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I find also, on page 36 of the House bill, that there is the following 
provision:
Prior to each regular election, during the time preserved by law for reg-
istration, hare caused his name to be entered on the register of voters for 
representatives for his district.
I do not know what the Hawaiian law is with regard to registration, 
but if a law should be so constituted, or if the last legislature should 
have enacted a law by which no persons could vote at the next 
election unless they were registered previous to the passage of 
this bill, which would shut out all the people except the sugar 
planters of that country, upon whom especially the right of suffrage 
is conferred, this provision ought to be modified so that any 
person who is registered previous to the next election, or if not 
registered can qualify by affidavit, shall be allowed to vote, and that 
there may be no question upon that score. We continue the election 
laws, generally, of Hawaii.   I have not examined them, but I think, 
with the modifications made in this bill, they are reasonably fair, 
with the correction with regard to registration. I see the House has 
also provided that the Federal court appointment shall be for life.   
It seems to me that provision ought not to be agreed to on the part 
of the Senate.   After a long debate, I believe we changed that 
provision in the Senate, and insisted that it should be a term, and 
that the judge could be removed by the President. I simply wish to 
call the attention of the conferees to these points in the record, as 
I think the Senate ought to insist upon them. Mr. CULLOM.   I do 
not care to say anything now.   I ask for a vote on my motion. The 
PRESIDENT pro tempore.   The Senator from Illinois moves that 
the Senate nonconcur in the amendment of the House of 
Representatives and request a conference on the disagreeing votes 
of the two Houses. The motion was agreed to. By unanimous 
consent, the President pro tempore was authorized to appoint the 
conferees on the part of the Senate; and Mr. CULLOM, Mr. LODGE, 
and Mr. MORGAN were appointed. Mr. ALLISON.  I wish to call 
attention to the form in which this bill is printed.   The original 
bill is not printed. Mr. TELLER.   It is omitted. Mr. ALLISON.   It 
is omitted.   I think on the record this copy is attached to the 
original bill. Mr. CULLOM.   The bill as it passed the Senate is in 
print, and there will be no difficulty in the matter on the part of 
the conferees. Mr. ALLISON.   Is that the original bill on the 
Senator's desk? Mr. CULLOM.   This is the original bill, and here 
is the print which I got from the House before it was printed here. 
Mr. PETTIGREW.  I should like to ask the Senator from Illinois if 
the bill is in print exactly as it passed the Senate? Mr. CULLOM.   
It is, exactly as it passed the Senate. Mr. PETTIGREW.   Then 
there should be a reprint of it, together with the House print. Mr. 
ALLISON.   That should be done.   There should be a reprint of 
the original bill with the amendment of the House. Mr. 
PETTIGREW.   I ask that we may have a reprint of the bill as it 
passed the Senate, together with the House amendment.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore.   The Senator from South Dakota 
asks that there be a reprint of the Senate bill with the House 
amendment attached. Mr. CULLOM.   I have no objection to that. 
The PRESIDENT pro tempore.   The Chair hears no objection, and it 
is so ordered. Mr. CULLOM.   I wish to say in justification -- Mr. 
TELLER.   It has always been the custom, so far as I recollect, to have 
bills printed in that way.   I do not understand this new 
arrangement.   We have not the Senate bill here at all now. The 
amendment should have been printed with a copy of the bill showing 
what was stricken out and what was substituted by the House.   
That is the proper way to keep the record.   I want to protest against 
this method of sending bills to us.   I do not know whose fault it is. 
Mr. CULLOM.   I wish to say that the proper officer of the Senate 
came to me with the bill as it passed the House and asked me whether 
both bills should be printed, and it occurred to me at the time that as 
we had plenty of copies of the original bill as it passed the Senate it 
might not be necessary to reprint it, and I told him I thought that 
would not be necessary.   So if there was any fault about it on the 
part of the Senate it was mine.   I want to justify the action of the 
clerk. Mr. TELLER.   It is not a very serious fault, but I do not want 
to depart from the usual custom of sending bills here that has been in 
vogue ever since I have been in the Senate, because that is the 
convenient way. Mr. CULLOM.   I presume the Senator means to 
criticise what was done by the House, and not what was done by the 
Senate. Mr. TELLER.   I do not know whom it is a criticism of, and 
I do not care.   What I want to insist upon is that when a bill goes to 
the House from this body and is acted upon there, and a substitute 
bill had been passed by the House, the Senate text and the House text 
shall come here together as one bill. Mr. ALLISON.   And be printed.    
Mr. TELLER.   And be printed.   That has been the custom. Mr. 
CULLOM.   I do not think it came in that way. Mr. TELLER.   
Lines should be drawn through the Senate bill showing that the 
House had stricken it out, and then let the House bill be printed 
following it.   That is the way the bill should come, so that we may 
compare the bill of the Senate with the substitute passed by the 
House. Mr. ALL EN.   Mr. President -- Mr. HOAR.   I should like 
to ask the Senator from Nebraska if he rose -with reference to the 
pending election case? Mr. ALLEN.   No, sir; I have been upon the 
floor for some time on another matter. Mr. HOAR.   I wish to address 
the Senate on the Quay election case, which I understand is now up, 
and I think I shall occupy not more than two minutes. Mr. ALLEN.   
I have had recognition here for nearly half an hour, but have 
yielded to other matters. Mr. HOAR.   Perhaps the Senator will 
allow me a few moments. Mr. ALLEN.   I yield to the Senator from 
Massachusetts.

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