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Mr. Thomas B. Florence

Lucius J. Gartrell
Thomas Hardeman, jr.
John T. Harris
William S. Holman
George S. Houston
William Howard
George W. Hughes
James Jackson
Albert G. Jenkins
John J. Jones

Charles H Larrabee
James M. Leach
Shelton F. Leake
John A. Logan
Peter E. Love
Robert Mallory
Charles D. Martin
Horace Maynard
John A. McClenand
John McQueen
John J. McRae
W. Porcher Miles
John S. Millson
Laban T. Moore
Sydenham Moore

Mr. Thomas C. Theaker
Cydnor B. Tompkins
Carey A. Trimble
William Vandever
John P. Verree

E. P. Walton

Cadwalader C. Washburn

Edwin H. Webster

Alfred Wells
William Windom
John Woodruff.

Mr. Edward Joy Morris
Isaac N. Morris
William E. Niblack
John W. Noell
George H. Pendleton
John S. Phelps
Roger A. Pryor
James L. Pugh
James M. Quarles
John H. Reagan
Jetur R. Riggs
James C. Robinson
Thomas Ruffin
Albert Rust

So the motion of Mr. Sherman was agreed to.

And it was

Charles L. Scott

Daniel E. Sickles
William E. Simms
Otho R. Singleton
William N. H. Smith
James A. Stallworth
James H. Thomas
Zebulon B. Vance
James Wilson
Warren Winslow
Samuel H. Woodson.

Ordered, That the letters of the Clerk, Doorkeeper, and Postmaster of the House, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 16th of February last, and the subject of the compensation of the employés of the House generally, be referred to the Committee on Accounts, with leave to report at any time.

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

Ordered, That the said letter of the Doorkeeper be printed.
Mr. Winslow submitted the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That when this House adjourns on Friday next, it adjourn to meet on Tuesday, the 1st of May next, and that a message be sent to the Senate asking the consent of the Senate thereto.

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Pending which,

Mr. William Kellogg moved to amend the same by striking out the 1st" and inserting 21st," so as to read "the 21st of May next,"

&c.

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Mr. Hutchins moved that the whole subject be laid on the table. And the question being put,

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It was decided in the affirmative, {Nays..

115

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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. Charles F. Adams

Green Adams

Cyrus Aldrich
William Allen
John B Alley

William C. Anderson
James M. Ashley
Thomas J. Barr
Charles L. Beale
John A. Binghain
Samuel S. Blair
Thomas S. Bocock
John E. Bouligny
William W. Boyce
Reese B. Brabson
William D. Brayton
George Briggs
Francis M. Bristow
James Buffinton
Anson Burlingame
Alfred A Burnham
James H. Campbell
Williamson R. W. Cobb
Schuyler Colfax
Roscoe Conkling
John Covode
Martin J. Crawford
Jabez L. M. Curry
Samuel R. Curtis
H. Winter Davis
Henry L. Dawes
Daniel C. De Jarnette
Charles Delano
R. Holland Duell
W. McKee Dunn
Thomas M. Edwards
Thomas D. Eliot
Alfred Ely

Emerson Etheridge

Mr. Stephen C. Foster

Augustus Frank
Lucius J. Gartrell
Daniel W. Gooch
John A. Gurley
Thomas Hardeman, jr.
J. Morrison Harris
John T. Harris
Robert Hatton
William Helmick
Charles B. Hoard
William S. Holman
George S. Houston
William Howard
James Humphrey
John Hutchins
William Irvine
Benjamin F. Junkin
Lawrence M. Keitt
Francis W. Kellogg
William S. Kenyon
David Kilgore
Jacob M. Kunkel
De Witt C. Leach
Shelton F. Leake
M. Lindley Lee
Dwight Loomis
Peter E. Love
Owen Lovejoy
Robert Mallory
Gilman Marston
Charles D. Martin
James B. McKean
Robert McKnight
Edward McPherson
W. Porcher Miles
John S. Millson
William Millward

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Mr. Laban T. Moore
Sydenham Moore
Justin S. Morrill
Edward Joy Morris
Isaac N. Morris
Freeman H. Morse
Abraham B. Olin
George W Palmer
George H. Pendleton
John J. Perry
John U. Pettit
Albert G. Porter
Emory B. Pottle
Roger A. Pryor
James M. Quarles
Alexander H. Rice
Christopher Robinson
Homer E. Royce
John Schwartz
George W. Scranton
Charles B. Sedgwick
John Sherman
Otho R. Singleton
Daniel E. Somes
Elbridge G. Spaulding
Francis E. Spinner
Thaddeus Stevens
William B. Stokes
Mason W. Tappan
Cydnor B. Tompkins
Carey A. Trimble
Zebulon B. Vance
William Vandever
John P. Verree
E. P. Walton

Israel Washburn, jr.
Alfred Wells
William Windom.

Mr. James Jackson
Albert G. Jenkins
John J. Jones
William Kellogg
Charles H. Larrabee
James M. Leach
William B. Maclay
Horace Maynard
John A. McClernand
John McQueen
John J. McRae
William Montgomery
James K. Moorhead
Thomas A. R. Nelson
William E. Niblack

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So the whole subject was laid on the table.

