Pending which, Mr. Pendleton moved that the bill be laid on the table. Yeas. ... It was decided in the negative, {Xes 44 72 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Cyrus Aldrich John B. Alley Frederick A. Conkling Roscoe Conkling John Covode Thomas D. Eliot Alfred Ely Reuben E. Fenton Samuel C. Fessenden Thomas A. D. Fessenden Mr. Richard Franchot Daniel W. Gooch John N. Goodwin James T. Hale Richard A. Harrison John Hickman Samuel Hooper Valentine B. Horton John Hutchins William D. Kelley Francis W. Kellogg William E. Lehman Dwight Loomis Owen Lovejoy Frederick F. Low James B. McKean Robert McKnight Horace Maynard William Mitchell Anson P. Morrill Justin S. Morrill John W. Noell Abraham B. Olin Timothy G. Phelps Mr. Frederick A. Pike Benjamin F. Thomas So the House again refused to lay the bill on the table. Mr. Cravens moved, at 1 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, {Xays.... 19 82 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present. Mr. Cyrus Aldrich W. McKee Dunn Thomas D. Eliot Alfred Ely Reuben E. Fenton Thomas A. D. Fessenden Richard Franchot Daniel W. Gooch John N. Goodwin Mr. James T. Hale Richard A. Harrison Mr. Alexander H. Rice Ellihu B. Washburne Edwin H. Webster Bradley F. Granger So the House refused to adjourn. The question again recurring on the engrossment of the bill, it was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time. The question then being on its passage, Mr. Noell 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.. 73 46 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Harrison G. Blake Mr. Schuyler Colfax Mr. Noell 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 bill. The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of the 16th ultimo, in regard to the redemption, &c., of the United States loan of 1842; which was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Fenton, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was recommitted the bill of the Court of Claims (H. R. C. C. 111) for the relief of O. B. and Oliver S. Latham, reported the same with an amend ment. Ordered, That the said bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and printed. Mr. Gooch, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, and referred to the Committee on Printing, viz: Resolved, That there be printed for the use of members of the House 25,000 copies of the report of the joint committee on the conduct of the war, submitted in the Senate December 22, 1862. On motion of Mr. Colfax, Ordered, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be discharged from the further consideration of a communication from the Postmaster General in relation to conferring the franking privilege on military governors, and that the same be laid on the table. Mr. Colfax, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported a bill (H. R. 650) to authorize additional mailable matter; which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Colfax 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 bill. Mr. Hale, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Charles F. Stansbury, made a report thereon, accompanied by a bill (H. R. 651) for his relief; which bill was read a first and second time, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, made the order of the day for to-morrow, and the bill and report ordered to be printed. Mr. Lehman, by unanimous consent, 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 repealing the 78th and 79th sections of the internal tax law. Mr. Biddle, by unanimous consent, 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 simplifying the mode of cancelling stamps, as now prescribed by the act of July 1, 1862. Mr. Eliot, by unanimous consent, introduced a joint resolution (H. Res. 125) to grant the use of a portion of Judiciary square for a free library and reading-room for soldiers; which was read a first and second time. Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time. Being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time and passed. Mr. Eliot 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 joint resolution. Mr. Sheffield, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz: Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be, and it is hereby, instructed to inquire into the expediency of creating the office of assistant collector for the collection district of the city of New York, and of abolishing such other office or offices in the said district as can be dispensed with without prejudice to the public service, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill (H. R. 652) to provide circuit courts for the districts of California and Oregon, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time, recommitted to the said committee, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Timothy G. Phelps, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Richard Chenery, made a report. thereon, accompanied by a bill (H. R. 653) for his relief; which bill was read a first and second time, and the bill and report recommitted to the said committee, and ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Aldrich, Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the bill of the House (H. R. 473) to fix and determine the amount of expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in western Utah in the year 1860, and the petitions of W. H. Brumfield and Mrs. M. A. Ormsby, and that the same be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. On motion of Mr. Aldrich, Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial of the legislative assembly of Washington Territory relative to the appointment of Indian agent in the Spokane country, and that the same be laid on the table. 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. Holman reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union under consideration, and particularly the special order, viz: H. R. 635. A bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1864, had come to no resolution thereon. And then, On motion of Mr. Cravens, at 4 o'clock p. m., the House adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1863. The following petitions, memorials, and papers, were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the rule: By Mr. Watts: The petition of John C. McFerran-heretofore presented December 23, 1857; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Vallandigham: The memorial of William Cornell Jewett in favor of peace by foreign intervention; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. Frederick A. Conkling: The memorial of the Chamber of |