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shend, Trigc, Tucker, Turner. Van Eaton, Viele, 

 Wadsworth, J. H. Ward, T. B. Ward, A. J. Warner, 

 William Warner, J. B. Weaver, Wheeler, Wilkins, 

 Willis, Wilson, Winans, Wise, Wolford, Worthing- 

 t on 159. 



NOT VOTING J. J. Adams, Aiken, J. M. Allen, 

 Ballentine, Belmont, Bingham, Bragg, Brumm, Bur- 

 leigh, Burnes, Felix Campbell, Carleton. Compton, 

 Crain, Dargan ? Davenport, A. C. Davidson, Dun- 

 ham, Evans, Fmdlay, Eustace Gibson, Glover, Goff, 

 Hanback, Harmer, D. B. Henderson, T. J. Hender- 

 son, Henley, Hewitt, Kelley, Laffoon, Laird, Landcs, 

 Lawler, Lore, Maybury, Muller, O'Hara, J. J. 

 O'Neill, Payson, Phelps, Pirce, Pulitzer, Randall, 

 Rankin, T. B. Reed, Sessions, Skinner, Snyder, 

 Storrn, Tarsney, Throckmorton, Waite, Wellborn, 

 West, Whiting, Woodburn 57. 



Mr. Ryan, of Kansas, moved to recommit 

 the bill as follows : 



Recommit the bill with instructions to report as a 

 substitute a resolution, submitting an amendment to 

 the Constitution providing one or more additional 

 Vice-Presidents, upon whom, in their order, the of- 

 fice of President shall devolve in case of the removal, 

 death, resignation, or inability both of President and 

 Vice-President. 



Mr. Everhart, of Pennsylvania, offered the 

 following substitute for the instructions em- 

 bodied in Mr. Ryan's motion : 



That in case of the removal, death, resignation, or 

 inability of both the President and Vice-President of the 

 United States, the following persons, if eligible to the 

 office of President, and not under impeachment or in- 

 dictment at the time being, shall, respectively, in the 

 order and on the contingencies hereinafter named, act 

 as President of the United States until the disability 

 of the President and Vice-President be removed or a 

 President shall be elected : First, the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives ; or if there be no Speaker, 

 or if there be and he decline, or as President, die, re- 

 sign, be removed, or be unable to act as such, then, 

 second, the President pro tempore of the Senate ; or 

 if .there be no President pro tempore of the Senate, or 

 if there be and he decline, or, as President, die, re- 

 sign, be removed, or be unable to act as such, then, 

 third, the Secretary of State, having been legally con- 

 firmed ; or if there be no Secretary of State, or if there 

 be and he decline, or, as President, die, resign, be re- 

 moved, or be unable to act as such, then, fourth, the 

 Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, having been legally confirmed ; or if there be 

 no Chief-Justice, or if there be and he decline, or, as 

 President, die, resign, be removed, or be unable to 

 act as such, then, fitth, the Secretary of the Treasury 

 of the United States, having been legally confirmed ; 

 or if there be no Secretary of the Treasury, or if there 

 be and he decline, or, as President, die, resign, be 

 removed, or be unable to act as such, then, sixth, the 

 Attorney-General of the United States, having been 

 legally confirmed : Provided, That when any of the 



Ersons above named shall, as aforesaid, become 

 esident, lie shall not exercise the functions of any 

 other public office of trust or profit while President, 

 and shall, within thirty days thereafter, issue a proc- 

 lamation to the people of the United States, and di- 

 rect notice to be given that, in accordance with the 

 provisions of the act of March, 1, 1792, electors of 

 President and Vice-President of the United States 

 shall be elected or appointed in the several States. 



SECTION 2. That all laws inconsistent herewith are 

 hereby repealed. 



This substitute, as well as? a less important 

 amendment proposed, was lost, and then the 

 motion to recommit was rejected. The final 

 vote on the passage of the bill was as follows : 



YEAS C. H. Allen, C. M. Anderson, Arnot, Atkin- 

 son, Baker, Barbour. Barksdale. Barnes, Barry, Beach, 

 Blanehard, Bland, Bliss, Blount, Boyle. Bragg, C. R. 

 Brcckinridge, W. C. P. Breckinridge, T. M. Browne, 

 Buck, Butterworth, Bynuin, Cabell, Caldwell. J. E. 

 Campbell, T. J. Campbell, Candler, Catching, Clardy, 

 Clements, Cobb, Cole, Collins, Comstock, Cowles, Cox, 

 Crisp, Croxton, Culberson, Cutcheon, Daniel, R. II. 

