So all further proceedings in the call was dispensed with.

Mr. Wentworth moved that the said motion to reconsider the vote by which the House agreed to the resolution offered by Mr. Gott on the 21st of December, ultimo, be laid upon the table.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative, Nays...

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,

The question then recurred on the motion to reconsider;

Mr. Sawyer moved the previous question; which was seconded, and the main question was ordered to be put, to wit: Will the House reconsider the vote by which the said resolution was agreed to? And, being put,

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

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Mr. John R. J. Daniel
Richard S. Donnell
George G. Dunn
George N. Eckert
Alexander Evans
Winfield S. Featherston
Thomas S. Flournoy
Richard French
Andrew S. Fulton
John P. Gaines
John Gayle
Meredith P. Gentry
James S. Green
Joseph Grinnell
Willard P. Hall
David Hammons
Hugh A. Haralson
Samson W. Harris
William T. Haskell
Hugh L. W. Hill
Henry W. Hilliard
George S. Houston
John W. Houston
Samuel W. Inge
Charles J. Ingersoll
Alexander Irvin
Alfred Iverson
John Jamieson

Andrew Johnson

George W. Jones

Mr. John W. Jones

David S. Kaufman
William Kennon, jr.
T. Butler King
Emile La Sere
Lewis C. Levin
Thomas W. Ligon
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick W. Lord
John H. Lumpkin
John A. McClernand
James McDowell
James J. McKay
Robert M. McLane
Job Mann

Richard K. Meade
John K. Miller
Charles S. Morehead
Isaac E. Morse
Henry C. Murphy
Henry Nes
Henry Nicoll
David Outlaw
John S. Pendleton
Samuel O. Peyton
John S. Phelps
Timothy Pillsbury
James Pollock
William B. Preston
R. Barnwell Rhett

Those who voted in the negative are,

Mr. Nathan K. Hall

James G. Hampton
Moses Hampton
Thomas J. Henley
William Henry
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt
Timothy Jenkins
James H. Johnson
Orlando Kellogg
Daniel P. King
Samuel Lahm
William T. Lawrence
Sidney Lawrence
Shepherd Leffler
William Pitt Lynde
Robert McClelland
Abraham R. McIlvaine
Horace Mann
George P. Marsh
Dudley Marvin

Jonathan D. Morris
Joseph Mullin
William Nelson
William A. Newell
John G. Palfrey

Mr. William A. Richardson
Thomas Richey

J. Dixon Roman
William Sawyer

Augustine H. Shepperd
Ephraim K. Smart
Caleb B. Smith
Truman Smith
Frederick P. Stanton
Alexander H. Stephens
Charles E. Stuart
Frederick A. Tallmadge
John L. Taylor
James H. Thomas
James Thompson
Jacob Thompson
Richard W. Thompson
John B. Thompson
Robert A. Thompson
Patrick W. Tompkins
Robert Toombs
John Van Dyke
Abraham W. Venable
Samuel F. Vinton'
Daniel Wallace
William W. Wick
James S. Wiley
Hezekiah Williams
Joseph A. Woodward.

Mr. Charles H. Peaslee
Lucius B. Peck
George Petric
John Pettit
Harvey Putnam
John L. Robinson
William Rockhill
Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
Robert L. Rose

Joseph M. Root
David Rumsey, jr.
Daniel B. St. John
Eliakim Sherrill
Peter H. Silvester
Robert Smith

George A. Starkweather
John Strohm

William Thompson
Benjamin B. Thurston
Amos Tuck

Thomas J. Turner
Cornelius Warren
John Wentworth
Hugh White
David Wilmot

James Wilson.

So the said motion to reconsider having been agreed to,

The resolution was before the House, viz:

Whereas the traffic now prosecuted in this metropolis of the republic in human beings as chattels is contrary to natural justice and the fundamental principles of our political system, and is notoriously a reproach to our country throughout Christendom, and a

serious hinderance to the progress of republican liberty among the nations of the earth: Therefore,

Resolved, That the Committee for the District of Columbia be instructed to report a bill, as soon as practicable, prohibiting the slave trade in the said District.

Mr. Caleb B. Smith moved to amend the same by striking out all before and after the word "resolved," and inserting

"That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to report, as soon as practicable, a bill so amending the present laws in force in this District as effectually to prevent the bringing of slaves into the District, either for sale here or to be sold and carried to any place beyond the District."

The question being on agreeing to the said amendment, on which Mr. Smith moved the previous question; when

Mr. Botts moved that the said resolution and amendment be laid upon the table;

And the question being put,

Yeas..

It was decided in the negative, Nays......

