Mr. CRISFIELD:—What difficulty or damage does the gentleman propose to obviate by his amendment?
The PRESIDENT:—The Chair has already decided that the proposition of Mr. McCurdy is not in order.
Mr. Chase appealed from the decision of the Chair, and upon the appeal the decision was sustained.
Mr. FIELD:—I understand this decision cuts off both the amendments offered by Mr. Hall and Mr. McCurdy; that compels us to vote against the proposition of Mr. Groesbeck.
Mr. CHITTENDEN:—The amendment offered by my colleague, Mr. Hall, has been accepted. It stands as the order of the Conference, and cannot be rescinded except by a vote. I sustain the decision of the Chair, because, by every rule of parliamentary law, it was correct. But one thing farther. It is now perfectly in order to move Mr. McCurdy's proposition, or any other, as an addition.
The PRESIDENT:—Most clearly so.
Mr. CRISFIELD:—I do not discover any particular objection to the amendment of Mr. Groesbeck. If it had been reported by the committee, I should have preferred it; but the South is willing to take the section as it stands, and prefers the original to any substitute.
Mr. NOYES:—I am against the substitute, for it destroys the effect of the amendments offered by Messrs. Hall and McCurdy.
The vote was then taken upon Mr. Groesbeck's amendment, and resulted as follows:
Ayes.—New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, and Indiana—7.