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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,

JYeas

It was decided in the negative, Nays.

Not voting.

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96

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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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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;

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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 Com. mittee 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;

Also, the petition of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, praying for a copyright law for the authors of paintings, drawings, statuary, &c., to the Committee on the Library.

By Mr. Julian: The memorial of the Workingmen's Institute, of Boston, Massachusetts, praying that no more lands may be granted to railroad corporations, to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Thomas: The petition of G. R. Head, praying for relief from political disability, to the Committee on Reconstruction.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill of the House of the following title, viz:

H. R. 1746. An act for the removal of certain disabilities from the persons therein named;

with an amendment, in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

The Senate have receded from their amendments to the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 402) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and have resolved that the said resolution do not pass, two-thirds of the senators not voting in the affirmative.

The Senate have passed a joint resolution of the following title, viz: S. R. 8. Joint resolution proposing an amendment of the Constitution of the United States;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

The Senate request the return of the bill of the House (H. R. 603) granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812. By unanimous consent, it was ordered that the said bill (H. R. 603) be returned to the Senate.

On motion of Mr. Poland, by unanimous consent, the bill of the Senate (S. 935) to provide for a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Vermont was taken from the Speaker's table, read three times, and passed.

Mr. Poland 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 acquaint the Senate with the passage of the said bill.

Mr. Kerr submitted the views of a minority of the Committee of Elections in the Louisiana contested election case; which were ordered to be printed.

Mr. Shellabarger, from the Committee of Elections, submitted a report in writing in the case of Thomas A. Hamilton, claimant of a seat as a representative from Tennessee, accompanied by the following resolution,

viz:

Resolved, That Thomas A. Hamilton is not entitled to a seat as a representative from the State of Tennessee.

Pending which,

Mr. Heaton, by unanimous consent, submitted the views of a minority of the said committee.

Ordered, That the said report, views, and resolutions be laid on the table and printed.

A message in writing was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Moore, his private secretary, which was handed in at the Speaker's table.

Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a joint resolution and bills of the following titles, viz:

H. Res. 459. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to allow to the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad Company right of way across a portion of the public grounds at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, for railroad purposes;

H. R. 1749. An act granting a pension to Daniel Houser, a citizen of North Carolina, and a soldier of the war of 1812;

H. R. 1745. An act for the relief of the estate of Isaac Philips, deceased, who was a private in the revolutionary war;

When,

The Speaker signed the same.

Mr. Holman, from the same committee, reported that the committee did this day present to the President of the United States a joint resolution and bills of the following titles, viz:

H. Res. 452. Joint resolution for the relief of Leonard Pierce, junior, late United States consul at Matamoras, Mexico;

H. R. 1974. An act to prevent loaning money upon United States notes;

H. R. 1456. An act to authorize the importation of machinery for repair only free of duty;

H. R. 264. An act to locate and establish an assay office in the Territory of Idaho.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence for five days was granted to Mr. McCarthy.

The Speaker having announced as the business first in order the motion submitted by Mr. Wood, and pending when the recess occurred yesterday, to lay upon the table the motion to reconsider the vote by which 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, 1864, was laid on the table,

The said motion was disagreed to.

The question then recurring on the motion to reconsider,

It was put and agreed to.

The question then recurring on the motion to lay the bill on the table, It was put, and decided in the negative;

When,

Mr. Pomeroy moved that the bill be recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency, with instructions to report the same forthwith with the 1st, 2d, and 3d sections as amended by the House as a substitute therefor.

Pending which,

Mr. Pomeroy moved the previous question, and the House refused to second the same.

Mr. Coburn moved to amend the said instructions.

Pending which,

Mr. Samuel IIooper submitted an amendment to the said amendment. Pending which,

Mr. Hooper moved the previous question, and the House refused to second the same.

Mr. Pomeroy moved the previous question on the said amendment and the amendment to the amendment, which was seconded and the main question ordered to be put.

The amendment to the amendment, submitted by Mr. Hooper, having been read as follows, viz:

Strike out the second section of the proposed instructions.

The question was put, Will the House agree thereto ?

