The question then being taken on the following amendments, the same were disagreed to, viz: Page 8, lines 22 and 23, strike out" orduance." Mr. Atkins moved to reconsider the several votes taken on the foregoing amendments, 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 action of the House on the said amendments. Mr. Buckner, as a question of privilege, presented the credentials of Mr. Lyne S. Metcalfe as a Representative of the third Congressional district of Missouri; When Mr. Metcalfe, having appeared and taken the oath of office prescribed by section 1756 of the Revised Statutes, took his seat in the House. Mr. Springer presented a statement relating to the election in said Congressional district, made by the clerk of the court of Saint Louis County; which was read and referred to the Committee of Elections. Mr. Banning, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee of Accounts, viz: Resolved, That the committee clerks who are paid during the session only be continued in the employment of the House from the adjournment of the present to the opening of the next session of this Congress; and the Clerk of the House is hereby authorized and directed to pay them out of the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund. By unanimous consent, bills were introduced, read twice, ordered to be printed, and severally referred as follows, viz: By Mr. Stephens: A bill (H. R. 1522) for the financial relief of the country and to facilitate the return to specie payments without injuriously affecting the commercial business and industries of the people; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. O'Neill: A bill (H. R. 1523) for the relief of the heirs of Jacob Cramer, lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Continental Line in the revolu tionary war; to the Committee on Private Land Claims. By Mr. Steele: A bill (H. R. 1524) to provide for the settlement and payment of arrearages due to certain persons for services actually done for the United States in the Southern States prior to the late civil war; to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Swann moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the consideration of the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 48) in relation to the international industrial exposition to be held in Paris in 1878, When Mr. Buckner raised the question of consideration. Will the House now consider the said motion? Yeas. And it was decided in the affirmative, Nays.. 144 123 24 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 Mr. Latimer W. Ballon Henry W. Blair Mr. Thomas A. Boyd Lorenzo Brentano Mr. Curtis H. Brogden Mr. John H. Camp Jacob M. Campbell Simeon B. Chittenden Rush Clark Mr. Andrew H. Hamilton Mr. Levi Maish Those who voted Mr. J. D. C. Atkins John H. Baker Jordan E. Cravens Alfred C. Harmer Mr. Geo. G. Dibrell Those not voting Mr. Archibald M. Bliss H. L. Dickey Thomas M. Gunter are― Mr. Alvah A. Clark Anson G. McCook Thomas B. Reed are— Mr. Charles E. Hooker Roger Q. Mills Mr. Dudley C. Haskell So the House decided to consider the said motion. Pending which, Mr. Otho R. Singleton Mr. Haywood Y. Riddle Milton Sayler Jacob Turney Robert B. Vance Nelson H.Van Vorbes Alfred M. Waddel Mr. Henry M. Pollard Leonidas Sexton Robert Smalls Milton I. Southard Martin L. Townsend William D. Veeder. Mr. Finley, at 2 o'clock and 50 minutes p. m., moved that the House adjourn; which motion was disagreed to. The question then recurring on the motion of Mr. Swann, Pending which, Mr. Swann further moved that all debate on the said joint resolution shall be limited to four hours. Pending which, Mr. Lapham moved to strike out "four" and insert one. Mr. Conger made the point of order that the question must first be put on the longest time. The Speaker sustained the point of order. And the question being put on the motion of Mr. Swann, the same was agreed to. The question then recurring on the original motion of Mr. Swann, the same was agreed to, and the House accordingly 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. Springer reported that the committee, having had under consideration the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 48) in relation to the international industrial exposition to be held in Paris in 1878, had come to no resolution thereon. Mr. Durham, at 4 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m., moved that the House adjourn. Pending which, The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting for the information of the Committee on Commerce a report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, relative to obstructions in the Red River above Shreveport, Louisiana; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows, viz To Mr. Aiken, for one week; To Mr. James L. Evans, for ten days. Mr. Herbert, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 1525) to put into market certain timber-lands of the United States, and for other purposes; which was read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. And then The motion of Mr. Durham was agreed to, and the House accordingly adjourned. Mr. Rainey, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did this day present to the President a joint resolution of the House of the following number, viz: (H. Res. 38.) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1877. The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows, viz: By Mr. Atkins: The petition of F. A. Lee, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Chittenden: The petition of 44 presidents of national banks and others, against the passage of the bill for the adoption of a silvercoinage currency to an unlimited extent as the bimetallic legal money of our country; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. Corlett: Papers relating to the establishment of post-routes from Rock Creek to Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory, and from Rock Creek, Wyoming Territory, to Big Horn Post, Montana Territory; to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. Crapo: Memorial of Alexander Sutorius, late captain Third United States Cavalry, for reinstatement as captain of cavalry; to the Committee on Military Affairs; By Mr. Danford: A paper relating to the