ppropriation contained in this act, unless the revenues of the govern- · all be sufficient to pay the current expenses of the year without reto treasury notes or loans:"

s

Yeas,

determined in the negative, Nays,.

On motion by Mr. Turney,

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On mot

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and 61, th "For th thousand

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

s. Atchison, Atherton, Bagby, Bright, Calhoun, Chalmers, Cilans, Fairfield, Haywood, Houston, Lewis, McDuffie, Niles, Pener, Turney, Westcott, Yulee.

e who voted in the negative are,

s. Allen, Ashley, Barrow, Benton, Berrien, Breese, Cass, Thomas , John M. Clayton, Corwin, Crittenden, Davis, Dayton, Dickinx, Greene, Hannegan, Huntington, Johnson, of Maryland, JohnLouisiana, Miller, Morehead, Pearce, Phelps, Rusk, Semple, Senmons, Speight, Sturgeon, Upham, Webster, Woodbridge.

otion by Mr. Westcott, to amend the bill by inserting at the end the following:

I whereas it is anticipated that the revenue for the year ending June 47, will be inadequate to pay the expenditures of the government allaw, and that a resort must be had to other means for obtaining or the use of the government: therefore, in order to raise money to e objects of this act,

it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorI directed to make, sign, and issue certificates to an amount not exthe amount appropriated by this act, and ten per centum thereon, to the order of the Secretary of War, reciting the provisions of this the specific item of appropriation to procure funds for which the issued, for such sums as he may deem proper, not less than $100; same shall be received at any of the land offices in payment for land ed of the United States, sold at public sale or by private entry, and ertificates shall not bear interest; and the Secretary of the Treasury iver said certificates to the Secretary of War; and that before any corks shall be commenced, or any expense incurred thereon, the Secf War shall, by sale of so many of said certificates, as may be necespublic sale, for cash, within the State or Territory in which the parwork for which the same were issued, is situate, which sale may count of not more than ten per centum on the amount, if said certihall have raised the amount appropriated by this act, necessary to such work:"

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Ordered

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cordingly. The Se

eas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Westcott voted in the affirmative.

e who voted in the negative are,

s. Allen, Archer, Ashley, Atchison, Atherton, Barrow, Benton, Breese, Bright, Calhoun, Cass, Chalmers, Thomas Clayton, Clayton, Corwin, Crittenden, Davis, Dayton, Dickinson, Dix, Greene, Hannegan, Haywood, Johnson, of Maryland, Johnson, siana, McDuffie, Miller, Morehead, Niles, Pearce, Pennybacker,

bill (S. 51 certain cas

and the an

Ordered The sai Resolved Ordered

Represent

Phelps, Rusk, Semple, Sevier, Simmons, Speight, Sturgeon, Turney, ham, Woodbridge.

No amendment being made, the bill was reported to the Senate. On motion by Mr. Davis, to amend the bill, by striking out, lines and 61, the following:

"For the improvement of Little Fort harbor, on lake Michigan, twe thousand dollars:" (Yeas,.

It was determined in 'the negative, Nays,.

On motion by Mr. Davis,

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

Messrs. Archer, Atherton, Bagby, Berrien, Calhoun, Chalmers, Cill
Davis, Dix, Evans, Fairfield, Haywood, Huntington, Jarnagin, Lev
Mangum, Niles, Pennybacker, Rusk, Sevier, Turney, Westcott, Yuled
Those who voted in the negative are,

Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison, Barrow, Benton, Breese, Brig Cameron, Cass, Thomas Clayton, John M. Clayton, Corwin, Crittend Dickinson, Greene, Hannegan, Johnson, of Maryland, Johnson, of L isiana, Miller, Morehead, Pearce, Phelps, Semple, Simmons, Speis Sturgeon, Upham, Webster, Woodbridge.

No further amendment being proposed, on the question, "Shall this pass to a third reading?"

It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas,
Nays,

On motion by Mr. Atherton,

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

Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Barrow, Benton, Berrien, Breese, Camer Cass, Thomas Clayton, John M. Clayton, Corwin, Davis, Dayton, Di inson, Dix, Greene, Hannegan, Huntington, Jarnagin, Johnson, of Ma land, Johnson, of Louisiana, Miller, Morehead, Pearce, Phelps, Ru Semple, Sevier, Simmons, Speight, Sturgeon, Upham, Webster, Wo bridge.

Those who voted in the negative are,

Messrs. Archer, Atherton, Bagby, Calhoun, Chalmers, Cilley, Fairfie Haywood, Houston, Lewis, Mangum, Niles, Pennybacker, Turney, W cott, Yulee.

So the bill was ordered to be read a third time..

The said bill was read a third time.

Resolved, That this bill pass.

Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives cordingly.

The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, bill (S. 51) to provide for the payment of the evidences of public deb certain cases: and having been amended, it was reported to the Sena and the amendment was concurred in.

Ordered, That this bill be engrossed, and read a third time.
The said bill was read a third time.

Resolved, That this bill pass.

Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House

bill

ce President laid before the Senate a communication signed M. uniting in the application of P. M. Butler for an investigation xpenditures made by them in their mission to the Prairie Indians: s read.

age from the House of Representatives, by Mr. French, their

esident: The House of Representatives have passed the follownd resolution:

56. An act for the relief of Silas Waterman, of the county of on, and State of Vermont.

64. An act for the relief of Elisha H. Holmes.

66. An act for the relief of Gregory Thomas and others.
26. An act supplementary to the act passed the 20th day of Feb-
26, entitled "An act to enlarge the powers of the several orphans'
d in and for the District of Columbia."

16. Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to adjudicate
of the Suquah-natch-ah and other clans of Choctaw Indians
es were left undetermined by the commissioners for the want of
hip maps.

ouse of Representatives have rejected the resolution from the Sen21) to authorize the President to sanction an agreement made beWyandots and Delawares for the purchase of certain lands by r of the latter tribe of Indians; and

ave also rejected the bill (S. 118) for the relief of Thomas Brow

nate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration 1 (H. R. 384) reducing the duty on imports, and for other pur

d,

ebate, and the consideration of Executive business, motion,

nate adjourned.

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1846.

nagin, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that they ined and found duly enrolled the following bills:

IS. An act making appropriations for the improvement of certain nd rivers.

154. An act further to extend the time for locating Virginia miliwarrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land

159. An act in relation to the payment of claims.

urgeon presented a memorial of operators, proprietors, miners, and izens of Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania, praying that the existson foreign coal may not be changed.

d, That it lie on the table.

urgeon submittted documents relating to the claim of Joseph soldier in the revolutionary army, for a pension: which were o the Committee on Pensions.

presented a memorial of mechanics and workingmen of Fishing, in the State of New York, praying that the bill (H. R. 384)

reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes, may not pa Senate.

Ordered, That it lie on the table.

Mr. Dix presented a petition of citizens of Ulster county, New praying that the tariff of 1842 may not be altered or repealed. Ordered, That it lie on the table.

Mr. Cameron presented four memorials of citizens of Schuylkill c a memorial of citizens of Carbon, Luzerne, and Schuylkill countie a memorial of citizens of Beaver Meadow, in the State of Pennsyl engaged in the coal trade and the various occupations connected wi prosperity of the same, praying that the tariff of 1842 may not be rep Ordered, That they lie on the table.

Mr. Cameron presented the proceedings of a meeting of citiz Danville, Pennsylvania, declaring that any change in the tariff o will prove fatal to the great interests of that State, and recommendi rejection of the bill (H. R. 384) reducing the duty on imports, and fo purposes.

Ordered, That they lie on the table.

Mr. Morehead presented the petition of David Whelply, praying pensation for his services in the expedition to the sources of the Miss in 1805 and 1806, commanded by Major General Pike: which was r to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Corwin submitted the following resolution; which was cons by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to i into the expediency and propriety of changing the time of holdi winter term of the circuit and district courts of the United States: district of Ohio.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. French Clerk:

Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed t from the Senate entitled (S. 7) " An act for the relief of the legal re] tatives of Pierre Menard, Josiah T. Betts, Jacob Feaman, and E Roberts, of the State of Illinois, sureties of Felix St. Vrain, late agent, deceased," with an amendment: in which they request the rence of the Senate.

They have passed the following bills from the Senate:

S. 50. An act for the relief of Mrs. Pike, widow of the late ( Pike.

S. 56. An act giving the assent of Congress to a change of the c entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas admission into the Union.

S. 89. An act for the relief of Amos Kendall.

S. 152. An act for the relief of Abraham B. Fannin.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed th rolled bills, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signa their President.

Mr. Upham, from the Committee on Printing, reported in favor o ing the following subjects:

Petition of Little and Brown and others, publishers, of Boston, pr the 22d July.

rial of the freeholders and inhabitants of Carbon and Luzerne Pennsylvania.

memorials of proprietors and workers of the anthracite collieries, in vania, presented the 23d July.

ial of shippers and importers of the city and county of Phila

upon,

ed, That the said petition and memorials be printed.

hnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom wing bills were referred:

344. An act for the relief of Surranus Cobb;

345. An act for the relief of Justin Jacobs;/

349. An act granting a pension to Abraham Ansmen;

352. An act for the relief of Aquilla Goodwin;

them severally without amendment.

They h tatives of of the Sen Mr. Jarr President

454, H. R The Se of the bill poses: and After de On moti It was

On

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n motion by Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana,

ed, That the Committee on Pensions be discharged from the fur-
sideration of the petition of Garrett Burns, and from the further
tion of the petition of Thomas Henshaw and others.
ennybacker, agreeably to notice, asked and obtained leave to bring
S. 240) for the relief of Hobson Johns: which was read the first
nd times, by unanimous consent.

d, That it be referred to the Committee of Claims.
chison, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred
H. R. 347) for the relief of John Campbell, of Garland, in the
laine, reported it without amendment.

enate proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by Mr. John-
Maryland, the 22d July, in relation to a court of inquiry or court
on the calls for volunteers: and,

n motion by Mr. Johnson, of Maryland,

-d, That the further consideration of the resolution be postponed ■y next.

enate proceeded to consider the resolution passed by the House of tatives fixing the hour of the day at 12 o'clock meridian, for the ent sine die of the two houses of Congress: and

ed, That they concur therein.

d, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives accor

ice President signed the three enrolled bills this day reported to n examined, (H. R. 18, 454, and 459,) and they were delivered mmittee to be presented to the President of the United States. sage from the House of Representatives, by Mr. French, their

resident: The House of Representatives have rejected the bill from the Senate entitled "An act for the relief of Peter Capella, rator of Andrew Capella, deceased."

have passed the bill from the Senate (S. 54) for the relief of Phillips; also, the bill (S. 114) for the relief of Harriet L.

have passed the bill (S. 49) granting a pension to Richard Elliott, ndments; also, the bill (S. 155) for the relief of John Keith, of k, with an amendment: in which amendments they request the ace of the Senate.

Calhoun,

gan, Hous Speight, T So the S