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The House resumed the consideration of the regular order.
After debate,

Mr. Hale demanded the previous question, which was seconded and the main question ordered.

The question being on the amendment submitted by Mr. Bragg,
The same was, by unanimous consent, withdrawn by Mr. Bragg.

The question then recurring on the resolution submitted by Mr. John T. Harris as an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the motion of Mr. Hale;

And being put,

It was decided in the affirmative Yeas..

Nays..
Not voting..

137 130

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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

J. D. C. Atkins
Henry B. Banning
George M. Beebe
Hiram P. Bell
Charles B. Benedict
George A. Bicknell
Jos C. S. Blackburn
Richard P. Bland
James H. Blount
Andrew R. Boone
Gabriel Bouck
Edward S. Bragg
Samuel A. Bridges
John M. Bright
Aylett H. Buckner
George C. Cabell
John W. Caldwell
W. P. Caldwell
Milton A. Candler
John G. Carlisle
J. R. Chalmers
Alvah A. Clark
John B. Clark, jr.
Hiester Clymer
Thomas R. Cobb
Francis D. Collins
Philip Cook

James W. Covert
Samuel S. Cox
Jordan E. Cravens
Thomas T. Crittenden
D. B. Culberson
Robt. H. M. Davidson
Joseph J. Davis

Mr. Geo. G. Dibrell

Those who voted

Mr. William Aldrich

William J. Bacon
George A. Bagley
John H. Baker
William H. Baker
Latimer W. Ballou
Nathaniel P. Banks
Thomas M. Bayne

H. L. Dickey
John R. Eden
Anthony Eickhoff
J. B. Elam
E. John Ellis
John H. Evins
Thomas Ewing
William H. Felton
Ebenezer B. Finley
William H. Forney
Benjamin J. Franklin
Benoni S. Fuller
William W. Garth
Randall L. Gibson
D. C. Giddings
John M. Glover
John Goode
Thomas M. Gunter
Andrew H. Hamilton
Ang, A. Hardenbergh
Henry R. Harris
John T. Harris
Carter H. Harrison
E. Kirke Hart
Julian Hartridge
William Hartzell
Robert A. Hatcher
Daniel M. Henry
Goldsmith W. Hewitt
Hilary A. Herbert
John F. House
Eppa Hunton
Frank Jones

Mr. James Taylor Jones Mr. Miles Ross

John E. Kenna
William Kimmell
Robert M. Knapp
J. Proctor Knott
George M. Landers
Robert F. Ligon
Daniel N. Lockwood
John K. Luttrell
William Pitt Lynde
Levi Maish
Van H. Manning
Benjamin F. Martin
Stephen L. Maybam
James A. McKenzie
John A. McMahon
Roger Q. Mills
Hernando D. Money
Charles H. Morgan
William R. Morrison
Leopold Morse
H. L. Muldrow
Nicholas Muller
James Phelps
Auburn L. Pridemore
Terrence J. Quinn
David Rea
John H. Reagan
James B. Reilly
Americus V. Rice
Haywood Y. Riddle
William M. Robbins
Charles B. Roberts
E. W. Robertson

in the negative are―

Mr. Horatio Bisbee, jr.
Henry W. Blair
Thomas A. Boyd
Lorenzo Brentano
Mark S. Brewer
James F. Briggs
Curtis H. Brogden
Thomas M. Browne

Mr. Solomon Bundy

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Horatio C. Burchard
Theodore W. Burdick
Benjamin F. Butler
Richard H. Cain
William H. Calkins
John H. Camp
Jacob M. Campbell

Milton Sayler

Alfred M. Scales
Gustave Schleicher
Charles M. Shelley
Otho R. Singleton
William F. Slemons
William E. Smith
Milton I. Southard
William A. J. Sparks
William M. Springer
Walter L. Steele
William S. Stenger
J. W. Throckmorton
Richd. W. Townshend
Thomas Turner
Jacob Turney

Robert B. Vance
William D Veeder
Alfred M. Waddell
Gilbert C. Walker
William Walsh
Levi Warner
W. C. Whitthorne
Alpheus S. Williams
James Williams
Jere N. Williams
Albert S Willis
Benjamin A. Willis
Benjamin Wilson
Fernando Wood
Hendrick B. Wright
Jesse J. Yeates
Casey Young.

