Mr. Reuben E. Fenton Orris S. Ferry Thomas Hardeman, jr. William Irvine James Jackson Dwight Loomis Mr. William B. Maclay Christopher Robinson John Schwartz Charles B. Sedgwick So the House again refused to lay the bill on the table. Mr. Florence moved, at 2 o'clock and 22 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn; which motion was disagreed to. The question again recurring on the amendment reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, and the yeas and nays having been ordered thereon, Mr. Noell moved that he be excused from voting thereon. And the question being put, (Yeas It was decided in the negative, Nays 58 108 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Green Adams Garnett B. Adrain Mr. Sidney Edgerton Andrew J Hamilton Mr. John McQueen Freeman H. Morse Thomas A. R. Nelson Those who voted in the, negative are Mr. William Allen John B. Alley William C. Anderson Elijah Babbitt William Barksdale John A. Bingham Samuel S. Blair Harrison G. Blake Thomas S. Bocock David Clopton Williamson R. W. Cobb John Cochrane John Covode Mr. Stephen C. Foster Thomas Hardeman, jr. Mr. Abraham B. Olin James H. Thomas Cadwalader C. Washburn So the House refused to excuse Mr. Noell from voting on the said amendment. The question again recurring on the said amendment, It was read as follows, viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and insert: "That each senator at every regular annual session of Congress, and each newly elected senator attending for the first time a meeting of the Senate in the recess of Congress, and each representative and delegate at every regular annual session of Congress after the 30th day of June, 1860, shall be allowed and paid as mileage, at the commencement and end of every such session and meeting, twenty cents per mile, to be computed by a straight geographical line from his place of residence to the seat of Congress. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts on the subject of mileage to members of the Senate and of the House of Repre sentatives and delegates of the Territories be, and the same are hereby, repealed from and after the 30th day of June, 1860." And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto? The Yeas.. 129 44 yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Charles F. Adams Green Adams John B. Clark Williamson R. W. Cobb Mr. Emerson Etheridge J. Morrison Harris So the said amendment was agreed to. Mr. Justin S. Morrill The question then being on its engrossment, John Sherman Daniel E. Sickles William N. H. Smith Elbridge G. Spaulding Cadwalader C. Washburn Alfred Wells John Wood Mr. James C. Robinson Clement L. Vallandigham William Windom Under the further operation of the previous question the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. 26 Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time. Mr. Sherman 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, Yeas.. It was decided in the affirmative, {Neys 126 52 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are- Mr. Charles F. Adams Green Adams Garnett B. Adrain William Allen John B. Alley Thomas L. Anderson Williamson R. W. Cobb Mr. Thomas D. Eliot Thomas Hardeman, jr. Mr. William Millward John Wood Mr. Owen Lovejoy George H. Pendleton John J. Perry John H. Reagan Mr. John H. Reynolds James C. Robinson Homer E. Royce Charles L. Scott William E. Simms Otho R. Singleton Mr. Lansing Stout John W. H. Underwood Charles H. Van Wyck Nr. Elihu B. Washburne William G. Whiteley James Wilson William Windom John V. Wright. So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The question then being on the passage of the bill, Mr. Sherman moved the previous question. Pending which, Mr. Aldrich moved, at 3 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn. And the question being put, Yeas. It was decided in the negative, Nays. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Green Adams Cyrus Aldrich Thomas L. Anderson Martin J. Crawford Daniel C. De Jarnette Henry A. Edmundson Emerson Etheridge James T. Hale Robert Hatton Mr. George S. Hawkins Joshua Hill Thomas C. Hindman James Jackson Albert G. Jenkins John J. Jones Francis W. Kellogg William Kellogg David Kilgore John M. Landrum De Witt C. Leach Shelton F. Leake John A. Logan Peter E. Love Owen Lovejoy Gilman Marston Elbert S. Martin Horace Maynard John McQueen John J. McRae Sydenham Moore Freeman H. Morse Thomas A. R. Nelson William E. Niblack John W. Noell George H. Pendleton John J. Perry Mr. Samuel O. Peyton Miles Taylor James H. Thomas John W. H. Underwood Zebulon B. Vance William G. Whiteley Mr. W. McKee Dunn Sidney Edgerton Thomas Hardeman, jr. |