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

By unanimous consent, leave of absence for two days was granted to Mr. Covode, and indefinite to Mr. Loan, Mr. Dodge, and Mr. Gove.

Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, from the Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred the bill of the House No. 1738, (Indian appropriations,) with the amendments of the Senate thereto, reported the same to the House.

Ordered, That the said bill and amendments be printed and recommitted to the said committee.

Mr. Schenck called up the motion, heretofore submitted by him, to reconsider the vote by which the bill of the House (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit and relating to contracts for the payment of coin was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Eldridge, at 5 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1869.

The following memorial, petitions, and other papers, were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the rules, and referred, as follows:

By Mr. Thomas: The petition of Mrs. Catherine Barry, praying for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions;

Also, the petition of George M. Janney, praying for relief from political disability, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Gravely: A petition of similar import, from John A. Simkins, of Virginia, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Corley: The petition of Jesse Lee, of South Carolina, praying for a pension, to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Loughridge: The petition of citizens of the District of Columbia, praying for female suffrage, to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

By Mr. Burleigh: The remonstrance of citizens of Dakota Territory, against the destruction of their territorial government, to the Committee on the Territories.

By Mr. Thomas: The petition of citizens of the State of Maryland, praying for a republican form of government, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Delano: The petition of citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for a change in the Constitution recognizing the Supreme Being; By Mr. William Lawrence: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Mungen: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Bingham: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Wilson: A similar petition from the same State; By Mr. Garfield: A similar petition from the same State;

By Mr. Pettis: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Pennsylvania;

By Mr. Moorhead: A petition of similar import from citizens of the same State;

By the Speaker: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Indiana;

By Mr. Niblack: A similar petition from the same State;

By Mr. Hunter: A similar petition from the same State;

By Mr. Upson: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Michigan;

By Mr. Cook: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Illinois;

By Mr. Smith: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Vermont;

By Mr. Welker: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Ohio;

By Mr. Covode: A similar petition from the same State;

By Mr. Morrell: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Pennsylvania;

By Mr. Woodward: A similar petition from the same State;

By Mr. Sitgreaves: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of New Jersey;

By Mr. Van Wyck: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of New York;

all to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Wood: The memorial of citizens of the State of New York, praying for an appropriation to improve Hurl Gate, New York harbor, to the Committee on Appropriations.

By Mr. Harding: The remonstrance of citizens of Quincy, Illinois, against any increase of the tariff on sugar;

By Mr. Hill: The petition of citizens of the State of New Jersey, praying for an increase of the tariff;

By Mr. Nicholson: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Delaware;

By Mr. Moorhead: The petition of citizens of the State of Pennsyl vania, praying that foreign barley may be admitted free of duty;

By Mr. Brooks: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of New Jersey;

all to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Moore: The petition of owners of vessels in the State of Massachusetts, praying for protection from illegal State taxes, to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Boutwell: The petition of citizens of Needham, Massachusetts, praying for female suffrage;

By Mr. Julian: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of New York;

By Mr. Ferry: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Michigan;

By Mr. Jenckes: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Rhode Island;

By Mr. Banks: A petition of similar import from citizens of the State of Massachusetts;

all to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Scofield: The petition of honorably discharged soldiers, praying for the passage of a homestead act, to the Committee on the Public

Lands.

The Speaker having proceeded, as the regular order of business, to call the States and Territories for bills on leave,

Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read a first and second time, and referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Robinson: A joint resolution (H. Res. 461) recognizing the independence of Cuba, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

By Mr. Pruyn: A joint resolution (H. Res. 462) relative to copyright, to the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.

By Mr. Alexander H. Jones: A bill (H. R. 1990) to establish a post

road from Waynesville, North Carolina, to Clifton, Tennessee, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Corley: A bill (H. R. 1991) to remove the political disabilities of Abraham Jones, a citizen of Edgefield county, South Carolina, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Norris: Joint resolution (H. Res. 463) and memorial of the legislature of the State of Alabama relative to interest on the amount of two and three per cent. funds withheld from said State, to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Callis: A bill (H. R. 1992) to provide for the establishment of a mail route from Yellow Creek, in the State of Alabama, to Serepta, in the State of Mississippi, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Pierce: A bill (H. R. 1993) donating a part of the public lands in the State of Alabama to that State, for the purpose of aiding in its internal improvements, to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. Sypher: A bill (H. R. 1994) to remove the legal and political disabilities of Thomas Green Davidson, of Louisiana, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

By Mr. Blackburn: A bill (H. R. 1995) to relieve certain persons therein named from all legal and political disabilities imposed by the amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, known as the 14th article, and to absolve them from taking what is known as the test oath, imposed and prescribed by act of the Congress of the United States of America, approved July, 1862, to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. William Lawrence: A bill (H. R. 1996) for the relief of Joseph P. Fyffe, to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Roderick R. Butler: A bill (H. R. 1997) to establish a post road in Tennessee, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. Julian: A joint resolution (H. Res. 463) relative to soldiers' bounties, to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. Pile: Concurrent resolutions of the legislature of the State of Missouri urging the passage of a law equalizing bounties of soldiers, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Cadwalader C. Washburn: Memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin for an extension of time for the construction of a railroad from the St. Croix river or lake to Superior and Bayfield, to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Johnson: A bill (H. R. 1998) granting the right of way and public lands of the United States for the Oroville and Virginia City railroad and telegraph line, and to provide for its construction, to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. Donnelly: A joint resolution (H. Res. 464) in regard to agricultural scrip, to the Committee on the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. Sidney Clarke: Concurrent resolutions of the legislature of the State of Kansas, as follows, viz:

1. Asking the appointment of commissioners to audit the claims of citizens of Kansas for property destroyed or taken by Quantrell and other rebel raiders, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

2. Asking an appropriation for a court-house and post office at Topeka, and a custom-house and post office at Leavenworth, to the Committee on Appropriations.

