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Ordered, That the said bill be committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Kennedy, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee have examined an enrolled resolution of the Senate (No. 17) for the relief of Peter Gorman, and found the same to be truly enrolled: when

The Speaker signed the said resolution.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed a resolution (No. 14) for the relief of Putney & Riddle, and a bill (No. 196) entitled "An act in relation to the July term of the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio:" in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House. And then he withdrew.

On motion of Mr. McKay, 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. Hopkins reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the bill (No. 50) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending on the 30th June, 1847, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

Mr. Cobb offered the following resolution:

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Resolved, That all debate in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on the said bill (No. 50) shall cease at one o'clock tomorrow, (if the committee shall not sooner come to a conclusion upon same;) and the committee 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 by the committee.

The said resolution was read: when

Mr. George S. Houston moved to amend the same by striking out the words "one o'clock to-morrow," and inserting, in lieu thereof, "four o'clock to-day," and moved the previous question.

Mr. Ashmun moved, at twenty minutes past 2 o'clock, that the House adjourn: which motion was disagreed to.

Mr. Winthrop moved that the resolution be laid upon the table.

And the question being put,

SYeas,

It was decided in the negative, Nays,

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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. John Quincy Adams

Lemuel H. Arnold

George Ashmun

Joshua F. Bell

John Blanchard
Joseph Buffington
William W. Campbell
Charles H. Carroll
John G. Chapman
William M. Cocke
Jacob Collamer
Henry Y. Cranston
John H. Crozier
Erastus D. Culver

Mr. Cornelius Darragh

Columbus Delano
James Dixon
Alfred Dockery
Joseph E. Edsall
John H. Ewing
Edwin H. Ewing
Solomon Foot
Joshua R. Giddings
James Graham
Henry Grider
Joseph Grinnell
James G. Hampton
Alexander Harper

Mr. Henry W. Hilliard

Elias B. Holmes
Isaac E. Holmes
John W. Houston
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt
Daniel P. King
Shelton F. Leake
Abner Lewis
Lewis C. Levin
Edward Long
James McDowell
Edward W. McGaughey

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Mr. Bannon G. Thibodeaux

Benjamin Thompson
Robert Toombs
Andrew Trumbo

Joseph Vance
Samuel F. Vinton
Hugh White

Robert C. Winthrop
William Wright
Bryan R. Young.

Mr. Joseph Morris
Mace Moulton
Moses Norris
Robert Dale Owen
Isaac Parish
Augustus L. Perrill
John S. Phelps
Sterling Price
David S. Reid
John Ritter
Cullen Sawtelle
William Sawyer
John F. Scammon
James A. Seddon
Alexander D. Sims
Richard F. Simpson
Thomas Smith
Robert Smith
Henry St. John
George Sykes
James Thompson
Jacob Thompson
William M. Tredway
William W. Wick
Hezekiah Williams
Bradford R. Wood
Joseph A. Woodward
William W. Woodworth
Archibald Yell
Jacob S. Yost.

So the House refused to lay the said resolution upon the table.

The previous question was then seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, viz: Will the House agree to the said amendment moved by Mr. Houston?

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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. Stephen Adams

Archibald Atkinson

Thomas H. Bayly
Jacob Brinkerhoff
William G. Brown
Augustus A. Chapman
Reuben Chapman
Henry S. Clarke
John F. Collin
Alvan Cullom

Francis A. Cunningham
John R. J. Daniel
James C. Dobbin

George C. Dromgoole
Jacob Erdman

Mr. George Fries

William F. Giles
Hugh A. Haralson
John H. Harmanson
George W. Hopkins
George S. Houston
Orville Hungerford
James H. Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Jones
Seaborn Jones
Emile La Sère

John H. Lumpkin

Mr. John D. McCrate

Barclay Martin

Joseph Morris

Moses Norris

William W. Payne
William Sawyer
Richard F. Simpson
Thomas Smith
Robert Smith
John Wentworth
William W. Wick
Joseph A. Woodward
William W. Woodworth
Archibald Yell.

