To my mind his argument should be directed against the rule of Parliamentary Law which provides a conference committee at this precise stage of parliamentary proceedings.
There is a difference between the two Houses, and at this stage the customary proceeding is a conference committee.
But, so long as the Lex Parliamentaria exists, I submit that it is hardly reasonable to resist its application, especially when the House has asked a conference committee on a bill of theirs which you have amended.
For some time the difference between the two Houses has been under the consideration of a Conference Committee, whose report is now before you.
Reed, one of their number, they were able to refer the bill to a conference committee of the two houses which contained seven strong protectionists out of ten members.
After the bill had passed the Senate, it was put into the hands of a conference committee, where further changes were made.
If, however, a bill as passed by one house is amended by the other, it is customary to appoint a conference committee, consisting usually of three members from each house, to discuss the differences and suggest a basis of compromise.
Again, the tariff bill of 1909 was so altered by the senate that it was in many respects a new bill, and the differences between the two houses were settled by a conference committee.
If the first house refuses its concurrence, a conference committee is usually appointed by the two houses to consider and recommend a compromise.
The Senate was forced to acquiesce in a conference committee bill, passing it at the end with only three dissenting votes.
The Senate and House bills were therefore taken up in conference committee, with the usual outcome of give and take.
Reference to a conference committee, which considered it for ten days, still further modified the original plan.
But in spite of Caminetti's protest, both Senate and Assembly adopted the Conference Committee's report.
If the Assembly refuse to recede, the measure is referred to a conference committee of six, three appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and three by the President of the Senate.
The House of Representatives refused to concur in some of the amendments, and the measure was sent to a Conference committee.
Recourse was then had to a conference committee, which arranged a compromise that gave a little less protection than the House had voted, and a little more than the Senate had voted.
The Senate disagreed to the bill in this form and with these contents, and asked for a conference committee.
That action was based upon the report of a conference committee, of which Mr. Sherman was chairman on the part of the Senate, and General Schenck on the part of the House.
The strange controversy was finally ended and the subject brought into intelligible shape by a conference committee, which reported the Fifteenth Amendment in the precise form in which it became incorporated in the Constitution.
The subject was then referred to a Conference Committee, consisting of Messrs.
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