Pending which, Mr. Beatty, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a joint resolution and bill of the following titles, viz: H. Res. 31. Joint resolution granting the right to erect a monument to Professor Morse on a Government reservation; H. R. 285. An act to authorize the commissioners to revise the statutes to print their reports, (the same having originated as H. Res. 29, and by the concurrence of the two Houses converted into a bill;) When The Speaker signed the same. By unanimous consent, leave was granted to Mr. Morgan to withdraw from the files of the House the papers in the case of Frederick Frindenburg. Mr. Beck moved, at 1 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn; And the question being put, S Yeas Not voting. It was decided in the affirmative, Nays... 91 87 49 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Ephraim L. Acker George M. Adams Mr. Samuel C. Forker Those who voted Mr. John T. Averill R. Holland Duell Abraham E. Garrett Samuel Hambleton in the negative Mr. Mark H. Dunnell George F. Hoar The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's table, under the rule, and referred as follows: By Mr. Buckley: The petitions of George W. Pouncy, Nat Pace,. James M. Newman, Albert W. McNeel, and John K. Henry, praying for the removal of their political disabilities; Also, the petition of D. Carmichael, of similar import; to the Committee on Reconstruction. By Mr. Eames: The petition of 156 citizens of Rhode Island, praying for an increase of duties on manufactured machinery, to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. Arthur: The petition of Andrew M. Banks, praying for arrears of pension; Also, the petition of Anna Craig, praying for relief; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Shellabarger: The petition of honorably discharged soldiers of Logan County, Ohio, praying for a grant of one hundred and sixty acres of land to all such persons; By Mr. S. Garfielde: A memorial for the benefit of Samuel D. Smith; By Mr. Dunnell: The memorial of the legislature of Minnesota, relative to the preemption laws of 1870; Also, a similar memorial for the amendment of the homestead law; to the Committee on the Public Lands. By Mr. Mercur: The petition of James H. Fellows and Orrin E. Bartlett, praying that the Patent Office reports be continued, to the Committee on Printing. By Mr. Niblack: The memorial of 88 citizens of Indiana, relative to the licensing of distilleries; By Mr. Ketcham: The memorial of manufacturers of fur goods in New York City, asking an increase of tariff; to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. Braxton: The petition of Joshua Humphreys, praying for the removal of his political disabilities; By Mr. Buckley: The petition of Wilson Williams, of similar import; to the Committee on Reconstruction. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sympson, one of its clerks : Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed bills of the following titles, viz: S. 29. An act amending an act to reduce internal taxes, and for other purposes, approved July 14, 1870; S. 257. An act to amend the act approved June 16, 1862, entitled "An act providing for the election of jurors to serve in the several courts of the District of Columbia ;" S. 296. An act granting a pension to Phebe Sofield, widow of Lewis Sofield; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. The Senate has passed a concurrent resolution providing for printing 20,000 additional copies of the last report of the Commissioner of Education; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. Mr. Farnsworth submitted the following preamble and resolution, viz: Whereas the Senate has adopted a resolution declaring that the Senate will consider at the present session no other legislative business than the deficiency appropriation bill, the concurrent resolution for a joint committee to investigate into the condition of the States lately in insurrection, and the resolution now pending instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill or bills that will enable the President and the courts of the United States to execute the laws in said States, and the report that may be made by the Committee on the Judiciary on that subject, thereby refusing to consider any business which may origin. ate in the House of Representatives: Therefore, Resolved, (the Senate concurring,) That this House will adjourn, when it adjourns to-morrow, until the first Monday in December next at 11 o'clock a. m. The same having been read, Mr. Shanks moved that it be laid upon the table; And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, Yeas 75 102 50 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are The question then recurring on agreeing to the preamble and resolution, A division of the question was demanded; And the question was put, Will the House agree to the said resolution? Yeas. And it was decided in the affirmative, Nays.. Not voting 113 68 46 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are |