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Also, a bill (H. R. 1537) amendatory of the act to incorporate the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company;

to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

By Mr. Horace Davis: A bill (H. R. 1538) to provide for the purchase of a site and commencement of a building for the post-office at San Fraucisco, California;

to the Committee on Appropriations.

By Mr. Robbins: A bill (H. R. 1539) to pay arrears of peusion to Rebecca Sanders, of North Carolina;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1540) for the relief of John F. Foard;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Haskell: A bill (H. R. 1541) to provide for the sale of the land of the Miami Indians, in Kansas;

to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Also, a bill (H. R. 1542) to provide for the funding and redemption of United States notes;

to the Committee of Ways and Means.

By unanimous consent, resolutions were introduced, read, and severally referred to the Committee of Accounts as follows, viz:

By Mr. Quinn:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Eugene Durnin the sum of $94.56, balance due him for services for the month of October, 1877, in the Doorkeeper's department, and charge the same to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.

By Mr. Frank Jones:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be, and he is hereby, directed to pay William H. Prescott for services rendered in the engineer's department during the months of April, May, and June, 1877, at the rate of $100 per month.

Also:

Resolved, That Frank Augerer be, and he is hereby, continued in the service of this House as a page during the present Congress.

Mr. Singleton moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill H. R. 1526, to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Pending which,

Mr. Singleton moved that when the House resolves itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill H. R. 1526, (deficiency appropriations,) all general debate thereon shall be limited to thirty minutes; which motion was agreed to.

Mr. Singleton moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

The motion of Mr. Singleton was then agreed to; and the House accordingly resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill H. R. 1526, and after some time spent therein the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Wright reported that the committee, having had under consideration the said bill, had come to no resolution thereon.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Sympson, one of their clerks: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, viz:

S. 99. An act for the relief of the estate of Amos Ireland, deceased; S. 145. An act for the relief of Edwin A. Clifford ;

S. 225. An act to repeal an act entitled "An act for the relief of Nancy S. Ledford," approved March 3, 1871;

in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

On motion of Mr. Singleton,

Ordered, That when the House again resolves itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill H. R. 1526, all general debate thereon shall be limited to one minute.

Mr. Singleton moved to reconsider the vote last taken, and moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

And then,

On motion of Mr. Singleton, the House again resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill H. R. 1526, (deficiency appropriations;) and after some time spent therein the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Wright reported that the committee, having had under considération the said bill H. R. 1526, had directed him to report the same with sundry amendments.

The House having proceeded to the consideration of the said amendments,

Mr. Singleton demanded the previous question on the bill and amendments; which was seconded and the main question ordered.

Mr. Singleton moved to reconsider the vote by which the main question was ordered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table which latter motion was agreed to.

The amendments of Mr. Foster and Mr. Yeates were agreed to.
The question then being on the following amendment, viz:
After line 115 add the following:

Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for star service in the transportation of the mails for the last fiscal year, or so much thereof as may remain after settling accounts touching said service during said year, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the same serv ice during the current fiscal year.

Mr. Foster demanded the yeas and nays on concurring in the amend ment.

Pending which,

Mr. Butler, at 4 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., moved that the House do now adjourn; which motion was disagreed to.

The question then recurring on the demand for the yeas and nays, Mr. Mills, at 4 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m., moved that the House do now adjourn.

And being put,

It was decided in the negative,

Yeas
Nays
Not voting..

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132

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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. William Aldrich

William J. Bacon
William H. Baker
Latimer W. Ballou
Nathaniel P. Banks
George A. Bicknell
Horatio Bisbee, jr.
Henry W. Blair'
Thomas A. Boyd
Lorenzo Brentano
Mark S. Brewer
James F. Briggs
Horatio C. Burchard

Mr. Theodore W. Burdick Mr. Jacob D. Cox

Richard H. Cain

William H. Calkins
John H. Camp
Jacob M. Campbell
Milton A. Candler
Joseph G. Cannon
Simeon B. Chittenden
William Claflin
Rush Clark
Nathan Cole
Omar D. Conger
James W. Covert

William W. Crapo

H. J. B. Cummings
Lorenzo Danford
Horace Davis
Nathaniel C. Deering
Dudley C. Denison
Mark H. Dunnell
Milton J. Durham
Jeremiah W. Dwight
Benjamin T. Eames
Charles C. Ellsworth
I. Newton Evans

Mr. John H. Evins

William H. Forney
Charles Foster
Chapman Freeman
William P. Frye
James A. Garfield

Randall L. Gibson
Thomas M. Gunter
Eugene Hale
Benjamin W. Harris
Philip C. Hayes
George W. Hendee

