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for the withdrawal of the same from the files for the purpose of presenting the same in the Senate.

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

H. R. 181. An act to provide for a superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory and additional Indian agents;

H. R. 523. An act extending the charter incorporating the "German Benevolent Society" of Washington city, in the District of Columbia, approved July 27, 1842; and

H. R. 239. An act for the relief of George F. Brott;

severally with an amendment; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

The Senate have also passed bills of the following titles, viz:

S. 202. An act to reimburse the corporation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, a sum of money advanced towards the construction of the Little Falls bridge;

S. 385. An act to incorporate the proprietors of Prospect Hill Cemetery;

S. 426. An act to dissolve the "Washington Manual Labor School and Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia," and to authorize the transfer of its effects to the "Columbia Institution for the instruction of the deaf and the dumb and the blind;" in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. Bills, on leave, were further introduced as follows, viz:

By Mr. Hawkins: A bill (H. R. 759) to change the time for holding the courts in the northern district of Florida; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Burch: A bill (H. R. 760) to authorize a change of the place of trial in civil cases in the circuit and district courts of the United States; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Otero: A bill (H. R. 761) to authorize contracts for carrying the mails and troops and naval and military stores on the New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western, the Sabine and Rio Grande, the Southern Pacific and New Mexican railways, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the select committee on the Pacific railroad, and, together with the memorial of the New Mexican Railway Company, ordered to be printed. By Mr. James M. Leach: A bill (H. R. 762) for the benefit of the soldiers and their widows of the war of 1812; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Case: A bill (H. R. 763) for the relief of the legal representatives of William Austin, deceased; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Cobb: A bill (H. R. 764) to change the times for holding the terms of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

The Speaker then proceeded to call the States and Territories for resolutions.

On motion of Mr. Eliot,

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the House of Representatives any information recently received respecting the Chinese Coolie trade which has not been heretofore communicated to Congress.

On motion of Mr. Delano,

Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture be instructed to inquire respecting the novel and alarming malady, now prevailing among the cattle in certain localites of the United States, known as pleuropneumonia; that they consider whether the infection has or is likely to become so general as to be a subject of national concernment, and to recommend any action which it may be competent and expedient for Congress to take with a view to arresting the ravages of so destructive a disease.

Mr. Schwartz submitted the following resolution, and debate arising thereon, it lies over under the rule, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on Public Expenditures be instructed to report a bill reducing the compensation of members of the Senate. and House of Representatives to eight dollars per day for each day of actual service.

Mr. Wells submitted the following resolution, and debate arising thereon, it lies over under the rule, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report forthwith a bill providing that any person purchasing any negro or other person imported into this country in violation of the laws for suppressing the slave trade, shall not by reason of said purchase acquire any title to said negro or person; and where such purchase is made with a knowledge that such negro or other person has been so imported, shall forfeit not less than one thousand dollars, and be punished by imprisonment for a term not less than six months.

Mr. Montgomery submitted the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, (the Senate concurring,) That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives declare their respective houses adjourned sine die on Monday, the 11th June next, at 12 o'clock m.

Pending which,

Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne moved the previous question.
Pending which,

Mr. Colfax moved that the said resolution be laid upon the table.
Pending which,

Mr. Maynard made the point of order that the resolution must lie over under the rule, a member having, as he alleged, signified his objection thereto before the demand for the previous question was made.

The Speaker overruled the said point of order.

From which decision of the Chair Mr. Maynard appealed.
Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne,
Ordered, That the appeal be laid on the table.
The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Colfax.
And being put, it was decided in the negative.

So the House refused to lay the resolution on the table.

