R. 3572) to amend existing customs and internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes, disagreed to by the House; agree to the further conference asked by the House on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon, and have appointed Mr. Sherman, Mr. Frelinghuysen, and Mr. Cooper the managers at the said conference on the part of the Senate. On motion of Mr. Orth, by unanimous consent, the concurrent resolution of the Senate providing for the appointment of a joint committee to take measures for the proper notice of the presence at the capital of the King of the Hawaiian Islands was taken up, read, considered, and agreed to.

The Speaker subsequently appointed Mr. Orth, Mr. E. Rockwood Hoar, and Mr. Cox the members of the said committee on the part of the House.

Mr. McKee (the rules having been suspended for that purpose) submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the Speaker to proceed to Vicksburgh, in the State of Mississippi, to investigate and report all the facts relative to the recent troubles in that State, and especially in Warren County; the committee to have power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and leave to report at any

time.

Mr. Darrall, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled bills of the following titles, viz:

H. R. 3822. An act making an appropriation to enable the Postmaster-General to carry into effect the law requiring the prepayment of postage on newspapers, approved June 25, 1874;

H. R. 3743. An act to re-imburse the city of Boston for certain expenses incurred in the improvement of Chelsea street, (formerly Charles-town,) in connection with the United States navy-yard;

When

The Speaker signed the same.

Mr. Darrall, from the same committee, reported that the committee did this day present to the President a bill of the following title, viz: H. R.3822. An act making an appropriation to enable the PostmasterGeneral to carry into effect the law requiring the prepayment of postage on newspapers, approved June 25, 1874.

On motion of Mr. Negley, by unanimous consent,

Ordered, That the bill of the House No. 3550, heretofore made a special order for this day, be postponed until Monday next, after the morn ing hour.

Mr. Wood, by unanimous consent, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to inform this House whether any, and, if so, what, changes have been made or ordered to be made in the rate or subjects of duties collected at any port of the United States because of any provision of the revision of the United States statutes as passed at the first session of the Forty-third Congress; and if such changes have been made, to report what they are in detail, with reference to the section of the revision or law under which each was made; and if any such change of duties has been made or ordered since that revision by new construction of the law, to communicate to this House a copy of the order or ruling under which the rate was so changed.

Mr. McCrary, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

Resolved, When the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill shall be under consideration in Committee of the Whole it shall be in order to offer an amendment thereto providing for conferring upon the district court of the United States for Iowa circuit-court powers.

Mr. Holman moved that the rules be suspended so as to enable him to submit, and the House to agree to, the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That in the judgment of this House, in the present condition of the financial affairs of the Government, no subsidies in money, bonds, public lands, or by pledge of the public credit should be granted by Congress to associations or corporations engaged or proposing to engage in public or private enterprise, and that all appropriations from the public Treasury ought to be limited at this time to such amounts only as shall be imperatively required by the public service.

And the House seconded the same.

The question then recurred upon the resolution.

Pending which,

On motion of Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, at 3 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1874.

Two other members appeared, viz:

From the State of North Carolina: Clinton L. Cobb.

From the State of Florida: William J. Purman.

The following memorials, petitions, and other papers were laid on the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as follows, viz:

By Mr. Banning: The petition of Eliza J. Fracker, for increase of pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Bass: The memorial of certain creditors of the District of Columbia, praying for relief, to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

By Mr. Beck: The petition of John Frickerd, for relief, to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. Clayton: The petition of citizens of California, for the amendment of the Constitution of the United States in sundry particulars;

By Mr. Cotton: The petition of attorneys and citizens of Muscatine County, Iowa, for change of location of United States district court for lowa from Keokuk to Burlington;

to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Donnan: The petition of A. K. Bailey, and numerous other citizens of Winneshiek County, Iowa, for enlarged appropriations for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, so as to construct the whole work within the next four years, to the Committee on Commerce.

