So the said amendment to the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Israel Washburn, jr., 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. The third amendment of the Senate as amended was then agreed to. Mr. Phelps 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. The 5th amendment of the Senate, the amendment reported to the 6th amendment, and the said 6th amendment as amended, and the 27th amendment were severally agreed to, and the 28th amendment was disagreed to. Mr. J. Morrison Harris having submitted the following amendment to the 7th amendment of the Senate, viz: Insert at the end thereof: "And provided, further, That the material of said columns shall be American marble." The question was put, Will the House agree thereto ? And it was decided in the affirmative. Mr. Phelps 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. The seventh amendment as amended was then read as follows, viz: Insert the following: "To enable the superintendent of the Capitol extension to purchase from Rice & Heebner thirty-four monolithic columns, at the price specified in their supplemental contract of March thirty, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour, the marble for said columns to be approved by the said superintendent, the sum of forty-seven thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of the sum appropriated for the prosecution of the work shall be applied to the purchase of marble columns: And provided, further, That the material of said columns shall be American marble." And the question being put, Will the House agree there to? Yeas. It was decided in the affirmative, {Neys The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Green Adams Cyrus Aldrich John B. Alley Mr. Stephen C. Foster Ezra B. French J. Morrison Harris Mr. Edward Joy Morris Thomas C. Theaker Cadwalader C. Washburn Mr. James M. Leach homas A. R. Nelson Mr. Thomas Ruffin Charles B. Sedgwick William N. H. Smith Mr. John W. Stevenson James A. Stewart John W. H. Underwood Mr. Zebulon B. Vance William Vandever So the said amendment as amended was agreed to. Mr. McRae moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the said amendment as amended was agreed to. Pending which, Mr. Bingham moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative, {Xays Yeas.. Nays... 93 70 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Charles F. Adams Green Adams Cyrus Aldrich William C. Anderson Mr. Reuben E. Fenton J. Morrison Harris Mr. Justin S. Morrill Edward Joy Morris John T. Nixon Abraham B. Olin George W. Palmer John J. Perry John U. Pettit John F. Potter Alexander H. Rice Christopher Robinson Homer E. Royce Charles B. Sedgwick John Sherman Elbridge G. Spaulding Francis E. Spinner Benjamin Stanton Thaddeus Stevens William Stewart Mason W. Tappan Cydnor B. Tompkins Carey A. Trimble Charles H. Van Wyck John P. Verree Edward Wade Cadwalader C. Washburn Ellihu B. Washburne Alfred Wells James Wilson William Windom John Wood John Woodruff. Mr. Burton Craige Martin J. Crawford Robert Hatton Joshua Hill Charles B. Hoard Mr. George S. Houston Mr. John S. Millson Sydenham Moore Mr. Otho R. Singleton William N. H. Smith So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The 24th amendment of the Senate was then read as follows, viz: Strike out of the item of appropriation "for collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement of cuttings and seeds, sixty thousand dollars," &c., the word "sixty," and insert in lieu thereof the word "forty." And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto? It was decided in the negative, { Yeas... negative, {Nays. 73 90 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are So the said amendment was disagreed to. Mr. Alexander H. Rice Christopher Robinson Thomas C. Theaker William Vandever Cadwalader C. Washburn James Wilson William Windom John Wood John Woodruff. The amendment reported to the 38th amendment of the Senate. having been agreed to The said amendment as amended was read as follows, viz: "SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the contract made with Gales & Seaton, under the nineteenth section of the Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,' approved the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the publication of a continuation of the American State Papers,' be so modified as to require the publishers to defray all the expenses of selecting, compiling, and arranging the documents proper to be included in that work; also the expenses of binding, and of all engraving on copper, steel, and wood, and for lithographing, which may be considered necessary by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives; together with the expenses of preparing full and proper indexes for each volume, and a general index of the whole work, including the volumes contained in the first series, and all other contingent or incidental expenses whatsoever attending such publication. And, moreover, that the price to be allowed to the publishers for said work shall be fifteen per centum less per volume than the average price per volume paid for the first series of the same, printed under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. And the said volumes shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior as the same may be completed, who shall place three hundred copies in the Department of State for its use, and for exchange with foreign governments, and seven hundred copies in his own department for distribution to public libraries in the several States and Territories, and hold the residue of the copies in his custody, subject to the further order of Congress. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay the publishers of the said work, at the rate per volume above mentioned, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as the same may be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior, and on his certificate of delivery; and so much of the afore |