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Appropriations. In support of this amendment he said: " It not pro- 

 posed to strii<e out the committee of Ways and Means. This commit- 

 tee is still to be preserved and their future duty is to raise revenue for 

 carryinL,^ on the government. This includes of course the tariff, 

 internal revenue, loan bills, legal tender notes and all other matters 

 connected with sup[)orting the -credit and raising money. * * * The 

 proposed committee on Appropriations have, under this amendment, 

 the examination of the estimates of the departments, and exclusively 

 the consideration of all appropriations."* 'The two main reasons 

 given by Mr. Cox for this change were the actual pressure of business 

 on the committee of Ways and iMeans; and the hope of a more eco- 

 nomical management of the finances, since the new committee could 

 make a more careful investigation of bills. In answering the objec- 

 tion that such an arrangement would result in a lack of harmony be- 

 tween the two sides of the budget, Mr. Garfieldf said that it would 

 be an easy matter for the committees to furnish each other estimates 

 and confer with each other. The amendment encountered little 

 opposition and was passed March 2, 1865. By it the duties of the 

 commitee of Ways and Means are declared to be "to take into con- 

 sideration all reports of the Treasury department and such other 

 propositions relative to raising the revenue and providing ways and 

 means for the support of the government as shall be presented or 

 shall come in question and be referred to them by the House, and to 

 report their opinions thereon by bill or otherwi^se as to them shall 

 seem expedient. "^j; That portion of its duties which was now trans- 

 ferred to the committee on Appropriations, was determined by Rules 

 76 and 7 7,v^ as follows:" Rule 76, " It shall be the duty of the com- 

 mittee on Appropriations, to take into consideration all executive 

 communications and such other propositions in regard to carrying on 

 the several departments of government as may be presented and 

 referred to them by the House; " Rule 77, "It shall also be the duty 

 of the committee on Appropriations, within thirty days after their 

 appointment at every session of Congress, commencing on the first 

 Monday of December, to report the general appropriation bills, for 

 legislative, executive and judicial expenses; for sundry civil expenses; 

 for consular and diplomatic expenses; for the army: for the navy; for 

 the expenses of the Indian department; for the payment of invalid 

 and other pensions; for the support of the Military Academy; for 

 fortifications; for the service of the Post Office department and for 

 mail transportation by ocean steamers ; and in failure thereof the 



*Cong. Globe. Vol. LXI. pt. II. p. \:M2. 



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