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So the rules were suspended, and the bill passed, viz:

A BILL (H. R. 1093) to authorize the free coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be coined, at the several mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of our hundred and twelve and a half grains troy of standard silver, as provided in the act of January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act; which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise provided by contract; and any owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any United States coinage-mint or assay-office, to be coined into such dollars, for his benefit, upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion is deposited for coinage under existing laws. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

Mr. Ewing moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to submit, and the House to agree to, the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That the bill to repeal the third section of the resumption law be made the special order, not to interfere with any appropriation bills, for to-morrow at the expiration of the morning hour, and from day to day thereafter until the following Tuesday at 3 o'clock, when the previous question shall be ordered on it and on any amendments then pending, all amendments meanwhile to be in order, provided the time shall be extended, if necessary, so as to allow five days after the morning hour for the consideration of said bill and amendments.

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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. D. Wyatt Aiken

William Aldrich

J. D. C. Atkins
John H. Baker
Henry B. Banning
Hiram P. Bell
George A. Bicknell
Richard P. Bland
James H. Blount
Andrew R. Boone
Gabriel Bouck
Lorenzo Brentano
Curtis H. Brogden
Thomas M. Browne
Avlett H. Buckner
Theodore W. Burdick
George C. Cabell
Richard H. Cain
John W. Caldwell
W. P. Caldwell
William H. Calkins
Milton A. Candler
Joseph G. Cannon
John G. Carlisle
J. R. Chalmers
John B. Clarke
John B. Clark, jr.
Rush Clark
Omar D. Conger
Philip Cook

James W. Covert

Samuel S. Cox

Jacob D. Cox

Jordan E. Cravens

Mr. H. L. Humphrey
Anthony Ittner
James Taylor Jones
John S. Jones
J. Warren Keifer
William D. Kelley
John E. Kenna
William Kimmel
Robert M. Knapp
J. Proctor Knott
William Lathrop
Robert F. Ligon
William Pitt Lynde
L. A. Mackey
Levi Maish
Benjamin F. Marsh
Benjamin F. Martin
James A. McKenzie
William McKinley, jr.
John A. McMahon
Roger Q. Mills
Hernando D. Money
Charles H. Morgan
William R. Morrison
Leopold Morse
H. L. Muldrow
Henry S. Neal
Addison Oliver
William A. Phillips
Hiram Price

Mr. H. J. B. Cummings
Augustus W. Cutler
Joseph J. Davis
Nathaniel C. Deering
Geo. G. Dibrell
H. L. Dickey
Benjamin T. Eames
John R. Eden
J. B. Elam
Charles C. Ellsworth
John H. Evins
Thomas Ewing
William H. Felton
Ebenezer B. Finley
William H. Forney
Benjamin J. Franklin
Benoni S. Fuller
Mills Gardner
William W. Garth
D. C. Giddings
John M. Glover
Andrew H. Hamilton
Henry R. Harris
Carter H. Harrison
Julian Hartridge
William Hartzell
Dudley C. Haskell
Robert A. Hatcher
Philip C. Hayes
Thomas J. Henderson
Goldsmith W. Hewitt
Hilary A. Herbert
Charles E. Hooker
John F. House
Jay A. Hubbell
Eppa Hunton

Thomas T. Crittenden

D. B. Culberson

Auburn L. Pridemore
James H. Randolph
David Rea
John H. Reagan
James B. Reilly
Americus V. Rice

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Those not voting are―

Mr. George A. Bagley

William H. Baker Nathaniel P. Banks Thomas M. Bayne George M. Beebe Charles B. Benedict Horatio Bisbee, jr. Jos. C. S. Blackburn

Mr. Archibald M. Bliss
Thomas A. Boyd
Edward S. Bragg
Samuel A. Bridges
John M. Bright
Horatio C. Burchard
Benjamin F. Butler
John H. Camp

Mr. J. E. Leonard

Stephen D. Lindsey
John K. Luttrell
J. H. McGowan
James Monroe
Amasa Norcross
Romualdo Pacheco
Horace F. Page
George W. Patterson
Thomas B. Peddie
Henry M. Pollard
Thad. C. Pound

Mr. Haywood Y. Riddle
William M. Robbins

Mr. Jacob M. Campbell
Simeon B. Chittenden
Alvah A. Clark
Hiester Clymer
Thomas R. Cobb
Francis D. Collins
William W. Crapo
Robt. H. M. Davidson

E. W. Robertson
Ezekiel S. Sampson
William F. Sapp
Milton Sayler
Alfred M. Scales
Leonidas Sexton
Charles M. Shelley
Otho R. Singleton
William F. Slemons
William E. Smith
William A. J. Sparks
William M. Springer
Walter L. Steele
Alex. H. Stephens
Joseph C. Stone
J. M. Thornburgh
J. W. Throckmorton
Thomas F. Tipton
Richd. W. Townshend
John R. Tucker

Thomas Turner

Robert B. Vance

Nelson H.Van Vorhes
Alfred M. Waddell
Frank Welch
Michael D. White
Jere N. Williams
Albert S. Willis
Fernando Wood
Thomas Wren
Hendrick B. Wright
Jesse J. Yeates
Casey Young.

Mr. Llewellyn Powers
Joseph H. Rainey
Thomas B. Reed
William W. Rice
J. H. Stewart
Horace B. Strait
William Ward
Edwin Willets
Alpheus S. Williams
Charles G. Williams
Richard Williams.

Mr. Beverly B. Douglas
Milton J. Durham
Jeremiah W. Dwight
Anthony Eickhoff
E. John Ellis
Russell Errett
I. Newton Evans
James L. Evans

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So the rules were suspended, and the said resolution was submitted and agreed to.

