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So the House refused to lay the resolution on the table.

The question recurring, on the demand for the previous question, the House refused to second the same;

When

Mr. Maynard moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Reconstruction.

Pending which motion,

Mr. Maynard demanded the previous question; which was seconded.
And the question recurring, Shall the main question be now put?
It was put

And decided in the affirmative,

Yeas
Nays.
Not voting.

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

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Mr. Samuel Hooper

Asahel W. Hubbard
Calvin T. Hulburd
James A. Johnson
Bethuel M Kitchen
George V. Lawrence
John A. Logan

William Loughridge

Mr. Samuel S. Marshall
William Moore
John Morrissey
William Mungen
Leonard Myers
Carman A. Newcomb
David A. Nunn
S. Newton Pettis

Mr. Frederick A. Pike
Theodore M. Pomeroy
John V. L. Pruyn
William E. Robinson
Logan H. Roots
Lewis Selye

Charles Sitgreaves
Thomas E. Stewart

Mr. J. H. Sypher

Stephen Taber
Cal-b N. Taylor
Nelson Tift
Burt Van Horn
Charles H. Van Wyck
Cadwal'r C. Washburn
Fernando Wood.

The question then recurring on the motion of Mr. Maynard to refer the resolution to the Committee on Reconstruction, it was put and decided in the affirmative.

So the resolution was referred to the Committee on Reconstruction. The morning hour having expired,

The Speaker announced as the business in order the motion of Mr. Boutwell to reconsider the vote whereby the bill of the House (H. R. 1667) to secure equal privileges and immunities to citizens of the United States, and to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth of the amend ments to the Constitution, was recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary; which was pending at the hour of adjournment on Saturday 23d instant.

Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Boutwell,

Ordered, That the further consideration of the said motion be postponed to Wednesday, 27th instant, immediately after the reading of the journal.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the governor of the State of Indiana, transmitting report of the sales made by that State of the land scrip received from the United States under the act of July 2, 1862, relative to agricultural colleges, and of the appropriation of the proceeds of such sales; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed.

Also, a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 23d instant, in relation to buildings or premises in the city of Washington, held and accepted by the Department of the Interior, "under lease or rent;" which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hamlin, one of their clerks: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill (S. 667) to enable the Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway Company, in the State of Michigan, to have the subscription to its capital stock duly stamped; also,

A joint resolution (S. R. 203) donating cannon for a monument to the memory of the late President Lincoln;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives.

The Senate have agreed to the amendments of the House of Representatives to the joint resolution of the Senate (S. R. 173) respecting the provisional governments of Virginia and Texas;

with amendments, in which I am also directed to ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives.

Mr. McCullough, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolutions; which were read, considered, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue inform this house at an early day at what rate he has fixed the fees of gaugers for gauging and inspecting liquors under the act of Congress approved July 20, 1864, section fifty-three; and whether he has authorized the gaugers to charge by the package or gallon; and whether the rate so fixed has been made uniform throughout the United States.

Resolved, That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue further inform

this house, at as early a day as practicable, how much revenue has been raised from inspecting and gauging liquors under said act up to the 1st of January, 1869.

The Speaker announced, as the next business in order, the consideration of the bill of the Senate (S. 570) for a grant of land, granting the right of way over the public lands to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and for other purposes, which was under consideration as unfinished business at the hour of adjournment on Friday, 22d instant, the pending question being the motion of Mr. Price to amend the bill.

After debate,

Mr. Covode moved the previous question on the bill and amendments. Pending which,

Mr. E. B. Washburne moved that the bill and amendments be laid on the table.

Pending which motion,

Mr. E. B. Washburne moved that there be a call of the House; which motion was disagreed to.