establishment of a postroute from Quaker City to Freeport, Ohio; to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. Ellis: Papers relating to the claim.of Clara H. Flower, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army; By Mr. Gunter: The petition of J. N. Carpenter, paymaster United States Navy, for compensation for property taken by the United States Army; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Hale: The petition of L. J. Thomas, to be refunded the value of certain postage stamps stolen from him while postmaster at Eden, Maine: to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. By Mr. Ketcham: The petition of Mrs. Eleanor N. F. Meeds, for compensation for services rendered the Committee for the District of Columbia of the Forty-third Congress by her late husband; to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. Kidder: The petition of W. C. Hinkley and 53 others, to legalize a certain survey of Oscar E. Rea, Dakota Territory; to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. McMahon : The petition of William Johnson, for a pension; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Schleicher: The petition of S. C. Slade and others, for the establishment of a United States consulate at the city of El Paso, Mexico; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. Stewart: The petition of Anne C. Livingston, for compensation for damages to property seized and used by the United States authorities; to the Committee on War-Claims. Also, the petition of William W. Spaulding and other citizens of Duluth, Minnesota, for a grant of land to the Saint Louis River Dalles Improvement Company to aid in the improvement of the Saint Louis River; to the Committee on Commerce. Also, the petition of Anson Northrup, for a grant of laud, or other relief, for valuable services rendered the United States during the Indian troubles in Minnesota ; to the Committee on the Public Lands. Also, the petition of E. Anderson and others, of Duluth, Minnesota, for the erection of a light-house at and the improvement of the harbor of Grand Marias, on Lake Superior; to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. Thornburgh: The petition of W. F. Frasier, for relief on ac count of injuries received during the late war; to the Committee on War-Claims. By Mr. Waddell: The petition of Joseph R. Royal, keeper of the light-house at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and Joseph Royal and A. T. Guthrie, his assistants, for compensation for services rendered in keeping said light-house; to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. Watson: The petition of the select and common councils of Erie, Pennsylvania, and 1,000 citizens of said city, for the purchase of land and the erection of a suitable building thereon for the United States court and government offices in said city; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. Wilson: The petition of N. S. Clark, for compensation for services rendered as a messenger in the Doorkeeper's department, House of Representatives, from March 4 to May 5, 1877; to the Committee of Accounts. Mr. Southard, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee of Accounts, viz: Resolved, That the Committee on the Revision of the Laws regulating the Counting of the Electoral Votes for President and Vice-President be allowed a clerk, and that said clerk be paid the same compensation which is or may be allowed to the clerks of other committees, to be paid out of the miscellaneous contingent fund of the House or otherwise. The regular order being demanded, the Speaker announced as the regular order of business the bill of the House (H. R. 805) to repeal the third section of the act entitled "An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments," under the order of the House of the 5th instant. Pending which, Mr. Swann moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the joint resolution (H. Res. 48) in relation to the international industrial exposition to be held in Paris in 1878. Mr. Buckner made the point of order that the motion was not in order, the said joint resolution not being one of the regular appropriation bills exempted by the resolution making the bill of the House No. 805 (resumption repeal) a special order. The Speaker overruled the point of order, on the ground that the language of the said resolution was, "not to interfere with any appropriation bills," and as the said joint resolution was clearly "an appro-" priation bill," it was exempted from the restrictive terms of the said resolution. The question being then put on the motion of Mr. Swann, the same was agreed to; and the House accordingly 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. Springer reported that the committee, having had under consideration the joint resolution of the House (H. Res. 48) in relation to the international industrial exposition to be held in Paris in 1878, had come to no resolution thereon. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sympson, one of their clerks: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have receded from its amendments numbered 3, 4, 11, and 14 to the bill of the House (H. R. 902) making appro priations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes. The Senate have passed, without amendment, a bill of the House (H. R. 1265) authorizing the changing of the name of the ship Samuel G. Reed. The Senate have passed a bill of the following title, viz, (S. 220,) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a lot of land, for the use of the government, in Providence, Rhode Island; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House of Representatives. On motion of Mr. Atkins, by unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union was discharged from the further consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 1521) to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for prior years, and for other purposes, and the same was recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Shelley, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, viz: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy inform this House what naval vessels have been put under repairs since the 1st of March last, |