It was held by Speaker Reed that. to a bill to protect trade and commerce against trusts. an amendment authorizing the suspension of duties upon articles handled by trusts was not germane. For instance. Speaker Reed also ruled that to a provision excluding all immigrants who could not read and write an amendment excluding ll foreignborn laborers was not germane. And so the Chair might go through a long list of similar rulings. But it is said that in the Fiftyseventh Congress a ruling was made. and upon appeal overruled. and that the action of the House in the Committee of the Whole on that occasion ought to be binding upon the present occupant of the chair.
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