Mr. Hezekiah Williams

David Wilmot

Mr. Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood

Mr. William W. Woodwerth
Jacob S. Yost.

So the House refused to agree to the said amendment.
The following and last amendment was read, as follows:

"Strike out the 3d section of the said bill, which is as follows: "SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the end of the present session of Congress, the mileage allowed and paid to Senators and Representatives in Congress and Delegates from Territories shall be forty cents per mile for the first two hundred miles; thirty-five cents for each mile above two hundred and not over three hundred; thirty cents for each mile above three hundred and not over four hundred; and twenty-five cents per mile for any distance over four hundred miles: Provided, That the aggregate mileage allowed to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate, in any one session of Congress, shall in no case exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars?"

And the question being put, Will the House concur with the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union in its agreement to said amendment.

It was decided in the affirmative.

So the amendment of the Senate was agreed to.

Mr. Hamlin moved that the last-mentioned vote be reconsidered.
And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative,

Yeas,
Nays,

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

Mr. Joseph H. Anderson

Lemuel H. Arnold
George Ashmun

Daniel M. Barringer

Joshua F. Bell

James Black

James A. Black

William W. Campbell
John H. Campbell
John G. Chapman
Henry S. Clarke
Howell Cobb
William M. Cocke
John F. Collin
Henry Y. Cranston
Alvan Cullom
John D. Cummins
Francis A. Cunningham
John R. J. Daniel
Garrett Davis
James C. Dobbin
Alfred Dockery
Robert P. Dunlap
Jacob Erdman
John H. Ewing

James J. Faran

George Fries

William S. Garvin

Mr. Samuel Gordon

James Graham

Henry Grider
Joseph Grinnell
Martin Grover
Hannibal Hamlin
James G. Hampton
Thomas J. Henley
Elias B. Holmes
Joseph R. Ingersoll
James H. Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Daniel P. King
Preston King
John W. Lawrence
Edward Long
John H. Lumpkin
Moses McClean
Felix G. McConnell
James McDowell

Abraham R. McIlvaine
James J. McKay
John P. Martin
William S. Miller
Mace Moulton
Archibald C. Niven
John S. Pendleton

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. John Quincy Adams

Stephen Adams

Thomas H. Bayly

James B. Bowlin

Mr. Linn Boyd

Jacob Brinkerhoff

William H. Brockenbrough
Joseph Buffington

Mr. James Pollock
Alexander Ramsey
George Rathbun
David S. Reid
John Ritter
Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
John Runk
John F. Scammon
Henry J. Seaman
Luther Severance
Truman Smith

David A. Starkweather
Henry St. John
John Strohm
James Thompson
John W. Tibbatts
Daniel R. Tilden
Andrew Trumbo
Horace Wheaton
William W. Wick
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot

Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood
Bryan R. Young
Jacob S. Yost.

Mr. Armistead Burt
Reuben Chapman
John S. Chipman
George C. Dromgoole

And the question recurring, Will the House concur with the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union in its agreement to the said amendment?

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

Mr. Mace Moulton

Archibald C. Niven
John S. Pendleton
James Pollock
Alexander Ramsey
George Rathbun
David S. Reid
John Ritter
Julius Rockwell

John A. Rockwell

John Runk

Cullen Sawtelle

John F. Scammon

Mr. Henry J. Seaman

Luther Severance
Truman Smith

David A. Stark weather
Andrew Stewart
Henry St. John
John Strohm
Benjamin Thompson
James Thompson
Allen G. Thurman
John W. Tibbatts
Robert Toombs

Mr. Andrew Trumbo
Samuel F. Vinton
Horace Wheaton
William W. Wick
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot
Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood
William W. Woodworth
William Wright

Bryan R. Young
Jacob S. Yost.

So the House refused to agree to the said amendment of the Senate.

And so it was

Resolved, That this House do concur in the amendment (No. 16) of the Senate to the bill making appropriation for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1847, and for other purposes, with the following amendment:

"Strike out all after the word 'dollars,' in lines 3 and 4, to the end of said sixteenth amendment.

That this House do concur in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 33d, 38th, 41st, 42d, 47th, 48th, 50th, 51st, 53d, 54th, 55th, and 56th of the Senate's amendments to said bill.

That this House disagree to the 6th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 20th, 23d, 31st, 32d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 39th, 40th, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 49th, and 52d of said amendments.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Mr. Wheaton, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee have examined enrolled bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. No. 122. An act directing the mode of settlement of the accounts of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones;

H. R. No. 136. An act for the relief of the heirs of Dr. John Gray, deceased;

H. R. No. 292. An act for the relief of Margaret Gwinnup, of Hamilton county, Ohio;

H. R. No. 244.

H. R. No. 245.

H. R. No. 302.

An act for the relief of Lois Mattison;

An act for the relief of Captain John Patton;

An act for the relief of John Carr, John Batty, and Samuel Stevenson, seamen on board of the whale ship Margaret; An act for the relief of William Gump;

H. R. No. 301.

H. R. No. 300. H. R. No. 278. Missouri;

H. R. No. 268.

H. R. No. 298.

H. R. No. 254.

of Somerset, in the

An act for the relief of Lewis Laing;

An act for the relief of William Moss, of the State of

An act for the relief of William Poole;

An act for the relief of Leah Gray;

An act for the relief of Solomon Russell, of the county
State of Maine;

