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Mr. Schenck moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate with the concurrence of the House in the said amendments.

Mr. Eliot, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill (H. R. 1906) to establish the collection district of Aroostook, in the State of Maine, and to more accurately define the boundaries of the district of Newark, New Jersey; which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.

Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Eliot moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also

moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

Mr. Kelley, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution, which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to inform the House what amount of money has been expended in experiments on steam expansion under the direction of the department or the Bureau of Steam Engineering, where said experiments were made, and to whom the money expended was paid, and to transmit to the House copies of the vouchers produced for the several items.

On motion of Mr. Blaine, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and after some time spent therein the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Ferry reported that the committee having had under consideration the special order, viz: H. R. 1803. A bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1869, had come to no resolution thereon.

Mr. Blaine moved that all debate on the pending paragraph of the said bill shall cease in 15 minutes after its consideration is resumed. Pending which,

Mr. Garfield moved to amend the said motion by striking out "15 minutes," and inserting in lieu thereof "one minute;" which motion was disagreed to.

The motion of Mr. Blaine was then agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Blaine, the rules having been suspended for that purpose,

Ordered, That at the evening session to-day the consideration of the army bill be continued.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hamlin, one of their clerks: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have adopted the following resolution, viz: Whereas the question whether the State of Georgia has become and is entitled to representation in the two houses of Congress is now pending and undetermined; and whereas, by the joint resolution of Congress passed July 20, 1868, entitled "A resolution excluding from the electoral college votes of States lately in rebellion, which shall not have been reorganized," it was provided that no electoral votes from any of the States lately in rebellion should be received or counted for President or Vice-President of the United States until, among other things, such State should have become entitled to representation in Congress, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) That on the assembling of the two houses on the second Wednesday of February, 1869, for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice-President, as provided by law and the joint rules, if the counting or omitting to count the electoral votes, if any, which may be presented, as of the State of Georgia, shall not essentially change the result, in that case they shall be reported by the President of the Senate in the following manner: Were the votes presented, as of the State of Georgia, to be counted, the result would be, for for President of the United States, votes; if not counted, for for President of the United States, votes; but in either case

is

elected President of the United States; and in the same manner for Vice-President;

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

Mr. Stephen F. Wilson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title, viz:

H. R. 1460. An act regulating the duties on imported copper and copper ores;

When,

The Speaker signed the same.

Mr. Stephen F. Wilson, from the same committee, reported that the committee did this day present to the President of the United States bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. 1856. An act to establish a certain post road in the State of Connecticut; and

H. R. 1861. An act to establish a certain post road in the State of Connecticut.

The hour of 4 o'clock p. m. having arrived, the House took a recess until 7 o'clock p. m.

After the recess,

On motion of Mr. Blaine, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and after some time spent therein the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Ferry reported that the committee having had under consideration the special order, viz: H. R. 1803. A bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1870, had come to no resolution

thereon.

Mr. James F. Wilson moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable the House to take up and consider the resolution of the Senate, this day received, relative to counting the electoral vote of the State of Georgia.

Pending which,

Mr. Ross moved, at 8 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn; which motion was disagreed to.

The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Wilson;

And being put,

It was decided in the affirmative,

Two-thirds voting in favor thereof.

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

Mr. William B. Allison

Oakes Ames
Nathaniel P. Banks
Fernando C. Beaman

John Beatty

John F. Benjamin
Jacob Benton
James G. Blaine
Austin Blair
Thomas Boles
C. C. Bowen
John M. Broomall
Ralph P. Buckland
Benjamin F. Butler
Roderick R. Butler
John C. Churchill
J. W. Clift
Amasa Cobb
John Coburn
Simeon Corley
Shelby M. Cullom
Henry L. Dawes
Columbus Delano
John T. Deweese
Oliver J. Dickey

Mr. Nathan F. Dixon

Grenville M. Dodge
Ephraim R. Eckley
Jacob H. Ela
Orange Ferriss
Thomas W. Ferry
James A. Garfield
George A. Halsey
Abner C. Harding
David Heaton
William Higby
John Hill

Samuel Hooper
Benjamin F. Hopkins
Chester D. Hubbard
Calvin T. Hulburd
Thomas A. Jenckes
George W. Julian
William D. Kelley
Francis W. Kellogg
William H. Kelsey
William H. Koontz
Addison H. Laflin

William Lawrence

Mr. Benjamin F. Loan
John A. Logan
William Loughridge
James M. Marvin
Horace Maynard
Dennis McCarthy
Samuel McKee
George F. Miller
William Moore
James K. Moorhead
James Mullins
Benjamin W. Norris
Halbert E. Paine
Sidney Perham
John A. Peters
Charles W. Pierce
William A. Pile
Tobias A. Plants
Hiram Price
C. H. Prince
Green B. Raum
Logan H. Roots
Philetus Sawyer
Robert C. Schenck

Mr. Glenni W. Scofield
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
H. H. Starkweather
Aaron F. Stevens
Thomas E. Stewart
William B. Stokes
John H. Stover
J. H. Sypher
Caleb N. Taylor
Francis Thomas
Row'd E. Trowbridge

Ginery Twichell

Charles Upson
Robert T. Van Horn
Michael Vidal

Henry D. Washburn
William B. Washburn
Martin Welker
B. F. Whittemore
William Williams
James F. Wilson
John T. Wilson
William Windom.