Mr. Joseph G. Cannon
Lucien B. Caswell
Simeon B. Chittenden
William Claflin
Rush Clark
Nathan Cole

Omar D. Conger
Jacob D. Cox

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Mr. Springer moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

The question then recurring on the motion of Mr. Hale, as amended by the substitute of Mr. Harris,

The same was agreed to.

Mr. Springer moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

Mr. Garfield, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the undistributed books and documents remaining in the folding room of the House of Representatives to the credit of members and officers of the last House of Representatives at the commencement of the present session be placed to the credit of the corresponding members and officers of the present House.

Mr. Garfield moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House executive and other communications; which were severally referred as follows, viz: I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates for salaries and for repairs to the Interior Department building, to the Committee on Appropriations, when appointed, and ordered to be printed. II. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to setting aside from the Cheyeune annuities $5,000 for the Germain children, to the Committee on Indian Affairs, when appointed, and ordered to be printed.

III. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports of certain citizen committees appointed to investigate the custom-house service, and recommending that they be compensated by appropriate legislation, to the Committee of Ways and Means, when appointed, and ordered to be printed.

IV. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, regarding the claim of Caleb Tompkins, of Cartersville, Georgia, with accompanying documents, to the Committee on War-Claims, when appointed.

V. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, regarding the claim of Mary E. Darwin and the heirs of Amanda Canian, with accompanying documents, to the Committee of Claims, when appointed.

VI. An inventory of public documents in the folding room of the House of Representatives, to the Committee of Accounts, when appointed.

VII. A joint resolution of the legislature of the State of Michigan, asking an appropriation to construct a light-house at the mouth of Thunder Bay River, in the county of Alpena ;

VIII. A concurrent resolution of the legislature of the State of Missouri, in reference to a system of levees on the Mississippi River; to the Committee on Commerce, when appointed.

IX. Joint and concurrent resolutions of the legislature of the State of Missouri, relative to the removal of the national capital;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia, when appointed.

By unanimous consent, leave was granted to withdraw from the files of the House papers in the following cases, viz:

To Mr. Reagan, in the case of James Green;

To Mr. A. Herr Smith, in the case of the Columbia (Pennsylvania) Bridge Company.

By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted as follows, viz: • To Mr. James, for ten days;

To Mr. Ryan, for five days;

To Mr. Smalls, for two days;
To Mr. Starin, for ten days;

Mr. Samuel S. Cox, at 3 o'clock and 45 minutes, p. m., moved that the House adjourn.

Pending which,

By unanimous consent, petitions were presented and severally referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Garfield: Of the North Carolina Freedmen's Emigration Aid Society asking that the Government aid such colored people as so desired to emigrate to Liberia, to the Committee on Education and Labor, when appointed.

By Mr. Samuel S. Cox: Of certain mechanics and laborers, for relief from certain alleged discriminations against them, to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, when appointed.

By Mr. Wright: Of 20,792 workingmen, citizens of Pennsylvania and residents of the twelfth congressional district of that State, praying for the passage of a law making small loan by the Government to aid settlers upon the public domain, under the provisions of the homestead laws, to be secured by mortgage on lands so selected, payable in ten years, in annual installments, at an interest of 3 per cent. per annum ; By Mr. Reilly: Of similar import;

to the Committee on the Public Lands, when appointed.

By Mr. Springer: Of the Labor League of the District of Columbia, requesting the restoration of impartial suffrage in the District of Columbia;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia, when appointed.

By Mr. Kelley: Of a citizen of the United States, asking that it so ameliorate the financial system of the Government that the laboring people, those who depend upon their skill or muscular power for subsistence, shall be able to sell their labor and not be compelled to appeal to the Government for the means to pay for the expatriation of hemselves and their posterity, and that they may continue to live in the homes of their birth or choice and pursue with advantage to themselves

and the country at large the callings to which they have been trainedWilliam D. Kelley, petitioner;

to the Committee on Education and Labor, when appointed.