Mr. Wood moved that the rules be suspended so as to enable him to report from the Committee of Ways and Means, and the House to consider and agree to, the following resolutions, viz:

Resolved, That the President be respectfully requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to this House the correspondence with the Spanish Government, and the orders and directions of the Treasury Department to the collectors of customs, in relation to the recent imposition of a differential duty of fifty cents per ton on Spanish vessels entering American ports, with such information in reference thereto as he may deem necessary.

Resolved further, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, requested to furnish the House of Representatives, at the earliest practicable moment, copies of the contract made with a certain syndicate of American and foreign bankers for the negotiation of the 4 per cent. bonds of the United States, together with copies of all other papers relating thereto; and also with a statement as to the present condition of such negotiation, and whether it remains in force as originally made, without modification or change.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof.) So the rules were suspended.

The said resolutions were thereupon reported by Mr. Wood, from the said committee, and agreed to.

Mr. Calkins, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That inasmuch as this is the day of the funeral of the late Senator Morton, in token of respect to his memory this House do now adjourn.

Pending which,

Mr. Hunton, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1094) to remove the disabilities of Asa Wall imposed by the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States; which was read twice, engrossed, read the third time, and passed, (two-thirds voting in favor thereof.)

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

Mr. Glover, by unanimous consent, submitted a resolution for the relief of Theodore F. Wilson; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. Phillips, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1095) to create postal savings-banks; which was read twice, referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed, and also printed in the Record.

By unanimous consent, leave was granted to withdraw from the files of the House papers as follows, viz:

To Mr. Blackburn, in the cases of Mrs. Rosa V. Jeffreys, William H. Gray, D. W. Price, and A. S. Bloom;

To Mr. Henry R. Harris, in the case of John M. Word; and

To Mr. Charles G. Williams, in the case of C. H. Bliss.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows, viz: To Mr. Bisbee, for three days;

To Mr. Burdick, for two days;

To Mr. Cutler, until the 7th instant;
To Mr. Frank Jones, for one week;

To Mr. Overton, until the 8th instant.

The Speaker announced the appointment of the following select committee, under the resolution submitted by Mr. Hardenbergh on the 1st instant, and adopted by the House, for the appointment of a committee of three members to examine into and report upon the propriety of a railing for the protection of the outer circle of seats, viz :

Mr. Hardenbergh, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Loring.

Mr. Hooker, by unanimous consent, submitted a resolution in relation to the salary of the electrician of the House; which was read and referred to the Committee of Accounts.

The Speaker, having stated that he would be absent from the House to-morrow, announced the appointment of Mr. Sayler to be Speaker pro tempore during his said absence.

And then,

The resolution submitted by Mr. Calkins was unanimously agreed to; and the House, at 2 o'clock and 45 minutes p. m., accordingly adjourned.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1876.

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Brewer: A paper relating to the establishment of a postroute between Clarkston and Oxford, Oakland County, Michigan; By Mr. Corlett: A paper relating to the establishment of certain postroutes in Wyoming Territory;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Samuel S. Cox: Remonstrance of merchants of New York, against the repeal of the bankrupt law, and a petition for amendments thereto;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Dunnell: The petition of J. H. Cooper and others, of Minnesota, for an amendment of the tree-culture act;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Ellis: Papers relating to the claim of J. W. Arthur & Com. pany, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army; to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Fenn: The petition of Jane D. Cotton, for a pension;

By Mr. Fuller: The petition of Jonathan R. Tilman, for a pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, the petition of the heirs of Captain Lambert Wickes, for prize money and pay during the Revolution;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Gibson: The petition of Flora S. Miller and others, for compensation for property destroyed by the United States military authori

By Mr. Goode: The petition of Mrs. Mary A. Hughes, for compensa. tion for the use of her property by United States authorities;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Gunter: The petition of Elias B. Moore, to be reimbursed for postage-stamps taken by the United States Army in 1852;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Henderson: Papers relating to the claim of Samuel Noble, for cotton wrongfully seized by United States authorities;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. House: Papers relating to the claims of Shelby Medical College, for rent and for property taken therefrom by the United States Army;

Also, of Thomas Hord, for supplies taken by the United States Army; Also, of A. J. Duncan, for property taken by the United States Army; By Mr. Hunton: Papers relating to the petition of S. B. Corbett, for compensation for the use of his property by the United States authorities:

By Mr. Martin: The petition of Joseph Anderson, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army;

to the Committee on War Claims.

Also, the petition of John A. Thompson and others, of Jefferson County, West Virginia, for the issue of a currency that shall be a legal tender for all dues, public and private;

to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

By Mr. Mayham: The petition of F. P. Molton and 300 other citizens of Scoharie and Montgomery Counties, New York, for the extension of post-route 1455 to Cobleskill;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Pollard: Papers relating to the petition of Van B. Bowers, to be reimbursed for property taken from the post-office at Ducklin, Missouri, by robbers;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Randolph Papers relating to the claim of R. F. Bernard, for services rendered as a lieutentant of cavalry, United States Army; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Schleicher: Papers relating to the claim of George H. Giddings, mail-contractor;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Springer: The petition of Daniel Clary, for a pension; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Stephens: The petitions of V. Richards & Brothers and A. L. Maxwell, for stores furnished and supplies taken by the United States Army;

Also, the petition of Bernard Rice, for compensation for property destroyed by the United States Army;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Swann: The petition of F. C. Latrobe, mayor, and 5,000 citizens, of Baltimore, for an increase of the salaries of letter carriers; to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post Roads.

Also, the petition of George Wolf, for arrears of pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, the petition of Mrs. Elizabeth Goldsborough, widow of RearAdmiral L. M. Goldsborough, for a pension;

to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

Also, the petition of John H. Bond and 25 other mechanics and labor

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