3. Asking the grant of a subsidy in money and lands to the central branch of the Union Pacific railroad and to the St. Joseph and Denver City railroad, to enable an extension of said roads, to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

By Mr. Cavanaugh: A bill (H. R. 1999) to establish certain post roads in the Territory of Montana, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Tift: A bill (H. R. 2000) to amend the laws relating to banking, to regulate the currency, to provide a sinking fund for the payment of the public debt, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed.

By Mr. Elliott: A bill (H. R. 2001) to relieve certain persons therein named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

All the States and Territories having been called for bills on leave, The Speaker next proceeded to call for resolutions.

Under which latter call,

Mr. William Williams, on leave, introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 465) granting the right of way to the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company from El Paso to the Pacific ocean;

which was read a first and second time.

Pending the question on its engrossment,

Mr. Williams moved the previous question; which was seconded.
The question was then put, Shall the main question be now put?

And it was 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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When

Mr. John Taffe
Charles Upson

Hamilton Ward
Cadwal'r C. Washburn
James F. Wilson.

Mr. J. H. Sypher
Francis Thomas
Nelson Tift
John Trimble
Lawrence S. Trimble
Daniel M. Van Auken
Burt Van Horn
Charles H. Van Wyck
Michael Vidal
Ellihu B. Washburne
Thomas Williams
Stephen F. Wilson
Fernando Wood.

Mr. Loughridge moved that the resolution be laid on the table,
And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

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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George W. Anderson
Samuel M. Arnell
Delos R. Ashley
James M. Ashley
Samnel B. Axtell
Nathaniel P. Banks
James B. Beck
John F. Benjamin
W. Jasper Blackburn
Austin Blair
Nathaniel Boyden
Henry P. H. Bromwell
Ralph P. Buckland
Charles W. Buckley
Roderick R. Butler
Henry L. Cake
John B. Callis
Reader W. Clarke
Sidney Clarke
J. W. Clift
John Coburn
Simeon Corley
Henry L. Dawes
John T. Deweese
Oliver H. Dockery
Ignatius Donnelly
Ephraim R. Eckley
Jacob H. Ela

Charles A. Eldridge
James T. Elliott
Orange Ferriss

Mr. Thomas W. Ferry
William C. Fields
John R. French
James A. Garfield
J. Lawrence Getz
Adam J. Glossbrenner
J. S. Golladay
James H. Goss
Samuel F. Gove
Joseph J. Gravely
John A. Griswold
Asa P. Grover
George A. Halsey
Charles M. Hamilton
Thomas Haughey
Isaac R. Hawkins
David Heaton
William Higby
John Hill

William S. Holman
Samuel Hooper
Benjamin F. Hopkins
Julius Hotchkiss
Chester D. Hubbard
Morton C. Hunter
Ebon C. Ingersoll
James A. Johnson
Alexander H. Jones
Thomas L. Jones
Norman B. Judd
George W. Julian
William D. Kelley

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Thomas A. Jenckes
Addison H. Laflin
George V. Lawrence
William Loughridge
Halbert E. Paine
Sidney Perham
S. Newton Pettis

are—

Mr. Francis W. Kellogg
William H. Kelsey
Bethuel M. Kitchen
J. Proctor Knott
William H. Koontz
Israel G. Lash
William Lawrence
William S. Lincoln
Rufus Mallory
James M. Marvin
Horace Maynard
James R. McCormick
Samuel McKee
Ulysses Mercur
George F. Miller
William Moore
James K. Moorhead
Daniel J. Morrell
James Mullins
William Mungen
Leonard Myers
J. P. Newsham
William E. Niblack
John A. Nicholson
Benjamin W. Norris
Charles O'Neill
Godlove S. Orth
Charles W. Pierce
Frederick A. Pike
Tobias A. Plants
Hiram Price
C. H. Prince

Mr. Thomas Boles
C. C. Bowen
Benjamin M. Boyer
John M. Broomall

Mr. Luke P. Poland
Lewis W. Ross
Robert C. Schenck
Frederick Stone

Charles Upson
Hamilton Ward
Cadwal'r C. Washburn
James F. Wilson.

Mr. Green B. Raum

William H. Robertson
William E. Robinson
Logan H. Roots
Philetus Sawyer
Glenni W. Scofield
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
Worthington C. Smith
H. H. Starkweather
Aaron F. Stevens
William B. Stokes
John H. Stover
Stephen Taber
Caleb N. Taylor
Francis Thomas
Nelson Tift

Row'd E. Trowbridge
Ginery Twichell
Henry Van Aernam
Robert T. Van Horn
Henry D. Washburn
William B. Washburn
Martin Welker

B. F. Whittemore

Thomas Williams

William Williams

William Windom

Fred'k E. Woodbridge

George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. Albert G. Burr Benjamin F. Butler John C. Churchill John Covode

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