ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes, had directed him to report the same with sundry amendments. 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. 1966. An act for the relief of Foster & Tower; When The Speaker signed the same. The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the House (II. R. 1672) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1870, the pending question being on the amendments left undisposed of from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; When, By unanimous consent, the 15th and 18th amendments were severally withdrawn, and in the appropriations for female clerks changes were made to correspond with the general amendment made on that subject; and the amendment numbered 36 was disagreed to. The question then recurred on the amendment of Mr. O'Neill to the amendment of Mr. Poland. And being put, it was decided in the negative. The question then recurred on the amendment of Mr. Poland, Pending which, After debate, The said amendment was read as follows, viz: Add to the bill the following as a new section: "SEC. — And be it further enacted, That the clerks, messengers, watchmen, laborers, and other persons, male and female, now employed at Washington, District of Columbia, at a salary fired by law or by regulations of a department, in the State, Treasury, Nary, War, Interior, Agricultural, and Post Office Department, including the Attorney General's office, the city post office, and the bureaus and branches of the several departments herein named, who are paid at a rate not exceeding $1,800 per annum, shall be allowed an additional compensation of ten per cent, on the amount of salary or pay received by them, respectively, during the past and present fiscal years; and that the necessary amount to pay the same be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto? The yeas Not voting. 87 80 55 and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are— Mr. George W. Anderson Mr. Ignatius Donnelly Stevenson Archer James M. Ashley C. C. Bow-n Ephraim R. Eckley Mr. Bethuel M. Kitchen J. Proctor Knott Samuel S. Marshall Mr. William H. Robertson William E. Robinson Mr. Poland moved that the yote 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, The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are So the House refused to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. The question then recurring on the motion to reconsider, Mr. Poland withdrew the same; Mr. Benjamin renewed the motion to reconsider. Yeas.. It was decided in the affirmative, Nays... ( xays... Not voting.. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are— So the motion to reconsider was agreed to. The question recurred on the said amendment. Mr. Philadelph Van Trump Mr. J. H. Sypher John Trimble 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. 1812. An act to allow deputy collectors and assistant assessors of internal revenue, acting as collectors or assessors, the pay of collectors and assessors; When The Speaker signed the same. By unanimous consent, leave of absence at this evening's session was granted to Mr. Knott and Mr. Raum. 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 Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House executive communications as follows, viz: I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to a lighthouse at the mouth of Yaquina bay, Oregon; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. II. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting additional papers relative to the Paraguayan difficulties; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed. The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 1672) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1870, the pending question being on the amendment submitted by Mr. Poland. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, Yeas Nays.. 50 The amendment submitted by Mr. Holman was also disagreed to. Ordered, That the bill be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Scofield 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 a report of the board of managers of disabled volunteer soldiers; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pike, by unanimous consent, submitted a report of the Committee on Naval Affairs in regard to the purchase by Theodore Zeller, engineer of the Philadelphia navy yard, of certain tools and machinery; which was laid on the table and, together with the views of a minority of the said committee, submitted by Mr. Kelley, ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Laflin, by unanimous consent, the joint resolution of the Senate (S. R. 231) providing for the reporting and publication |