President. if the Committee on Rules of the Senate are unwilling to go outside and hire rooms. there is certainly a very ready method of furnishing accommodations to these thirteen.committees. I never knew before that it was impossible for two committees to occupy the same room. Every legislative body which I have ever had the honor to be connected with or to be acquainted with has put more than one committee in one room. sometimes two and sometimes three. and I have an imprzsxion from the little knowledge I have of whatisgoingon about the Capitol that some of these thirteen committees who have business could be accommodated in some of the committeerooms already assigned -where the committees now occupying the rooms are not so overburdened with work that these new committees can not. find room in those quarters. and I certainly hope and believe that the Committee on Rules (because I know it is composed of men entirely fearless in the discharge of their duty). if they found no other way of accommodating the Committee on Indian Depredations. and the Committee on Immigration. and these other important committees. would venture to bring into th3 Senate a proposition to put two committees into one room. and I am quite sure that in this way. If in no other. the Committee on Rules. if they will focus their minds upon this question and take the responsibility of action. will reach a solution which will meet with the approbation of the Senate. At all events. ending as I began and repeating the idea of the Senator from South Dakota . it is due to these committees and to the chairmen of these committees that the Senate shall decide whether they are to have suitable accommodations or not. what accommodations they are to have. and how and when and in what manner they shall proceed to perform the public business which has been intrusted to them.
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