and insert, "no drawbacks, or bounties in lieu thereof, shall be allowed or paid on the exportation of pickled fish of the fisheries of the United States: And provided, further, That all laws now allowing bounties on the tonnage of vessels engaged in the cod and bank fisheries be, and they are hereby, repealed. And the question being put; Will the House concur with the Committee of the Whole in the said amendment? It was decided in the negative,Yeas, Nays, 100 109 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are Mr. Amos Abbott Lemuel H. Arnold John Blanchard Jacob Brinkerhoff Mr. James Graham Abraham R. McIlvaine Mr. John Ritter Julius Rockwell Bannon G. Thibodeaux Benjamin Thompson Daniel R. Tilden Robert Toombs Mr. George Fries William F. Giles Mr. Andrew Johnson John W. Lawrence Mr. Barclay Martin So the said amendment was rejected. Mr. Alexander D. Sims Leonard H. Sims Robert Smith Frederick P. Stanton The amendment of the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, by which "tobacco unmanufactured" was stricken from schedule D, in the 410th line of the printed bill, and inserted in schedule B, was considered by the House. And the question being put on concurring with the committee in this amendment, it was decided in the affirmative. All the said amendments having been disposed of, The question recurred, Shall the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to-day? And being put, It was decided in the affirmative. On motion of Mr. McKay, Ordered, That in engrossing the bill the Clerk be directed to letter the schedules in their order, designating the first or highest class as A, the next highest B, and so proceeding regularly; and that he also alliterate the articles in each schedule. The said bill being engrossed, was accordingly read the third time. Mr. Boyd moved the previous question, which was seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, viz: Shl the bill pass? SYeas, And decided in the affirmative, Nays, 114 95 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are * In compliance with this order, the bill as engrossed exhibits the schedules as follows: Schedule A remains A. Schedule E becomes F. Mr. George C. Dromgoole William F. Giles Robert M. T. Hunter Andrew Johnson Mr. David S. Kaufman John W. Lawrence Those who voted in the negative are― Mr. Amos Abbott John Quincy Adams Daniel M. Barringer James Black John Blanchard Milton Brown William S. Garvin Meredith P. Gentry Mr. Joshua R. Giddings James Graham niel P. King Alexander Ramsey So the said bill was passed. Mr. David S. Reid R. Barnwell Rhett Frederick P. Stanton Mr. Julius Rockwell John A. Rockwell Robert C. Schenck Bannon G. Thibodeaux Benjamin Thompson James Thompson Daniel R. Tilden Robert C. Winthrop Bryan R. Young Mr. Faran moved that the last mentioned vote be reconsidered, and thereon moved the previous question, which was seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, and the said motion to reconsider was disagreed to: and The title of the said bill was then read as follows: "An act reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes." And the question was stated, Will the House agree to the said title? when Mr. Cobb moved the previous question, which was seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, and the said title was agreed to. Mr. Tibbatts moved that the vote on agreeing to the title of the said bill be reconsidered, and thereon moved the previous question, which was seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, and the said motion to reconsider was disagreed to. Ordered, That the Clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bill. Mr. Hoge moved that when the House adjourns to-day, it adjourn to meet on Monday next: which motion was agreed to. 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. Morse: A petition of James H. Brigham, of the parish of Morehouse, and State of Louisiana, in right of Sarah D. Caldwell, his wife, praying confirmation of a certain tract of land containing one thousand and fifty-two arpens, situate in said parish, (formerly a part of Ouachita,) known as the prairie Jefferson, to the said Sarah D. Caldwell and her heirs, in whose right he claims: which was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. By Mr. Pillsbury: A memorial of D. Klaener, agent of the association for the protection of German emigrants, at Galveston, in the State of Texas, praying for the remission of certain duties unjustly levied by the custom-house officers of the United States at the port of Galveston, in the State of Texas, on certain German emigrants: which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. By Mr. Faran: A memorial of C. Sharp, of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, praying an appropriation to manufacture one of his wrought-iron brazed cannon, as a test, for the use of the government: which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Cathcart: A petition of Francis La Fontain and others, chiefs and headmen of the Miami nation of Indians in the State of Indiana, praying permission to remain on their reserved lands in that State and draw their annuities as heretofore, until the legal inability to sell their lands be removed, or the United States should buy them: which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. By Mr. Hamlin: A petition of Charles Beck, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for a pension on account of injuries received and disabilities incurred in the service of the United States as first master's mate on board the frigate Constitution in the year 1821: which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Ramsey: A memorial of Charles C. Rhodes, M. D. Ball, and two hundred others, citizens of Schuylkill county, in the State of Pennsylvania, engaged in the coal trade, praying that the present tariff laws may not be changed: which was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. By Mr. John Quincy Adams: A memorial of the Massachusetts Historical Society, remonstrating against any proposed abrogation or abridgment of those provisions of the revenue laws of the United States by virtue of which books, maps, and other scientific and literary apparatus and objects, have for the last thirty years been admitted free of duty, when imported for the use of philosophical or literary societies, or of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States: which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. And then, on motion of Mr. Cunningham, the House, at thirty-five minutes past 3 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until Monday next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. MONDAY, JULY 6, 1846. The journal of Friday having been read, Mr. McGaughey moved that the same be amended by inserting thereon all the proceedings of Friday last in relation to the vote upon inserting "salt" in the schedule of articles free of duty, which were then declared by the Speaker to be null, in consequence of the discovery of an error in the adding up of a vote, and which were consequently omitted from the journal of that day. The Speaker stated that, inasmuch as the error alluded to in the amendment proposed by Mr. McGaughey was discovered before the next vote was announced, and as that vote was upon a motion to reconsider the last vote made by a member who voted with the majority, and as the correction of the error changed the result of that vote, the member making the motion had no right, under the rule, to make it, and therefore all the action subsequent to the announcement of the erroneous vote was properly stated by the Speaker, at the time, to be a nullity; in which statement the House acquiesced. The Speaker therefore decided that the amendment of the journal now proposed by Mr. McGaughey was not in order. From this decision Mr. McGaughey appealed. A motion was made by Mr. Cobb, that the appeal be laid upon the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative, Yeas, 90 52 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are |