230 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 2,

via Mount Savage, Frostburg and Lonaconing to Piedmont;
and whether said railroad is worked in accordance with the
provisions of its charter. And the. said Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Consolidation Coal
Company are hereby required to report to this House, imme-
diately, the rates of freight charged on coal shipped over said
road; and whether said rates are uniform; and whether they
or either of them have made any special argreement with the
George's Creek coal and Iron Company, the American Coal
Company, the Central Mining and Manufacturing Company,
and the Borden Mining Company, or any of them, whereby
said Company, or any of them, transport coal over said
road at less freight and wharfage than other Coal Companies
on the line of said road; and shall also report the freight per ton
per mile charged by said Company on coal shipped by each
and every of the coal companies transporting coal over said
road; and said committee have power to send for persons
and papers, with authority to report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. Jones offered the following :

Ordered, That it be entered upon the Journal that the
reason for the reconsideration and change of the time to
which this House had proposed to adjourn, as stated in their
message to the Senate of the 1st inst., was as follows : viz,
It was deemed by a majority of the House important to the
public interest, in order to remove all doubt as to the legality
of the election of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to
repeal the law requiring that election to take place on Wed-
nesday next, a bill for which purpose had passed the Senate
by a suspension of the rules, and at the time of sending the
message to the Senate it was not doubted that a like suspen-
sion of the rules would allow the majority to pass the bill
through this House, but after the sending of the message
those who voted against the suspension defeated the suspen-
sion of the rules, so that the requisite three-fourths vote
could not be obtained. This House then, under a sense of
public duty and before receiving the reponse of the Senate,
reconsidered and changed the said time in order to facilitate
the passage of the said bill, which change of time the House
was prevented from communicating to the Senate by its ad-
journment. It is further ordered that on the assembling of
the Senate a message containing a copy of this explanation
shall be sent to the Senate

Mr. Gorsuch proposed the following as a substitute :

Ordered, That this House, by its action yesterday in ad-
journingto a day different from the day named in its messages
to the Senate, which was concurred in by that Body, did not
intend to be discourteous or to trespass upon parliamentary
rules or customs in its official intercourse with a co-ordinate