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56TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
1st Session. No. 1.
AMENDMENTS TO RULES.
DECEMBER 8, 1899.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. DALZELL, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. Res. No. 27.]
The Committee on Rules, to whom was referred H. Res. No. 16, report
the following substitute therefor:
Resolved, That the rules of the House of Representatives of the
Fifty-sixth Congress be, and are hereby, amended as follows:
Amend Rule X in the following paragraphs:
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on Foreign Affairs strike
out the word fifteen and insert seventeen, so as to read as fol-
lows: On Foreign Affairs, to consist of seventeen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on the Merchant Marine
and Fisheries strike out the word thirteen and insert seventeen,
so as to read as follows: On the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to
consist of seventeen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on the Public Lands
strike out the word fifteen and insert seventeen, so as to read as
follows: On the Public Lands, to consist of seventeen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on Military Affairs
strike out the word fifteen and insert seventeen, so as to read as
follows: On Military Affairs, to consist of seventeen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on Naval Affairs strike
out the word fifteen and insert seventeen, so as to read as follows:
On Naval Affairs, to consist of seventeen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on the Territories strike
out the word thirteen and insert fifteen, so as to read as follows:
On the Territories, to consist of fifteen members.
In the paragraph relating to the Committee on the District of Columbia
strike out the word a fifteen and insert a seventeen, so as to read as
follows: On the District of Columbia, to consist of seventeen members.
After the paragraph relating to the Committee on the Territories,
insert the following:
On Insular Affairs, to consist of seventeen members.
Amend Ifule XI as follows:
After section 17 insert the following:
18. To all matters (excepting those affecting the revenue and the
.appropriations) pertaining to the islands which came to the United
States through the treaty of 1899 with Spain, and to Cuba: To the
Committee oin Insular Affairs.
In the present section 18 strike out 182 and insert 19, and so on
through the succeeding sections, strike out the number of each section
and insert the number next higher.
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