The question then recurring on the demand for the previous question, it was seconded, and the main question ordered to be put. When

Mr. Montgomery, by unanimous consent, modified his said resolution so as to read "Monday, the 18th," instead of "Monday, the 11th." And the question being put on agreeing to the said resolution as modified, 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

Mr. Charles F. Adams

Green Adams Garnett B. Adrain Cyrus Aldrich William Allen John B. Alley Thomas L. Anderson William C. Anderson John D. Ashmore William T. Avery Elijah Babbitt Thomas J. Barr J. R. Barrett Charles L. Beale John A. Bingham Harrison G. Blake Alexander R. Boteler William W. Boyce Reese B. Brabson Lawrence O'B. Branch William D. Brayton George Briggs Francis M. Bristow James Buffinton Henry C. Burnett Alfred A. Burnham Martin Butterfield John Carey Luther C. Carter Horace F. Clark John B. Clark David Clopton Clark B. Cochrane Roscoe Conkling James Craig Burton Craige Martin J. Crawford Jabez L. M. Curry H. Winter Davis John G. Davis Henry L. Dawes • Charles Delano

Mr. R. Holland Duell
Sidney Edgerton
Thomas M. Edwards
Thomas D. Eliot
Reuben E. Fenton
Orris S. Ferry
Augustus Frank
Ezra B. French
Lucius J. Gartrell
Daniel W. Gooch
James H. Graham
Andrew J. Hamilton
Thomas Hardeman, jr.
J. Morrison Harris
John T. Harris
John B. Haskin
John Hickman
Joshua Hill

William S. Holman
George S. Houston
William A. Howard
George W. Hughes
James Humphrey
John Hutchins
James Jackson
Albert G. Jenkins
Benjamin F. Junkin
Lawrence M. Keitt
Charles H. Larrabee
De Witt C. Leach
M. Lindley Lee
John A. Logan
Dwight Loomis
Peter E. Love
Owen Lovejoy
William B. Maclay
Robert Mallory
John McQueen
John J. McRae

William Montgomery
Laban T. Moore
Sydenham Moore

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Mr. Justin S. Morrill
Isaac N. Morris
John T. Nixon
John W. Noell
Abraham B. Olin
John J. Perry
Samuel O. Peyton
Albert G. Porter
John F. Potter
James M. Quarles
John H Reagan
John H. Reynolds
Alexander H. Rice
Jetur R. Riggs
Christopher Robinson
James C. Robinson
Homer E. Royce
Thomas Ruffin
Charles B. Sedgwick
John Sherman
Daniel E. Sickles
Otho R. Singleton
William Smith

William N. H. Smith
Benjamin Stanton
William B. Stokes
Mason W. Tappan
James H. Thomas
Charles R Train
John W. H. Underwood
Zebulon B. Vance.
Charles H. Van Wyck
Edward Wade

Henry Waldron
E. P. Walton

Ellihu B. Washburne
Israel Washburn, jr.
Edwin H. Webster

Alfred Wells

James Wilson
John Woodruff
John V. Wright.

Mr. Williamson R. W. Cobb

John Cochrane

Mr. Schuyler Colfax
John Covode
Samuel S. Cox
Samuel R Curtis
W. McKee Dunn
Alfred Ely
Emerson Etheridge
Thomas B. Florence
Stephen C. Foster
John A. Gilmer
Galusha A. Grow
Robert Hatton
William Helmick
Charles B. Hoard
Will am Irvine

Francis W. Kellogg
David Kilgore

Mr. Jacob M. Kunkel
James M. Leach
Henry C. Longnecker
Charles D. Martin
Horace Maynard
Robert McKnight
Edward McPherson
John S. Millson
James K. Moorhead
Edward Joy Morris
Thomas A. R. Nelson
John U. Pettit
Emory B. Pottle
Roger A. Pryor
Albert Rust

John Schwartz

So the resolution was agreed to.

And it was

Mr. Charles L. Scott
George W. Scranton
Daniel E. Somes
Francis E. Spinner
James A. Stallworth
John W. Stevenson
James A. Stewart
William Stewart
Lausing Stout

John L. N. Stratton
Thomas C. Theaker
Cydnor B. Tompkins
Carey A. Trimble
William Vandever
William Windom
Warren Winslow

Resolved, (the Senate concurring,) That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives declare their respective houses adjourned sine die on Monday, the 18th day of June next, at 12 o'clock m.

