Mr. Cobb, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill of the following title, viz: S. 100. An act authorizing the holding of a special session of the United States district court for the District of Columbia; When The Speaker signed the same. On motion of Mr. Yeaman, by unanimous consent, leave of absence for an indefinite period was granted to Mr. Yeaman. The House then resumed the consideration of the bill of the Senate (S. 36) to amend an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1863. Mr. Schenck having further modified the amendment heretofore submitted by him, Mr. Schenck moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered to be put. Mr. Harding moved, at 3 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn; which motion was disagreed to. Mr. Rogers moved a reconsideration of the vote by which it was ordered that when the House adjourns, it adjourn until Monday next. Pending which, Mr. Farnsworth moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative, (Yeas... The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Mr. John G. Scott 107 39 Thomas B. Shannon Mr. Alexander H. Rice Mr. Harding moved, at 4 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are 13 90 Mr. George H. Pendleton James S. Rollins Lorenzo D. M. Sweat Mr. Thomas B. Shannon R. B.Van Valkenburgh The question then recurring on the amendments reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to the said bill, (S. 36,) Mr. Wadsworth moved that the bill be laid on the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, Yeas Nays The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are 48 87 Lorenzo D. M. Sweat William H. Wadsworth Chilton A. White Joseph W. White Fernando Wood. Mr. Daniel Morris The amendments numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 were then severally read and agreed to. The 22d amendment having been read as follows, viz : Strike out all after the enacting clause in the 27th section of the bill, and insert in lieu thereof : "All able-bodied male persons of African descent, between the ages of twenty and forty-five years of age, whether citizens or not, resident in the United States, shall be enrolled according to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and form part of the national forces; and when a slave of a loyal citizen shall be drafted and mustered into the service of the United States, his master shall have a certificate thereof. The bounty of one hundred dollars, now payable by law for each drafted man, shall be paid to the person to whom such drafted person owes service or labor at the time of his muster into the service of the United States, on freeing the person. The Secretary of War shall appoint a commission in each of the slave States represented in Congress charged to award a just compensation, not exceeding three hundred dollars, to each loyal person to whom the colored volunteer may owe service who may volunteer into the service of the United States, payable out of the commutation money upon the master freeing the slave :" And the question being put, Will the House agree thereto? Yeas. It was decided in the affirmative, Nays The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Mr. John B. Alley Henry C. Deming Nathan F. Dixon 84 71 Mr. Thomas B. Shannon R B. Van Valkenburgh Mr. Andrew J. Rogers John G. Scott EFFE John W. Chanter Cornelius Cole James A. Cravens Mr. William E. Finck Francis C. Le Blond James C. Robinson Myer Strou-e Fernando Wood. So the 22d amendment was agreed to. The amendments numbered 23 and 24 were then severally read and agreed to. The 25th amendment having been read as follows, viz: "SEC. 29. And be it further enacted, That within twenty days after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the board of enrolment, in each congressional district, to cause lists of the names of each and every person enrolled under the provisions of this act, and of the act to which this is amendatory, to be printed, arranging alphabetically each and every name of such person in the township or ward in which he resides; and that at least ten copies of such list of names of the persons enrolled in any township or ward be posted in public places in such township or ward; and that five printed copies of the full lists, in each and every county, be deposited for public inspection in the office of the county clerk, or of the proper custodian of the county records of such county:" The question was put, Will the House agree thereto ? And it was decided in the negative, (Yeas.... The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Mr. James C. Allen James Brooks Mr. Joseph K. Edgerton Mr. Jesse Lazear Mr. Samuel J. Randall Myer Strouse 66 86 John R. Eden John Law Those who voted in the negative are Mr. Thomas D. Eliot Mr. John B. Alley Mr. Walter D. McIndoe James K. Moorhead Daniel Morris Amos Myers Leonard Myers Mr. Ithamar C. Sloan So the 25th amendment was disagreed to. The 26th and last amendment, reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, was then read and agreed to. The question was then put on agreeing to the amendment in the nature of a substitute for all except the first section of the bill, and decided in the affirmative. Under the further operation of the previous question the bill was ordered to be read a third time. It was accordingly read the third time. The question then being on its passage, Mr. Schenck 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, {eys... The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are 94 65 So the bill was passed. Mr. Schenck 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 amendment of the House to the said bill. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an appropriation asked for by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Indian service in New Mexico; which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed. Mr. James S. Brown gave notice, under the rule, of his intention to move for leave to introduce a bill to provide for the construction of a line of railway communication between the cities of Washington and New York, and to constitute the same a public highway, and a military road and postal route of the United States. And then, On motion of Mr. Schenck, at 6 o'clock p. m., the House adjourned. |