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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 gentleman I have known for years. He is a professor in 

 the university in which I was partly educated, and is with- 

 out 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 Ten- 

 nessee [Mr. Maynard] and the gentleman from New York, 

 [Mr. Cox.] 



The previous question was seconded, and the main ques- 

 tion ordered. 



The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. May- 

 nard] moves to insert instead of the name of Henry Coppee, 

 of Pennsylvania, the name of Thomas W. Humes, of Ten- 

 nessee. 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. 



The amendment to the amendment was not agreed to. 



The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. May- 

 nard, it was not agreed to. 



The joint resolution was then ordered to be engrossed 

 for a third reading, read the third time, and passed. 



Mr. MONROE moved to reconsider the vote by which the 

 joint resolution was passed; and also moved that the motion 

 to reconsider be laid on the table. 



The latter motion was agreed to. 



May 15, 1874. Mr. DONNAN, from the Committee on 

 Printing, reported back, with the recommendation that it be 

 concurred in, the following concurrent resolution from the 

 Senate : 



Resolved, (the House of Representatives concurring,) That seventy-five 

 hundred additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for 

 the year 1873, be printed for the use of the institution : Provided, That the 

 aggregate number of pages of said report shall not exceed four hundred 

 and fifty, and that there be no illustrations except those furnished by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. HOLM AN. Does that resolution propose to give all 

 the copies to the Smithsonian Institution ? 



