The Senate have passed a resolution and bill of the following titles, viz:

S. Res. 41. A resolution for the relief of Arthur Edwards and his associates; and

S. 347. An act to declare the meaning of the act entitled "An act making further provisions for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants," passed August 31, 1852;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

The Senate have agreed to the amendment of this House to the bill of the Senate (S. 84) to facilitate communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electric telegraph, with amendments;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

Mr. Grow, from the second committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill of the House (H. R. 503) making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1860, reported that the said committee had been unable to agree.

Mr. Grow moved that the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate to the said bill (H. R. 503) and agree to the same with the following amendment, viz:

At the end of the said amendment add the following, viz:

"Provided, The said service shall be performed in the same time as was prescribed in the schedule time in the contract for the service of the steamer Isabel, and the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to pay for the actual service performed by the said steamer Isabel, from Charleston to Havana, previous to the passage of this act, at the same rate of compensation as was provided in the contract for that service: And provided, further, That the Postmaster General is hereby directed to restore the inland service on all routes under contract on the 4th of March, 1859, unless the same have expired by their own limitation, or where improved service over said routes has been furnished by railroads or otherwise; and where the service has been actually performed by the contractor upon curtailed lines, notwithstanding such curtailment the Postmaster General shall pay the contractors as if no change had been ordered; but the Postmaster General shall not be required to restore the service on any of said routes beyond one daily mail each way, nor to interfere with any changes of service that may have been made without reduction of price, nor to restore service on route No. 10615, from Neosho, Missouri, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, nor to restore service on route No. 15050, from Kansas, Missouri, via Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Stockton, California, nor any part of the route No. 8076, west of El Paso: Provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall debar the Postmaster General from discriminating or curtailing any of the routes hereby restored, nor shall the contractor or contractors upon said restored routes be paid any extra allowance whatever, in consequence of any new curtailment or discon tinuance: And provided, further, That no service hereby restored shall be put in operation unless by the assent of the contractor or contractors therefor: And provided, further, That the appropriation herein made shall be so construed as to embrace those made by the joint resolution for the relief of the contractors of the Post Office Department,' approved 28th

March, 1860: And provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to renew the mail service on the Cumberland river, above Clarksville, in the State of Tennessee."

Mr. Grow moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered and put, viz: Will the House agree to the said motion?

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are—

Mr. Henry A. Edmundson
Muscoe R. H. Garnett
Lucius J. Gartrell
John A. Gilmer
Thomas Hardeman, jr.
John T. Harris
Robert Hatton
Joshua Hill

Thomas C. Hindman
George S. Houston
George W. Hughes
John J. Jones

Lawrence M. Keitt
Jacob M. Kunkel

Mr. James M. Leach
William B. Maclay
Horace Maynard
John McQueen
W. Porcher Miles
John S. Millson
Laban T. Moore
Sydenham Moore
Samuel O. Peyton
John S. Phelps
Roger A. Pryor
James L. Pugh
James M. Quarles
John H. Reagan

So the said motion was agreed to.

And it was

Mr. Thomas Ruffin

William E. Simms
Otho R. Singleton
William Smith
William N. H. Smith
James A. Stallworth
John W. Stevenson
James A. Stewart
Miles Taylor

James H. Thomas
John W. H. Underwood
Clement L. Vallandigham
Zebulon B. Vance

John V. Wright.

Ordered, That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate to the said bill, and agree thereto with the amendment above recited.

Mr. Grow 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 amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate to the said bill. Mr. Schwartz moved that the rules be suspended, so as to discharge the Committee of the Whole House from the further consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 437) for the relief of Benjamin Tyson, and to enable the House to consider the same.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,{

Yeas...
Nays.

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Two-thirds voting in favor thereof.
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,
Those who voted in the affirmative are-

Mr. Garnett B. Adrain

Cyrus Aldrich

William Allen

John B. Alley

William C. Anderson
James M. Ashley
Elijah Babbitt
John A. Bingham
Samuel S. Bair
Harrison G. Blake
Alexander R. Boteler
William D. Brayton
James Buffinton
James H. Campbell
Luther C. Carter
John B. Clark
John Cochrane
Schuyler Colfax
James Craig
Henry L. Dawes
Charles Delano
William H. Dimmick
R. Holland Duell
Sidney Edgerton
Thomas M. Edwards
Thomas D. Eliot

Mr. Alfred Ely

Emerson Etheridge
Reuben E. Fenton
Orris S. Ferry
Thomas B. Florence
Stephen C. Foster
Daniel W. Gooch
James H. Graham
Galusha A. Grow
John A. Gurley
James T. Hale
Chapin Hall

Andrew J. Hamilton
J. Morrison Harris
John B. Haskin
William Helmick
John Hickman
Joshua Hill
William Howard
James Humphrey
John Hutchins
Benjamin F. Junkin
Francis W. Kellogg
William Kellogg
John W. Killinger
Charles H. Larrabee

Mr. De Witt C. Leach

M. Lindley Lee

Henry C. Longnecker
Owen Lovejoy
William B. Maclay
Gilman Marston
Horace Maynard
James B. McKean
Edward McPherson
William Millward
William Montgomery
James K. Moorhead
Justin S. Morrill
Edward Joy Morris
Isaac N. Morris
Thomas A. R. Nelson
John T. Nixon
John W. Noell

John J. Perry
John U. Pettit
Albert G. Porter
John F. Potter
Emory B. Pottle
Christopher Robinson
Homer E. Royce
John Schwartz

Mr. Davidson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. 446. An act for the relief of Erastus Hutchins;

H. R. 8. An act for the relief of George P. Marsh; and

H. R. 385. An act granting an invalid pension to Beriah Wright, of New York.

When

The Speaker signed the same.

Mr. Gurley, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That there be printed, in addition to the usual number of the mechanical part of the Patent Office report for 1859, ten thousand copies for the use of the Patent Office, and forty thousand for the use of the members of the House of Representatives.

Pending which,

Mr. Gurley moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered and put, viz: Will the House agree thereto? And it was decided in the affirmative, {eys... Yeas...

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative are

Those who voted in the negative are