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Those not voting are

Mr. George M. Adams

George W. Anderson
Stevenson Archer
Samuel M. Arnell
Delos R. Ashley
James M. Ashley
Samuel B. Axtell
Alexander H. Bailey
John D. Baldwin
Demas Barnes
William H Barnum
James B. Beck
John A. Bingham
W. Jasper Blackburn
George S. Boutwell
Henry P. H. Bromwell
James Brooks
Charles W. Buckley
Albert G. Burr
Henry L. Cake
John B. Callis
Samuel F. Cary
John W. Chanler
Reader W. Clarke

Sidney Clarke
Burton C. Cook
Thomas Cornell

Mr. John Covode

Oliver H. Dockery
Ignatius Donnelly
John F. Driggs
W. P. Edwards
Benjamin Eggleston
Charles A. Eldridge
Thomas D. Eliot
James T. Elliott
William C. Fields
John Fox

John R. French
Adam J. Glossbrenner
J. S. Golladay
James H. Goss
Samuel F. Gove
Joseph J. Gravely
John A. Griswold
Asa P. Grover
Charles Haight
Charles M. Hamilton
Thomas Haughey
Isaac R. Hawkins
Asahel W. Hubbard
Richard D. Hubbard
James M. Humphrey
Morton C. Hunter

So the rules were suspended.

And thereupon

Mr. Charles E. Phelps
Samuel J. Randall
Lewis W. Ross
Stephen Taber

Mr. Ebon C. Ingersoll
Alexander H. Jones
Norman B. Judd
Michael C. Kerr
John H. Ketcham
Bethuel M. Kitchen
J. Proctor Knott
Israel G. Lash
George V. Lawrence
William S. Lincoln
John Lynch
Rufus Mallory
Samuel S. Marshall
James R. McCormick
Hiram McCullough
Ulysses Mercur
Daniel J. Morrell
John Morrissey
William Mungen
Leonard Myers
Carman A. Newcomb
J. P. Newsham
John A. Nicholson
David A. Nunn
Charles O'Neill
Godlove S. Orth
S. Newton Pettis

The said resolution was taken up and concurred in.

Mr. Daniel M. Van Auken
Philadelph Van Trump
George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. Frederick A. Pike
Luke P. Poland
Daniel Polsley
Theodore M. Pomeroy
John V. L. Pruyn
William H. Robertson
William E. Robinson
Lewis Selye

Charles Sitgreaves
Worthington C. Smith
Rufus P. Spalding
Frederick Stone
John Taffe
Nelson Tift

John Trimble
Lawrence S. Trimble
Henry Van Aernam
Burt Van Horn
Charles H. Van Wyck
Hamilton Ward

Cadwal'r C. Washburn

Ellihu B. Washburne
Thomas Williams
Stephen F. Wilson
Fernando Wood
Fred'k E. Woodbridge.

Mr. James F. Wilson moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate with the concurrence of the House in the said resolution.

On motion of Mr. Blaine, by unanimous consent, the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 372) directing the sale of the steamer Atlantic, with the amendments of the Senate thereto, was taken up, and the said amendments were concurred in.

Mr. Blaine moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate with the concurrence of the House in the said amendments.

On motion of Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, the rules having been suspended for that purpose, leave was granted him to submit an amendment to the bill of the House (H. R. 1803) reducing the pay of army officers. Mr. Banks moved that the rules be suspended, so as to set apart the session of Friday evening next for debate on the proposed acquisition of San Domingo.

Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Garfield, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the pending amendments to the army bill (H. R. 1803) be printed.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence for to-night and to-morrow was granted to Mr. O'Neill.

And then,

On motion of Mr. Kelsey, at 9 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1869.

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

By Mr. Phelps: The memorial of citizens of Maryland and West Virginia, praying an appropriation of land for the African race; which was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Holbrook: The memorial of the legislature of Idaho, relative to tunnelling Eagle Mountain, in said Territory; which was referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining.

By Mr. Taffe: The petition of Mrs. Anna Kee, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By the Speaker: The petition of John McCarchen, of Washington, District of Columbia, praying for extra compensation; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

By Mr. Holbrook: The memorial of the legislature of Idaho Territory, relative to the Pacific railway; which was referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed in the Globe;

Also, the memorial of the legislature of Idaho, relative to the pay of volunteers in the Indian war in said Territory; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. James M. Ashley: The petition of Samuel J. Douglass, of Florida, praying for the removal of political disabilities.

By Mr. Clift: The memorial of 26 members of the Georgia legislature, of similar import.

By Mr. Mullins: The petition of James Russ, of similar import. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By the Speaker: The remonstrance of Grinnell, Minturn & Company, B. T. Babbitt, C. H. Marshall, Colgate & Company, James Pyle, and many others, against increase of duty on English sodas.

By Mr. Nicholson: The petition of citizens of Newcastle, Delaware, relative to duties on imports;

Also, the petition of citizens of Wilmington, Delaware, of similar import.

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

By Mr. Scofield: The petition of citizens of Pennsylvania, praying for an amendment to the Constitution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Roderick R. Butler: The petitions of Margaret Baeresby (widow of Emanuel Baeresby) and Robert G. Wilson, praying for pensions.

By Mr. McKee: The petition of Mary Jane Conrad, praying for a pension.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Brooks: The petition of John Gardner, praying for relief from political disability; which was referred to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Koontz: The petition of Jacob Sanders, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr.

The petition of William A. Parker, captain United States navy, praying to be restored to the active list of the navy; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

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