The SPEAKER. The gentlemanis out of order.” The only person who called the gentleman toorder was the occupant of the chair. He willstate that when the quotation from “Mar mion” was 1st used by the Gentfrom Tennesseethe words did not fall upon the ear of the Chair. The Gentfrom Tennessee [Mr. Cooper] occupies a seat most distant of all in the Hall from the Chair, and at the time he wasspeaking a member from Pennsylvania was consulting the Chair in regard to the businessupon the Speaker's table and its relation to an important bill now pending, and thus the wordsused did not reach the Speaker, nor the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. KELLY, l whosits nearer to the seat of the Gentfrom Tennessee than does the Chair. If the Chair had heard those remarks, although as 1st used they were inferential and in the form of a quotation, he would have called the Gentfrom Tennessee to order, the intent beingevident from the language used. Those wordswere afterward repeated, and the Chair instantlycalled the Gentfrom Tennessee to order. The Gentfrom RhdIsland, [Mr. JExckEs] a few minutes later, raised the point of order that the whole debate was out of order as irrelevant, and the Chair sustained thatpoint of order. r The rule as to questions of privilege is, that where a proposition is made which relates to the privileges of the House, it is “The duty of the Speaker, to entertain it; at least to the extent of submitting the question to i: the house whetheror not it Presents a question of privThis resolution does not appear a formal vote of censure. It is a resolution assuming to exPressthe sense of the House in regard to the supposed violation of its privileges; and the Chair will therefore, in accordance with the rule which will be found, as he has quoted it, on page 156 of Barclay's Digest, submit the question to the House whether the resolution involves a question of privilege or not, and let the House loit. The question is, Will the House entertain the resolution as a question of privilege?..