Thomas J. Henderson

Mr. Charles E. Hooker

Jay A. Hubbell
H. L. Humphrey
John N. Hungerford
Anthony Ittner
Amaziah B. James
Joseph Jorgensen
Charles H. Joyce
J. Warrea Keifer
Edwin W. Keightley
William Kimmel
Elbridge G. Lapham
Stephen D. Lindsey
George B. Loring
Levi Maish
Benjamin F. Marsh
Anson G. McCook
J. H. McGowan

Mr. William McKinley jr.Mr. Terrence J. Quinn

Lyne S. Metcalfe

Roger Q. Mills
John I. Mitchell
James Monroe

William R. Morrison
Charles O'Neill
Edward Overton, jr.
Romualdo Pacheco
Horace F. Page
George W. Patterson
Thomas B. Peddie
Clarkson N. Potter
Thad. C. Pound
Llewellyn Powers
Hiram Price
John Howard Pugh

Joseph H. Rainey
Thomas B. Reed
William W. Rice
Thomas Ryan
Ezekiel S. Sampson
Wm. S. Shallenberger
C. H. Sinnickson
A. Herr Smith
William E. Smith
John H. Starin
Alex. H. Stephens
J. H. Stewart
John W. Stone
Joseph C. Stone
John M. Thompson
J. M. Thornburgh

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. J. D. C. Atkins

John H. Baker
Henry B. Banning
Thomas M. Bayne
George M. Beebe
Hiram P. Bell
Charles B. Benedict
Jos. C. S. Blackburn
Richard P. Bland
James H. Blount
Andrew R. Boone
Gabriel Bonck
Edward S. Bragg
Curtis H. Brogden
Thomas M. Browne
Aylett H. Buckner
Benjamin F. Butler
George C. Cabell
John W. Caldwell
John G. Carlisle
Alvah A. Clark
John B. Clarke
John B. Clark, jr
Hiester Clymer
Thomas R. Cobb
Francis D. Collins
Philip Cook

Jordan E. Cravens
Thomas T. Crittenden
Augustus W. Cutler
Robt. H. M. Davidson
Joseph J. Davis
Geo. G. Dibrell

Mr. H. L. Dickey

Those not voting

Mr. D. Wyatt Aiken

George A. Bagley
Archibald M. Bliss
Samuel A. Bridges
John M. Bright
Solomon Bundy
W. P. Caldwell
Lucien B. Caswell
J. R. Chalmers

Samuel S. Cox

John R. Eden
Anthony Eickhoff
J. B. Elam
E. John Ellis
Russell Errett
Thomas Ewing
William H. Felton
Ebenezer B. Finley
Greenbury L. Fort
Benjamin J. Franklin
Mills Gardner
William W. Garth
D. C. Giddings
John M. Glover
John Goode
Andrew H. Hamilton
John Hanna

Aug. A. Hardenbergh
Alfred C. Harmer
Henry R. Harris
John T. Harris
Carter H. Harrison
E. Kirke Hart
Julian Hartridge
William Hartzell
Dudley C. Haskell
Robert A. Hatcher
Eli J. Henkle
Daniel M. Henry
John F. House
Morton C. Hunter
Eppa Hunton

are―

Mr. D. B. Culberson

C. B. Darrall
Beverly B Douglas
James L. Evans
Walbridge A. Field
Benoni S. Fuller
Lucien C. Gause
Geo. C. Hazelton

Abram S. Hewitt
Goldsmith W. Hewitt

So the House refused to adjourn.

Mr. Frank Jones

James Taylor Jones
John S. Jones
John E. Kenna
John W. Killinger
Robert M. Knapp
J. Proctor Knott
George M. Landers
William Lathrop
Robert F. Ligon
Daniel N. Lockwood
William Pitt Lynde
L. A. Mackey
Van H. Manning
Benjamin F. Martin
Stephen L. Mayham
James A. McKenzie
John A. McMahon
Hernando D. Money
Charles H. Morgan
Leopold Morse
H. L. Muldrow
Nicholas Muller
Henry S. Neal
Amasa Norcross
Addison Oliver
William A. Phillips
Auburn L. Pridemore
David Rea
James B. Reilly
Americus V. Rice
Haywood Y. Riddle
William M. Robbins

Mr. Hilary A. Herbert
Frank Hiscock
William D. Kelley
John H. Ketcham
J. E. Leonard
John K. Luttrell
James Phelps
Henry M. Pollard
James H. Randolph

Mr. Amos Townsend
John T. Wait
William Walsh
William Ward
Levi Warner
Lewis F. Watson
Frank Welch
Harry White
Michael D. White
W. C. Whitthorne
Andrew Williams
Charles G. Williams
James Williams
Richard Williams
Benjamin A. Willis
Edwin Willits
Thomas Wren.

