on the said bill; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Smith, of Maryland, reported the same, with an amendment, which was read and concurred in by the House. The House then proceeded to consider the said bill, the first part of the 1st section whereof is as follows:

Sec. 1. That at every Session of Congress, and every meeting of the Senate in the recess of Congress, after the third day of March, 1817, each Senator shall be entitled to receive nine dollars for every day he has attended or shall attend the Senate, and shall also be allowed nine dollars for every twenty miles, of estimated distance, by the most usual road from his place of residence, to the seat of Congress.

A motion was made by Mr. Parris to strike out the word nine, where it occurs as above, and in lieu thereof to insert the word six. A division of the question on this motion being called for by Mr. Colston,

It was taken on the first member thereof, to wit: on striking out the word nine where it first occurs, and inserting the word six, And determined in the negative, .................. Yeas.......................68.

The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

The question was then taken on the second member of the

amendment, moved by Mr. Parris,

And passed in the affirmative,

Yeas.......................93,

{Nays 78.

The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members

A motion was then made, by Mr. Little, to strike out the word nine where it first occurs, in the said first part of the first sect.on, and to insert in lieu thereof, the word eight.

And the question being taken thereon,

Yeas.......................99,

It passed in the affirmative, Nay...

The yeas and nays being required by one-fifth of the members

present,

A motion was made by Mr. Little to reconsider the vote taken on the second member of the amendment, proposed by Mr. Parris, to wit: to strike out the word nine where it last occurs in the aforesaid first part of the first section of the said bill, and to insert in lieu thereof the word six.

And the question being taken; will the House reconsider the said vote?

It passed in the affirmative.

The question was then again taken on the said second member of the amendment, moved by Mr. Parris;

And was determined in the negative.

A motion was then mrade by Mr. Little, to strike out the word nine, where it last occurs as aforesaid, and in lieu thereof to insert the word eight.

And the question being taken thereon;

It passed in the affirmative.

The said bill being further amended;

Mr. Speed moved further to amend the same, by inserting after the word last, in the twenty-seventh line of the first section, the following words," Nor shall any Senator, Representative, or Delegate, receive more for travel to the present session of Congress,"

And the question being taken thereon;

It was determined in the negative.

The said bill was still further amended, and ordered to be en grossed and read a third time to-morrow.

And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, January 7th, 1818.

Mr. Huntington presented a petition of Daniel Stoddard, pray ing for a pension.

Mr. Murray presented a petition of Robert Lyon, praying compensation for services as an officer in the revolutionary army, and that he may be placed on the pension list.