ani and hn i r mead read a third th ird tinie time and aud F being engrossed it was accor accordingly degl J read the tiie third ime time and Pass passed passers eds bio sio s mr POLAND moved to recon sider bider the vote by which the bili bill was passed and also aiso moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table the latter motion was wag agreed to IL W TIIE tim DELEGATE from aro u 1 the rhe SPEAKER the genne genue baa paa man maa from new york lur eur mr i the chairman of the committee on elections rises 0 o what he eal aal claims to be e a a privileged question I 1 I 1 mr SMITH eulth 0 of f new oe yo york 1 k 1 f call milons up the report of t the lum rum alee ij on elections in regard to the charges ob arges madg made against the delegate delegat ej from ufah territory F mr I 1 hope the thelo house Housew will lU go into committee oot oft tho the whole now I 1 W 1 na I 1 mr I 1 raise naise the nsf eft at 1 question of consideration in regard 41 I 1 to the question submitted by the gentleman man fram new york J i smith j AA I 1 tile tiie are AKE the te genifer gentleman from new york ge tr hajec tired colleague of the gentleman genima now kow pu on the be floor raised a point of older border lab on this ht is report of the Com committee mitlee orao orho OB E elections the nio chair does nat n ol 01 see se e that gentleman in ih hig hid shit at lut this moment n mr of new york yak tw gentlemen raised nahed the point order the gentleman from newia newte mr haie Haje jand and the tha gentleman J from massachusetts int CUT mr butler the gentleman fram massachusetts jt is here nere now fon for two weeks the commatee e oni 0 ong elections has been blen endeavoring to get the figor floor to report til thib this nesb lution it would be a 0 T very i un seemly thing that a 1601 resolution u t n like ilk e this should be adopted in thene theae uhe the ry closing days of this congress and cir air inthe if the house ref refuse to con consider sider gider theft the resolution now its action would be equivalent to tabling js sr I 1 have havo myself no feeling about it 44 the committee simply d ea j res 0 toos toes discharged dischar gd its duty gs 7 amt u 4 ar ir GARFIELD it atwould would ouid re quire two days debate 41 i ar SMITH smal of new york ve 1 bl propose to have it N of 16 1 J two houis hours that I 1 is s the linda 1 L standing between the toe gen gentlemen t I 1 emen 6 1 wI awill make eeb ech d es ii on behalf of the alfe majority kud and the 1 minority of the committee I 1 the the kili 11 gentlemen representing d y ly the majority an and minority f tile the committee committed have havo agreed reel reil that bibb jibb fi the bb debate shall be limited limit td to two hours 1 thu the SP EAKER SPEAKER the clerk wilfread will read rend the resolution reported by the committee on elections f r i the clerk read as follow follows sz i i tat george geor ge Q P cani I 1 w non delegate De regate froni irom utah ang 31 found upon oue dug duo or the evidence submitted anel antl VU A controvert ed busald by said baid cannon to be an un actual polygamist and nd to t have hava ato aso j married ma aried his fourth wife having three other wives then the month of august 1865 in lu open I 1 d and notorious violi violation tion of th the oten law a w of july 1 1862 forbid forbidding ding diug such marriages and declaring the samo same to ie a crime erime punishable both b by y nine fine and imprisonment and it ap that he still maln tal tai ris his polygamous practices in defiance ar af pf law is deemed unworthy to occupy a abat eat in the house of represents i tives as such delegate and that he h 0 be excluded 11 tile the SPEAKER the dpn gentie gentle t m man from iowa mr arr loughridge lough LougE hidge ridge J raises upon this resolution the lu question of its consideration at this u 1 time d mr bir dawes bahk baek back of that W the other is W fore the hoise house at all 1 the SPEAKER i the the chair thinks not the question of ra n is decided the thid i I 1 I 1 I 1 r r v nua ants i i UA aid nis tion would not be sufficiently before the house to have a ruling upon the point of order the ruling upon the point made by the gentleman from new w york lvir mr hale rate could not be reached it the huse heuse refused to consider the resolution mr DAWES the chair then decides that the point ef of order is not waived by the house agreeing to take the resolution into consideration the SPEAKER the point ol 01 order is not thereby waived the resolution will be subject of course to the point of order whatever weight that may have after the rouse house ouse passes upon the question of cori the point of order is in the nature of debate and cannot be entertained against the point of consideration which must be decided instanter instant cr mr DAWES I 1 think thinh the chair is right in that ruling the question being put on considering si at this time the resolution reported by the committee on elections there were ayes 22 noes not counted so the house refused to consider tha the resolution at this time con coti gressional gres slona siona becard record ay iy |
