So the said amendment was disagreed to. All of the remaining amendments were disagreed to. Lawrence S. Trimble Ordered, That the House insist on its disagreement to the said amendments, 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 organization 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, Rufus 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 Williams, 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. By Mr. Kelley: The petition of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for an amendment to the Constitution, inserting therein direct acknowledgment to Almighty God; By Mr. Kelsey: Two petitions of similar import from citizens of the State of New York; By Mr. James F. Wilson: Six petitions of similar import from citizens of the State of Iowa; By Mr. Baker: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Illinois: By Mr. Welker: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Ohio; By Mr. Bingham: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Thomas: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Maryland; By Mr. Morrell: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Pennsylvania; By Mr. Pettis: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Williams: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Poland: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Vermont; By Mr. Woodbridge: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. McCarthy: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of New York; all to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting the annual report on the commercial relations of the United States with foreign nations for the year ending September 30, 1868; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cullom moved that 5,000 copies extra of the said report be printed; which motion was referred to the Committee on Printing. By unanimous consent, leave of absence until Thursday next was granted to Mr. Pruyn. Mr. Ela, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1985) to provide for publishing the Congressional Record; which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Churchill, by unanimous consent, introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 459) authorizing the Secretary of War to allow to the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad Company a right of way across a portion of the public ground at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, for railroad purposes; which was read a first and second time. Pending the question on its engrossment, Mr. Holman submitted an amendment thereto; which was agreed to. Ordered, That the said resolution be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said joint resolution. The Speaker having announced as the regular order of business the bill of the House (H. R. 1880) to release certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, the pending question when the House took a recess yesterday being on sundry amendments submitted thereto. Mr. Paine submitted an additional amendment. Pending which, After debate, The amendment submitted by Mr. Benjamin F. Butler was then read. The amendment submitted by Mr. McKee having been read as follows, viz: Strike out all the names from line 118 to end of paragraph. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are All the remaining amendments, together with the amendment in the nature of a substitute reported by Mr. Paine, were then severally read and agreed to. |