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who are entitled to l)c admitted to the floor of the Senate for any rea- 

 son, either as a matter of usefidnes.s or as a matter of courtesy, I shall 

 have no objection, but I do not care to have the name of any officer 

 coupled with this officer. He is entitled to be here as the head of a 

 Department, as he alwa3^s has been here until the present session of 

 the Senate, when, by some new and, I think, very strained construc- 

 tion of the rule, he has been excluded, although the language of the 

 rule remains precisely as it had been since time immemorial. 



Mr. Morrill. I shall not embarrass the Senator, but I give notice 

 that after the action of the Senate upon the amendment proposed by 

 him I shall move to further amend the rule as I have suggested. 

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The President pro tempore (Mr, George F. Edmunds). The ques- 

 ton is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 

 Plumb]. 



The amendment was agreed to. 



Mr. Morrill. I now move to amend the rule by inserting after 

 " the Architect of the Capitol extension " " the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution." 



. The President pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of 

 the Senator from Vermont. 



Mr. John J. Ingalls. I move the reference of that to the Committee 

 on Rules. 



The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas moves that 

 this amendment be referred to the Committee on Rules. 



Mr. Morrill. I hope that motion will not be adopted. 



Mr. Ingalls. I object to its consideration to-day. 



The President pro tempore. The Chair thinks the amendment is 

 in order. The motion to refer, the Chair thinks, if agreed to, would 

 carr}^ the resolution. 



Mr. Ingalls. The resolution? 



The President pro tempore. The resolution to which the Senator 

 from Vermont offers his amendment. The general question before 

 the Senate is on agreeing to a resolution reported by the Committee 

 on Rules which has been amended on the motion of the Senator from 

 Kansas [Mr. Plumb], but the resolution is still before the Senate. 

 The Senator from Vermont moves to still further amend the resolu- 

 tion, and the Senator from Kansas [Mr. Ingalls] moves that this amend- 

 ment be referred to the Committee on Rules. 



Mr. Ingalls. I have no desire to carry the resolution to the Com- 

 mittee on Rules, but I submit to the Senator from Vermont that there 

 is absolutely no reason whatever urged for this proposed extension. 

 The Senator says it might possibly be convenient for this gentleman 

 to appear on the floor and that he should like himself to see him here 

 for a moment or two this morning if it were possiV)le. If this exclu- 



