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bill of the House H. R. 1570) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1870, and for other purposes, with the amendments of the Senate thereto, was taken up.

Ordered, That the House insist upon their disagreement to the said amendments, and agree to the appointment of a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon.

Ordered, That Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne, Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, and Mr. Banks, be the managers at the said conference on the part of the House.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Mr. Roderick R. Butler, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1912) granting a pension to the minor heirs of Lieutenant R. H. Allen, deceased; which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

On motion of Mr. Raum, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of A. G. Holden and others; copies to be left.

Mr. Bowen, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1913) to remove the political disabilities from E. M. Whiting of Charleston, South Carolina; which was read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Reconstruction.

On motion of Mr. Raum, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Military Affairs were discharged from the further consideration of the following, viz: H. R. 1342. A bill for the relief of A. R. Thomas; the petitions of Jacob Powers; T. K. Clingan; Anthony P. Zimandy; Major J. A. Brentz; John Hitch; Hiram Hedricks; Henry Errett; Captain H. P. Ingram; First Lieutenant E. M. Jordon, and Second Lieutenant John H. Askins; H. R. 1198. A bill for the relief of J. T. Turner; the petition of Robert F. Winslow; Benjamin F. Flanders; and the same were laid on the table.

Mr. Mallory, by unanimous consent, presented the joint memorial of the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon asking aid in the construction of the Salt Lake and Columbia River Railroad; which was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Henry D. Washburn, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Military Affairs were discharged from the further consideration of the resolution to the manner of settling bounty claims; the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 144) in relation to the bounty act; the petition of citizens of Michigan for the relief of soldiers who have lost a leg and obtained an artificial leg at their own expense; the peti tion of William C. Shimoneck; the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 190) in relation to the pay and bounty of soldiers enlisting for specified terms of service and honorably discharged before the expiration of their term of service, their discharges stating that they were discharged at the expiration of their term of service; the petition of Benjamin F. Brulaker and John T. Taylor; a resolution relative to the extension of the additional bounty act to widows of soldiers who have died since its passage; H. R. 351. A bill providing for the payment of soldiers' bounties, in case of the death of the applicant; H. R. 570. A bill providing for bounties to the widows and children of certain soldiers who were killed or died in the service and for other purposes; the petition of V. Schulters; and resolutions of the legislature of the State of Missouri in reference to bounty; and the same were laid on the table.

Mr. Norris, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1915) to

amend an act entitled "An act to provide an oath of office and for other purposes," approved July 2, 1862; which was read a first and second time, referred to the Committee on Reconstruction and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Taber, by unanimous consent, from the Select Committee on Ventilation, presented a report of Allen C. Stimers on the ventilation of the United States House of Representatives; which was ordered to be printed and recommitted to the said committee.

Mr. Sitgreaves, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported adversely upon the bill of the House (H. R. 887) for the relief of the members of company Independent Exempts, West Virginia volunteers; and also upon the petition of Ethan A. Sawyer, accompanied by a report in writing in the latter case.

Ordered, That the said bill and petition be laid on the table, and that the report be printed in the Globe.

On motion of Mr. Boyer, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Military Affairs were discharged from the further consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 1348) for the relief of S. K. N. Patton, late colonel 8th Tennessee cavalry; the petition of John C. Harrison; the petition of William K. Grayson, of Wood county, West Virginia; and the petition of Captain Daniel S. Hart; and the same were laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Garfield, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the evening session of to-day be dispensed with.

On motion of Mr. Phelps, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Appropriations were discharged from the further consideration of the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 161) fixing the compensation of members of Congress, and the same was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. William H. Hooper, by unanimous consent, presented the memorial of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah for admission as a State; which was referred to the Committee on the Territories.

Mr. Churchill, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 1258) to define felonies and misdemeanors and to regulate peremptory challenges in the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, reported the same with an amendment, in the nature of a substitute thereon.

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

Mr. Laflin, from the Committee on Printing, to which was referred the question of printing the tabular statement of accounts of Indian agents to June 30, 1868, reported adversely upon the same.

Ordered, That the same be laid on the table.

Mr. Jenckes, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, to which was referred the bill of the House (H. R. 1510) supplemental to an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March 2, 1867, submitted an adverse report in writing thereon; which was ordered to be printed and recommitted to the said committee.

Mr. Higby, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution: which was read and referred to the Committee on Printing, viz:

Resolved, That thirty thousand copies of the report of R. W. Raymond, (special commissioner on mining statistics,) on mines and mining in the States and Territories west of the Rocky mountains, be printed for the use of the members of the House.

