Reported for the Columbian Fountain.
Tw enty- ninth Congress-
FIRST SESSION..

FaIpA,, April IL, 1916.
CSenate not in session.)
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.


A message was received from the Senate in
forming the House that they had passed the
Oregon resolution in an amended form, and
asking for concurrence therein.


The House then, in Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union, (Mr. Hamln in
the chair resumed the consideration of the
bill 10 project the rights Of American settlers
in Oregon until the termination ,of the Joint
convention of 1927.


Mr.. Chapman OF Alabama, avowed that he
would vote againstthe bill, unless it should be
amended so as not to conflict with the articles
of the convention, which, he thought, in its
present form it now did


Mr.. Douglass advocated the measure AL
though he, as one of the advocates of 54o4O.
desired that boundary to be specified, he would
rather, than have no bill, take this as it was


Messrs. ]. Davis and Thompson Of Pennsyl-
vana, submitted few remarks; when


The committee proceeded to vote on the "a
mendments.


One, proposing that the law shall operate
over the territory between the Iattitudes of 49
and 81 40, was rejected-yeas 60, nays 20.


A large number of amendments were acted
on.


At four O'Clock the committe rose, and after
further efforts to amond the bill, the House ad.
lourned,