Mr. Montgomery 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 said resolution.

On motion of Mr. Briggs, by unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole House were discharged from the further consideration of the bill of the Senate (S. 69) for the relief of Livingston, Kinkead, & Company, and the House proceeded to its consideration.

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

It was accordingly read the third time and passed.

Mr. Briggs 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.

By unanimous consent, the said motion to reconsider was taken up, and after debate, agreed to.

The question again recurring on the passage of the bill,

Mr. Briggs moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered and put, viz: Shall the bill pass? And it was decided in the affirmative, 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

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Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. Garnett B. Adrain

William Allen
John B. Alley

Thomas L. Anderson
William C. Anderson
John D. Ashmore
William T. Avery
Charles L. Beale
John A. Bingham
Samuel S. Blair
Harrison G. Blake
William W. Boyce
Reese B. Brabson
William D. Brayton
Francis M. Bristow
James Buffinton
Henry C. Burnett
Alfred A. Burnham
Martin Butterfield
James H. Campbell
John Carey
Luther C. Carter
David Clopton
Clark B. Cochrane
Schuyler Colfax
Roscoe Conkling
Samuel S. Cox
Burton Craige
Jabez L. M. Curry
Samuel R. Curtis
H. Winter Davis
John G. Davis
Henry L. Dawes
Charles Delano
W. McKee Dunn
Sidney Edgerton
Henry A. Edmundson

Mr. Thomas M. Edwards

So the bill was rejected.

Thomas D. Eliot
Alfred Ely
Stephen C. Foster
Lucius J. Gartrell
Daniel W. Gooch
Galusha A. Grow
Thomas Hardeman, jr.
John T. Harris
Robert Hatton
John Hickman
Charles B. Hoard
William S. Holman
George S. Houston
William A. Howard
James Humphrey
John Hutchins
Francis W., Kellogg
David Kilgore
Charles H. Larrabee
James M. Leach
M. Lindley Lee
Dwight Loomis
Owen Lovejoy
William B. Maclay
Gilman Marston
Robert McKnight
Edward McPherson
John McQueen
John S. Millson
Laban T. Moore
James K. Moorhead
Edward Joy Morris
Isaac N. Morris
Freeman H. Morse
John J. Perry
Samuel O. Peyton

Mr. Albert G. Porter
John F. Potter
Emory B. Pottle
Roger A. Pryor
James M. Quarles
John H. Reagan
John H. Reynolds
Jetur R. Riggs

Christopher Robinson
Thomas Ruffin
Albert Rust

George W. Scranton
harles B. Sedgwick
John Sherman
Otho R. Singleton
William Smith
William N. H. Smith
Daniel E. Somes
Francis E. Spinner
James A. Stallworth
Benjamin Stanton
William B. Stokes
Lansing Stout

John L. N. Stratton
Eli Thayer

Thomas C. Theaker
James H. Thomas
Cydnor P. Tompkins
Carey A. Trimble
Zebulon B. Vance
Charles H. Van Wyck
Edward Wade
Henry Waldron
Alfred Wells
Warren Winslow
John Woodruff
John V. Wright.

Mr. Gartrell 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.

On motion of Mr. Etheridge, (the rules having been suspended for that purpose,) the Committee of the Whole House were discharged from the further consideration of the joint resolution (H. Res. 29) directory to the Secretary of War respecting certain surveys in Tennessee and Kentucky, and the House proceeded to its consideration. Ordered, That the said resolution 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. Etheridge moved that the vote by which the said resolution was passed be reconsidered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Mallory, by unanimous consent, the Committee on Roads and Canals were discharged from the further consideration. of the resolution of the Senate (S. Res. 6) authorizing the enlargement of and construction of a branch to the Louisville and Portland canal, and the House proceeded to its consideration.

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

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