y8 Ethel Lee Howie 



This request was granted. ^^'^ The committee was established on 

 July ii.2^« 



Closely connected with the question of finance was the question 

 of commerce and agriculture. On July lo, a project for the 

 establishment of a committee on commerce and agriculture was 

 sent to the bureaus for consideration,^^^ but no such committee 

 was established till September 2.**^° It appears that it was rather 

 generally felt that these committees should not have been estab- 

 lished at this time, on the ground that when the deputies were 

 considering the constitution their attention should not be drawn 

 to other subjects. 



Not only was the assembly concerned with the formation of 

 committees, but suggestions were also made to make the assembly 

 hall more comfortable. M. Guillotin, on July 2, proposed some 

 changes in the arrangement of the hall. The chairs were to be 

 placed in amphitheater form, the desk of the president located 

 near the middle column in the hall so that he might be seen by 

 all the members of the assembly ; the desks of the secretaries 

 were to be raised ; the clergy to be seated at the right, the nobles 

 at the left and the third estate in front of the president. Two 

 doors, opening on the Rue des Chantiers and the Avenue de Paris, 

 were to serve the deputies, while strangers were to enter by two 

 side doors opening on the Rue des Chantiers and the Rue Saint- 

 Martin.^°^ Ventilators were to be installed and the floors to be 

 sprinkled with water and vinegar so that the air might be 

 purified.*"^ 



^^"^ Assemblee nationale, I, 452; Journal de Paris, No. 193, 871 (July 12). 



398 Proces-verbal, No. 21, 3. 



^^^ Point du jour, I, 156; Proces-verbal, I, No. 20, 3; Courrier de Prov- 

 ence, I, 19th letter, 4; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 10; Biauzat, 

 Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 172; Courrier de Provence, I, 19th letter, 

 4; Journal de Paris, No. 191, 871 (July 12). 



400 Proces-verbal, III, No. 65, 8. 



*°i Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 2 ; Point du ]our, I, 95. 



"^^"^ Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 2; Gazette de Leyde, No. 56 

 (July 4). 



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