Those who voted in the negative are,

The previous question was then seconded, and the main question ordered, viz: Shall the bill pass?

Yeas...

It was decided in the affirmative, {Nes

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

Mr. Hugh A. Haralson
John H. Harmanson
Samson W. Harris
William T. Haskell
Hugh L. W. Hill
Henry W. Hilliard
Isaac E. Holmes
George S. Houston
Samuel W. Inge
Alfred Iverson
John Jamieson
Andrew Johnson
Robert W. Johnson
George W. Jones
John W. Jones

David S. Kaufman

Mr. William Kennon, jr.
T. Butler King
Emile La Sere
Thomas W. Ligon
John H. Lumpkin
James McDowell
Robert M. McLane
John McQueen
Richard K. Meade
John K. Miller
Charles S. Morehead
Isaac E. Morse
David Outlaw
John S. Pendleton
Samuel O Peyton
John S. Phelps

Mr. Timothy Pillsbury

William B. Preston

R. Barnwell Rhett
J. Dixon Roman
William Sawyer
Augustine H. Shepperd
Richard F. Simpson

Frederick P. Stanton
Alexander H. Stephens
James H. Thomas
Jacob Thompson
John B. Thompson
Patrick W. Tompkins
Robert Toombs
Abraham W. Venable
Joseph A. Woodward.

Mr. Julius Rockwell moved that the vote be reconsidered by which the said bill was passed, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; which latter motion to reconsider was laid upon the table.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

Mr. Crisfield moved that the vote be reconsidered by which was laid upon the table the resolution yesterday offered by Mr. Tallmadge, authorizing the payment, out of the contingent fund of the House, to the officers, clerks, messengers, pages, &c., the same amount of extra compensation as was allowed at the last session of Congress.

Mr. Toombs moved that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; which motion was agreed to.

Mr. Meade, by unanimous consent, in pursuance of previous notice, obtained leave and introduced a bill (No. 798) to establish a branch mint of the United States in California, and for other purposes; which was read a first and second time.

Mr. Meade moved that the bill be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and that it be made the special order of the day for to-morrow.

Mr. Pollock moved the previous question.

And upon inquiry being made, the Speaker stated that, if the previous question was sustained, the question would first be on the motion to commit the bill, and if that failed the question would then be on the passage of the bill.

Mr. Dickey insisted as a point of order, that the bill must go to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, on the ground that it contained an appropriation, inasmuch as it established the salaries of certain officers.

The Speaker stated, that the bill might establish salaries without containing an appropriation to pay them, and, in the opinion of the chair, there was no appropriation in the bill.

From this decision of the chair, Mr. Rumsey appealed.

The question was stated, "Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the House?"

Pending which,

"On motion of Mr. Caleb B. Smith,

The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole House

on the state of the Union, and after sometime spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Cranston reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration and particularly the bill (No 711) to establish the territorial government of New Mexico, had come to no resolution thereon.

A message from the Senate by Mr. Dickens, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, viz:

S. 258. An act concerning the pay department of the army;

S. 484. An act to amend an act entitled "An act for authenticating certain records," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine;

in which I am directed to request the concurrence of the House. The Senate have passed a bill of the House of the following title, viz:

H. R. 574. An act granting a half section of land for the uses of schools within fractional township nineteen south, of range eighteen west, county of Lowndes, State of Mississippi.

The President of the United States has notified the Senate, that he has approved and signed bills of the following titles, viz:

S. 366. An act in addition to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company.

S. 470. An act to extend the provisions of an act approved the third of March, 1847, for carrying into effect the existing compacts with the States of Alabama and Mississippi, with regard to the five per cent fund and school reservations.

Mr. Garnett Duncan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the views of the minority of said committee upon the bill from the Senate (No. 44) entitled "An act for the relief of Cadwalader Wallace;" which were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed.

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. Hunt: The petition of citizens of Cold Spring, in the State of New York, praying for a reduction of postage and the abolition of the franking privilege.

By Mr. Julius Rockwell: The petition of citizens of Florida, in the State of Massachusetts, of similar import with the foregoing. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Schenck: The memorial of citizens of Dayton, in the State of Ohio, praying for a reduction of postage and the abolition of the franking privilege; which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

By Mr. Andrew Johnson: The petition of Isaac Alway, of Cocke county, in the State of Tennessee, praying for a pension on account of his services in the late war with Great Britain; which was referred to the committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. James Thompson: The memorial of citizens of the State

of Pennsylvania, praying for the passage of a law, requiring steamboats and vessels navigating the northern lakes, to carry signal lights, to designate their course in the night; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Giddings: The petition of citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia; and the slave trade between the several States; and, also, that no new State be admitted allowing slavery within it;

Also, the petition of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying that measures be taken for effecting such change of the constitution and laws as shall abolish slavery throughout the Union;

Also, the petition of women of America, praying that some means may be devised to prevent the further extension of slavery. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll: The petition of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for the immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia; which was referred to Committee for the District of Columbia:

By Mr. Henry: The petition of citizens of Middletown, in the State of Vermont, praying for further protection to the authors of useful inventions; which was referred to the Committee on Patents. By Mr. Giddings: The petition of Joseph Treat, of the State of Ohio, praying for a dissolution of the Union; which was ordered to be laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Bayly,

The House, at 4 o'clock and thirty minutes, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, a. m.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1849.

Mr Garnett Duncan, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill (No. 799) for the relief of Peter M. Grant; which was read a first and second time; and,

Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed and read a third time; And being engrossed, the bill was accordingly read the third time and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill.

Mr. Garnett Duncan, from the same committee, to whom was referred the joint resolution from the Senate (No. 59) entitled "A resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make an equitable settlement with the sureties of Robert T. Lytle, late surveyor general of the district of Ohio," reported the same back to the House without amendment:

Thereupon,

The said resolution was read the third time and passed.
Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Mr. Garnett Duncan, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill from the Senate (No. 207) entitled "An act to authorize the sale of reserved lands, and for other purposes," reported