Mr. Thomas C. Theaker

James H. Thomas

Clement L. Vallandigham
Henry Waldron

Cadwalader C. Wasi.bui
Edwin H Webster

James Wilson

Warren Winslow

Samuel H. Woodson.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hickey, their Chief Clerk: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a resolution and bill of the following titles, viz:

S. Res. 28. A resolution for the relief of A. M. Fridley, late agent for the Winnebago Indians; and

S. 118. An act for the relief of David Myerle;

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

I am also directed to notify the House of the order of the Senate to print a certain document.

Mr. Eliot, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill (H. R. 657) to prohibit the Chinese coolie trade" by American citizens in American vessels, accompanied by a report in writing thereon; which bill was read a first and second time, recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, and the bill and report ordered to be printed.

Mr. Eliot moved that 5,000 copies extra of the said bill and report be printed; which motion was referred to the Committee on Printing.

On motion of Mr. Tompkins, by unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole House was discharged from the further consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 368) to provide payment for depredations committed by the whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory, and the House proceeded to its consideration.

Pending the question on its engrossment,

Mr. Tompkins moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered, and under the operation thereof the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.

Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Ordered. That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate therein.

Mr. Tompkins 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.

Mr. Farnsworth moved that the rules be suspended, so as to discharge the Committee of the Whole House from the further consid. eration of the bill of the Senate (S. 221) for the relief of A. T. Spencer and Gurdon S. Hubbard, and to enable the House to consider the same; which motion was disagreed to-two-thirds not voting in favor thereof.

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

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to report to this House the entire action of his department in reference to an appro

priation made by the first section of an act entitled "An act to remove obstructions to navigation in the mouth of the Mississippi river, at the Southwest Pass and Pass à l'Outre," passed February 8, 1856, and particularly the terms and conditions of any contract or contracts made for deepening the channel of the Mississippi river, and when and with whom made, and whether the said contract or contracts have been fulfilled, and the said channel deepened and kept open; and that the said Secretary of War be further requested to report to this House by what anthority he, on the 4th of January, 1858, modified the contract or contracts entered into for deepening the channel of the Mississippi river, by diminishing the depth required to be obtained by the terms of said contract or contracts, and by extending the time stipulated for the performance of the work contracted for; and also, if the whole or any part of the appropriation made by the said act has been paid out of the treasury under the said contract or contracts; and if so, then to report specifically the payment or pay ments made; and if more than one payment has been made, to report the amount of each payment, the time when it was made, to whom paid, and upon whose order; and that the said Secretary of War be further requested to transmit to this House copies of any receipt or receipts given for the said payment or payments, and of any paper showing on whose application, or at whose instance, the said payment or payments were made.

Mr. Woodson moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to move that the Committee of the Whole House be discharged from the consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 432) for the relief of Kerr, Brierly & Company, and to enable the House to consider the same; which motion was disagreed to-two-thirds not voting in favor thereof.

Mr. Corwin, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate (S. Res. 23) in regard to the minister from Japan, reported the same without amendment.

Ordered, That the said resolution be read a third time.

It was accordingly read the third time and passed.
Ordered. That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Mr. Colfax, the rules having been suspended for that purpose, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported a bill (H. R. 661) to furnish additional mail facilities; which was read a first and second time.

When (the rules having been suspended for that purpose) the House proceeded to its consideration.

Pending the question on its engrossment,

Mr. Crawford moved to amend the same by adding at the end thereof the following:

And that the sum of $400,000 is hereby appropriated, to be applied on such of the new routes established by the act entitled 'An act to establish post-routes,' approved June 11, 1858, as the Postmaster General may dem advisable.'

Pending which,

Mr. Colfax moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered, and under the operation thereof the said amendment was agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.

Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate therein.

Mr. Colfax moved that the vote by which the said bill was passed be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

The Speaker having announced as the regular order of business the report of the Committee on the Judiciary upon the message of the President of the United States of the 28th ultimo

Mr. Hickman moved that its consideration be further postponed until Tuesday, the 1st of May next.

Pending which,

Mr. Hickman moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered, and under the operation thereof the motion to postpone was agreed to.

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

Mr. Singleton, by unanimous consent, introduced a bill (H. R. 658) to amend an act entitled "An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Mississippi to aid in the construction of railroads in said State, and for other purposes," approved August 11, 1856; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Sherman, by unanimous consent, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a joint resolution (H. Res. 36) making an appropriation for the payment of expenses of investigating committees of the House of Representatives; which was read a first and second time.

Ordered, That the said resolution be engrossed and read a third time.

Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time.
The question was then put, Shall the resolution pass?

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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. Green Adams

Garnett B. Adrain
Cyrus Aldrich
John B. Alley
William C. Anderson
James M. Ashley
Charles L. Beale

John A. Bingham.

Samuel S. Blair
Harrison G Blake
John E. Bouligny

Mr. William D. Brayton

George Briggs
Francis M. Bristow
James Buffinton
Alfred A. Burnham
Martin Butterfield
James H Campbell
Charles Case
Schuyler Colfax
Roscoe Conkling
Thomas Corwin

Mr. John Covode

Samuel R. Curtis
H. Winter Davis
Charles Delano
R. Holland Duell
W. McKee Dunn
Thomas M. Edwards
Thomas D. Eliot
Alfred Ely

Emerson Etheridge
John F. Farnsworth

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