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Jacob Thompson
John W. Tibbatts

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Mr. Daniel R. Tilden
Andrew Trumbo

John Wentworth

A quorum having appeared,

Mr. Archibald Yell

Bryan R. Young.

Mr. Dromgoole withdrew his motion for a call: and

The House again resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speakerresumed the chair, and Mr. Tibbatts reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the said joint resolution, (No. 5,) had again found itself without a quorum, and risen.

Mr. Seaborn Jones moved, at five minutes past 8 o'clock, that the House adjourn.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative, Yeas,

Nays,

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

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So the House refused to adjourn.

Mr. Sterling Price

Alexander Ramsey
Joseph M. Root:
John Runk

Robert C. Schenck
Truman Smith

Albert Smith

Alexander H. Stephens
John Strohm

Bannon G. Thibodeaux
Daniel R. Tilden
Andrew Trumbo
Samuel F. Vinton
Robert C. Winthrop
Bryan R. Young.

Mr. Moses Norris

Augustus L. Perrill
George Rathbun
David S. Reid
John Ritter
Joseph Russell
William Sawyer
John F. Scammon
Alexander D. Sims
Thomas Smith
George Sykes
James Thompson
Jacob Thompson
Allen G. Thurman
John W. Tibbatts
William M. Tredway
John Wentworth

William W. Woodworth
Archibald Yell.

On motion of Mr. Wentworth, a call of the House was ordered.
But, before the calling of the roll was commenced,

On motion of Mr. Stephen Adams, the House, at twenty minutes after 8 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until' to-morrow, at 10 o'clock, a. m..

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1846.

At five minutes after 10 o'clock, a. m, the Speaker not being present, At the request of several members,

The Clerk called the House to order.

Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll moved that Mr. McKay, of North Carolina, be appointed Speaker pro tem. until the Speaker should arrive.

And the question being put by the Clerk, (on the motion of Mr. Ingersoll,)

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. McKay accordingly took the chair.

Mr. Wentworth moved that there be a call of the House.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The call of the roll was commenced, and proceeded in a short time: when,

On motion of Mr. George W. Jones,

A further call was dispensed with.

The Speaker appeared and took the chair; and the journal of yesterday was read.

A message, in writing, was received from the President of the United States, by James K. Walker, his private secretary; which was read, and is as follows:

To the House of Representatives of the United States:

In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives in their resolution of the 3d instant, I herewith communicate a report from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying "correspondence which has taken place" between the Secretary of State and the minister of the United States at London, and "between the government of Great Britain and this. government, in relation to the country west of the Rocky mountains, since the last annual message of the President" to Congress.

WASHINGTON, February 7, 1846.

JAMES K. POLK.

Ordered, That the said message be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

On motion of Mr. Cobb, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Tibbatts reported that the committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the joint resolution (No. 5) of notice to Great Britain to "annul and abrogate" the convention between Great Britain and the United States of the 6th of August, 1827, relative to the country "on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains," commonly called Oregon, had come to no resolution thereon.

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. McIlvaine: A memorial of citizens of the city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, praying an appropriation to complete the lighthouse on the Brandywine shoals.

By Mr. Kennedy: A memorial of citizens of the State of Indiana,

praying an appropriation for the establishment of a naval depot at the harbor of Toledo, on lake Erie.

Ordered, That said memorials be referred to the Committee on Com

merce.

By Mr. Isaac E. Morse: Ten memorials of citizens of the parishes of St. Landry, Calcasieu, Avoyelles, Rapides, Natchitoches, Sabine, De Soto, Caddo, Bossier, Claiborne, Union, Jackson, Morehouse, Ouachita, Caldwell, Franklin, and Catahoula, in the State of Louisiana, praying for the re-establishment of the United States district court for the western district of Louisiana, or to establish a new judicial district to include the limits of the aforesaid seventeen parishes: which memorials were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Giles: A petition of Henry La Reintrie, of the city of Baltimore, praying compensation for services rendered by him as interpreter and translator of the Spanish language, while under the command of Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, then in command of the Pacific squadron: which petition was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Hampton: A memorial and accompanying documents of John Speakman, praying indemnity for loss sustained by him in the alteration and finally the suspension of his contract with the Ordnance department of the United States government, to line gunpowder barrels with India rubber cloth: which memorial was referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Graham: A memorial of Cinthia Griffin, of Cherokee county, and State of North Carolina, widow of John Griffin, deceased, who was a soldier of the army of the war of the Revolution, and late a pensioner of the United States, praying for a pension: which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Buffington: A petition of John Brady, (of Samuel,) of Indiana county, and State of Pennsylvania, praying for a pension on account of his services as a soldier of the United States in the Indian wars in the year 1792: which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Delano: A memorial of citizens of the State of Ohio, praying an appropriation for the construction of a wire suspension bridge across the eastern branch of the Ohio river, at the city of Wheeling: which was referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

And then, on motion of Mr. Jacob Thompson, the House, at five minutes before 12 o'clock, at night, adjourned until Monday next, at 10 o'clock, a. m.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1846.

Mr. Roberts (by leave) presented resolutions of the legislature of the State of Mississippi, pledging the State of Mississippi to the support of the general government in maintaining the national rights in the Oregon Territory: which resolutions were committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by J. K. Walker, his private secretary: which was delivered in at the Speaker's table.