Mr. Charles B. Roberts
E. W. Robertson
George D. Robinson
Milton S. Robinson
Miles Ros8
William F. Sapp
Milton Sayler
Alfred M. Scales
Gustave Schleicher
Charles M. Shelley
Otho R. Singleton
William F. Slemons
William A. J. Sparks
William M. Springer
Walter L. Steele
William S. Stenger
J. W. Throckmorton
Thomas F. Tipton
Richd. W. Townshend
John R. Tucker
Thomas Turner

Jacob Turney

Robert B. Vance

Nelson H. Van Vorhes

Alfred M. Waddell
Gilbert C. Walker
Alpheus S. Williams
Jere N. Williams
Albert S. Willis
Benjamin Wilson
Fernando Wood
Hendrick B. Wright
Jesse J. Yeates.

Mr. John H. Reagan Leonidas Sexton Robert Smalls Milton I. Southard Horace B. Strait Thomas Swann

Martin I. Townsend

William D. Veeder Casey Young.

The question then recurring upon the amendment, the yeas and nays. were ordered.

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Mr. Mark H. Dunnell
Jeremiah W. Dwight
Benjamin T. Eames
J. B. Elam

E. John Ellis
I. Newton Evans
John H. Evins
Thomas Ewing
William H. Felton
William H. Forney
Chapman Freeman
William W. Garth
Randall L. Gibson
D. C. Giddings
John Goode
Thomas M. Gunter
Benjamin W. Harris
Henry R. Harris
Julian Hartridge
Dudley C. Haskell

Robert A. Hatcher

Mr. Daniel M. Henry
Charles E. Hooker
John F. House
H. L. Humphrey
Robert M. Knapp
Elbridge G. Lapham
William Lathrop
Robert F. Ligon
George B. Loring
William Pitt Lynde
Van H. Manning
Benjamin F. Marsh
Lyne S. Metcalfe
Roger Q. Mills
John I. Mitchell
Hernando D. Money
Charles II. Morgan
H. L. Muldrow
Amasa Norcross
Addison Oliver
Charles O Neill

Mr. Romualdo Pacheco
Horace F. Page
Thomas B. Peddie
William A. Philips
Thad. C. Pound
Llewellyn Powers
Hiram Price
Auburn L. Pridemore
John Howard Pugh
Terrence J. Quinn
Haywood Y. Riddle
William M. Robbins
Charles B. Roberts
E. W. Robertson
George D. Robinson
Thomas Ryan
Ezekiel S. Sampson
William F. Sapp
Alfred M. Scales
Gustave Schleicher
Wm. S. Shallenberger

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. William Aldrich

J. D. C. Atkins
William J. Bacon
John H. Baker
William H. Baker
Henry B. Banning
Thomas M. Bayne
George M. Beebe
Charles B. Benedict
Jos. C. S. Blackburn
Henry W. Blair
James H. Blount
Edward S. Bragg
Lorenzo Brentano
Mark S. Brewer
James F. Briggs
Thomas M. Browne.
Aylett H. Buckner
Horatio C. Burchard
William H. Calkins
John H. Camp
Joseph G. Cannon
John G. Carlisle
Simeon B. Chittenden

William Claflin

Alvah A. Clark

John B. Clarke
John B. Clark, jr.
Hiester Clymer
Thomas R. Cobb
Nathan Cole
Francis D. Collins
James W. Covert

Mr. Jacob D. Cox

Augustus W. Cutler
Lorenzo Danford
Nathaniel C. Deering
Dudley C. Denison
H. L. Dickey
Milton J. Durham
John R. Eden
Russell Errett
Ebenezer B. Finley
Greenbury L. Fort
Charles Foster
Benjamin J. Franklin
William P. Frye
Mills Gardner
James A. Garfield
John M. Glover
Eugene Hale

Andrew H. Hamilton
John Hanna
Aug. A. Hardenbergh
Alfred C. Harmer
E. Kirke Hart
William Hartzell
Philip C. Hayes
George W. Hendee
Thomas J. Henderson
Jay A. Hubbell
Morton C. Hunter
John N. Hungerford
Anthony Ittner
Amaziah B. James

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Mr. Frank Jones

John S. Jones
Charles H. Joyce
J. Warren Keifer
Edwin W. Keightley
John E. Kenna
John W. Killinger
William Kimmel
J. Proctor Knott
George M. Landers
Stephen D. Lindsey
Daniel N. Lockwood
L. A. Mackey
Levi Maish
Benjamin F. Martin
Stephen L. Mayham
Anson G. McCook
James A. McKenzie
William McKinley,jr.
John A. McMahon
James Monroe
William R. Morrison
Leopold Morse
Nicholas Muller
Henry S Neal
Edward Overton, jr.
George W. Patterson
Clarkson N. Potter
Joseph H. Rainey
David Rea

