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sion regarding commercial intercourse and securing to our own citizens the rights claimed by them in the fisheries on the coasts of the British provinces of America, and the free navigation of the St. Lawrence river from its source to the sea.

Mr. Schenck moved that the vote on recommitment be reconsidered. Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Harding,

Ordered, That the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Gorham, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill of the House (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for payment in coin.

The Senate insist upon their amendments, disagreed to by the House, to the bill of the House (H. R. 1911) making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes; agree to the conference asked by the House on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon, and have appointed Mr. Howe, Mr. Cragin, and Mr. Nye, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

Mr. Schenck, by unanimous consent, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a joint resolution (H. Res. 474) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty a certain submarine cable; which was read a first and second time.

Pending the question on its engrossment,

Mr. Schenck moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered, and under the operation thereof the resolu tion was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time. The question was then put, Shall the bill pass?

And it was decided in the affirmative, Nas..

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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Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate therein. Mr. Schenck, from the same committee, reported a bill (H. R. 2022) to repeal the first section of an act relating to appeals to the Supreme Court; which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That it 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 therein. Mr. Garfield, by unanimous consent, introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 475) to fill a vacancy in the board of managers of the national asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers; which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That it 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 therein. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hamlin, one of their clerks:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate transmit, according to the request of the House, a copy of the bill of the Senate (S. 588) for the relief of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.

By unanimous consent, the said bill was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Schenck, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill of the House (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin, submitted the following report, viz:

"The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses to the bill (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend, and do recommend, to their respective houses as follows:

"They recommend that the House recede from its disagreement to the first amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: insert, in lieu of the words stricken out, the words 'obligations of the United States not bearing interest, known as United States notes, and of all the interest-bearing.

"They recommend that the House recede from its disagreement to

the second amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: insert, in lieu of the words stricken out, the words but none of said interest-bearing obligations not already due shall be redeemed or paid before maturity, unless at such time United States notes shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at such time bonds of the United States bearing a lower rate of interest than the bonds to be redeemed can be sold at par in coin. And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.

"They recommend that the Senate recede from their third and fourth amendments to the bill of the House.

"Managers on the part of the House

Managers on the part of the Senate

"ROBERT C. SCHENCK. " WILLIAM B. ALLISON.

“JOHN SHERMAN.
“GEORGE H. WILLIAMS.”

Pending the question on agreeing thereto,
Mr. Shanks moved that it be laid on the table.
And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

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Those not voting are―

Mr. George W. Anderson

John D. Baldwin
Nathaniel P. Banks
W. Jasper Blackburn
James G. Blaine
Thomas Boles
Ralph P. Buckland
Benjamin F. Butler
Henry L. Cake
Schuyler Colfax

Burton C. Cook

John Covode

Columbus Delano

Mr. Oliver H. Dockery

W. P. Edwards
Jacob H. Ela
John Fox

John R. French
Adam J. Glossbrenner
Joseph J. Gravely
Charles M. Hamilton
Asahel W. Hubbard
Chester D. Hubbard
William D. Kelley
William H Kelsey
Bethuel M. Kitchen

Mr. William H. Koontz
Benjamin F. Loan
William Loughridge
John Morrissey
Carman A. Newcomb
David A. Nunn
S. Newton Pettis
Charles E. Phelps
Frederick A. Pike
William A. Pile
Daniel Polsley
Lewis Selye

The Speaker voted in the negative,

Mr. William B. Stokes

John Taffe
Francis Thomas
John Trimble
Charles H. Van Wyck
Michael Vidal
Ellihu B. Washburne
Henry D. Washburn
Thomas Williams
John T. Wilson
Stephen F. Wilson
William Windom.

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Charles Sitgreaves

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

The question then recurring on the said report,

Mr. Schenck moved the previous question, which was seconded and the main question ordered and put, viz: Will the House agree to the said report?

Yeas.

It was decided in the affirmative, Nays

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Mr. Joseph J. Gravely

Asa P. Grover
Charles M. Hamilton
Asahel W. Hubbard
Chester D. Hubbard
James M. Humphrey
William D. Kelley
Bethuel M. Kitchen

Mr. William H. Koontz
Benjamin F. Loan
William Loughridge
John Morrissey
Carman A. Newcomb
John A. Nicholson
David A. Nunn
S. Newton Pettis

So the report was agreed to.

Mr. Charles W. Pierce
Frederick A. Pike
Daniel Polsley
Lewis Selye
Rufus P. Spalding
William B. Stokes
John Taffe

Mr. John Trimble

Robert T. Van Horn
Michael Vidal

Ellibu B. Washburne
Thomas Williams
John T. Wilson

William Windom.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

On motion of Mr. Farnsworth, by unanimous consent, the House agreed to the amendments of the Senate to the bill of the House (H. R. 2006) to establish certain post roads.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

The hour of 4 p. m. having arrived, the House took a recess until 7 o'clock p. m.

After the recess,

Mr. Jenckes, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, submitted reports upon the mode of appointing assignees in bankruptcy, and on the subject of the allegations of Mr. Brooks, of New York, against Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts; which were severally laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Dawes, the rules having been suspended for that purpose, introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 476) for the payment of Caleb S. Hunt and J. Willis Menard, to defray their expenses as contestants for a seat in the House of Representatives from the State of Louisiana; which was read a first and second time.

Pending the question on its engrossment,

Mr. Banks moved that there be a call of the House.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

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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. George W. Anderson Mr. Benjamin Eggleston Mr. William S. Lincoln

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Nathaniel P. Banks
Fernando C. Beaman
John Beatty
James B. Beck
John F. Benjamin
Jacob Benton
Nathaniel Boyden

John M. Broomall

Henry L. Cake

John Coburn

Burton C. Cook

Henry L. Dawes

Ignatius Donnelly

Jacob H. Ela
Thomas D. Eliot
Orange Ferriss
William C. Fields
John R. French
J. S. Golladay
Samuel F. Gove
Isaac R. Hawkins
Morton C. Hunter
Alexander H. Jones
Thomas L. Jones
William H. Koontz
William Lawrence

John Lynch

Horace Maynard
James R. McCormick
Samuel McKee
George F. Miller
William Moore
Daniel J. Morrell
James Mullins
William E. Niblack
Godlove S. Orth
Halbert E. Paine
Luke P. Poland
Hiram Price

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Aaron F. Stevens
William B. Stokes

Stephen Taber
Caleb N. Taylor
John Trimble
Row'd E. Trowbridge
Charles Upson
Hamilton Ward
Henry D. Washburn
B. F. Whittemore
James F. Wilson
Fernando Wood,

Mr. William H. Robertson
Logan H. Roots
Glenni W. Scofield
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
H. H. Starkweather
J. H. Sypher
Francis Thomas
Ginery Twichell
Henry Van Aernam
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
William B. Washburn
William Windom,

Mr. C. C. Bowen

Benjamin M. Boyer
Henry P. H. Bromwell

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