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By Mr. Maynard: The petitions of William McDonald, of Lee county; Isaac W. Pleasants, of Goochland Court House; William Miller, of the same place; Charles R. Vance, of Scott county, all of the State of Virginia; and of Morris Cook, of the State of Mississippi; praying for relief from political disability;

By Mr. Beaman: A petition of similar import from L. B. Rose, of Spottsvania county, Virginia;

By Mr. James F. Wilson: A petition of similar import from J. K. Lear, of the same State;

all to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Benton: The petition of citizens of the State of New Hampshire, praying for a mail route from Newport to East Lemster, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Stokes: The petition of H. S. Young, of Macon county, Tennessee, praying to be relieved from disability, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Morrill: The petition of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying that a pension may be granted to David Shives, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Julian: The petition of Thomas Reily, praying for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Beaman: The petition of citizens of the State of Michigan, praying that pensions may be granted to the surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Starkweather: The petition of George Fowler and the administrators of the estate of DeGrasse Fowler, praying for an extension of a patent, to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. Brooks: The memorial of professors and students in the medical department of the University of New York, praying for the reor ganization of the medical corps of the navy, to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Jenckes: A communication from M. Richard Severson respecting the naturalization laws, to the Committee on the Revision of the Laws.

Mr. Upson, from the Committee of Elections, submitted a report in writing in the Louisiana contested election case, accompanied by the following resolutions, viz:

Resolved, That Simon Jones, not having received a majority of the votes cast for representative in this house from the second congressional district of Louisiana, is not entitled to a seat therein as such representative.

Resolved, That neither J. Willis Menard nor Caleb S. Hunt is entitled to a seat in this house as a representative from the second congressional district of Louisiana to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Mann.

Ordered, That the said resolutions be laid on the table, and the said report, together with the views of a minority of the said committee to be submitted by Mr. Kerr, be printed.

On motion of Mr. Logan, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of William A. Trevor.

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

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to have examinations and surveys made at the port of Chicago, with a view to secure such

additional and enlarged harbor facilities as the necessities of commerce at that point demand.

Mr. Heaton, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1986) to establish a post road from Pollockville, Jones county, North Carolina. via Palo Alto, to Swansboro', in said State; which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence for ten days was granted to Mr. Arnell.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Interior setting forth the exhaustion of the judiciary fund and asking an additional appropriation therefor; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

The House then proceeded, as the regular order of business, to the consideration of the bill of the Senate (S. 440) supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June 3, 1863.

Pending the question on the amendments submitted thereto,

Mr. Rice, by unanimous consent, submitted an amendment thereto; which was agreed to.

The first, second, and third amendments reported from the Committee on Banking and Currency were then severally agreed to.

The amendments submitted by Mr. Buckland and Mr. Smith were severally read and disagreed to.

The amendment submitted by Mr. Coburn having been read, as follows, viz:

Strike out section four of the bill, and insert in lieu thereof the fol lowing:

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"SEC. And be it further enacted, That, to secure a better distribution of the national banking currency, there may be issued circulation notes to banking associations organized in States and Territories having a less banking circulation than their pro rata above, as herein set forth. And the circulation herein authorized shall, within three years if required, be withdrawn pro rata from banks organized in States having a circulation exceeding that provided for by the act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for a national currency secured by pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof, approved March 3, 1865." To ascertain which, the Comptroller of the Currency shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, make a statement showing the amount of circulation to be retired by each of such banks; and shall, when circulation is required, make a requisition for such amount upon such bank, commencing with banks in States having the largest excess of circulation, and reducing only the circulation of those having the greatest proportion in excess, leaving undisturbed those having a smaller proportion until those in greater excess have been reduced to the same grade; and continuing thus to make the reduction in such States having an excess until the circulation of such bank shall, as nearly as possible, be equalized among the States and Territories according to the appraised value of all property, real and personal, within such States and Territories; the same to be ascertained by the certified statements of the governors of such States and Territories made biennially to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this act shall not apply to $150,000,000 of said circulation, which shall be distributed according to representation in Congress. And upon failure of such bank to return the amount so required within one year aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency to sell at public

auction, having given twenty days' notice in a newspaper printed in Washington city and New York city, an amount of bonds deposited by said bank, as security for its circulation, equal to the circulation to be withdrawn from such bank, and with the proceeds to redeem so many of the notes of such bank as they come into the treasury as will equal the amount required from it: Provided, That the circulation herein authorized shall be issued only as circulation is withdrawn, so that the aggregate of circulation shall not at any time exceed $300,000,000."

The question was put, Will the House agree thereto ?

And it was decided in the affirmative,

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. Burr moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. And the question being put on the latter motion,

It was decided in the affirmative Yeas....

The yeas

Nays.
Not voting.

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and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative are

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So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

Mr. Miller moved that the bill be laid on the table.
And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

The yeas and nays being desired

Yeas
Nays.
Not voting..

Mr. Charles W. Pierce

William A. Pile
Daniel Polsley
C. H. Prince
Logan H. Roots
Lewis W. Ross
Philetus Sawyer
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
Charles Sitgreaves
William B. Stokes
John H. Stover
J. H. Sypher
Nelson Tift
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
Henry D. Washburn
Martin Welker
William Williams
John T. Wilson
George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. William E. Robinson
Glenni W. Scofield
Lewis Selye
Worthington C. Smith
H. H. Starkweather
Aaron F. Stevens
Thomas E. Stewart
Frederick Stone
Stephen Taber

Row'd E. Trowbridge

Ginery Twichell
Charles Upson
Henry Van Aernam
Burt Van Horn
Hamilton Ward
William B. Washburn
Thomas Williams
James F. Wilson
Stephen F. Wilson
Fernando Wood
Fred'k E. Woodbridge.

Mr. John Taffe

Caleb N. Taylor
Francis Thomas
John Trimble

Lawrence S. Trimble
Daniel M. Van Auken
Charles H. Van Wyck
Michael Vidal

Cadwal'r C. Washburn
Ellihu B. Washburne
B. F. Whittemore
William Windom.

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by one-fifth of the members present,

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

Cadwal'r C. Washburn
William B. Washburn
Fred'k E. Woodbridge.

Mr. Daniel Polsley
C. H. Prince
Green B. Raum
Logan H. Roots
Lewis W. Ross
Philetus Sawyer
Robert C. Schenck
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
William B. Stokes
Frederick Stone
John H. Stover
John Taffe
Nelson Tift
Row'd E. Trowbridge
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
Henry D. Washburn
Martin Welker
B. F. Whittemore
Thomas Williams
William Williams
James F. Wilson
John T. Wilson
George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. J. H. Sypher
Caleb N. Taylor
Francis Thomas
John Trimble
Lawrence S. Trimble
Daniel M. Van Auken
Charles H. Van Wyck
Michael Vidal

Ellihu B. Washburne
Stephen F. Wilson

William Windom

Fernando Wood.

The amendment submitted by Mr. Griswold was then agreed to. The amendment submitted by Mr. Benjamin F. Butler having been read as follows, viz: Amend the second section of the biil by substituting as follows, after the enacting clause:

"That section forty-two of said act be so far amended as to provide that thirty days after notice shall be served upon the Comptroller of the Currency by any banking association organized under the laws of the United States that it has gone into liquidation by a vote of its shareholders, as provided in said section, or whenever proceedings have been taken under the provi sions of said act against any such banking association for any violation of the provisions thereof, all payments of interest upon the bonds pledged by such banking association to redeem its circulation or to secure its deposits due to the United States shall cease, except as hereinafter provided; but

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