94

110

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Mr. Archibald Atkinson
Daniel M. Barringer
Washington Barrow
Richard L. T. Beale
Henry Bedinger
Ausburn Birdsall
Thomas S. Bocock
John M. Botts
Linn Boyd
Nathaniel Boyden
Samuel A. Bridges
Richard Brodhead
William G. Brown
Charles Brown
Albert G. Brown
Armistead Burt
E. Carrington Cabell
John G. Chapman
Beverly L. Clark
Franklin Clark

Thomas L. Clingman
Howell Cobb

Williamson R. W. Cobb

William M. Cocke

John W. Crisfield

John H. Crozier

John R. J. Daniel
Richard S. Donnell
Alexander Evans
Winfield S. Featherston
Thomas S. Flournoy
Richard French

Mr. Andrew S. Fulton

John P Gaines
John Gayle
Meredith P. Gentry
William L. Goggin
James S. Green
Willard P. Hall
Hugh A. Haralson
Samson W. Harris
William T. Haskell
Hugh L. W. Hill
Henry W. Hilliard
George S. Houston
John W. Houston
Samuel W. Inge
Charles J. Ingersoll

Alfred Iverson
John Jamieson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Jones
John W. Jones
David S. Kaufman
William Kennon, jr.
T. Butler King
Emile La Sère
Lewis C. Levin
Thomas W. Ligon
John H. Lumpkin
John A. McClernand
James McDowell
James J. McKay

Mr. Robert M. McLane
Richard K. Meade
John K. Miller
Charles S. Morchead
Isaac E. Morse
Henry C. Murphy
David Outlaw
John S. Pendleton
Samuel O. Peyton
John S. Phelps
Timothy Pillsbury
William B. Preston
R. Barnwell Rhett
William A. Richardson
J. Dixon Roman
William Sawyer
Augustine H. Shepherd
Richard F. Simpson
Frederick P, Stanton
Alexander H. Stephens
James H. Thomas
Jacob Thompson
John B. Thompson
Robert A. Thompson
Patrick W. Tompkins
Robert Toombs
Abraham W. Venable
Daniel Wallace
James S. Wiley
Hezekiah Williams
Joseph A. Woodward.

Mr. Charles W. Cathcart
Asa W. H. Clapp
Jacob Collamer
William Collins

Mr. Harmon S. Conger
Robert B. Cranston
John Crowell
John D. Cummins
Mason C. Darling
John Dickey
Rudolphus Dickinson
James Dixon
William Duer
George G. Dunn
George N. Eckert
Thomas O. Edwards
Elisha Embree
Nathan Evans

James J. Faran

John W. Farrelly
Orlando B. Ficklin

David Fisher

John Freedley
George Fries

Joshua R. Giddings
Daniel Gott
Horace Greeley
Dudley S. Gregory
Joseph Grinnell
Nathan K. Hall
David Hammons
James G. Hampton
Moses Hampton
Thomas J. Henley
William Henry
Elias B. Holmes

Samuel D. Hubbard

Mr. Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt
Alexander Irvin
Timothy Jenkins
James H. Johnson
Orlando Kellogg
Daniel P. King
Samuel Lahm
William T. Lawrence
Sidney Lawrence
Shepherd Leffler
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick W. Lord
William Pitt Lynde
Robert McClelland
Abraham R. McIlvaine
Job Mann
Horace Mann
George P. Marsh
Dudley Marvin

Jonathan D. Morris
Joseph Mullin
William Nelson
Henry Nes

William A. Newell
Henry Nicoll
John G. Palfrey
Charles H. Peaslee
Lucius B. Peck
George Petrie
John Pettit
James Pollock

Harvey Putnam

Mr. Pettit, at 3 o'clock and ten minutes, moved that the House do now adjourn; which motion was disagreed to.

The question recurred on seconding the previous question moved by Mr. Caleb B. Smith; and there was no second.

Mr. Smith then modified his amendment to the resolution, so as to read as follows:

That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to inquire what legislation is necessary to prevent the introduction of slaves from any of the States of this Union into the District, for sale here or elsewhere, and that they report by bill or otherwise. Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Howell Cobb,

The House, at 3 o'clock and seventeen minutes, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock, meridian.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1849.

The Speaker announced, as the business first in order, the consideration of the resolution reported by Mr. Conger, on the 9th instant, from the Committee on Printing, viz:

Resolved, That one thousand extra copies of the letter of the Secretary of War, and the accompanying papers, in relation to the harbor at Buffalo, New York, communicated to this House on the 6th instant, be printed for the use of this House, and that two hundred and fifty copies thereof be printed for the use of the bureau of topographical engineers.