FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1445 
is a failure of a committee to report back within one week a resolution 
addressed to the head of a Department, it becomes a privileged mat- 
ter; and the motion has not heretofore been made to discharge the 
- committee and bring the resolution before the House. Yet I make 
that motion, Mr. Speaker, if it is necessary to render this proceeding 
parliamentary. 
The Speaker. It is the impression of the Chair that that has been 
the custom wherever this has been recognized as a privileged question. 
Mr. Entor. I will make the motion. I will not stop to discuss what 
the custom has been. I have brought up questions of this kind 
before; and this is the first time I have had to deal with that partic- 
ular phase of the matter. 
The Speaker. The Clerk will read from the Digest—— 
- Mr. Entor. I will be glad if the Chair will also have the rule read. 
Mr. F. T. GreEENHALGE. May I ask the gentleman from Tennessee a 
question ¢ 
Mr. Entor. When I get an opportunity to answer it 
Mr. GREENHALGE. I simply wished to ask whether my colleague 
from Massachusetts, General Banks, is not the chairman of the com- 
mittee to which this resolution was referred ? 
Mr. Entor. You are referring to another resolution which has been 
pocketed. Iam talking of one which is not dead, but alive. 
Mr. GrEENHALGE. I wanted to suggest that it might be considerate 
to postpone action—— 
Mr. Entor. I am ‘not discussing the resolution which went to the 
Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department. When I 
saw that the other resolution was pocketed, I addressed a resolution 
to the Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain on what authority this 
money had been paid out. That is the resolution I am talking about; 
and it did not go to the committee named by the gentleman, but to 
the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department. 
Mr. Cannon. Who is the chairman of that committee ? 
Mr. Entor. I do not know; I have not looked to see. 
Mr. GREENHALGE. The only question I wanted to ask was whether 
it was perfectly courteous to the chairman—— 
Mr. Entog. I am not talking about that resolution, but another 
resolution. 
The Clerk read: 
A motion to discharge a committee from the further consideration of a resolution 
of inquiry, not reported within one week from the date of its reference, is a privi- 
leged question. (Journal, 1, 47.) 
The Speaker. The Clerk will now read the rule. 
The Clerk read: 
Rule XXII, clause 6. All resolutions of inquiry addressed to the heads of Execu- 
tive Departments shall be reported to the House within one week after presentation. 
