The explicit provision of law which requires that committee reports on simple or con-
current resolutions shall be classed as private reports without regard to their subject-
matter has relegated to undistributed volumes several reports from House committees at
the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress which relate to matters of more or less pub-
lic interest. Such are House reports 5421, relating to the withdrawal of coal lands from
sale; 5463, adverse to the "simplified spelling; 6193, recommending that the next
vacancy in the rank of Lieutenant-General be not filled and that the office then cease;
6387, allowing temporary leaves of absence to homestead settlers; 7085, recommending
the passage of a resolution calling for information as to the amounts of second-class
mail matter carried, the receipts therefor, and the relative increase or decrease of each;
7116, favoring an investigation by the Bureau of Corporations of the causes of fluctua-
tions in the price of cotton; 7304, from the Committee on the Judiciary, denying the
right of Congress to exercise jurisdiction over woman and child labor.