Inquiry Into the Causes of Delay in Completing the Work of the First Session of the Fifty-Ninth Congress: Under the Provisions of Senate Resolution ... Congress, First Session (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Sir: By your direction and in pursuance of the provisions of Senate resolution No. 175, first session, F itty-ninth Congress, wherein the Committee on Printing is directed to inquire into the reasons for the delay in the Government Printing Office in sending to the Senate, especially in the last days of the session, printed copies of bills and joint resolutions pending and awaiting action on the part of Con gress, I visited Washington and conducted as thorough an investiga tion as was possible under the terms of the resolution. Considerable testimony was taken, calculated to define the procedure of handling bills and to reveal the causes of the alleged delays of which complaint had been made, a transcription of which testimony is hereto annexed.

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