Also, the memorial of F. & J. Rives, proprietors of the Congressional Globe, praying Congress to purchase their building and printing-materials, to the Committee on Printing.

By Mr. Fort: The petition of Joseph M. McCulloch, late captain Seventy-seventh Illinois Volunteers, for the pay and emoluments of major, to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Foster: The petition of representatives of the native wine interests of the United States, for the imposition of a specific duty of

forty cents per gallon on imported wines, to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. John B. Hawley: The petition of Louis A. McLaughlin, for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Holman: The petition of George Hibben & Co., for relief on account of an erroneous assessment of tax, to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. Hunton: The petition of Thomas W. Tansill, for relief, to the Committee on Claims.

Also, papers relating to the claim of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Fairfax County, Virginia;

By Mr. Hyde: The petition of L. Benecke, of Brunswick, Missouri, for relief;

to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Kelley: The petition of A. K. Owen, of Chester, Pennsylvania, for the construction of a southern transoceanic and international airline from Asia to Europe, via Mexico and the Southern States, to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad.

By Mr. Kellogg: The petition of Henrietta E. Young, executrix of George W. Young, for relief, to the Committee on War-Claims.

Also, a paper for the establishment of a post-route from Waterbury to Wolcott, Connecticut;

Also, a paper for the establishment of a post-route from West Cheshire to Prospect, Connecticut;

to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. Niles: The petition of Virgil A. Lansford, for payment for a horse, to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Luttrell: A paper for the establishment of a post-route from Knoxville, Napa County, California, to the California Quicksilver Mine, in Tolo County, to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

By Mr. McCrary: The petition of citizens of Des Moines and Louisa Counties, Iowa, for the removal of the United States district court from Keokuk to Burlington, to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. McJunkin: The petition of Mary Wright, of Butler County, Pennsylvania, for a pension, to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812.

By Mr. Neal: The petition of D. W. Binns, for payment for services rendered in the quartermaster's department at Nashville, Tennessee, from November 1, 1865, to April 30, 1866, to the Committee on WarClaims.

By Mr. Niblack: The petition of Catharine Johnson, widow of Zachariah Johnson, formerly private Sixtieth Indiana Volunteers, for a pension;

By Mr. O'Neill: The petition of Samuel Mercer and Mary F. Mercer, only surviving children and heirs of Samuel Mercer, late captain United States Navy, for relief;

to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Swann: The petition of Jane C. Dyer, of Saint Mary's County, Maryland, for relief;

By Mr. Tremain: Additional papers in the case of C. F. Johnson to the Committee on War-Claims.

By Mr. Jasper D. Ward: The petition of B. Lowenthal, of Chicago, to have certain taxes refunded, to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. Charles W. Willard: The petition of Moody Thompson, for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

Mr. Dawes, as a question of privilege, submitted the following concurrent resolution, viz:

Resolved, (the Senate concurring,) That when the two houses adjourn on Wednesday, the 23d instant, they adjourn to meet again on Tuesday, the 5th day of January next, at 12 o'clock noon.

The same having been read,

Mr. Dawes demanded the previous question; which was seconded and the main question ordered and put, viz: Will the House agree to the resolution?

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

Mr. George M. Adams

Stevenson Archer
William E. Arthur
Thomas S. Ashe
John D. C. Atkins
Henry B. Banning
James B. Beck
John Berry
Richard P. Bland
James H. Blount
Fred'k G. Bromberg
John Young Bro vn
Horatio C. Burchard
John H. Caldwell
L. Cass Carpenter
Simeon B. Chittenden
Amos Clark, jr.
Freeman Clarke,
Isaac Clements
Hiester Clymer
Abram Comingo
Philip Cook

Aylett R. Cotton

Samuel S. Cox
Thomas T. Crittenden
Alval Crocker
Edward Crossland
Chester B. Darrall
John J. Davis
Henry L. Dawes
David M. De Witt
Milton J. Durham

