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Mr. Monroe. At the earnest request of gentlemen, I give my per- 

 sonal consent that a vote should be had upon the amendments. 



Mr. S. J. Randall. Did the committee instruct you tc do that^ 



Mr. Monroe. No; the committee gave me no instructions. 



Mr. Randall. Then you can not permit it. 



Mr. Monroe. I merely said that I was willing to have votes taken 

 on these amendments. 



Mr. G. F. Hoar. Allow me to make a suggestion. Should the 

 House vote down the previous question and permit amendments to be 

 in order, and the name of any gentleman should be proposed and 

 rejected, it would put him in a very uncomfortable position. But 

 if the House should sustain the previous question, it will determine 

 that the House will adopt the recommendations of the committee as a 

 whole. 1 hope, therefore, that the chairman [Mr. Monroe] will insist 

 upon the previous question upon the bill without amendments. 



Mr. Maynard. After having debated the matter for half an hour, I 

 think that it is an unkind suggestion. 



Mr. Randall. I think there is but one safe course for us to pursue 

 in all such matters. We can not in this House canvass the personal 

 merits or qualifications of individuals. 1 dare say that Mr. Stewart is 

 a very proper man for the place. But the committee have fully 

 examined the whole question and have made their report. I think 

 the only safe course for us to pursue is to adopt the report of the com- 

 mittee. 



In regard to Professor Coppee, allow me to say that he is a gentle- 

 man I have known for years. He is a professor in the university in 

 which I was partly educated, and is without a superior in science or 

 literature in this country. He would be a very worthy successor to 

 Mr. Agassiz. 



Mr. Monroe. I must now call the previous question. 



The Speaker. Does the gentleman include amendments? 



Mr. Monroe. I have given my consent personally. Am I the 

 proper person to decide that question ? 



The Speaker. ^The only person. 



Mr. Monroe. Then I will call for the previous question upon the 

 bill and amendments of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Maynard] 

 and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox]. 



The previous question was seconded, and the main question ordered. 



The Speaker. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Maynard] moves 

 to insert instead of the name of Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, the 

 name of Thomas W. Humes, of Tennessee. The gentleman from 

 New York [Mr. Cox] moves, as an amendment to the amendment, to 

 insert, instead of the name of Mr. Humes, the name of Alexander T. 

 Stewart, of New York. The first question is upon the amendment to 

 the amendment. 