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. Amos Abbott

John Quincy Adams
Joseph H. Anderson
Lemuel H. Arnold
George Ashmun
Joshua F. Bell
Charles S. Benton
James A. Black
John Blanchard
Joseph Buffington
Charles H. Carroll
John G. Chapman
John S. Chipman
Howell Cobb
William M. Cocke
Jacob Collamer
Albert Constable
Henry Y. Cranston
John H. Crozier
Erastus D. Culver
John D. Cummins
Edmund S. Dargan
Cornelius Darragh
Garrett Davis
Jefferson Davis
Columbus Delano
John De Mott

Paul Dillingham, jr.
James Dixon
Alfred Dockery
Robert P. Dunlap
Joseph E. Edsall
Samuel S. Ellsworth
Edwin H. Ewing
Orlando B. Ficklin

Solomon Foot

Joshua R. Giddings

James Graham

Mr. Martin Grover
James G. Hampton
Alexander Harper
Henry W. Hilliard
Elias B. Holmes
Isaac E. Holmes
William J. Hough
John W. Houston
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt
James B. Hunt
Robert M. T. Hunter
Timothy Jenkins
Daniel P. King
Preston King
John W. Lawrence
Shelton F. Leake
Abner Lewis
Lewis C. Levin
Edward Long
William B. Maclay
Moses McClean
Robert McClelland
Joseph J. McDowell
James McDowell
Edward W. McGaughey
John H. McHenry
Abraham R. McIlvaine
James J. McKay
George P. Marsh
John P. Martin
William S. Miller
Isaac E. Morse
William A. Moseley
Mace Moulton
Robert Dale Owen

So the amendment was not agreed to.

Mr. Isaac Parish
Augustus L. Perrill
Thomas Perry
John S. Phelps
Sterling Price
Alexander Ramsey

George Rathbun
David S. Reid
John Ritter

Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
Joseph M. Root
John Runk
Cullen Sawtelle
John F. Scammon
Henry J. Seaman
James A. Seddon
Luther Severance
Alexander D. Sims
Truman Smith

Alexander H. Stephens
Andrew Stewart
John Strohm
George Sykes

Bannon G. Thibodeaux

Benjamin Thompson
Jacob Thompson

Robert Toombs

William M. Tred way

Andrew Trumbo
Samuel F. Vinton
Hugh White

Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood
William Wright
Bryan R. Young
Jacob S. Yost.

The question was put, Will the House agree to the said resolution?
And decided in the affirmative.

Mr. McKay moved that the rules be suspended, and that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union: when,

On motion of Mr. Stephens, the House, at fifty-five minutes past 2 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, a. m.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1846.

On motion of Mr. Haralson, (by unanimous consent,) it was Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to this House all the official despatches which may have been received from General Taylor, commanding the army of occupation on the Rio Grande, relating to the battles of the 8th and 9th instant.

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

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, viz: No. 88. An act to amend the act approved June 17, 1844, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States of Missis

sippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers;" and

No. 185. An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the republic of Mexico, and for other purposes:"

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

And then he withdrew.

On motion of Mr. McKay, 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. Hopkins reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the bill (No. 50) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending on the 30th June, 1847, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by J. Knox Walker, his private secretary; which was read, and is as follows:

To the House of Representatives:

In compliance with the request contained in the resolution of the House of Representatives of this date, I transmit copies of all the official despatches which have been received from General Taylor, commanding the army of occupation on the Rio Grande, relating to the battles of the 8th and 9th instant.

WASHINGTON, May 27, 1846.

JAMES K. POLK.

Ordered, That the said message be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Schenck moved, at fifteen minutes past 3 o'clock, that the House adjourn.

