was read a first and second time. recommitted to the said committee,

and ordered to be printed.

The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Sherman.
And being put, it was decided in the affirmative.

And the House accordingly adjourned.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1860.

The following petitions and memorials were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the 24th rule of the House, to wit:

By Mr. Aldrich: The petition of Lorenzo P. Sanger, in behalf of himself and the executors of John Frink; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Singleton: The petition of F. Bostic-heretofore referred January 7. 1859.

By Mr. Boteler: The petition of William Roddy praying for relief. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Wells: The petition of George Savaord, praying for an invalid pension.

By Mr. Tappan: The petition of Othniel Cross, praying for an increase of pension.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Aldrich: The memorial of S. R. Riggs and Doctor Thomas S. Williamson, praying for the passage of a law for the protection of the Indians in the northwest; which was referred to the Committee. on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. Barrett: The petition of citizens of the State of Missouri, asking for an increase of pay in the United States navy.

By Mr. Rice: The petition of H. R. Thatcher and others, in aid of the petition of John T. Smith for permission to establish a telegraph to the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Barrett: The petition of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of St. Louis, asking that appropriations be made for the immediate construction of a railroad to the Pacific ocean; which was referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad.

By Mr. Horace F. Clark: The petition of James M. Adams, Henry D. McKinney, and William D. Adams, for a law releasing them from their obligations on certain forfeited transportation bonds.

By Mr. Eliot: The petition of ship-owners, merchants, and citizens. of New Bedford, Massachusetts, praying for the passage of a law concerning the "whale fishery.'

By Mr. Barrett: Memorial of St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, urging the necessity of an appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi river, at the upper and lower rapids.

By Mr. Potter: The memorial of the Milwaukie Chamber of Com

merce, for the substitution of steam for sail cutters in the revenue service of the United States.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Notices were given, under the rule of motions, for leave to introduce bills, as follows, viz:

By Mr. Hoard: A bill to provide for the service of process of district courts of the United States in certain cases.

By Mr. Mallory: A bill to prevent bribery at elections by officers of the United States.

Mr. Theaker, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title, viz:

S. 344. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a criminal court in the District of Columbia.' 777

When

The Speaker signed the same.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by J. Buchanan, his private secretary, notifying the House that he did this day approve and sign a bill of the following title, viz:

H. R. 213. An act to incorporate the United States Agricultural Society.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Hickey, their Chief Clerk: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a bill of this House of the following title, viz:

H. R. 660. An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States, and to fix the number of the members of the House of Representatives, and provide for the future apportionment among the several States," approved May 23, 1850;

without amendment.

The Senate have also passed a bill of the following title, viz:

S. 150. An act for the relief of Madison Sweetser;

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

Mr. Hickman moved that there be a call of the House; which motion was disagreed to.

On motion of Mr. Sherman, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. William Kellogg reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, and particularly the amendments of the Senate to the bill of the House (H. R. 5) making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the 30th of June, 1861, had directed him to report the same, recommending concurrence in the 1st amendment with an amendment, and non-concurrence in the remaining amendments of the Senate.

Mr. Gilmer, as a question of privilege, from the Committee of Elections, to whom was referred the petition and evidence in the case of William A. Howard contesting the seat of George B. Cooper as

representative from the first congressional district of the State of Michigan, made a report thereon, accompanied by the following resolutions, viz:

Resolved, That George B. Cooper is not entitled to a seat in the thirty-sixth Congress as the representative from the first congressional district of Michigan.

Resolved, That William A Howard is entitled to a seat in the thirtysixth Congress as the representative from the first congressional district of Michigan.

Ordered, That the said report and resolutions, together with the views of a minority of the said committee (when submitted) be printed.

Mr. Gartrell, from the said committee, submitted the views of a minority of the said committee.

The House having proceeded to the consideration of the amendments of the Senate to the bill of the House (H. R. 5) making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending June 30, 1861

Mr. Stanton moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered to be put.

When

The amendment reported to the first amendment was agreed to, and the said amendment as amended was also agreed to.

The remaining amendments were then read as follows, viz:
Insert the following:

"SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of one regiment of Texas mounted volunteers authorized by the act of Congress approved April 7, 1858:

For regular supplies of the quartermaster's department: fuel, forage, straw, and stationery, $100,000.

"For incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department: for blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel, horse medicines, picket-ropes, shoeing horses, and miscellaneous, $5,000.

"For transportation of supplies, transportation of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, ordnance, subsistence, quartermaster's and medical stores; for the purchase of mules, and the purchase and repair of wagons, and for the hire of teamsters, $130,000.

"For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, $50,000. "For subsistence in kind, $76,466.

"For pay of the volunteers, $358,979 33.

"For arms and their appropriate accoutrements, (exclusive of horse equipments,) $58,946 70.

"SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the money hereby appropriated, or any part thereof, shall not be withdrawn from the treasury unless the President of the United States shall be of opinion that the exigencies of the public service in Texas require the calling out of the regiment aforesaid."

And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto?

It was decided in the affirmative, {

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

Mr. Junkin moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered.

Mr. Reagan moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

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

So the House refused to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. Pending the question on the motion to reconsider,

On motion of Mr. Singleton, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That leave be granted for the withdrawal from the files