The question recurring on the motion of Mr. E. B. Washburne, that the bill be laid on the table,

It was put,

And decided in the negative,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

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Those not voting are

Mr. George M. Adams

Oakes Ames
James M. Ashley
Nathaniel P. Banks
James G. Blaine .
Benjamin F. Butler
Henry L. Dawes
Oliver J. Dickey
Nathan F. Dixon
W. P. Edwards
John Fox

Mr. Charles Haight

John Hill
William S. Holman
Asahel W. Hubbard
Calvin T. Hulburd
James M. Humphrey
James A. Johnson
Michael C. Kerr

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J. Proctor Knott
George V. Lawrence
William S. Lincoln

Mr. John A. Logan
William Moore
John Morrissey
William Mungen
Leonard Myers
William E. Niblack
David A. Nunn
Theodore M. Pomeroy
Charles Sitgreaves
Frederick Stone
Stephen Taber

So the House refused to lay the bill on the table.

Mr. Caleb N. Taylor
Francis Thomas
Nelson Tift
John Trimble
Lawrence S. Trimble
Charles H. Van Wyck
Cadwal'r C. Washburn
Thomas Williams
Fernando Wood
P. M. B. Young.

The question then recurring on the demand of Mr. Covode for the previous question, the House refused to second the same;

When

Mr. Logan moved that the bill, amendments, and substitute be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands; which motion was, under the operation of the previous question, agreed to.

Mr. Logan moved that the vote by which the said bill, amendments, and substitute were referred to the Committee on the Public Lands be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. L. S. Trimble for ten days.

Mr. E. B. Washburne moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union for the consideration of the special order therein.

Pending which,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative

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are

Mr. Ebon C. Ingersoll

Alexander H. Jones
Thomas L. Jones
Norman B. Judd
George W. Julian
Michael C. Kerr
J. Proctor Knott
Israel G. Lash
Benjamin F. Loan
Rufus Mallory
Samuel S. Marshall
James M. Marvin
Horace Maynard
Hiram McCullough
George F. Miller
James Mullins
William Mungen
J. P. Newsham
William E. Niblack
John A. Nicholson

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. William B. Allison
Oakes Ames
Samuel M. Arnell
Alexander H. Bailey
Demas Barnes
Jacob Benton

Mr. Charles E. Phelps
Charles W. Pierce
Frederick A. Pike
William A. Pile
Daniel Polsley
John V. L. Pruyn
Samuel J. Randall
Lewis W. Ross
John P. C. Shanks
Rufus P. Spalding
John Taffe
Charles Upson

Daniel M. Van Auken
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
B. F. Whittemore
James F. Wilson
Stephen F. Wilson
Fred'k E. Woodbridge
George W. Woodward.

Mr. Thomas A. Jenckes
William D. Kelley
William H. Kelsey
John H. Ketcham
William H. Koontz
Addison H. Laflin
William Lawrence
William Loughridge
John Lynch
Dennis McCarthy
Samuel McKee

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And the House accordingly, at 4 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m., adjourned.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1869.

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers, were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the rules:

By Mr. Churchill: The petition of Alvin Osborn and others, citizens of the State of New York, praying for an increase of duty upon foreignmade shingles.

By Mr. Samuel Hooper: The petition of J. D. and M. Williams and others, citizens of the State of Massachusetts, praying for a modification of the internal revenue law.

Ordered, That the said petition, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By the Speaker: The petition of Mrs. A. Lincoln, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Higby: The petition of White and Bauer, praying for relief; Also, the petition of John Stratman, praying for relief.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

By Mr. Bashford: The petition of Mark Aldrich, a citizen of Arizona praying for relief; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Ames: The petition of Albert French and others, citizens of the State of Massachusetts, praying for protection from illegal exactions.

By Mr. Taber: The petition of Captain Joseph Bayles and others, citizens of the State of New York, of a similar import.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Com

merce.

By Mr. Van Horn: The petition of John C. Lemon, praying for relief; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Judd: The petition of Charlotte Webster, praying for a pension.

By Mr. Maynard: The petition of James M. McKamey, praying for a pension;

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