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Mr. Joseph Grinnell

Nathan K. Hall
James G. Hampton
Moses Hampton
Thomas J. Henley
William Henry
Elias B. Holmes
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Alexander Irvin
Timothy Jenkins
James H. Johnson
William Kennon, jr.
Daniel P. King
Samuel Lahm
William T. Lawrence
Sidney Lawrence
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick W. Lord
Robert McClelland
Abraham R. McIlvaine
Job Mann
George P. Marsh
Dudley Marvin
John K. Miller
Jonathan D. Morris
Joseph Mullin
Henry C. Murphy
William Nelson
Henry Nes

William A. Newell
Henry Nicoll

Charles H. Peaslee

On motion of Mr. Caleb B. Smith,

Mr. John G. Palfrey
Samuel O. Peyton
John S. Phelps
Timothy Pillsbury
William B, Preston
R. Barnwell Rhett
Joseph M. Root
Augustine H. Shepperd
Richard F. Simpson
Frederick P. Stanton
James H. Thomas
Jacob Thompson
Richard W. Thompson
Robert A. Thompson
Patrick W. Tompkins
Robert Toombs
Daniel Wallace
Joseph A. Woodward.

Mr. Lucius B. Peck
John Pettit
James Pollock
Harvey Putnam
Thomas Richey
John L. Robinson
Williain Rockhill
Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
David Rumsey, jr.
Daniel B. St. John
William Sawyer
Robert C. Schenck
Eliakim Sherrill
Ephraim K. Smart
Caleb B. Smith
Truman Smith
George A. Starkweather
Charles E. Stuart
John Strohm
William Strong
John L. Taylor
James Thompson
Benjamin B. Thurston
Amos Tuck
Thomas J. Turner
John Van Dyke
Samuel F. Vinton
Cornelius Warren
John Wentworth
Hugh White
James S. Wiley
James Wilson.

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Burt reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, and particularly the bill (No. 412) to provide for the settlement of claims against the United States, had come to no resolution thereon.

Mr. Pettit moved that the rules be suspended, for the purpose

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enabling him to move that the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union be discharged from the further consideration of the bill (No. 412) to provide for the settlement of claims against the United States, and that said bill be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; and

The question being put, Shall the rules be suspended?

It was decided in the affirmative-two-thirds having voted in. favor thereof.

Mr. Pettit then moved that the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union be discharged from the further consideration of the bill H. R. No. 412, and that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Pettit moved the previous question, which was seconded; and the main question was ordered, to wit:

Shall the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union be discharged from the consideration of said bill No. 412? And being put,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The question was then stated, Shall the said bill (No. 412) be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary?

And being put,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Dickinson gave notice, under the rule of a motion for leave to introduce a bill to amend an act entitled "An act vesting in the commissioners of the counties of Wood and Sandusky the right to certain lots in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio, for county purposes."

Mr. Lincoln gave notice, under the rule, of a motion for leave to introduce a bill in relation to school lands which have been or may be relinquished.

On motion of Mr. Vinton,

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. John A. Rockwell reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, and particularly the bill (No. 684) to provide for carrying into execution in part the twelfth article of the treaty with Mexico, concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, had come to no resolution thereon.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by J. Knox Walker, his private secretary, notifying that he did this day (January 8) approve and sign bills of the following titles, viz: H. R. 189. An act for the relief of Elisha Thomason.

H. R. 194. An act for the relief of Simon Rodrigues.
H. R. 127. An act for the relief of Hugh Riddle.

H. R. 166. An act for the relief of Colonel Robert Wallace, aidde-camp to General William Hull.

H. R. 101. An act for the relief of Esther Russell.

H. R. 110. An act for the relief of Reuben Perry and Thomas P. Ligon.

H. R. 125. An act for the relief of Zilpha White.

[JAN. 8,

H. R. 129. An act for the relief of Archibald Bull and Lemuel S.

Finch.

H. R. 162.

An act for the relief of Charles Waldron.

H. R. 208. An act for the relief of the heirs of William Evans.
H. R. 378. An act for the relief of Eliza A. Mellon.
H. R. 484. An act for the relief of Philip J. Fontane.
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. Wilson: The petition of Marvin W. Fisher, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, praying for compensation for the use of a patent granted to him for charging percussion caps.

By Mr. Faran: The petition of Michael D. Ferralls, praying for compensation for damages sustained by him on account of an arbitrary order of Major John B. Scott, of the United States army, to close his store at Point Isabel.

By Mr. Botts: The petition of certain officers of the army' of the United States, praying for an amendment to the act of August, 1842, entitled "An act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes."

By Mr. Nicoll: The petition of Henry W. Barnes and Randolph M. Cooley, of the city and State of New York, praying for the payment of clothing furnished the seventh regiment of New York volunteers.

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

By Mr. Giddings: The memorial of owners and masters of vessels, mariners and forwarders of produce and merchandise, of Ashtabula, in the State of Ohio, praying for an appropriation for the purpose of placing a light-ship at the entrance of Niagara river, on Horse-shoe reef; which was referred to the Committee on Com

merce.

By Mr. Freedley: The memorial of citizens of Montgomery county, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying that the extension of slavery may be prohibited by law in the territories of California and New Mexico; which was referred to the Committee on Territories.

