Recapitulation of the twenty-third vote for Speaker.

No person received a majority of all the votes given.

And then,

On motion of Mr. Cox, at 5 o'clock and 5 minutes p. m., the House adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock m.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1859.

The Clerk announced as the business first in order the question of the admissibility of the resolution proposed to be submitted on Thursday last by Mr. Winslow, and pending when the House adjourned yesterday.

After debate,

On motion of Mr. Winslow, the roll was called, when the following named members failed to answer to their names, viz:

Mr. Thomas J. Barr, Mr. John Y. Brown, Mr. Luther C. Carter, Mr. Horace F. Clark, Mr. Sherrard Clemens, Mr. Clark B. Cochrane, Mr. James Craig, Mr. William H. Dimmick, Mr. Emerson Etheridge, Mr. James Jackson, Mr. Albert G. Jenkins, Mr. John M. Landrum, Mr. William B. Maclay, Mr. Charles B. Sedgwick, Mr. James A. Stallworth, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, Mr. John W. Stevenson, Mr. Charles H. Van Wyck, and Mr. John Wood.

Mr. Maynard having withdrawn his name as a candidate for the Speakership,

And

Mr. English having nominated CHARLES L. SCOTT, of California,

On motion of Mr. Winslow, the House proceeded to vote viva voce the twenty-fourth time for Speaker.

When

The following named members voted for JOHN SHERMAN, of Ohio, viz:

Charles F. Adams, Cyrus Aldrich, John B. Alley, Elijah Babbitt, Charles L. Beale, John A. Bingham, Samuel S. Blair, Harrison G. Blake, William D. Brayton, James Buffington Anson Burlingame, Alfred A. Burnham, Silas M. Burroughs, Martin Butterfield, James H. Campbell, John Carey, Charles Case, Schuyler Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, Thomas Corwin, John Covode, Henry L. Dawes, Charles Delano, R. Holland Duell, W. McKee Dunn, Sidney Edgerton, Thomas M. Edwards, Thomas D. Eliot, Alfred Ely, John F. Farnsworth, Reuben E. Fenton, Orris S. Ferry, Stephen C. Foster, Augustus Frank, Ezra B. French, Daniel W. Gooch, James H. Graham, Galusha A. Grow, John A. Gurley, James T. Hale, Chapin Hall, John B. Haskin, William Helmick, Charles B. Hoard, James Humphrey, John Hutchins, William Irvine, Benjamin F. Junkin, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, William S. Kenyon, David Kilgore, John W. Killinger, De Witt C. Leach, M. Lindley Lee, Henry C. Longnecker, Dwight Loomis, Owen Lovejoy, Gilman Marston, James B. McKean, Robert McKnight, Edward McPherson, William Millward, James K. Moorhead, Justin S. Morrill, Freeman H. Morse, Abraham B. Olin, George W. Palmer, William Pennington, John J. Perry, John U. Pettit, Albert G. Porter, John F. Potter, Emory B. Pottle, Alexander H. Rice, Christopher Robinson, Homer E. Royce, John Schwartz, George W. Scranton, Daniel E. Somes, Elbridge G. Spaulding, Francis E. Spinner, William Stewart, John L. N. Stratton, Mason W. Tappan, Eli Thayer, Thomas C. Theaker, Cydnor B. Tompkins, Charles R. Train, Carey A. Trimble, William Vandever, John P. Verree, Edward Wade, Henry Waldron, E. P. Walton, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Ellihu B. Washburne, Israel Washburn, jr., Alfred Wells, James Wilson, William Windom, John Woodruff.

The following named members voted for CHARLES L. SCOTT, of California, viz:

William Allen, Thomas L. Anderson, John D. Ashmore, William T. Avery, William Barksdale, J. R. Barrett, Thomas S. Bocock, Milledge L. Bonham, Alexander R. Boteler, John E. Bouligny, Wil liam W. Boyce, Lawrence O'B. Branch, John C. Burch, Henry C, Burnett, John B. Clark, David Clopton, Williamson R. W. Cobb, John Cochrane, George B. Cooper, Samuel S. Cox, Burton Craige, Jabez L. M. Curry, Thomas G. Davidson, Reuben Davis, Daniel C. De Jarnette, Henry A. Edmundson, William H. English, Thomas B. Florence, Philip B. Fouke, Muscoe R. H. Garnett, Lucius J. Gartrell, Andrew J. Hamilton, Thomas Hardeman, jr., John T. Harris, George S. Hawkins, Thomas C. Hindman, William S. Holman, George S. Houston, William Howard, George W. Hughes, John J. Jones, Lawrence M. Keitt, Jacob M. Kunkel, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Charles H. Larrabee, Shelton F. Leake, John A. Logan, Peter E. Love, Charles D. Martin, Elbert S. Martin, Horace Maynard, John A. McClernand,

John J. McRae, W. Porcher Miles, John S. Millson, William Montgomery, Laban T. Moore, Sydenham Moore, Isaac N. Morris, William E. Niblack, John W. Noell, George H. Pendleton, Samuel O. Peyton, John S. Phelps, Roger A. Pryor, John H. Reagan, Thomas Ruffin, Daniel E. Sickles, William E. Simms, Otho R. Singleton, William Smith, James A. Stewart, Lansing Stout, Miles Taylor, James H. Thomas, John W. H. Underwood, Clement L. Vallandigham, Zebulon B. Vance, William G. Whiteley, Warren Winslow, Samuel H. Woodson, John V. Wright.

The following named members voted for JOHN A. GILMER, of North Carolina, viz:

Green Adams, William C. Anderson, Reese B. Brabson, George Briggs, Francis M. Bristow, H. Winter Davis, J. Morrison Harris, Robert Hatton, James M. Leach, Thomas A. R. Nelson, James M. Quarles, William N. H. Smith, William B. Stokes, Edwin H. Webster. Mr. Garnett B. Adrain, Mr. John H. Reynolds, and Mr. Jetur R. Riggs voted for JOHN G. DAVIS, of Indiana.

Mr. Martin J. Crawford and Mr. James L. Pugh voted for JOHN MCQUEEN, of South Carolina.

Mr. John G. Davis voted for JOHN H. REYNOLDS, of New York. Mr. John A. Gilmer, Mr. Joshua Hill, and Mr. Robert Mallory voted for GEORGE BRIGGS, of New York.

Mr. John McQueen voted for JAMES L. PUGH, of Alabama.

Mr. Charles L. Scott voted for GEORGE H. PENDLETON, of Ohio.

Recapitulation of the twenty-fourth vote for Speaker.

For John Sherman

Charles L. Scott...
John A. Gilmer
John G. Davis

George Briggs.

John McQueen

John H. Reynolds

James L. Pugh

George H. Pendleton..

Whole number of votes given ·

Necessary to a choice.

No person received a majority of all the votes given.

And then,

On motion of Mr. John Cochrane, at 4 o'clock and 35 minutes the House adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1859.

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The Clerk announced as the business first in order the question of the admissibility of the resolution proposed to be submitted by Mr. Winslow on Thursday, the 22d instant, and pending when the House adjourned yesterday.

Mr. Winslow moved that when the House adjourns, it adjourn until Tuesday next.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative,

(Yeas.
Nays...

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

Ordered, That when the House adjourns, it adjourn until Tuesday

Mr. Winslow moved, at 3 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m., that the House adjourn.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative, Nays..

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