So the rules were suspended.

And thereupon

Mr. Olin submitted the aforesaid resolution, and moved the pre

vious question thereon.

Pending which,

Mr. Holman moved that the resolution be laid on the table.

Mr. Cravens moved that there be a call of the House.

Mr. Hickman moved that when the House adjourns, it adjourn until Thursday next.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

So the motion to adjourn over was disagreed to.

The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Cravens for a call of the House.

It was decided in the negative, {Nays...

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

So the House refused to order a call.

Mr. William Kellogg moved that when the House adjourns, it adjourn until Thursday next.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative, {Xays.

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

Mr. Thomas A. D. Fessenden Mr. John Patton

So the House again refused to adjourn over.

The question then recurring on the motion of Mr. Holman to lay the resolution submitted by Mr. Olin on the table,

Mr. Olin withdrew his said resolution.

The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Olin to refer the bill of the Senate, No. 511, to the Committee on Military Affairs. Pending which,

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Forney, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a joint resolution and bills of this house of the following titles, viz:

H. Res. 140. Joint resolution authorizing the Navy Department to allow to Paymaster Gilbert E. Thornton $4,500 in settlement of his accounts for money stolen from him without fault or negligence on his part;

H. R. 536. An act for the relief of Hannibal Graham;

H. R. 699. An act for the relief of Lieutenant Herman Tuerck, severally without amendment; and

H. R. 435. An act for the relief of Susan Dickson, widow of John Dickson, deceased; and

H. R. 362. An act to provide for the discharge of state prisoners and others, and to authorize the judges of the United States courts to take bail or recognizances to secure the trial of the same, severally with amendments; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

The Senate insist on their amendments, disagreed to by the House, to the bill of the House (H. R. 708) making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1864; agree to the conference asked by the House on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon, and have appointed Mr. Grimes, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Davis the managers at the said conference on the part of the Senate.

The President of the United States has notified the Senate that he did, on the 21st instant, approve and sign a joint resolution and bills of the following titles, viz:

S. Res. 126. Joint resolution expelling George E. Badger from the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and appointing Louis Agassiz in his place;

S. 519. An act to annex a part of the State of New Jersey to the collection district of New York, and to appoint an assistant collector, to reside at Jersey City;

S. 337. An act extending the time for carrying into effect the provisions of the third section of the act entitled "An act relating to highways in the county of Washington and District of Columbia," approved May 3, 1862;

S. 516. An act to allow the United States to prosecute appeals and writs of error without giving security; and

S. 488. An act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in the several districts in the seventh circuit.

Another message from the Senate, by Mr. Forney, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, viz:

S. 534. An act for the relief of Caroline T. Renshaw; S. 537. An act to grant the right of pre-emption to certain purchasers on the "Soscol Ranch," in the State of California;

S. 564. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property," approved July 22, 1861; and

S. 565. An act for the removal of the Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux or Dakota Indians, and for the disposition of their lands in Minnesota and Dakota;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this house.

The Senate have postponed indefinitely a bill of this house of the following title, viz:

H. R. 763. An act to build a wagon road for the use of the Military Academy, from West Point, in the county of Orange, State of New York, to Cornwall Landing, in said county.

The House having resumed the consideration of the bill of the Senate, No. 511-the question being on the motion of Mr. Olin to refer the same to the Committee on Military Affairs

Pending the debate thereon,

Disorder having occurred in the gallery,

Mr. Robinson moved that the same be cleared.

Pending which,

Mr. Jacob B. Blair moved that the said motion be laid on the table. And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative, {eys...

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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

Sydenham E. Ancona

James M. Ashley

Elijah Babbitt

Stephen Baker
Portus Baxter
Fernando C. Beaman
Jacob B. Blair
Samuel S. Blair
Harrison G. Blake
William G. Brown
James Buffinton
James H. Campbell
Samuel L. Casey
Jacob P. Chamberlain
Ambrose W. Clark
Schuyler Colfax
John Covode
James A. Cravens
William P Cutler
Wm. Morris Davis
W. McKee Dunn
Sidney Edgerton
Thomas D. Eliot
Alfred Ely
Reuben E. Fenton
Samuel C. Fessenden

Mr. Thomas A. D. Fessenden Mr. Justin S. Morrill

George P. Fisher

Richard Franchot
Augustus Frank
Henry Grider
John A. Gurley
Michael Hahn
Edward Haight
James T. Hale
John Hickman
Samuel Hooper
Valentine B. Horton
John Hutchins
George W. Julian
William D. Kelley
Francis W. Kellogg
John W. Killinger
William E. Lehman
Dwight Loomis
Owen Lovejoy
Frederick F. Low
James B. McKean
Robert McKnight
Edward McPherson

Robert Mallory
Horace Maynard
James K. Moorhead
Anson P. Morrill

John T. Nixon

John W. Noell

John Patton

Timothy G. Phelps

Frederick A. Pike

Theodore M. Pomeroy
Albert G. Porter
John F. Potter
Albert G. Riddle
Edward H. Rollins
James S. Rollins
Aaron A. Sargent
Joseph Segar
John P. C. Shanks
Samuel Shellabarger
Socrates N. Sherman
A. Scott Sloan
Elbridge G. Spaulding
John B. Steele
Francis Thomas
Rowland E. Trowbridge
Burt Van Horn

John P. Verree

Amasa Walker
William Wall
John W. Wallace
E. P. Walton