See also Eighth Cannons Precedents. section 3277. Mr. President. despite the restriction which the Senate seems to impose where identical language has been passed by both Houses. recognition by the Senate of the principle applicable whee one House substitutes an entirely new bill is revealed in the following words uttered in 1907 by the elder Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts: In this case the Senate bill was stricken out by the House and a single amendment was made in the nature of a substitutea long act covering every section of the existing immigration law. Therefore both bills in their entiret7 were open to the conferees and were subject to any modification which they might choose to make. Technically there can be no doubt that in a situation like that the powers of the conferees were very large. if not unlimited.
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