 M. Davidson, Dawson, Dibble, Dockery, Dougherty, 

 Dowdney, Dunn, Eden, Eldredge, Ellsberrv, Ely, Er- 

 mentrout, Fisher, Foran, Ford, Forney, Frederick, 

 Gallinger, Gay, Geddes, C. II. Gibson, Glass, W. J. 

 Green," Hale, Hall, Halsell, Hammond, Harris, Hatch, 

 Hayden, Heard, Hemphill, J. S. Henderson, Herbert, 

 Herman, Hiestand, Hill, Hires, Hiscock, Hitt, Hoi- 

 man, Hutton, Irion, James, F. A. Johnson, T. D. 

 Johnston, J. H. Jones, J. T. Jones, Ketcham, King, 

 Kleiner, La Follette, Lanham, Le Fevre, Long, Lover- 

 ing, Lowry, Mahoney, Markham, Martin, Matson, 

 McAdoo, McComas, McCreary, McMillin, McRae, 

 Merriman Millard, Miller, Mills, Mitchell, Moffatt, 

 Morgan, Morrison, Murphy, Neal, Necce, Negley, 

 Norwood, Gates, O'Ferrall, Outhwaite, Payne, Peel, 

 Perry, Pettibone, Pidcock, Pindar, Price, Reagan, J. 

 W. Reid, Reese, Richardson, Riggs, Robertson, Rock- 

 well, Rogers, Romeis, Sadler, Sayers, Scott, Scranton, 

 Seney, Seymour, Shaw, Singleton, Sowden, Spriggs, 

 Springer, Stahlnecker, Steele, Charles Stewart, fet. 

 Martin, W. J. Stone of Kentucky, W. J. Stone of 

 Missouri, Strait, Struble, Swinburne, Swope. Symes, 

 Taulbce, J. M. Taylor, Tillman, Townshend, Trigg, 

 Tucker, Turner, Van Eaton, Viele, Wade, WakencJd, 

 J. H. Ward. T. B. Ward, A. J. Warner, William 

 Warner, A. J. Weaver, J. B. Weaver, Wheeler, Wil- 

 kins, Willis, Wilson, Winans, Wise, Wolford, Worth- 

 ington 186. 



NAYS G. E. Adams, J. A. Anderson, Bayne, Ben- 

 nett, Bound, Boutellc, Brady, C. E. Brown, W. W. 

 Brown, Buchanan, Bunnell, Burrows, J. M. Camp- 

 bell, Cannon, Caswell, Conger, Cooper. Davis. Ding- 

 Icy, Dorsey, Everhart, Farquhar, Felton, Flecger, 

 Fuller, Funston, Gilfillan, R. S. Green, Giosvcnor, 

 Grout, Guenther, Hahn, Haynes, Hepburn, Hopkins, 

 Houk, Jackson, J. T. Johnston, Lehlbach, Libbey, 

 Little, Loutitt, Lyman, McKenna, McKinley, Milli- 

 ken, Morrill, Morrow, Nel?on, O'Donnell, Charles 

 O'Neill, Osborne, Parker, Perkins, Peters, Pirce, 

 Plumb, Ranney, Rowell, Ryan, Smalls, Spooner, Ste- 

 phenson, J. W. Stewart, E. F. Stone, E. B. Taylor, 

 I. H. Taylor, Zach. Taylor, J. R. Thomas, O. B. 

 Thomas. Thompson, Van Shaick, Wadsworth, Weber, 

 A. C. White, Milo White 76. 



NOT VOTING J. J. Adams, Aiken, J. M. Allen, 

 Ballentine, Belmont, Bingham, Brurnm, Burleigh, 

 Burnes, Felix Campbell, Carleton, Compton, Grain, 

 Curtin. Dargan, Davenport, A. C. Davidson, Dun- 

 ham, Evans, Findlay, Eustace Gibson, Glover, Golf, 

 Hanback, Harmer, D. B. Henderson, T. J. Mender- 



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Pulitzer, Randall, Rankin, T. B. Reed, Rice, Sawyer, 

 Sessions, Skinner, Snyder, Storm, Tarsney, Throck- 

 morton, Wait, Wellborn. West. Whiting, Woodburn 

 62. 



The President approved the bill, Jan. 19, 

 1886. 



The Oleomargarine Law. April 28, 1886, Mr. 

 Hatch, of Missouri, from the Committee on Ag- 

 riculture of the House of Representatives, re- 

 ported a bill defining butter, and imposing a 

 tax upon and regulating the manufacture, 

 sale, importation, and exportation of oleomar- 

 garine. The measure was fully debated. Mr. 

 Scott, of Pennsylvania, said in support of it : 

 "It is needless for me to speak of the im- 

 portance to a nation of throwing every pos- 