On motion of Mr. Rathbun, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Tibbatts reported that the

committee having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, particularly the joint resolution (No. 5) of notice to Great Britain to "annul and abrogate" the convention between Great Britain and the United States of the 6th of August, 1827, relative to the country "on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains," commonly called Oregon, had come to no resolution thereon. A motion was made by Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, that the rules of the House be suspended in order to enable him to submit a motion that the 33d rule, in the following words: "No member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House or in committee," be suspended for the space of four hours.

Mr. Burt moved that the motion to suspend be laid upon the table.
And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

SYeas,
Nays, .

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

Mr. Stephen Adams

Joseph H. Anderson

Archibald Atkinson

Thomas H. Bayly
Henry Bedinger
Joshua F. Bell
Charles S. Benton
Asa Biggs

James A. Black
James B. Bowlin
Linn Boyd

William H. Brockenbrough

Milton Brown
Armistead Burt

John G. Chapman

Augustus A. Chapman
Reuben Chapman
John S. Chipman
Howell Cobb

William M. Cocke
Jacob Collamer
Henry Y. Cranston

John H. Crozier

Edmund S. Dargan

Mr. Garrett Davis
Jefferson Davis
James C. Dobbin
Alfred Dockery
John H. Ewing
Edwin H. Ewing
William S. Garvin
James Graham
Henry Grider
Joseph P. Hoge
Isaac E. Holmes
George W. Hopkins
George S. Houston
Edmund W. Hubard
Joseph R. Ingersoll
Joseph Johnson
Thomas Butler King
Shelton F. Leake
Edward Long
John H. Lumpkin
William B. Maclay
Felix G. McConnell
John H. McHenry
James J. McKay

Those who voted in the negative are—

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Mr. George P. Marsh
John P. Martin
William S. Miller
William W. Payne
John S. Pendleton
David S. Reid

R. Barnwell Rhett
John Runk
Joseph Russell

Robert C. Schenck
James A. Seddon
Alexander D. Sims
Richard F. Simpson
Truman Smith

David A. Starkweather
Alexander H. Stephens
Jacob Thompson
John W. Tibbatts
George W. Towns
William M. Tredway
Joseph Vance

Joseph A. Woodward
William L. Yancey
Bryan R. Young.

Mr. Martin Grover

Hannibal Hamlin
James G. Hampton
John H. Harmanson
Alexander Harper
Thomas J. Henley
Richard P. Herrick
Henry W. Hilliard
Elias B. Holmes
William J. Hough
John W. Houston
Samuel D. Hubbard
Orville Hungerford
Washington Hunt
James B. Hunt
Charles J. Ingersoll
Timothy Jenkins
James H. Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Kennedy

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Mr. Daniel P. King
Preston King

John W. Lawrence
Owen D. Leib

Emile La Sère
Abner Lewis
Lewis C. Levin
Moses McClean
Robert McClelland
John A. McClernand
John D. McCrate
Joseph J. McDowell
Edward W. McGaughey
Abraham R. McIlvaine
Barclay Martin
Joseph Morris
Isaac E. Morse

William A. Moseley
Archibald C. Niven
Moses Norris

Robert Dale Owen
Isaac Parish

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Mr. Payne raised the following question of order:

Henry St. John
John Strohm
Stephen Strong

Bannon G. Thibodeaux
William P. Thomasson
Benjamin Thompson
James Thompson
Daniel R. Tilden
Robert Toombs
Andrew Trumbo
John Wentworth
Horace Wheaton
Hugh White
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot

Robert C. Winthrop
Thomas M. Woodruff

William W. Woodworth

William Wright

Jacob S. Yost.

That, inasmuch as the proposition of Mr. Ingersoll involved a change of one of the rules of this House, it could not be made, under the 134th rule, without one day's previous notice.

The Speaker decided that two-thirds of the members present could, at any time, suspend one or all the rules of the House.

From this decision Mr. Payne appealed.

And the question being put, Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House?

It was decided in the affirmative.

The question recurred, Shall the rule be suspended? when

Mr. Ingersoll modified his intended proposition by striking out the words "for four hours," and inserting, in lieu thereof, "until to-morrow, at 3 o'clock."

The question was then put, Shall the rules of the House be suspended?

Yeas,

And decided in the negative, Nays,

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

Mr. Amos Abbott

Lemuel H. Arnold

George Ashmun
Edward D. Baker
John Blanchard
William G. Brown
Joseph Buffington
William W. Campbell
John H. Campbell
Charles W. Cathcart
John F. Collin
Alvan Cullom

Erastus D. Culver
Francis A. Cunningham
John R. J. Daniel
John De Mott
James Dixon

Stephen A. Douglass
Jacob Erdman
James J. Faran

Mr. William S. Garvin
Joshua R. Giddings
Joseph Grinnell
Hannibal Hamlin
Thomas J. Henley
Richard P. Herrick
Henry W. Hilliard
Elias B. Holmes
William J. Hough
Samuel D. Hubbard
Orville Hungerford
Washington Hunt
Charles J. Ingersoll
Timothy Jenkins
James H. Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Kennedy
Daniel P. King
Abner Lewis
Moses McClean

Mr. Edward W. McGaughey

Abraham R. McIlvaine
Barclay Martin

Joseph Morris

William A. Moseley

Moses Norris
Robert Dale Owen
John Pettit
John S. Phelps
Sterling Price
Alexander Ramsey
John Ritter
Julius Rockwell
Joseph M. Root
John F. Scammon
Luther Severance
Leonard H. Sims
Caleb B. Smith

Robert Smith
Frederick P. Stanton

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