Those who voted in the negative are, Mr. Amos Abbott Rudolphus Dickinson Mr. Horace Greeley Joseph Grinnell Washington Hunt The question again recurred on the motion made by Mr. John A. Rockwell, that the House resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the private calendar. And being put, It was decided in the affirmative. And the House accordingly resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the private calendar; and, after some time. spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Boyd reported that the committee, having had under consideration the private calendar, had directed him to report to the House No. 181. A bill for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green, without amendment; and that the committee had come to ne resolution on the bill No. 197, for the relief of the legal representatives of Antonio Pacheco. The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill No. 181,' for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green, reported from the Committee of the Whole House this day without amendment; when The said bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to-day. The bill being engrossed, was accordingly read a third time, and passed. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill. Mr. Meade offered the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to by the House: Resolved, That the President of the United States cause to be transmitted to this House, if compatible with the public interest, the correspondence of George W. Gordon, late, and Gorham Parks, the present consul of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, with the Department of State on the subject of the African slave-trade; also, any unpublished correspondence on the same subject by the Hon. Henry A. Wise, our late minister to Brazil. The following petitions, memorials, and other papers, were laid on the Clerk's table under the 24th rule of the House, to wit: By Mr. Bowlin: The memorial of citizens of the State of Missouri-heretofore presented June 19, 1848; Also, the memorial of citizens of Perry county, in the State of Missouri-heretofore presented June 19, 1848. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on 'Military Affairs. By Mr. Grinnell: The memorial of citizens of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts-heretofore presented May 9, 1848; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. Moses Hampton: The memorial of citizens of Lehigh county, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for an immediate modification of the existing revenue laws; whhich was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. By Mr. McClelland: The memorial of William R. Thompson, of Ann Arbor, in the State of Michigan, praying compensation for extra services in transporting the mail: which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. Mullin: The memorial of the administrators of Jethro Wood, deceased, praying for remuneration for losses and expenditures incurred by said deceased in his improvements on the cast iron. plow; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture. On motion of Mr. McLane, The House, at 1 o'clock and twenty-seven minutes, adjourned until Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock, m. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1848. On motion of Mr. Goggin, he was excused from serving on the select committee appointed to consider and report as to the propriety of erecting a marble column at York, Virginia, commemorative of the surrender of Earl Cornwallis to his excellency General Washington, commander-in-chief of the combined forces of America and France. Mr. Bayly was appointed to take the place of Mr. Goggin on said committee. Mr. Henley gave notice of a motion for leave to introduce a joint resolution in relation to the mileage of the persons appointed by the electors of the several States to deliver the votes for President and Vice President to the President of the Senate. Mr. Dixon, under the rule, gave notice of a motion for leave to introduce a bill to abolish the franking privilege. Mr. James G. Hampton, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined enrolled bills of the following titles, viz: H. R. No. 101. An act for the relief of Esther Russell; H. R. No. 110. An act for the relief of Reuben Perry and Thomas P. Ligon; H. R. No. 125. uel S. Finch; H. R. No. 162. H. R. No. 378. An act for the relief of Zilpha White; An act for the relief of Archibald Bull and Lem An act for the relief of Charles Waldron; An act for the relief of William Evans; An act for the relief of Eliza A. Mellon; H. R. No. 484. An act for the relief of Philip J. Pontane; when The Speaker signed the said bills. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Dickins, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate, in the absence of the Vice President, have chosen the honorable David R. Atchison President of the Senate pro tempore. The Senate have passed a bill (S. No. 197) to provide for the sale of lands purchased by the United States from the Saginaw tribe of Chippewa Indians, in the State of Michigan; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. The Senate have passed a bill of this House (No. 166) for the relief of Colonel Robert Wallace, aid-de-camp to General William Hull. A message, in writing, was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. J. Knox Walker, his private secretary; which was delivered in at the Speaker's table. The House proceeded to the consideration of the motion made by Mr. Charles E. Stuart, on the instant, to reconsider the vote by which the House adopted the resolution offered by Mr. Gott on the instant, instructing the Committee on the District of Columbia to report a bill prohibiting the slave trade in the said District. After debate, Mr. Vinton moved to postpone the further consideration of the said motion to this day two weeks. Mr. Wentworth moved to lay the notion of reconsideration on the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, Yeas... 58 107 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Mr. George Ashmun Mr. Charles W. Cathcart Harmon S. Conger Mr. John Crowell Mr. Amos Abbott Green Adams Daniel M. Barringer Thomas L. Clingman Richard French Andrew S. Fulton Mr. John P. Gaines George P. Marsh Charles S. Morehead Mr. William Rockhill George A. Starkweather Mr. Isaac E. Morse Bannon G. Thibodeaux Hugh White Hezekiah Williams Joseph A. Woodward. The question then recurred on the motion made by Mr. Vinton, that the further consideration of the subject be postponed to this day two weeks. And being put, It was agreed to. Mr. Sawyer said, that he rose to a question of privilege, and stated that he, with most of the other members of the House, was accused, in the New York Tribune of Friday last, of having charged and received an excess of mileage, and, as a consequence, with having been guilty of fraud on the treasury. Mr. Sawyer thereupon demanded the right to be heard on the question as a question of privilege. The Speaker stated, that it was for the House to decide upon the extent of its own privileges, and he therefore propounded it to the House, whether they would entertain the case submitted by the gentleman from Ohio as a question of privilege; And the vote being taken, The House decided the question in the affirmative. Mr. Sawyer proceeded with his remarks; but having concluded without moving any specific proposition on the subject, Mr. Turner said that he rose, also, to a question of privilege; and stated that he, with other members of the House, was charged in the same paper to which the gentleman from Ohio had alluded, with fraud and peculation on the treasury. Mr. Turner proceeded to speak to the question as a question of privilege; when Mr. McLane rose to a question of order, and insisted that the gentleman from Illinois was out of order, because the decision of the House upon the case presented by the gentleman from Ohio, by which it was declared a question of privilege, was not a decision to the same effect on the case of the gentleman from Illinois. This was no question of privilege in itself; the gentleman from Illinois was therefore out of order. The Speaker decided, that the question was the same as that raised by the gentleman from Ohio, but that, on the demand of the gentleman from Maryland, he would again call upon the House to say whether the question should be again entertained as a question of privilege. The question was then submitted to the House, Whether the case presented by the gentleman from Illinois should be entertained as a question of privilege? And decided in the affirmative, Nays...... 85 76 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Mr. Washington Barrow Thomas H. Bayly Henry Bedinger Kingsley S. Bingham Thomas S. Bocock James B. Bowlin Jasper E. Brady Samuel A. Bridges William G. Brown Charles Brown Armistead Burt Richard S. Canby Lucien B. Chase Asa W. H. Clapp Franklin Clark Beverly L. Clark Mr. Williamson R. W. Cobb Mr. David Hammons John D. Cummins Mason C. Darling John H. Harmanson |