By Mr. Murphy: The memorial of Charles Johnston, praying for a pension on account of permanent disability produced by exposure while engaged in the naval service of the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Gayle: The petition of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, praying for the right of way and an appropriation of the public land to aid in the construction of said road.

By Mr. Jamieson: The petition of citizens of Hannibal, in the State of Missouri, praying for a donation of the public lands, to aid in the establishment of free and common schools.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

By Mr. Andrew Johnson: The petition of Charles C. Cargill, praying for a pension, on account of disabilities incurred by sickness, contracted from exposure in the service of the United States during the late war with Mexico.

By Mr. Giddings: The petition of Catharine H. Johnson, widow of Hezekiah Johnson, deceased, heretofore presented December 15, 1847.

By Mr. Fries: The petition of Frans Retman, of Franklin county, in the State of Ohio, praying for an increase of pension. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Crowell: The petition of John T. Ball, praying for compensation for extra services rendered by him in the clerk's office of the House of Representatives of the United States.

By Mr. Maclay: The petition of John J. Bulow, junior, heretofore presented December 14, 1840.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Freedley: The memorial of citizens of Norristown, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia; which was referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

By Mr. Cranston: The petition of citizens of the State of Rhode Island, praying for a reduction of postage, and the abolishment of the franking privilege.

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By Mr. Palfrey: The petition of citizens of the State of Massachusetts, of similar import with the foregoing.

By Mr. William T. Lawrence: The petition of publishers of periodicals of the city and State of New York, praying for a proportionate reduction on periodicals with letters and newspapers.

By Mr. Butler: The petition of citizens of Luzerne county, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Arr's tavern to Sloyersville.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By. Mr. Butler: The memorial of citizens of Luzerne county, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying for an immediate modification of the tariff laws; which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Stephens, at 1 o'clock and forty-five minutes, p: m., moved that the House do now adjourn.

And the question being put,

Yeas

It was decided in the affirmative, Xays.....

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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. Archibald Atkinson
Washington Barrow
Richard L. T. Beale
Henry Bedinger
Kingsley S. Bingham
Ausburn Birdsall
Thomas S. Bocock
James B. Bowlin
Linn Boyd
Jasper E. Brady
William G. Brown

Mr. Charles Brown
E. Carrington Cabell
Lucien B. Chase
Asa W. H. Clapp
Franklin Clark
Beverly L. Clark
Thomas L. Clingman
Howell Cobb

William M. Cocke
William Collins
John R. J. Daniel

Mr. Mason C. Darling
John Dickey
Rudolphus Dickinson
Richard S. Donnell
James J. Faran

Winfield S. Featherston

Orlando B. Ficklin
Thomas S. Flournoy
Richard French
Andrew S. Fulton
John Gayle

Mr. Meredith P. Gentry
William L. Goggin
James S. Green
Willard P. Hall
David Hammons
Hugh A. Haralson
John H. Harmanson
Samson W. Harris
Hugh L. W. Hill
Henry W. Hilliard
George S. Houston
Samuel W. Inge
Charles J. Ingersoll
Joseph R. Ingersoll
Alexander Irvin
Alfred Iverson
John Jamieson

Timothy Jenkins
Andrew Johnson
Robert W. Johnson
George W. Jones
John W. Jones
David S. Kaufman
Orlando Kellogg
William Kennon, jr.
Samuel Lahm
Emile La Sère
Sidney Lawrence
Shepherd Leffler

Mr. Thomas W. Ligon
Frederick W. Lord
John H. Lumpkin
Robert McClelland
John A. McClernand
James McDowell
Abraham R. McIlvaine
James J. McKay
Robert M. McLane
Dudley Marvin
Richard K. Meade
John K. Miller
Charles S. Morehead
Jonathan D. Morris
Isaac E. Morse
Henry C. Murphy
Henry Ne's
David Outlaw
Charles H. Peaslee
Lucius B. Peck
George Petrie
John Pettit
Samuel O. Peyton
John S. Phelps
Timothy Pillsbury
James Pollock
William B. Preston
R. Barnwell Rhett
William A. Richardson

Those who voted in the negative are,

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Mr. Thomas Richey

John L. Robinson
William Rockhill
David Rumsey, jr.
William Sawyer
Eliakim Sherrill
Richard F. Simpson
Ephraim K. Smart
Robert Smith

Frederick P. Stanton
George A. Starkweather
Alexander H. Stephens
Charles E. Stuart
James H. Thomas
James Thompson
Jacob Thompson
Richard W. Thompson
John B. Thompson
Robert A. Thompson
William Thompson
Benjamin B. Thurston
Robert Toombs
Thomas J. Turner
Abraham W. Venable
Daniel Wallace
William W. Wick
James S. Wiley
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot.

Mr. Joseph Mullin

William Nelson
William A. Newell
Henry Nicoll
John G. Palfrey
Harvey Putnam
Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
Robert L. Rose

Joseph M. Root

Daniel B. St. John
Robert C. Schenck
Augustine H. Shepperd
Truman Smith
John Strohm
John L. Taylor、
Amos Tuck
John Van Dyke
Samuel F. Vinton
Cornelius Warren
Hugh White

James Wilson

Joseph A. Woodward.

And the House accordingly adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock, meridian.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1849.

Mr. Featherston, by unanimous consent, in pursuance of previous notice, obtained leave, and introduced a bill (No. 715) for the relief of J. P. Montgomery and others, soldiers in the late war with Mexico; which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

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