Speaker CANNON had the advantage of being advised by one of tie most skillful parliamentarians In this country. the present Member from Maine . [Applause.l All four of these Speakers. three Republicans and one Democrat. have passed on this question. and they have all ruled that when! everything after the enacting clmse is stricken out and ii new bill substituted it gives the conferees very wide discretion. extending even to the substitution of ain entirely new bill. Then the Speaker proceeded to have incorporated ii his opinion the opinions of Mr. Speaker Colfax. Mr. Speaker Carlisle. Mr. Speaker CA.--o-. and Mr. Speaker Henderson. the opinion of Mr. Speaker CANNoN being delivered oii a case exactly on all fours with this. The opinion related to the coinference on the immigration bill of 1.907. to which I have already alluded. The muchdiscussed provision as to Japanese passports did not appear either in the House or in the Senate bill. but was inserted in conference. That decision was cited by Mr.
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