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? 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 thereto? w Yeas ................... 81 "mauve, ? Nays ................... 80 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 Mr. Stephen C. Foster Augustus Frank Mr. Edward Joy Morris Freeman H. Morse Those who voted in the negative are Mr. Charles F. Adams Mr. Burton Craige Mariin J. Crawford Jabez L. M. Curry Samuel R. Curtis John G. Davis Alfred Ely William H. English Emerson Etheridge Thomas Harder an, jr. John T. Harris Robert Hatton George S. Houston William Howard William A. Howard George W. Hughes James Humphrey John J Jones John M. Landrum Mr. James M. Leach Shelton F. Leake homas A. R. Nelson Mr. Thomas Ruffin Charles B. Sedgwick Mr. John W. Stevenson Mr. Zebulon B. Vance William Vandever Charles H. Van Wyck Alfred Wells Warren Winslow .. 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, 1 Yeas................... 93 It was decided in the airmative, y Navs................... 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 Mr. Reuben E. Fenton Orris S. Ferry Mr. Justin S. Morrill Edward Joy Morris Those who voted in the negative are- Mr. Lawrence O'B. Branch George Briggs Francis M. Bristow John C. Burch Henry C. Burnett Horace F. Clark David Clopton Schuyler Colfax Mr. Burton Craige Martin J. Crawford Mr. George S. Houston William Howard Mr. John S. Millson Sydenham Moore Mr. Otho R. Singleton William N. H. Smith So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. 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? Yeas....... ......... 73 It was decided in the negative, ecideu mine negative, 1 Navs....... ........ 90 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are- Mr. Galusha A. Grow Mr. Samuel 0. Peyton John S. Phelps Thomas Hardeman, jr. John F. Potter Roger A. Pryor James L. Pugh John H. Reagan Homer E. Royce Thomas Ruffin Otho R. Singleton William Smith James A. Stallworth Benjamin Stanton Thaddeus Stevens John W. Stevenson James A. Stewart William B. Stokes Miles Taylor James H. Thomas John W. H. Underwood Clement L. Vallandigham John G. Davis W. Porcher Miles Charles H. Van Wyck John P. Verree Warren Winslow John V. Wright. Those who voted in the negative are Mr. Charles F. Adams Cyrus Aldrich Mr. Francis P. Blair, jr. Samuel S. Blair Mr. John C. Burch Anson Burlingame Mr. John Covode Samuel R. Curtis Mr. William Kellogg DeWitt C. Leach Mr. Alexander H. Rice Christopher Robinson So the said amendment was disagreed to. 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 ap· propriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year end ing 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 Sen. ate 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 arerage 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. |