The Senate have passed bills and joint resolutions of the following titles, viz:

S. 942. An act granting a pension to Sarah E. Haines;

S. 937. An act granting a pension to Daniel B. Lewis;

S. 949. An act granting a pension to Mrs. Lydia W. Ford;

S. 938. An act granting a pension to Mary Hodgson;

S. 655. An act granting a pension to Paulina Jones, of Greene county, Tennessee;

S. 815. Án act granting a pension to Julia Whistler;

S. 909. An act granting a pension to Ann R. Voorhees;

S. 907. An act granting a pension to Eliza Whiting;

S. 910. An act granting a pension to the children of Martin U. Slocum, deceased.

S. 940. An act granting arrears of pension to Augustus W. Punchard; S. 790. An act for the relief of Mrs. Sarah E. Brooker;

S. 846. An act granting a pension to Charlotte Crane;

S. 900. An act granting a pension to William B. Looney, of Alabama; S. 901. An act granting a pension to Otis Hemenway;

S. 904. An act granting a pension to Benjamin T. Raines, of Indiana; S. 906. An act granting a pension to Elizabeth Clarke;

S. 941. An act granting a pension to Benjamin C. Stone;

S. 903. An act granting a pension to Horace Peck, of Charlton, Massachusetts;

S. 939. An act granting a pension to Agnes Ellen Kleiss;

S. 945. An act granting a pension to Eliza Shelton, Nancy Shelton, Corena Metcalf, Nancy King, Patsey J. Shelton, Sarah Metcalf, Cloa Shelton, and Mary Franklin, and their children under the age of 16 years;

S. 944. An act granting a pension to Roswell W. Silsbee;

S. 943. An act granting arrears of pension to Almira Scott;

S. 905. An act granting a pension to Clark Hall;

S. 902. An act granting a pension to J. R. Callahan, of Chariton, Iowa;

S. 908. An act granting a pension to J. B. W. Haynes, of Union county, Ohio;

S. R. 168. Joint resolution for the relief of John Montgomery; and S. R. 218. Joint resolution donating to the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia, the frame building located at the southeast corner of Twenty-second street west and I street north in said city; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

On motion of Mr. Perham, by unanimous consent, all of the said bills, except the said bills of the Senate No. 908, 902, and 905, were severally read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions; and the said bills No. 908, 902, and 905 were severally read a first and second time and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

Mr. Eldridge moved that the votes by which the said bills were referred be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Perham, by unanimous consent, Ordered, That the morning hour on Friday next be set apart for reports from the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House executive communications, as follows, viz:

I. A letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the reimbursement of appropriations for the quartermasters' department, on account of sup

plies to Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

II. A letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a list of fines imposed, deductions made, &c., for mail transportation for the year ending June 30, 1868; which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

III. A letter from the Secretary of War, asking an appropriation to pay the premiums for approved plans for the new War Department building; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

IV. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriation for fulfilling treaty stipulations with Seminole Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

V. A letter from the same, transmitting the claim of the Northwest Fur Company for expenses of defending Fort Union in 1866-67; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the Senate (S. 440) supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof," approved June 3, 1863.

Mr. Ingersoll, by unanimous consent, submitted an additional amendment thereto; which was agreed to.

Mr. Ingersoll 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.

Mr. Wood, by unanimous consent, submitted the following amendment thereto, viz:

Add the following:

"SEC.

And be it further enacted, That every association authorized under this act and the act to which this is supplementary shall provide for the redemption of its notes at some of the principal moneyed centres of the United States to be selected by the Comptroller of the Currency; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be assorted and sealed up under government seal all national bank notes received for payment of taxes, and send them for redemption in legal-tender notes to the redemption agency;"

And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto?

Yeas

It was decided in the negative, 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—

So the said amendment was disagreed to.

Mr. Wood moved that the said bill 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

Mr. Wood moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

Pending the question on the latter motion,

Mr. Ingersoll moved, at 4 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn;

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

Yeas
Nays
Not voting

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

The hour of 43 o'clock p. m. having arrived, the House took a recess until 7 o'clock p. m.

After the recess,

The House, in pursuance of the previous order, resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and after some time spent therein the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Ferry reported that the committee having had under consideration the special order, viz: H. R. 1803. A bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1870, had come to no resolution thereon.

Mr. Stephen F. Wilson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title, viz:

S. 667. An act to enable the Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway Company, in the State of Michigan, to have the subscription to its capital stock duly stamped;

When

On motion of Mr. Ferry, at 9 o'clock and 55 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869.

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

By Mr. Ward: The petition and papers of Guy H. McMaster, relative to the Davenport Institution for Female Orphan Children, to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By Mr. Van Wyck: Resolutions of the New York legislature, praying Congress to grant pensions to all surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Ketcham: Another copy of the same resolutions, to the same committee.

By Mr. O'Neill: Preamble and resolutions of the Board of Trade of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, relative to tonnage duties on American shipping in Spanish ports, to the Committee on Commerce;

Also, a resolution of the same, recommending the passage of Senate bills prohibiting secret sales or purchase of gold or bonds on account of the United States, to the Committee on Commerce;