......... 101 Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. By unaniinous consent, leave of absence for six days was granted to Mr. Golladay; to Mr. Hamilton for to night and to-morrow; and to Mr. McCormick and Mr. Mungen for to-night. The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin, the pending question being on the motion to reconsider the vote by which the same was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. After debate, By unanimous consent, the said vote was reconsidered, and the motion to refer was withdrawn. The question then recurring on the engrossment of the said bill. Amendments thereto were submitted by Mr. Niblack and Mr. Allison. Pending which, Mr. Holman moved that the bill be laid on the table; which motion was disagreed to. The question recurring on the said amendments, ( Yeas........ And it was decided in the affirmative, Nays .................. 43 Not voting ....... ...... 78 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are- C. H. Prince George V. Lawrence Green B. Raum William H. Robertson Logan H. Roots Philetus Sawyer Robert C. Schenck Glenni W. Scofield George S. Boutwell William C. Fields George F. Miller Rufus P. Spalding C. C. Bowen George A. Halsey William Moore H. H. Starkweather Nathaniel Boyden Abner C. Harding James K. Moorhead Thomas E. Stewart John H. Srover Stephen Taber John Taffe Ginery Twichell Benjamin W. Norris Charles Upson Henry Van Aernam Burt Van Horn Robert T. Van Horn Hamilton Ward Cadwal'r C. Washbarn William B. Washburn Columbus Delano George W. Julian Charles W. Pierce Thomas Williams James F. Wilson Theodore M. Pomeroy William Windom. Oliver H. Dockery Those who voted in the negative are- Mr. James A. Johnson Mr. John V. L. Pruyn John P. C, Shanks Aaron F. Stevens Frederick Stone William Lawrence Nelson Tift William Loughridge Philadelph Van Trump Henry D. Washburn James R. McCormick Martin Welker John T. Wilson P. M. B. Young. Frederick A. Pike Fernando C. Beaman W. Jasper Blackburn James G. Blaine Mr. Thomas Boles Mr. Charles Haight Benjamin M. Boyer Charles M. Hamilton James Brooks Isaac R. Hawkins Benjamin F. Butler William Higby Roderick R. Butler Asahel W. Hubbard John W. Chauler James M. Humphrey Reader W. Clarke Ebon C. Ingersoll John Covode William H. Kelsey Nathan F. Dixou John H. Ketcham W. P. Edwards Bethuel M. Kitchen Benjamin Eggleston Isrnel G. Lash John F. Farnsworth William S. Lincoln John Fox Benjamin F. Loan James A. Garfield John Lynch Adam J. Glossbrenner James M. Marvin San nel F. Gove Dennis McCarthy John A. Griswold Hiram McCullough Mr. John Morrissey Mr. J. H. Sypher Francis Thomas John Trimble Lawrence 8. Trimble Row'd E Trowbridge Tobias A. Plants Daniel M. Van Auken Daniel Polsley Charles H. Van Wyck Samuel J. Randall Michael Vidal William E. Robinson Ellihn B. Washburne Lewis W. Rons B. F. Whittemore Lewis Selve William Williams Samuel Shellabarger Stephen F. Wilson Charles Sitgreaves Fernando Wood Worthington C. Smith Fred'k E. Wondbridge William B. Stokes George W. Woodward. So the main question was ordered to be now put. The hour of 41 o'clock p. m. having arrived, the House took a recess until 71 o'clock p, m. After the recess, Mr. Speaker : The President of the United States has notified the Senate that he did on the 16th instant approve and sign bills of the following titles, viz: S. 281. An act granting a pension to Anne Dycher, widow of Matthew D. Dycher; S. 546. An act for the relief of Jane McMurray ; S. 457. An act granting a pension to Elizabeth J. Miller, widow of General John Miller; and S. 499. An act granting a pension to the widow and child of Martin Whitt, deceased. And on the 19th instant, bills and a joint resolution of the following titles, 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 ; S. R. 171. A resolution in relation to coast defence; and S. 765. An act to give an additional term of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Arkansas; And that having received a bill and joint resolutions of the following titles, viz: S. 693. An act for the temporary relief of the poor and destitute people in the District of Columbia ; S. R. 173. A resolution respecting the provisional governments of Virginia and Texas; and S. R. 175. A resolution relative to the recent contract for stationery for the Department of the Interior'; and not having returned the same within ten days, that said bill and joint resolutions had become laws, under the Constitution of the United States. The Senate have passed a bill of the House of the following title, viz: H. R. 1864. An act for the repeal of tonnage duties on Spanish vessels; without amendment; and a bill of the House of the following title, viz: H. R. 568. An act explanatory of the act entitled "An act declaring the title to land warrants in certain cases;" with amendments; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. The Senate have also passed bills of the following titles, viz: S. 827. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication," passed April 9, 1866; and S. 784. An act to amend the judicial system of the United States; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. The Senate requests the return of the joint resolution (S. R. 228) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to adinit free of duty certain submarine telegraph cable. By unanimous consent, it was The House, in pursuance of 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. James F. Wilson reported that the committee having had under consideration the special order, viz: H. R. 1672. A bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1870, had come to no resolution thereon. And then. On motion of Mr. Kelsey, at 10 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m., the House adjourned. