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Referred to Committee on Priutiug. 



February 26, 1885— Senate. 



Mr. C. F. Mandersox. I am directed by the Committee on Printing, 

 to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. 127) to authorize the 

 printing of the reports of the Bureau of Ethnolog}^, to report it with- 

 out amendment, and I ask for it.s present consideration. 



The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, considered joint resolu- 

 tion. 



Mr. F. M. CocKRELL. I wish to ask a question in regard to this mat- 

 ter. I should like to ask the Senator from Nebraska, the chairman of 

 the Committee on Printing, why it is that the previous volumes of this 

 work have not been furnished us for distribution ? They were ordered 

 to be printed, it seems to me, a 3^ ear or two ago. I have constant appli- 

 cations for them and they are not in the document room. Is there any 

 reason known why they should not have been furnished long ago ? 



Mr. Manderson. There is none known to me. The consideration 

 of that matter did not come before the committee in connection with 

 this joint resolution. It maj^ be that the volumes are not yet issued 

 from the Printing Office. I shall be veiy glad to make inquiry for the 

 Senator. 



Passed. 



February 26, 1885— House. 



Mr. William F. Rogers, from Committee on Printing, reported 

 joint resolution (H. 339). Passed. 



February 26, 1885— Senate. 

 H. 339, passed. 



February 27, 1885— Senate. 



House requested to return resolution (S. 127) to print .sixth and sev- 

 enth reports Bureau of Ethnology. 

 February 28, 1885— Senate. 



Reconsidered resolution (S. 127) and referred to Committee on 

 Printing. 



March 2, 1885. 



Hesolved, etc., That there be printed at the Government Printing 

 Office 15,500 copies each of the Sixth and Seventh Annual Reports 

 of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnolog}", with accompanying 

 papers and illustrations, and uniform with the preceding volumes of 

 the series; of which 3,500 shall be for the use of the Senate, 7,000 for 

 the use of the House of Representatives, and 5,000 for distribution by 

 the Bureau of Ethnology. 



(Stat., XXIII, 519.) 

 March 3. 1885— Senate. 



S. 127 postponed indelinitely. 



