are therein given.

Mr. REED: I sincerely hope this will not be made a matter of
technical discussion or debate. It is a matter upon which members
of this House must have opinions which they can express by
voting, in a very short time, without taking up the attention of
the House beyond what is really necessary for a bare discussion
of the merits of the question.

Mr. MCMILLIN: Will the gentleman permit me to ask him a question?

Mr. REED: Certainly.

Mr. MCMILLIN: Would you not, as a parliamentarian, concede that
this does change the existing rules of the House?

Mr. REED: By no manner of means, especially when the accomplished
Speaker has decided the other way, and no gentleman has taken an
appeal from his decision. [Laughter.]

Mr. MCMILLIN: Then you have no opinion beyond his decision?

The SPEAKER: The Chair will state to the gentleman from Illinois
[Mr. Springer] that this resolution does not change any of the
standing committees of the House which are provided for in Rule
10.

Mr. SPRINGER: It provides for a new committee.

The SPEAKER: It provides for a select committee. The subject was
referred to the Committee on Rules by order of the House, and
this is a report on the resolution so referred.

Mr. SPRINGER: The rule provides that no standing rule or order of
the House shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice.

The SPEAKER: The Chair would decide that this does not propose
any change or rescinding of any standing rule of the House.

Mr. SPRINGER: Does the Chair hold that the making of a new rule
is not a change of the existing rules?

The SPEAKER: The Chair does not decide anything of the kind.

Mr. SPRINGER: What does the Chair decide?

The SPEAKER: The Chair does not undertake to decide any such
question, for it is not now presented.

Mr. SPRINGER: Is this not a new rule?

The SPEAKER: It is not.

Mr. SPRINGER: It is not?

The SPEAKER: It is a provision for a select committee.

Mr. SPRINGER: Can you have a committee without a rule of the
House providing for it?

The SPEAKER: The question is on the adoption of the resolution
reported from the Committee on Rules.

Mr. ATKINS: On that question I call for the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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