out and the words "House of Representatives" inserted, so as to restrict the privilege of the floor to "ex-members of the House of Representatives."

The mere allegation that RULE XXXIV had been violated would not warrant or justify the Chair in excluding the person named from the floor.-Journal, 1, 48, p. 1298.

The Doorkeeper is required by RULE V, clause 1, to execute strictly the aforesaid rule.

A resolution relating in any way to the privileges of the floor is a "privileged question."-Journal, 1, 49, p. 781.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, COMMITTEE ON.

When appointed, number of members, and duties of.-RULES X and XI, clause 11.

This committee was created on the 13th of March, 1822, (1st sess., 17th Congress), and on the 19th of December, 1885 (1st sess., 49th Congress), was assigned the duty of reporting the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill.

FRANKING PRIVILEGE.

By the act of March 3, 1875, it is provided that the Congres sional 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 PostmasterGeneral may prescribe.-Laws, 2, 43, p. 343.

By the seventh section of the same act (p. 343) it is provided that seeds transmitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, or by any Member of Congress or Delegate receiving seeds for distribution from said Department, together with agricultural reports emanating from that Department, and so transmitted, shall, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General shall prescribe, pass through the mails free of charge. And the provisions of this section shall apply to ex-Members of Congress and ex-Delegates for the period of nine months after the expiration of their terms as Members and Delegates.

No compensation or allowance shall now or hereafter be made to Senators, Representatives, or Delegates on account of postage.-R. S., sec. 44.

By the seventh section of the act of Congress establishing post-roads, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1877 (Public, No. 47), it was enacted

"That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives may send and receive through the mail all public documents printed by order of Congress; and the name of each Senator, Representative, Delegate, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House shall be written thereon, with the proper designation of the office he holds; and the provisions of this section shall apply to each of the persons named therein until the first day of December following the expiration of their respective terms of office."

Subsequently the following proviso was passed, viz: Provided, That the Vice President, Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives may send and receive through the mail free all public documents printed by order of Congress, and in the manner provided by section seven of the "act establishing post-roads, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1877. Statutes at Large, vol. 20, p. 10.

"The provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act entitled, 'An act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes,' approved March 3, 1877, for the transmission of official mail matter be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, and made applicable to all official mail matter transmitted between any of the officers of the United States or between any such officer and either of the Executive Departments or officers of the Government, the euvelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate indorsements containing the proper designation of the office from which the same is transmitted, with a statement of the penalty for their misuse."-Sec. 29, act of March 3, 1879, Statutes at Large, vol. 20, p. 362. See also Supplement Revised Statutes, vol. 1, p.

458.

FRIDAY.

Set apart for private business, unless, etc.-RULE XXVI, clause 1.

(See also clause 6 of RULE XXIV.)

Unless private business has been dispensed with, there can be no call of committees on Friday under clause 4, Rule XXIV, for the reason that on such call bills on the House Calendar only can be considered.

The following ruling of Speaker Carlisle as to the right of the House at a Friday evening session to make a bill a "special order" for another day is given in extenso, viz:

The Speaker stated the special order of business under the order of the 9th instant, as amended on the 23d instant, to be the consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 3191) granting a pension to Mary S. Logan, and the bill of the Senate (S. 574) to increase the pension of Mrs. Apolline A. Blair.

Mr. Lanham made the point of order that it was not competent for the House at the Friday evening sessions to assign any other day for the consideration of bills for granting pensions, being limited by the order setting apart that time to the consideration of such bills, and to allow the said bills to be considered to day would be to change the rule of the House setting apart to-day for the consideration of private business.

The Speaker overruled the point of order, upon the ground that pension bills as well as any other private bills were in order to-day under the rule, and also that the House at its regular morning session on Friday last, by unanimous consent, extended the order made at the evening session of the 9th instant, until to-day.

In which decision of the Chair the House acquiesced.-Journal, 1, 50, pp. 1374-5.

Under the practice reports from committees, privileged under clause 51 of Rule XI to report at any time, (except the Committees on Rules, Elections, and Enrolled Bills), are not in order on Friday until private business has either been postponed "for the present" or for the day. Neither can a "resolution of

inquiry" be reported (except as above stated) unless it be of a private character. A conference report under Rule XXIX is also an exception.

Under the present rules, reports from the Committee of the Whole undisposed of when the House takes a recess at 5 p. m. (see clause 2, RULE XXVI) on Friday, are first in order after the reading of the Journal on the following Friday. See ruling of Speaker Reed.-Journal 1, 51, p -, March 14, 1890.

FURNITURE.

(See WASTE PAPER.)

The Clerk, with the approval of the Committee on Accounts, purchases all necessary furniture and pays for repairs of same, and the Doorkeeper (see RULE V) is required to make an inventory of all furniture, etc., at the commencement and close of each session, and report the same to the House.

GALLERIES.

Regulating admission to the.-RULE XXXV.

Certain portions of, for stenographers and reporters.-RULE XXXVI, clause 2.

"In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or lobby, the Speaker (or Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House) shall have power to order the same to be cleared."-RULE I, clause 2, and RULE XXIII, clause 1. Or the House may order them cleared.-Journal, 1, 24, p. 331. And pending the election of a Speaker the Clerk may direct them to be cleared,

GERMANE.

Provisions in, and amendments to, general appropriation bills, must be germane to the subject-matter of the bill.-RULE XXI, clause 3.

An amendment need not necessarily be germane to the pending paragraph, but must be to the general provisions of the bill.-Journal, 2, 45, p. 1230. This applies only to House bills and not to amendments of the Senate thereto.

It is not in order to amend a pending privileged (or, other) proposition by adding instructions to a committee on a matter not privileged and not germane to the original proposition.— Journal, 1, 48, p. 389.

A motion to commit with instructions to report a certain amendment is not in order if the proposed amendment is not germane or in order to the pending bill.-Journal, 1, 48, pp. 1247, 1248.

An amendment proposed to an amendment of the Senate must be germane to that amendment and can not be held in order on the ground that it is germane to the subject-matter of the pending bill, for the reason that the text of the bill, except as amended by the Senate, is not again open to amendment by the House.―Journal, 1, 48, pp. 1653, 1654; see also Record, 2, 50, p. 2454.

HALL OF THE HOUSE.

(See RULE I, clause 3, and RULE XXXIII.

Who shall be admitted to the.-RULE XXXIV.

HOUR RULE.

"No member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House or in committee; but a member reporting the measure under consideration from a committee may open and close the debate."-RULE XIV, clauses 2 and 3. (See DEBATE.)

HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT.

The hour at which the House adjourns shall be entered on. the Journal.-RULE XVI, clause 5.

HOUR OF DAILY MEETING.

The hour of daily meeting is fixed by an order of the House— usually on the first day of the session-and continues "until otherwise ordered." At the close of a session it is usual to change the hour of meeting from 12 o'clock m. to 10 or 11 a. m., but limiting the order to the "present session." If this excep