Thomas B. Reed
James B. Reilly

Mr. Charles M. Shelley

C. H. Sinnickson
William F. Slemons
John H. Starin
Walter L. Steele
Alex. H. Stephens
John W. Stone
Joseph C. Stone
J. W. Throckmorton
Thomas F. Tipton
John R. Tucker
Robert B. Vance
Nelson H.Van Vorbes
Alfred M. Waddell
Gilbert C. Walker
Frank Welch

Alpheus S. Williams
Charles G. Williams
Jere N. Williams
Thomas Wren
Jesse J. Yeates.

Mr. Americus V. Rice
William W. Rice
Milton S. Robinson
Miles Ross
Otho R. Singleton
A. Herr Smith
William A. J. Sparks
William M. Springer
William S. Stenger
J. H. Stewart
John M. Thompson
Amos Townsend
Richd. W. Townshend
Thomas Turner
Jacob Turney
John T. Wait
William Walsh
William Ward
Levi Warner
Lewis F. Watson
Harry White
Michael D. White
W. C. Whitthorne
Andrew Williams
James Williams
Richard Williams
Albert S. Willis

Benjamin A. Willis
Edwin Willits
Benjamin Wilson
Fernando Wood
Hendrick B. Wright.

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So the amendment was not concurred in.

John H. Reagan
Milton Sayler
Leonidas Sexton
Robert Smalls
William E. Smith
Milton I. Southard
Horace B. Strait
Thomas Swann
J. M. Thornburgh
Martin I. Townsend
William D. Veeder
Casey Young.

Mr. Singleton moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was non concurred in, and also moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table.

Pending which,

Mr. Robbins, at 5 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., moved that the House do now adjourn.

Pending which,

Mr. Durham moved that when the House adjourns it adjourn to meet on Friday next; which motion was not agreed to.

The question then recurred upon the motion of Mr. Robbins; which was agreed to, and the House accordingly adjourned.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877.

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Boyd: Papers relating to the bill to credit Charles E. Fahnestock, postmaster at Glassford, Illinois, with the amount stolen from him by burglars;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Buckner: A paper relating to the establishment of a postroute from High Hill to Loutre Island, Missouri;

By Mr. Davidson: A paper relating to the establishment of a postroute from Perry to Deadman's Bay, Florida;

By Mr. Durham: A paper relating to the establishment of a postroute from Burgin to Bryantsville, Kentucky;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Errett: Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the repeal or amendment of the bankrupt law in such a manner as to afford a better protection to creditors and to enforce a more speedy and honest distribution of bankrupt estates;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Gunter: The petition of Susan J. Berry, to be paid the amount due her late husband for services rendered as an officer in the United States Army;

By Mr. John T. Harris: The petitions of Andrew J. Baugher, Abraham Blosser, (administrator of Jonas Blosser, deceased,) Peter Blosser, Joseph Bowman, Joseph Bowman, (administrator of John Bowman, deceased,) John W. Bowman, Isaac Bowman, Michael Bowman, Mary Brenaman, Samuel Carpenter, Samuel Cline, Thomas P. Crawford, Henry Early, Noah Early, J. B. Eastham, Dr. W. D. Ewing, Noah Flory, Elizabeth Garber, (administratrix of Abraham Garber, deceased,) Eli A. Garber, Samuel Garber, Samuel Good, Adam Gowl, William C. Harrison, Christian Hartman, Samuel D. Humbert, Thomas Kirkpatrick, William F. Kyger, (administrator of Alexander Kyger, deceased,) Christian Landes, John W. Landes, Daniel Landes, Morgan Layton, Samuel S. Long, Elder Isaac Long, William D. Maiden, Daniel Miller, Samuel A. Miller, Daniel Miller, Joseph M. Miller, Joseph B. Moyers, Noah A. Royer, James Ritchie, John Rubush, Abraham Sayer, James Smith, Emanuel Spitzer, John Wampler, Samuel H. Wampler, P. W. Whitmer, Martin Whitmore, Elder John Wine, Curtis Yates, Peter Zetter, for compensation for stock driven off by order of General Sheridan;

to the Coinmittee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Haskell: Papers relating to the bill for the relief of A. T. Mueller, of Allen County, Kansas;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Hunton: The petition of George Foster, for a pension;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Ketcham: Papers relating to the claim of Theodore Delion, for rice taken from him by the United States Army;

to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Lapham: The petition of Elizabeth Page, for a pension; to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. McMahon : The petition of Levan Records, for a pension; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

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