By Mr. Harrison: From the letter-carriers of Chicago, asking for increase of compensation, accompanied by a petition in favor of the same signed by some six thousand citizens of the city of Chicago;

By Mr. Hamilton: A petition of similar import, from the letter-carriers and citizens of Fort Wayne, Indiana;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, when appointed. And then

The motion of Mr. Cox was agreed to, and the House accordingly adjourned.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 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. Aiken: The petition of citizens of South Carolina, for the reestablishment of the office of assistant treasurer of the United States at Charleston, South Carolina;

to the Committee on Appropriations.

By Mr. Aldrich: The petition of R. W. Booth & Company, and 23 other hardware firms of the Western Hardware Association, for the repeal of the bankrupt law;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Bicknell: Papers relating to the claim of the Bartholomew County Agricultural Society of Indiaua, for pay for use of grounds by United States troops;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Boone: The petition of Drury Dunaway, for a pension; to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Bouck: Six memorials of the legislature of Wisconsin, asking appropriations: one, to construct a light-house at the mouth of the harbor of Menomonee; another, for a survey of Wolf River from Lake Poygan to the mouth of Red River; another, for the erection of a lighthouse and for a fog-signal on Stannard's Rock, Lake Superior; another, to aid in the survey of the Saint Croix River, Wisconsin; another, to aid in the completion of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan shipcanal and harbor, and to extend the time for the completion thereof; and another, to provide fish-ways to the dams on Fox River; to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, a memorial of the legislature of. Wisconsin, asking for the enactment of laws for the improvement of the condition of the Oneida tribe of Indians, located on the reservation in the counties of Brown and Outagamie;

to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Also, a memorial of the legislature of Wisconsin, asking for the right of way and a grant of land for railroad purposes, to aid in building a road through Northern Wisconsin;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

By Mr. Bragg: Seven memorials of the legislature of Wisconsin: one, for increased mail facilities in Oconto County; another, for a mail-route from Stettin to Ril Falls, Marathon County; another, for a mail-route from Barron to Sand Creek; another, for a mail-route from Berlin to Hamberg; another, for increased mail-service in Sauk County; another, for mail-service from Eau Claire to Rice Lake; another, for a mail route from Friendship to Liberty Bluffs;

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

By Mr. Burchard: The petition of Robert P. Boggs, for a pension; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Burdick: The petition of George W. Jones, that the Secretary of State of the United States be authorized to adjust and settle his accounts as minister resident to Bogota, New Granada;

Also, the petition of A. Bleidung and other citizens of Guttenberg, Iowa, for the improvement of the channel of the Mississippi River at that place;

to the Committee on Appropriations.

Also, memorial of printers and bookbinders employed in the Government Printing Office, for relief by allowance of fair compensation for work and the restoration of former wages;

to the Committee on Printing.

By Mr. Butler: The petition of Thomas J. Durant, for leave to present his claim for services as United States attorney for the district of Louisiana to the Court of Claims for adjustment;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Also, papers relating to the claim of the State of Massachusetts, for expenses of coast defense;

to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Chalmers: Memorial of the Cotton Exchange of Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking for the improvement of the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers;

to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Clymer: The petition of the letter-carriers of Reading, Pennsylvania, for an increase of their salaries;

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

By Mr. Cravens: Memorial of Augustus D. Jones, of Arkansas, submitting an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on Counting the Electoral Votes.

By Mr. Culberson: The petition of George H. Giddings, for an ap propriation to pay an amount admitted to be due him by the Post Office Department;

to the Committee on Appropriations.

Also, the petition of E. L. Dahoney, of Texas, showing the causes of the present hard times and suggesting remedies therefor;

to the Committee on Banking and Currency.

By Mr. Cummings: The petition of B. F. Gue and other citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, for an increase of the compensation of letter-carriers;

Also, the petition of the letter-carriers of Des Moines, Iowa, of similar import;

By Mr. Joseph J. Davis: A paper relating to the establishment of a post-route from Forrestville to Earpsborough, North Carolina;

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

By Mr. Durham: The petition of James C. Smith, of Dundee, Scotland, for indemnity for loss of £104 18s. 5d., in consequence of seizure of certain cloths at the custom-house, New York;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Eames: The petition of W. L. Parvin and H. A. Green, for compensation for services and for money advanced in raising troops for the United States Army in California;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Eden: The petition of Aaron Miley, postmaster at Sullivan, Illinois, to be credited with the amount stolen from him May 29, 1877; to the Committee of Claims.

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