So the resolution was agreed to. Mr. Wickliffe 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. Mr. Bingham moved that the rules be suspended, so as to discharge the Committee on the Judiciary from the further consideration of, and to enable the House to consider, the joint resolution of the House. (H. Res. 120) for the emancipation of slaves in rebel States and Territories. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, {Nays. Two-thirds not voting in favor thereof. ... The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Walker submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, to issue bonds to the amount of one hundred million dollars, of such denominations as shall be best adapted to the purpose of circulation, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. annually, payable in three or five years, at the pleasure of the government, and receivable for all dues to the government, except customs. Mr. Albert S. White moved that the rules be suspended, so as to enable him to report from the select committee on emancipation a bill giving aid to the State of Missouri for the purpose of securing the abolishment of slavery in said State, and to move that the same be printed and recommitted. And the question being put, Yeas. It was decided in the affirmative, Nays·· Two-thirds voting in favor thereof. 77 36 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Cyrus Aldrich Fernando C. Beaman Mr. Samuel C. Fessenden Thomas A. D. Fessenden Mr. Theodore M. Pomeroy John F. Potter Elbridge G. Spaulding Mr. Samuel S. Cox James A. Cravens So the rules were suspended. And thereupon Mr. White, from the said committee, reported the said bill, (H. R. 634;) which was read a first and second time, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the said committee. 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. 420. An act to facilitate the discharge of disabled soldiers from the army, and the inspection of convalescent camps and hospitals; When The Speaker signed the same. On motion of Mr. Justin S. Morrill, by unanimous consent, Ordered, That the bill of the House (H. R. 617) to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, be made a special order for this day, in lieu of tomorrow, as heretofore ordered. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House the annual report of the Superintendent of Public Printing, upon the condition of the public printing, binding, &c.; which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Justin S. Morrill by unanimous consent, Resolved, That all debate in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the deficiency bill (H. R. 617) shall cease in five minutes after the same is taken up, and the House shall then proceed to vote on such amendments as may be pending or offered to the same, and shall then report it to the House with such amendments as may have been agreed to. On motion of Mr. Stevens, 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. Lovejoy reported that the committee having had under consideration the special order, viz: H. R. 617. A bill to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, had directed him to report the same with an amendment. The House having proceeded to the consideration of the said bill, Mr. Justin S. Morrill moved the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered, and under the operation thereof the said amendment was agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Justin S. Morrill 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 And then, On motion of Mr. Sheffield, at 3 o'clock and 50 minutes p. m., thẹ House adjourned. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1862. The journal of yesterday having been read, Mr. Pendleton moved to correct the same by inserting at length the protest which formed a part of the resolution submitted by him yesterday, and which was laid on the table by the House. The Speaker decided that the said motion was not in order, for the reason that it was not in order to spread upon the journal indirectly what the House has already refused to place there directly, the order of the House by which the resolution was laid on the table, being, according to the practice of the House, equivalent to such refusal. In support of this decision the Speaker referred to decisions in analogous cases in the 28th and 29th Congresses. From this decision of the Chair Mr. Pendleton appealed. And the question being put, Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House? It was decided in the affirmative, {Xoys ... 74 20 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Cyrus Aldrich Isaac N. Arnold Charles Delano W. McKee Dunn Mr. Alfred Ely Samuel C. Fessenden Mr. James K. Moorhead Ansou P. Morrill Justin S. Morrill William Windom Samuel T. Worcester. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House communications from the Secretary of the Interior, as follows, viz: I. In compliance with the act of March 2, 1861, requiring reports of the amounts due the Chippewa, Ottawa, and other Indians now residing in the State of Michigan; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. II. Transmitting a statement of balances on the books of the Second Comptroller to the credit of the Interior Department; which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Speaker, also, by unanimous consent, laid before the House reports from the Court of Claims, accompanied by bills of the following titles, viz: H. R. C. C. 114. A bill for the relief of Daniel Wormer; H. R. C. C. 116. A bill for the relief of Darius S. Cole; A bill for the relief of William G. Brown; which bills were severally read a first and second time, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for tomorrow, and the bills and reports ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Stevens, by unanimous consent, the bill of the House (H. R. 592) to amend an act entitled "An act to provide internal revenue to support the government and to pay interest on the public debt," approved July 1, 1862, with the amendments of the Senate thereto, was reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, and the said amendments severally concurred in. Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith. Mr. Clark, from the Committee on Printing, to whom was referred the joint resolution of the Senate (S. 110) in relation to certain maps, reported the same without amendment. Ordered, That it be read a third time. It was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Clark 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 acquaint the Senate with the passage of the said joint resolution. Mr. Clark, from the same committee, reported the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That five thousand copies of the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury of July 11, 1862, on the subject of our relations with Northwest British America, particularly the central districts of |