Mr. SPEAKER presented the report of the special committee appointed to consider jointly with Mr. Speaker the amending of the standing orders of the house governing the procedure to be followed in taking a division, as follows:
Your committee, having considered several systems of taking divisions, are of the opinion that there does not seem to be any urgent necessity of making radical changes in the procedure now followed in the House of Commons; but they recommend that, in order to save time, one of the officers of the house be assigned to sit near the clerk and count the votes as they are called during a division, so that the totals of the yeas and nays recorded be given out immediately after the members have voted.