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, 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

Mr. William B. Allison

Oakes Amnes
Samuel M. Arnell
Delos R. Ashley
Samuel B. Axtell
Jehn Baker
Nathaniel P. Banks
William H. Baruum
James B. Beck
John F. Benjamin
W. Jasper Blackburn
Austin Blair

Nathaniel Boyden
Henry P. H. Bromwell
John M. Broomall
Ralph P. Buckland
Charles W. Buckley
Benjamin F. Butler
Roderick R. Butler
Henry L. Cake
John B. Callis
Reader W. Clarke
Sidney Clarke
J. W. Clift
Simeon Corley
Henry L. Dawes
John T. Deweese
Oliver H. Dockery
Ignatius Donnelly
John F. Driggs
Ephraim R. Eckley

Those who voted in the negative are—

Mr. James M. Ashley

John D. Baldwin
Fernando C. Beaman
John Beatty
George S. Boutwell
Benjamin M. Boyer

Mr. James Brooks

Albert G. Burr
Samuel F. Cary
John W. Chanler
Amasa Cobb
Burton C. Cook

Mr. Thomas Cornell

Shelby M. Cullom
Oliver J. Dickey
Nathan F. Dixon
Jacob H. Ela
Thomas D. Eliot

Mr. C. H. Prince

John V. L. Pruyn
Green B. Raum
William H. Robertson

William E. Robinson

Logan H. Roots

Robert C. Schenck

Gleuni W. Scofield
John P. C. Shanks
Worthington C. Smith
H. H. Starkweather
William B. Stokes
John H. Stover
Stephen Taber
Caleb N. Taylor
Row'd E. Trowbridge
Ginery Twichell
Henry Van Aernam
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
Henry D. Washburn
William B. Washburn
Martin Welker
B. F. Whittemore
William Williams
John T. Wilson
William Windom
Fred'k E. Woodbridge
George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. John F. Farnsworth
John Fox
Charles Haight
Charles M. Hamilton
Abner C. Harding
William S. Holman

So the main question was ordered to be now put;

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

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

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So the House refused to lay the resolution on the table. The question then recurring on the engrossment of the joint resolution,

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

So the joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.

Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Julian 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 joint resolution.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Moore, his private secretary, notifying the House that he had this day approved and signed bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. 1969. An act for the relief of Nott & Company.

H. R. 1906. An act 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.

Also, returning with his objections the bill of the House (H. R. 1460) regulating the duties on copper and copper ores.

The morning hour having expired,

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House the following message heretofore received from the President of the United States, viz:

To the Senate and House of Repesentatives:

I transmit to Congress a copy of a correspondence which has taken place between the Secretary of State and the minister of the United States at Paris, in relation to the use of passports by citizens of the United States in France.

WASHINGTON, February 19, 1869.

The same having been read,

ANDREW JOHNSON.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and printed.

The Speaker also, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives in relation to indices to the executive documents and reports of committees which he has caused to be prepared, and as to the propriety of printing the same; which was ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Printing.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence for two days was granted to Mr. Sypher, Mr. Woodward, and Mr. Boyer, and to Mr. Garfield for the remainder of the day.

On motion of Mr. Merrill, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of Mr. Gibbons, relating to work done at the Norfolk navy yard; copies to be left.

On motion of Mr. Miller, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of James B. Thompson.

Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did on the 20th instant present to the President of the United States bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. 1969. An act for the relief of Nott & Company.

H. R. 941. An act to amend certain acts concerning the navy.

H. R. 1906. An act 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.