On motion of Mr. Perham, by unanimous consent, the Committee on

319 Invalid Pensions were discharged from the further consideration of the petitions of Prudence Righter, widow of J. Coram Righter; Mrs. Dora Wilkins, widow of John Wilkins; Elizabeth Gardner, mother of Jacob S. R. Gardner; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Marshall; Sarah T. Benedict, widow of Charles E. Benedict; Catharine Hoag, mother of Jacob Hoag; Elizabeth Shelton; Mrs. Barbara Wetteroth; Lucinda Tweed; Agnes Weaver, mother of Shepet M. Weaver; and Anna E. Wing; and the same were laid on the table;

Also, the petitions of Lucy Reed, widow of Samuel Reed; Nancy Weeks; Thomas Pool; soldiers of 1812; Mary Fryer; Alfred Benton; Nahum Walker; Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, alias Deddolph; Isaac Carpenter; E. G. Abbott and 131 other citizens of Ohio, in regard to soldiers of 1812; Jonathan Nutt; and Elijah Durfey; and that the same be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions;

Also, the petitions of James M. McKamey and of Viner T. Horton; and that the same be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs; Also, the petition of Patrick Cody; and that the same be referred to the Committee of Claims;

Also, the petitions of Anna Burniece, widow of William Burniece; John Hines; Mrs. Kezie Holman; Mrs. Eliza M. Scantland; citizens of Illinois, in regard to pensions withheld; A. J. Cornelinson; William Hemphill, guardian of the minor brother of David Hemphill; Mrs. Emma A. Wood; Mrs. D. C. Daily and 500 widows made by the war; A. D. Kime; George A. Thurston; and Rachel Slack; also, bills of the House Nos. 1011, 1310, 1569, 1566, and 1608; and that the same be laid on the table;

Also, the petition of Robert D. Brown; and that leave be granted for the withdrawal of the same.

Mr. Perham, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported a bill (H. R. 1916) relating to the operation of the pension laws, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee.

Mr. Driggs, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted a report in writing on the petition of Frederick Hall; which was ordered to be printed and recommitted to the said committee. On motion of Mr. Scofield, by unanimous consent, leave was granted for the withdrawal from the files of the House of the papers in the case of E. Sawyer.

Mr. Thomas moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the House decided that the vote of the State of Georgia should not be counted. Pending which,

Mr. Dickey moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative,

Yeas...
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48

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

Mr. William B. Allison
Delos R. Ashley
John D. Baldwin
Nathaniel P. Banks
John F. Benjamin
Jacob Benton
James G. Blaine
Austin Blair

Thomas Boles

George S. Boutwell-
Henry P. H. Bromwell
John M. Broomall

Mr. Charles W. Buckley
Benjamin F. Butler
Roderick R. Butler
Henry L. Cake
John B. Callis
John C. Churchill
Reader W. Clarke
Sidney Clarke
J. W. Clift
Amasa Cobb
John Coburn
Simeon Corley

Mr. John Covode
Shelby M. Cullom
Henry L. Dawes
John T. Deweese
Oliver J. Dickey
Nathan F. Dixon
Grenville M. Dodge
Ignatius Donnelly
John F. Driggs
Ephraim R. Eckley
Benjamin Eggleston
Jacob H. Ela

Mr. Thomas D. Eliot

James T. Elliott
Orange Ferriss
Thomas W. Ferry
John R. French
James H. Goss
Samuel F. Gove
Joseph J. Gravely
George A. Halsey
Charles M. Hamilton

Abner C. Harding
Thomas Haughey

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So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

Mr. Theodore M. Pomeroy
Hiram Price

William E. Robinson
Samuel Shellabarger
Rufus P. Spalding
Francis Thomas
Lawrence S. Trimble
Michael Vidal

Cadwal'r C. Washburn

Ellihu B. Washburne
William Williams

John T. Wilson.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have adopted a resolution declaring that under the special order of the two houses, respecting the electoral vote from the State of Georgia, the objections made to the counting the vote. of the electors for the State of Georgia are not in order.

The Senate again attended in the hall of the House.

All the certificates of the electors of the several States authorized to be represented in the electoral college having been opened, the tellers reported the whole number of votes appointed to vote for President and Vice-President, including the electors of the State of Georgia, two hun dred and ninety-four, the whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, excluding the electors of the State of Georgia, is two hundred and eighty-five; that for President of the United States, including the State of Georgia, Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, had received two hundred and fourteen votes, and Horatio Seymour, of New York, eighty votes; and excluding the vote of the State of Georgia, Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, had received two hundred and fourteen votes, and Horatio Seymour, of New York, seventy-one votes; that for Vice-President of the United States, including the vote of the State of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, had received two hundred and fourteen votes, and Francis P. Blair, jr., of Missouri, had received eighty votes, and excluding the vote of the

Number of votes.

State of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, had received two hundred and fourteen votes, and Francis P. Blair, jr., of Missouri, seventy

one votes.

List of votes for President and Vice-President of the United States for the constitutional term to commence on the 4th day of March, 1869.

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The President of the Senate then announced, that the whole number of electoral votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, including the vote of the State of Georgia, is two hundred and ninetyfour, and excluding the vote of the State of Georgia, two hundred and eighty-five; of which a majority in the former case is one hunderd and forty-eight votes, and in the latter one hundred and forty-three votes. That for President of the United States—

Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, received, including the vote of

the State of Georgia...

And, excluding the vote of the State of Georgia.

214 votes.. 205, 66

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