H. R. No. 204. An act for the relief of Daniel H. Warren;

H. R. No. 165. An act for the relief of Samuel D. Enochs;

H. R. No. 229. An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives

of Thomas Kelly;

H. R. No. 236. An act for the relief of Eli Merrill;

H. R. No. 285.

H. R. No. 510.

H. R. No. 392. H. R. No. 390. Baltimore;

H. R. No. 377. Ruddle;

H. R. No. 371.
Florida;

H. R. No. 352.
H. R. No. 351.
H. R. No. 350.

H. R. No. 349.

An act for the relief of Richard Hargrave Lee.
An act for the relief of Amos Hunting;
An act for the relief of William B. Lang;

An act for the relief of the owners of the ship Herald, of

An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John

An act for the relief of John Milsted, of Escambia county,

An act for the relief of Aquilla Goodwin;
An act for the relief of Benjamin Allen;
An act for the relief of Griffin Kelly;

An act granting a pension to Abraham Ausmen;
An act granting a pension to Joseph Dusseau;

H. R. No. 348. H. R. No. 347. An act granting a pension to John Campbell, of Garland, in the State of Maine;

H. R. No. 346. An act granting a pension to Daniel Pratt;

H. R. No. 526. An act supplementary to the act passed on the 20th day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An act to enlarge the powers of the several orphans' courts held in and for the District of Columbia;"

H. R. No. 345.

H. R. No. 344.
H. R. No. 337.

An act for the relief of Justin Jacobs;
An act for the relief of Surranus Cobb;

An act for the relief of Mary Segar, of Jefferson county, State of New York;

H. R. No. 336. An act for the relief of Mary Phelps, of the county of Genesee, State of New York;

H. R. No. 335. An act for the relief of Elizabeth Betts, of the city of New York;

H. R. No. 334.

H. R. No. 318.

H. R. No. 317.

H. R. No. 299. Campbell;

An act for the relief of Patrick Masterson;

An act for the relief of José Carxillo;

An act for the relief of James Journey;

An act for the relief of Mary Campbell, widow of John

H. R. No. 210. An act for the relief of Patrick Kelly, senior, of the county of Indiana, State of Pennsylvania;

H. R. No. 166. An act for the relief of Gregory Thomas and others; H. R. No. 130. An act for the relief of Nathan Smith and Charles R. Smith, et al.;

H. R. No. 123. An act for the relief of Samuel Jorden;

H. R. No. 113. An act for the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Tancred;

H. R. No. 59. An act authorizing the inhabitants of township one, range thirteen east, Seneca county, Ohio, to relinquish certain lands selected for schools, and to obtain others in lieu of them;

H. R. No. 52. An act for the relief of Samuel D. Walker, of Baltimore; H. R. No. 221. An act authorizing the trustees of Tymochtee township, Wyandot county, Ohio, to select lands for schools within the Wyandot cession;

H. R. No. 312. An act for the relief of John McAllister;

H. R. No. 207. An act for the relief of Peter Rife;

H. R. No. 196. An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Cyrus Turner, deceased;

and found the same truly enrolled: when

The Speaker signed the said bills.

On motion of Mr. McKay,

Ordered, That the House take a recess this day from 3 to 5 o'clock, p. m. The following message was received from the President of the United States, by J. Knox Walker, his private secretary:

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

I invite your attention to the propriety of making an appropriation to provide for any expenditure which it may be necessary to make in advance for the purpose of settling all our difficulties with the Mexican republic. It is my sincere desire to terminate, as it was originally to avoid, the existing war with Mexico, by a peace just and honorable to both parties. It is probable that the chief obstacle to be surmounted in accomplishing this desirable object will be the adjustment of a boundary between the two republics, which shall prove satisfactory and convenient to both, and such as neither will hereafter be inclined to disturb. In the adjustment of this boundary, we ought to pay a fair equivalent for any concessions which may be made by Mexico.

Under these circumstances, and considering the other complicated questions to be settled by negotiation with the Mexican republic, I deem it important that a sum of money should be placed under the control of the Executive, to be advanced, if need be, to the government of that republic, immediately after their ratification of a treaty. It might be inconvenient for the Mexican government to wait for the whole sum, the payment of which may be stipulated by this treaty until it could be ratified by our Senate, and an appropriation to carry it into effect made by Congress. Indeed, the necessity for this delay might defeat the object altogether. The disbursement of this money would of course be accounted for not as secret service money, but like other expenditures.

Two precedents for such a proceeding exist in our past history during the administration of Mr. Jefferson, to which I would call your attention. On the 26th February, 1803, an act was passed appropriating two millions of dollars "for the purpose of defraying any extraordinary expenses which may be incurred in the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations," "to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, who shall cause an account of the expenditure thereof to be laid before Congress as soon as may be;" and on the 13th of February, 1806, an appropriation was made of the same amount, and in the same terms. In neither case was the money actually drawn from the treasury; and I should hope that the result in this respect might be similar on the present occasion, although the appropriation may prove to be indispensable in accomplishing the object. I would, therefore, recommend the passage of a law appropriating $2,000,000, to be placed at the disposal of the Executive, for the purpose which I have indicated.

In order to prevent all misapprehension, it is my duty to state that, anxious as I am to terminate the existing war with the least possible delay, it will continue to be prosecuted with the utmost vigor until a treaty of peace shall be signed by the parties, and ratified by the Mexican republic. JAMES K. POLK.

WASHINGTON, August 8, 1846.