Mr. Butler moved that the vote of yesterday, by which the bill (No. 412) to provide for the settlement of claims against the United States was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, be reconsidered. Mr. Inge moved that the said motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. Mr. Hammons moved that there be a call of the House; which motion was disagreed to. The question recurred on the motion made by Mr. Inge, that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; And, being put, S Yeas... It was determined in the negative, {Nes The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Mr. Archibald Atkinson Willard P. Hall Nathan K. Hall David Hammons Hugh A. Haralson Mr. John H. Harmanson Charles H. Peaslee Mr. Lucius B. Peck Samuel O. Peyton Charles E. Stuart Abraham W. Venable Mr. Andrew S. Fulton John P. Gaines Meredith P. Gentry Mr. Brodhead moved the previous question; which was seconded, and the main question was ordered, viz: Will the House reconsider the vote by which the said bill (No. 412) was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary? And, being put, It was decided in the affirmative, Yeas... 99 ...... 86 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Mr. Amos Abbott Green Adams Daniel M. Barringer Henry Bedinger Hiram Belcher Esbon Blackmar David Fisher Thomas S. Flournoy Mr. John Freedley Andrew S. Fulton Mr. Henry C. Murphy Mr. William G. Brown Albert G. Brown Mr. Beverly L. Clark Thomas L. Clingman Mason C. Darling Winfield S. Featherston George S. Houston Mr. Samuel W. Inge Charles H. Peaslee Samuel O. Peyton Mr. Timothy Pillsbury Benjamin B. Thurston. Robert Toombs Thomas J. Turner Abraham W. Venable William W. Wick Joseph A. Woodward. The question recurring on referring the bill (No. 412) to the Committee on the Judiciary; It was put, and decided in the negative. Mr. Butler moved that the vote by which the Committee of theWhole House on the State of the Union was discharged from the consideration of the bill (No. 412) to provide for the settlement of claims against the United States, be reconsidered. Mr. Venable moved that the said motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, Nays.. 62 120 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Those who voted in the negative are, Mr. Amos Abbott Green Adams Daniel M. Barringer John W. Farrelly David Fisher Thomas S. Flournoy Mr. Andrew S. Fulton Mr. Charles S. Morehead William A. Newell William B. Preston Harvey Putnam Richard W. Thompson Thomas J. Turner Mr. John A. Rockwell moved the previous question; which was seconded, and the main question was ordered, viz: Will the House reconsider the vote by which the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union was discharged from said bill (No. 412)? And, being put, It was decided in the affirmative. And so the bill was ordered to retain its place on the calendar of the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Mr. Levin, from the Committee on Engraving, reported the following resolution; which was read, and agreed to. Resolved, That the Committee on Engraving be directed to contract for ten thousand copies of Frémont's map, to accompany the report ordered by the House. 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. 691) making appropriations of the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1850, and directed him to report the same to the House, without amendment; when The said bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time; and The said bill being engrossed, was accordingly read the third time and passed. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill. 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. 119. An act for the relief of Anthony Bessie; H. R. 187. An act for the relief of James B. Davenport; H. R. 191. An act to confirm Elizabeth Burriss, her heirs or assigns, in their title to a tract of land; H. R. 328. An act for the relief of John B. Smith and Simeon Darden; H. R. 405. An act to extend certain privileges to the town of Whitehall, in the State of New York; and found the same truly enrolled; when The Speaker signed the said bills. On motion of Mr. Vinton, The House again 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. Caleb B. Smith reported, that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, and particularly the bill (No. 692) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1850, had come to no resolution thereon. 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. McLane: The petition of citizens of the territory of Minesota, praying for the passage of an act for the organization of said territory. Also, the petition of citizens of the territory of Minesota, praying that the land office located at the falls of St. Croix, be removed to Stillwater, in said territory. Also, the petition of citizens of the territory of Minesota, assembled in convention at Stillwater, praying for the organization of a territorial government for Minesota. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Territories. By Mr. Sidney Lawrence: The petition of George Parsonsheretofore presented, December 14, 1847. By Mr. Kellogg: The resolutions of the board of managers of the New York State Colonization Society, in relation to the passage of a bill to remunerate the American Colenization Society for the ex |