Mr. William Moore Luke P. Poland Mr. John V. L. Pruyn Green B. Raum Mr. Thomas E. Stewart So the said motion was laid on the table. Mr. Michael Vidal Ellihu B. Washburne Mr. Ward 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. By unanimous consent, leave of absence for this evening was granted to Mr. Stover. Mr. Boutwell moved that the rules be suspended so as to take up and consider the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 402) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, with the amend ments of the Senate thereto. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative, Two-thirds voting in favor thereof. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. George W. Anderson John D. Baldwin John F. Benjamin Jacob Benton George S. Boutwell Oliver J. Dickey Mr. Oliver H. Dockery Mr. Bethuel M. Kitchen Mr. C. H. Prince Green B. Raum • Francis Thomas Mr. Charles Sitgreaves Mr. John Coburn Burton C. Cook Columbus Delano Nathan F. Dixon Grenville M. Dodge So the motion was agreed to. And thereupon, The House proceeded to the consideration of the said resolution and amendments. Pending the question on agreeing to the said amendments, After debate, Mr. Boutwell moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered to be put. The fifth amendment was then read as follows, viz: Strike out the first section and insert in lieu thereof: "No discrimination shall be made in any State among citizens of the United States in the exercise of the elective franchise or in the right to hold office in any State on account of race, color, nativity, property, education, or creed.” And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto ? It was decided in the negative, Yeas... Not voting.. 37 133 52 by one-fifth of the members present, The yeas and nays being desired Mr. Samuel B. Axtell Jehu Baker John Beatty Mr. Oliver H. Dockery Mr. William Lawrence David A. Nunn Those who voted in the negative are Mr. George W. Anderson Delos R. Ashley James G. Blaine Austin Blair George S. Boutwell Nathaniel Boyden Mr. Charles A. Eldridge Thomas D. Eliot Adam J. Glossbrenner Mr. J. Proctor Knott Theodore M. Pomeroy Mr. John H. Stover Martin Welker James F. Wilson Mr. C. H. Prince John V. L. Pruyn William H. Robertson William E. Robinson Logan H. Roots Row'd E. Trowbridge. Fernando Wood All of the remaining amendments were disagreed to. Aaron F. Stevens J. H. Sypher Ordered, That the House insist on its disagreement to the said amend ments, and ask a conference with the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon. Ordered, That Mr. Boutwell, Mr. Shellabarger, and Mr. Eldridge, be the managers at the said conference on the part of the House. Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hamlin, one of their clerks: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill of the following title, viz: S. 935. An act to provide for a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Vermont; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. The President of the United States has notified the Senate that he did, on the 9th instant, approve and sign joint resolutions and bills of the following titles, viz: S. R. 206. A resolution relating to the mileage of Charles Westmoreland. S. R. 194. A resolution authorizing the transfer of certain appropri ations heretofore made for the public printing, binding, and engraving. S. 644. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit the coolie trade by American citizens in American vessels," approved February 19, 1862. Mr. James F. Wilson, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the President and Vice-President elect and notify them of their election, reported that the said committee had discharged the duty devolved upon them, and that the President elect had responded as follows, viz: "Please notify the two houses of Congress of my acceptance of the important trust to which I have been elected, and of which you have just notified me, and say to them that it will be my endeavor to so discharge it that they and those who elected them shall have no reason to regret their action." Mr. Pruyn, from the same committee, reported that the Vice-President elect had responded as follows, viz: "Please convey to the two houses of Congress my acceptance of the office to which I have been elected by the people of the United States, and assure them that I shall endeavor to prove worthy of this mark of confidence by fidelity to principle and duty." Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Reconstruction, reported a substitute for the bill of the House (H. R. 1968) to provide for the organiza tion of a provisional government for the State of Mississippi; which was ordered to be printed and recommitted to the said committee. By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. Hulburd for two days, and to Mr. Cary, Mr. Upson, Mr. Mungen, Mr. Benton, and Mr. Poland, for to-night. Mr. Paine, from the Committee on Reconstruction, to which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 1880) to relieve certain persons from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, reported the same with an amendment in the nature of a substitute therefor. Pending the question on the said amendment, Mr. Benjamin F. Butler submitted an amendment thereto; Mr. McKee submitted an additional amendment to the said amendment; Pending which, The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House executive communications, as follows, viz: I. A letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 4th instant, information relative to surveys for a harbor at the Delaware breakwater with a view to the erection of a pier; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. II. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the division of the tribal funds of the Pottawatomie Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. The hour of 4 o'clock p. m. having arrived, the House took a recess until 7 o'clock p. m. After the recess, The House, in pursuance of its previous order, 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. Scofield reported that the committee having, according to order, had under consideration the bill of the House No. 1060, (internal taxes,) had found itself without a quorum, and that he had caused the roll to be called, when it appeared that the following-named members had failed to answer to their names, viz: George M. Adams, Oakes Ames, George W. Anderson, Stevenson Archer, Samuel M. Arnell, Delos R. Ashley, James M. Ashley, Samuel B. Axtell, Alexander H. Bailey, John D. Baldwin, Nathaniel P. Banks, Demas Barnes, William H. Barnum, Fernando C. Beaman, John F. Benjamin, Jacob Benton, John A. Bingham, W. Jasper Blackburn, Austin Blair, Thomas Boles, George S. Boutwell, C. C. Bowen, Benjamin M. Boyer, Henry P. H. Bromwell, James Brooks, Ralph P. Buckland, Charles W. Buckley, Albert G. Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Henry L. Cake, John B. Callis, Samuel F. Cary, John W. Chanler, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, J. W. Clift, John Coburn, Burton C. Cook, Simeon Corley, Thomas Cornell, Henry L. Dawes, Columbus Delano, Nathan F. Dixon, Grenville M. Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, John F. Driggs, Ephraim R. Eckley, W. P. Edwards, Benjamin Eggleston, Jacob H. Ela, Thomas D. Eliot, James T. Elliott, John F. Farnsworth, Orange Ferriss, Thomas W. Ferry, William C. Fields, John Fox, John R. French, James A. Garfield, J. Lawrence Getz, Adam J. Glossbrenner, James H. Goss, Samuel F. Gove, John A. Griswold, Charles Haight, George A. Halsey, Charles M. Hamilton, Abner C. Harding, Thomas Haughey, David Heaton, William Higby, John Hill, Benjamin F. Hopkins, Julius Hotchkiss, Ashael W. Hubbard, Richard D. Hubbard, Calvin T. Hulburd, James M. Humphrey, Morton C. Hunter, James A. Johnson, Alexander H. Jones, George W. Julian, Francis W. Kellogg, William H. Kelsey, Michael C. Kerr, Bethuel M. Kitchen, William H. Koontz, Addison H. Laflin, George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, William S. Lincoln, Benjamin F. Loan, John A. Logan, William Loughridge, John Lynch, Rutus Mallory, Samuel S. Marshall, James M. Marvin, Dennis McCar thy, James R. McCormick, Hiram McCullough, Ulysses Mercur, George F. Miller, William Moore, Daniel J. Morrell, John Morrissey, James Mullins, William Mungen, Carman A. Newcomb, Joseph P. Newsham, John A. Nicholson, David A. Nunn, Godlove S. Orth, Sidney Perham, John A. Peters, S. Newton Pettis, Frederick A. Pike, William A. Pile, Tobias A. Plants, Luke P. Poland, Daniel Polsley, C. H. Prince, John V. L. Pruyn, Logan H. Roots, Lewis W. Ross, Philetus Sawyer, Lewis Selye, Samuel Shellabarger, Charles Sitgreaves, Worthington C. Smith, Rufus P. Spalding, William B. Stokes, Frederick Stone, John H. Stover, J. H. Sypher, Stephen Tabor, John Taffe, Caleb N. Taylor, Francis Thomas, Nelson Tift, John Trimble, Lawrence S. Trimble, Rowland E. Trowbridge, Charles Upson, Henry Van Aernam, Daniel M. Van Auken, Philadelph Van Trump, Charles H. Van Vyck, Michel Vidal, Hamilton Ward, Cadwalader. C. Washburn, Ellihu B. Washburne, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Martin Welker, B. F. Whittemore, Thomas Williams, William Williains, James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, William Windom, Fernando Wood, Frederick E. Woodbridge. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hamlin, one of their clerks : Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a joint resolution and bills of the following titles, viz: S. R. 195. Joint resolution requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transfer certain money; S. 860. An act for the relief of Wright Duryea; S. 896. An act confirming certain purchases of lands in the Ionia district, Michigan, made by Charles H. Rodd and Andrew J. Campeau; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. And then, On motion of Mr. Schenck, at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., the House adjourned. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1869. The following memorials, petitions, and other papers, were laid upon the Clerk's table, and referred, under the rules: By Mr. Maynard: The memorials of H. W. Holdway, James Selkirk, and John C. Harris, praying for relief from political disability, to the Committee on Reconstruction. By Mr. Thomas: Memorials of similar import from James K. Edmonson and John C. Bonde, to the Committee on Reconstruction. By Mr. James M. Ashley: Additional papers in the case of Samuel J. Douglas, of Florida, praying for relief from political disability, to the Committee on Reconstruction. By Mr. Baker: A letter of Benjamin Mattice, a register in bankruptcy, relative to the bankrupt law, to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws. By Mr. Sawyer: The memorial of John P. Hendricks, a Stockbridge Indian, praying for relief, to the Committee of Claims. By the Speaker: A resolution of the Second Ward republican club, of. Washington, D. C., protesting against the transfer of the Centre Market to a monopoly, to the Committee on the District of Columbia. By Mr. Baker: Three petitions from citizens of the State of Illinois, praying for the passage of a law regulating inter-State insurance, to the Committee on the Judiciary. |