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The question recurred on agreeing to the said resolution^ 



Mr. Cobb moved the previous question, which was sec- 

 onded ; and the main question was ordered and put, viz : 

 Will the House agree to the said resolution ? and decided in 

 the negative — ^yeas, 73 ; nays, 85. 



The yeas and nays being desired bj' one-fifth of the mem- 

 bers present, 



Those who voted in the affirmative are — 



YEAS— Messrs. Stephen Adams, Atkinson, Bayly, Biggs, Bowlin, 

 Brockenbrough, Brodhead, William G. Brown, Augustus A. Chapman, 

 Keuben Chapman, Chase, Clarke, Cobb, Collin, Constable, Cunningham, 

 Daniel, Dillingham, Dobbin, Dromgoole, Dunlap, Erdman, Faran, Giles, 

 Goodyear, Gordon, Grover, Hamlin, Haralson, -Harmanson, Hopkins, 

 Hough, George S. Houston, James B. Hunt, Hunter, Andrew Johnson^ 

 George W. Jones, Seaborn Jones, Preston King, Lawrence, La Sere, 

 Lumpkin, McClelland, McConnell, McCrate, McKay, Morris, Morse, 

 Moulton, Norris, Payne, Phelps, Price, Rathbun, Reid, Relfe, Hitter, Saw- 

 yer, Scammon, Seddon, Thomas Smith, Robert Smith, St. John, Strong, 

 Jacob Thompson, Thurman, Tibbalts, Vance, Wentworth, Wick, Wilmot, 

 Tell, and Yost. 



Those who voted in the negative are — 



NAYS— Messrs. John Quincy Adams, Arnold, Barringer, Bedinger, 

 Bell, Milton Brown, Buffington, Burt, William W. Campbell, John H. 

 Campbell, Carroll, John G. Chapman, Cocke, Collamer, Cranston, Crozier, 

 Dargan, Darragh, Garrett Davis, Jefferson Davis, Dockery, .John H. 

 Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing, Foot, Fries, Giddings, Graham, Grider, Grin- 

 nell, Hampton, Harper, Herrick, Hilliard, Hoge, Elias B. Holmes, Samuel 

 D. Hubbard, Hudson, Washington Hunt, Charles J. Ingersoll, Joseph R. 

 Ingersoll, Joseph Johnson, Daniel P. King, Thomas B. King, Leake, 

 Lewis, Levin, Long, Maclay, James McDowell, McGaughey, McHenry, 

 Mcllvaine, Marsh, Barkley Martin, Miller, Moseley, Parrish, Pendleton, 

 Perrill, Pollock, John A. Rockwell, Root, Runk, Sawtelle, Schenck, Sea- 

 man, Severance, Alexander D. Sims, Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Caleb 

 B. Smith, Stephens, Strohni, Thibodeaux, Thomasson, Tilden, Trumbo, 

 Vinton, Wood, Woodruff, Woodward, Wright, Yancey, and Young. 



So the said resolution was rejected. 



House of Representatives, April 28, 1846. 



On motion of Mr. Owen, the House resolved itself into 

 Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. 

 Burt, of South Carolina, in the chair,) and resumed the 

 consideration of the bill to provide for the establishment of 

 the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of 

 knowledge amongst men, and the amendments thereto 

 pending. 



Mr. A. D. Sims said that, before entering on the consider- 

 ation of the main question before the committee, he desired 

 to invite its attention to the consideration of the Smithso- 

 nian fund, and to express his views upon what he considered 

 to be the true light in which that fund should be regarded. 



Under the will of the late James Smithson, the bequest 



