Precedents: Decisions of Point of Order With Phraseology in the United States Senate; From the First to Sixty-Second Congress Inclusive, 1789-1913 (Classic Reprint)

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Opinion. Many references are made to reported proceedings of the House of Representatives, and extracts included from the remarks of members of that body showing agreements and disagreements in the parliamentary practice of the two Houses of Congress.

The period covered by the research is from the beginning of the First Congress, March 4, 1789, to the end of the Sixty-third Congress, March 3, 1913. Special care has been taken that the index should be full and complete, and thus prove a ready and accurate guide to the contents. In the preparation of the work all available printed author ities have been consulted, and special acknowledgments are given in this connection to the masterful work of Mr. Asher C. Hinds, Prec edents of the House of Representatives, and the compilation of Mr. Charles W. Johnson, former Chief Clerk of the United States Senate, published in 1899. Acknowledgments are also made to the several affable and cultured gentlemen of the Secretary's office of the Senate, who have freely given suggestions and observations of value.

The necessity for a work of this character has long been recognized, and the sincerest hope 18 that the volume here presented may, in some appreciable way, meet the requirement.

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