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1869. The following memorials, petitions, and other papers, were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the rules, and referred as follows: By Mr. Thomas Williams: The petition of William T. Sedwick, guar. dian of minor child of George F. Sedwick, deceased, praying for a pension; Also, a petition of similar import from Margaret Pizor, mother of David W. Pizor, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Eggleston: The petition of the officers of the Academy of Fine Arts of Cincinnati, Ohio, praying for the passage of a copyright aw, to the Committee on Patents. By Mr. Gravely: The petition of James N. McCully, of Virginia, praying for relief from political disability; By Mr. Goss: Petitions of similar import from G. Cannon, Jacob H. Briggs, and H. M. Price; By Mr. Hunter: The memorial of Julia A. Nutt, praying for a legali. zation of a trading permit; all to the Committee on Reconstruction. By Mr. Banks: The memorial of William Rullman, praying compensation for losses sustained in consequence of the occupation of his property at Baltimore, Maryland, by the United States troops. By Mr. Niblack: Joint resolutions of the Indiana legislature, relative to the claims of the officers and men of battery F, United States artillery, to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. Kelley: The petition of Isaac Strohm, Joseph Miller, and others, citizens of the United States, praying that the letter of E. B. Elliot on the subject of the unification of the coinage of the world may be printed, to the Committee on Printing. By the Speaker: Resolutions of the New York Agricultural Society, praying that duty on animals imported for breeding purposes be abol. ished. By Mr. Scofield: A petition from citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, relative to the duty on crude petroleum, to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. Ela: The petition of William A. Parker, late a captain in the United States navy, praying for restoration to the active list of the navy, to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. Buckley: The petition of citizens of the State of Alabama, praying for a mail route from Eufaula to Ozark, to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Poland, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws, reported a bill (H, R. 2004) establishing the term of office of the House of Representatives, and providing for biennial sessions of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Montana; which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. 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 request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill. Mr. Farnsworth, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to which were referred bills of the House of the following titles, viz: • H. R. 1415. A bill to incorporate the United States Postal Telegraph Company, and to establish a postal telegraph system; H. R. 1083. A bill for the construction of a government telegraph, under the direction of the Post Office Department, between New York and Washington; H. R. 1504. A bill to establish telegraph lines between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington; and H. R. 1689. A bill for the construction of lines of telegraph between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, under the direction of the Post Office Department; reported the same severally with a recommendation that they do not pass, accompanied by a report in writing thereon. Ordered, That the said bills be laid on the table and the report printed. Mr. Julian, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported a bill (H. R. 2005) declaring the lands constituting the Fort Collins military reservation, in the Territory of Colorado, subject to pre-emption and homestead entry, as provided for in existing laws; which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. Mr. Julian 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 request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House communi. cations as follows, viz: I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of clerks and other persons employed in his department in 1868; which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. II. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House of the 13th instant, relative to the Sac and Fox Indian trust lands; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. III. A letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, relative to a proposed industrial horticultural exhibition to be held at Hamburg in Sep. tember next; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. Mr. Holman, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title, viz: H. R. 1864. An act for the repeal of tonnage duties on Spanish vessels; The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 1744) to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin, the pending question being on the amendment submitted by Mr. Niblack. Pending which, (Yeas... | Not voting....... The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are SAULOGS Ilayo....................... 133 35 Mr. Stevenson Archer Jehu Baker Mr. Ignatius Donnelly W.P. Edwards Mr. Benjamin F. Hopking Mr. Lewis W. Ross John P.C. Shanks Aaron F. Stevens James A. Johnson William B. Stokes Thomas L. Jones Frederick Stone John Taffe Daniel M. Van Auken Henry D. Washburn John T. Wilson Fernando Wood P. M. B. Young. Those who voted in the negative are- Green B. Raum Addison H. Laflin William H. Robertson Samuel M. Arnell Grenville M. Dodge Israel G. Lash Logan H. Roots Delos R. Ashley Jobn F. Driggs George V. Lawrence Philetus Sawyer James M, Ashley Ephraim R. Eckley William Lawrence Robert C. Schenck Samuel B. Axtell Thomas D. Eliot John A. Logan Glenni W. Scofield John D. Baldwin John F. Farnsworth John Lynch Samuel Shellabarger Nathaniel P. Banks Orange Ferring James M. Marvin Worthington C. Smith William H. Barnum Thomas W. Ferry Horace Maynard Rufus P. Spalding Fernando C. Beaman William C. Fields Samuel McKee H. H. Stark weather John F. Benjamin J. Lawrence Getz Ulysses Mercur Thomas E. Stewart John A. Binghain Adam J. Glossbrenner George F. Miller John H. Stover W. Jasper Blackburn Samuel F. Gove William Moore Stephen Taber James K, Moorhead Caleb X. Taylor Francis Thomas George S. Boutwell David Heaton James Mullins John Trimble Row'd E. Trowbridge Carman A. Newcomb Ginery Twichell Henry P. H. Bromwell Samuel Hooper J. P. New ham Charles Upson Benjamin W. Norris Henry Van Aernamn Burt Van Horn Robert T. Van Horn Hamilton Ward Cadwal'r C. Washburn William B. Washburn Martin Welker B. F. Whittemore Thomas Williams Thomas Cornell Francis W. Kellogg Tobias A. Plants William Williams James F. Wilson Theodore M. Pomeroy William Windom Fred'k E. Woodbridge Columbus Delano Those not voting are- Mr. Samuel F. Cary Mr. George A. Halsey Alexander H. Bailey Ralph P. Buckland James T. Elliott Charles M. Hamilton Jacob Benton Jobn B. Callis James A. Garfield Thomas Haugbey |