SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS.
Mr. KIMBALL, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the return to the House of their bill [H R. 259] making specific appropriations for the years 1871 and 1S72, with sundry amendments thereto, incorporated under specific instructions of the House of Representatives; and so amended, the committee recommened its passage.
The report was concurred in.
The bill, as amended, was again read through by the Clerk.
Mr. MILLER. I desire to offer an amendment to the bill. The committee have just reported amendments, and I suppose amendments to be still in order.
The SPEAKER. The bill has not been ordered to be engrossed. If the House wish to consider the bill further it might be better to do so in Committee of the Whole, it will save journalizing.
Mr. CAUTHORN objected to any amendment of the bill at this stage. It has been read twice, and is now on the third reading.
On the motion of Mr. HARDESTY, the bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole House : Whereupon--
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole--Mr. Cauthorn in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN announced the consideration of the bill and directed the Clerk to read the first section.
Mr. BRANHAM suggested that it is useless for the House to consider this bill in Committee of the Whole; because these items have all been adopted by the House, and there can be no possible advantage in it. It is only lost time. If gentlemen would avoid getting their names on the journal, let me tell them that every step taken in Committee of the Whole will get on the journal when the bill comes back again to the House. I therefore move that the committee rise and report the bill to the House without recommendation.
The motion was agreed to, whereupon the committee rose, and the CHAIRMAN reported accordingly.
The report was concurred in.