Mr. William E. Finck

Charles Foster
James C. Freeman
William P. Frye
James A. Garfield
De W. C. Giddings
Thomas M. Gunter
Robert S. Hale
Robert Hamilton
John Hancock
John B. Hawley
John W. Hazelton
Frank Hereford
William S. Herndon
William S. Holman
Albert R. Howe
Jay A. Hubbell
Stephen A. Hurlbut
John A. Kasson
William D. Kelley
Stephen W. Kellogg
John W. Killinger
Lucius Q. C. Lamar
Charles N. Lamison
William E. Lansing
James M. Leach
Barbour Lewis
Lloyd Lowndes, jr.
John A. Magee
Samuel S. Marshall
George W. McCrary
Ebenezer McJunkin

Mr. George C. McKee
William P. McLean
Clinton L. Merriam
Charles W. Milliken
Roger Q. Mills
Frank Morey
William R. Morrison
Lawrence T. Neal
James W. Nesmith
William E. Niblack
William J. O'Brien
Jasper Packard
John B. Packer
Hosea W. Parker
Richard C. Parsons
James M. Pendleton
Eli Perry

Heury L. Pierce
Thomas C. Platt
Luke P. Poland
Clarkson N. Potter
William J. Purman
Samuel J. Randall
William B. Read
Hiram L. Richmond
William M. Robbins
Ellis H. Roberts
James C. Robinson
Philetus Sawyer
Henry B. Sayler
Milton Sayler
Richard Schell

Those who voted in the negative are

Mr. James R. Lofland
William Loughridge
David P. Lowe
John K. Luttrell
John R. Lynch
James S. Martin
Horace Maynard
Alexander S. McDill
James W. McDill
Clint'n D. MacDougall

James Monroe

William S. Moore
Leonard Myers
James S. Negley
Jackson Orr
Godlove S. Orth
Horace F. Page
Isaac C. Parker
William W. Phelps
Austin F. Pike
James H. Platt, jr.
Henry O. Pratt
Joseph H. Rainey
William H. Ray
James W. Robinson
Jeremiah M. Rusk
Glenni W. Scofield
James B. Sener
Walter L. Sessions
John P. C. Shanks
Christopher C. Sheats

Mr. John G. Schumaker
Henry J. Scudder
Lazarus D.Shoemaker
Andrew Sloan
Joseph H. Sioss
H. Boardman Smith
William A. Smith
Milton I. Southard
R. Milton Speer
Edwin O. Stanard
Alex. H. Stephens
William H. Stone
John B. Storm
Thomas Swann
Alexander W. Taylor

Robert B. Vance

Alfred M. Waddell

Henry Waldron

Alexander S. Wallace

Jasper D. Ward
Erastus Wells

Thomas Whitehead
John O. Whitehouse
W. C. Whitthorne
David Wilber
Charles W. Willard
John M. S. Williams
William Williams
Asa H. Willie
Fernando Wood
John D. Young
Pierce M. B. Young.

Mr. Lionel A. Sheldon
Isaac R. Sherwood
William B. Small
James S. Smart
A. Herr Smith
J. Ambler Smith
John Q. Smith
Oliver P. Snyder
William P. Sprague
H. H. Starkweather
Charles St. John

William H. H. Stowell

Horace B. Strait

Christ'r Y. Thomas
Jacob M. Thornburgh
Lemuel Todd
Washing'n Townsend
Lyman Tremain
James N. Tyner
Marcus L. Ward
William A. Wheeler
Alexander White
Richard H. Whiteley
George Willard
Charles G. Williams
William B. Williams

James Wilson

Jeremiah M. Wilson
Simeon K. Wolfe
Laurin D. Woodworth.

Mr. Garfield moved that the vote last taken be reconsidered.

Mr. Randall moved that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table.

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative,

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

Mr. Charles A. Eldredge Mr. William P. McLean Mr. Lionel A. Sheldon

Those who voted in the negative are