What. therefore. was necessarily the condition when it got into conference? The only thing that the conferees had before them vas tie subjectniatter. but there was not a single line. there was not it single sentence. upon which the House and the Senate had agreed. Therefore the whole subjectalatter was before the conference committee. and it was clearly within the power of the conference committee to bring back any report o that sul1Jectilatter. whether it corresponded to what the Senate had in its original bill or what the House had in the suibstitute sent back to the louse froit its Connittee on Immigration. Wllt is the precedent. Mr. Speaker. and with that 1 shall be content? " On March 3. 18657 Mr. Robert C. Schenck. of Ohio. from the coininittee on conference on the disagreeing votes of tie two Houses on House bill 51. entitled An act to establish t bureau of freedinens affairs. reported that the Senate had receded from their amendment. which was a substitute. and the committee had agreed upon. as at substitute. a new bill. entitled An act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees. " The Speaker will notice. a substitute. not tile original proposition amended. iut the original proposition stricken out and another niew proposition brought iii. "As soon as the report had been read Mr. Villian S. Holman. of Indiana. made the point that tHe report did not conm within the scope of tie conference corniiittee. it did not report the proceedings of the Senate or an agreement 1 y the (om1ilttee oii amendment to the Senates amendment to the I louse bill. but it reportedI an entire substitute for both original bills and tile sub)stitute adopted by the Senate. and it established a department unprovided for by either of the other bills." Just precisely on all fours with this case.
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