It was decided in the negative,

Yeas.
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

Mr. Henry L. Cake

Stevenson Archer Nathaniel P. Banks Benjamin F. Butler Those who voted

Mr. Oakes Ames

George W. Anderson
Delos R. Ashley
Samuel B. Axtell
Jehu Baker
John Beatty
James B. Beck
John F. Benjamin
John A. Bingham
Austin Blair
George S. Boutwell
C. C. Bowen
Nathaniel Boyden
Benjamin M. Boyer
Henry P. H. Bromwell
John M. Broomall
Ralph P. Buckland
Charles W. Buckley
Albert G. Burr
Roderick R. Butler
John B. Callis
John W. Chanler
John C. Churchill
Amasa Cobb
John Coburn
Simeon Corley
John Covode
Shelby M. Cullom
Henry L. Dawes
John T. Deweese
Oliver H. Dockery
Grenville M. Dodge
Ephraim R. Eckley
Benjamin Eggleston
Jacob H. Ela
Charles A. Eldridge
Thomas D. Eliot

Samuel F. Cary
Reader W. Clarke
Sidney Clarke

in the negative

Mr. James T. Elliott

John F. Farnsworth
Orange Ferriss
Thomas W. Ferry
William C. Fields
John R. French
James A. Garfield
J. S. Golladay
Joseph J. Gravely
John A. Griswold
Charles Haight
Charles M. Hamilton
Thomas Haughey
Isaac R. Hawkins
David Heaton
William Higby
William S. Holman
Benjamin F. Hopkins
Asahel W. Hubbard
Chester D. Hubbard
Calvin T. Hulburd
Morton C. Hunter
Thomas A. Jenckes
James A. Johnson
Alexander H. Jones
Norman B. Judd
George W. Julian
William D. Kelley
Francis W. Kellogg
William H. Kelsey
Michael C. Kerr
John H. Ketcham
Bethuel M. Kitchen
J. Proctor Knott
William H. Koontz
Addison H. Laflin
Israel G. Lash

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Mr. Ignatius Donnelly

John Fox

Samuel F. Gove
George A. Halsey

are

Mr. George V. Lawrence
William Lawrence
Benjamin F. Loan
John A. Logan
William Loughridge
John Lynch
Rufus Mallory
Samuel S. Marshall
James M. Marvin
Dennis McCarthy
James R. McCormick
Samuel McKee
George F. Miller
William Moore
James K. Moorhead
William Mungen
Leonard Myers
Carman A. Newcomb
J. P. Newsham
William E. Niblack
Benjamin W. Norris
David A. Nunn
Charles O'Neill
Halbert E. Paine
Sidney Perham
Charles W. Pierce
William A. Pile
Tobias A. Plants
Luke P. Poland
Daniel Polsley
Theodore M. Pomeroy
Hiram Price

C. H. Prince
Samuel J. Randall
William H. Robertson
Logan H. Roots
Lewis W. Ross

Mr. Thomas L. Jones
William S. Lincoln
Horace Maynard
Hiram McCullough
Ulysses Mercur
Daniel J. Morrell
John Morrissey
James Mullins

Mr. Samuel Hooper
Julius Hotchkiss
Godlove S. Orth.

Mr. Philetus Sawyer

Robert C. Schenck
Glenni W. Scofield
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellaburger
Worthington C. Smith
Rufus P. Spalding
H. H. Starkweather
Aaron F. Stevens
Thomas E. Stewart
William B. Stokes
John H. Stover
Stephen Taber
John Taffe
Caleb N. Taylor
John Trimble
Row'd E. Trowbridge
Ginery Twichell
Charles Upson
Henry Van Aernam
Burt Van Horn
Robert T. Van Horn
Philadelph Van Trump
Charles H. Van Wyck
Hamilton Ward
Henry D. Washburn
William B. Washburn
Martin Welker
B. F. Whittemore
William Williams
James F. Wilson
John T. Wilson
William Windom
Fred'k E. Woodbridge
George W. Woodward
P. M. B. Young.

Mr. William E. Robinson
Lewis Selye
Charles Sitgreaves
Frederick Stone
J. H. Sypher
Francis Thomas
Nelson Tift

FERE

W. Jasper Blackburn
James G. Blaine
Thomas Boles
James Brooks
J. W. Clift

Burton C. Cook

Richard D. Hubbard
James M. Humphrey
Ebon C. Ingersoll

John A. Nicholson
John A. Peters
S. Newton Pettis
Charles E. Phelps
Frederick A. Pike
John V. L. Pruyn
Green B. Raum

Lawrence S. Trimble
Daniel M. Van Auken
Michael Vidal

Cadwal'r C. Washburn
Ellihu B. Washburne
Thomas Williams
Stephen F. Wilson
Fernando Wood.

So the said amendment to the amendment was disagreed to. The amendment submitted by Mr. Coburn was then read as follows, viz:

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"SEC. And be it further enacted, That to secure a better distribution of the national banking currency there may be issued circulation notes to banking associations organized in States and Territories having a less banking circulation than their pro rata above, as herein set forth. And the cir culation herein authorized shall, within three years if required, be withdrawn

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