And the question being put,

Yeas,

It was decided in the negative, Nays,

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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. Amos Abbott

John Quincy Adams

Joseph H. Anderson
Lemuel H. Arnold
George Ashmun

Daniel M. Barringer
Joshua F. Bell
Richard Brodhead
Milton Brown
William W. Campbell
Charles H. Carrell
John G. Chapman
Lucien B. Chase
Jacob Collamer
Henry Y. Cranston
John H. Crozier
Erastus D. Culver
Cornelius Darragh
Garrett Davis
Columbus Delano

Mr. Paul Dillingham, jr.

James Dixon
Alfred Dockery
Robert P. Dunlap
John H. Ewing
Solomon Foot
William S. Garvin
Meredith P. Gentry
James Graham
Henry Grider
Hannibal Hamlin
James G. Hampton
Alexander Harper
Henry W. Hilliard
Elias B. Holmes
Isaac E. Holmes
William J. Hough
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt

Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll

James H. Johnson
Daniel P. King
Preston King
Thomas Butler King
John W. Lawrence
Owen D. Leib
Abner Lewis
William B. Maclay
Felix G. McConnell
Edward W. McGaughey
John H. McHenry
Abraham R. McIlvaine
George P. Marsh
William S. Miller
Isaac E. Morse
William A. Moseley
George Rathbun
R. Barnwell Rhett
Julius Rockwell

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Mr. Stephen Adams

Archibald Atkinson
Thomas H. Bayly
Charles S. Benton
Asa Biggs
James Black
James A. Black

James B. Bowlin
Linn Boyd

Jacob Brinkerhoff
William H. Brockenbrough
William G. Brown
Armistead Burt
Augustus A. Chapman
Reuben Chapman
John S. Chipman
Henry S. Clarke
Howell Cobb
William M. Cocke

John F. Collin

Albert Constable
Alvan Cullom
John D. Cummins

Francis A. Cunningham
John R. J. Daniel
Edmund S. Dargan
Jefferson Davis
John De Mott
James C. Dobbin
Stephen A. Douglass
George C. Dromgoole
Joseph E. Edsall
Jacob Erdman

Mr. Edwin H. Ewing
Henry D. Foster
George Fries
William F. Giles
Joseph Grinnell
Martin Grover
Hugh A. Haralson
John H. Harmanson
Thomas J. Henley
Joseph P. Hoge
George W. Hopkins
George S. Houston
Edmund W. Hubard
Orville Hungerford
James B. Hunt
Robert M. T. Hunter
Charles J. Ingersoll
Joseph Johnson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Jones
Seaborn Jones
Andrew Kennedy
Shelton F. Leake
Emile La Sère
Edward Long
John H. Lumpkin
Moses McClean
Robert McClelland
John A. McClernand
Joseph J. McDowell
James McDowell
James J. McKay

So the House refused to adjourn.

Mr. Samuel F. Vinton
Hugh White

Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood
William Wright
Bryan R. Young
Jacob S. Yost.

Mr. John P. Martin
Barclay Martin
Joseph Morris
Mace Moulton
Moses Norris
Robert Dale Owen
Isaac Parish
William W. Payne
Thomas Perry
John S. Phelps
Sterling Price
David S. Reid
James H. Relfe
John Ritter
Cullen Sawtelle
William Sawyer
John F. Scammon
James A. Seddon
Alexander D. Sims
Richard F. Simpson
Thomas Smith
Robert Smith

David A. Starkweather
Henry St. John
George Sykes
James Thompson
Jacob Thompson
John W. Tibbatts
William M. Tredway
William W. Wick
Joseph A. Woodward
Archibald Yell.

Mr. Haralson, (by leave,) from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill (No. 451) to provide certain military tactics for the use of the volunteers authorized to be called into the service of the United States by the act approved 13th May, 1846: which was read a first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Mr. Ashmun moved, at twenty-four minutes past 3 o'clock, that the House adjourn: which motion was disagreed to.

On motion of Mr. McKay, 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. Hopkins reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the bill (No. 50) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending on the 30th June, 1847, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

And then, on motion of Mr. Vinton, the House, at eight minutes past 4 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, a. m..

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