504 CONGRESSIONAL TROCEEDINGS. 



but he did desire that this House and the country at large 

 should be possessed of all the facts in relation to the dis- 

 bursement and raanagemcnt of the large amount of money 

 left by this gentleman, and committed to them as trustees; 

 and the committee might suggest some plan better calcu- 

 lated to carry out the views of the distinguished donor, 

 than this hasty, imperfect act which they had passed. 



With these views, he moved a reconsideration of the vote 

 by which the amendment of the gentleman from Tennessee 

 [Mr, Jolmson] was rejected. 



The Speaker said it would be necessary first to move to 

 reconsider the adoption of the resolution, and announced 

 the question accordingly. 



Mr. Pollock moved to lay the motion to reconsider on 

 the table; which was agreed to — yeas, 107, nays, 76; as 

 follows : 



YEAS — Messrs. Abbott, Adams, Ashniun, Atkinson, Barringer, Bayley, 

 Bealo, Belcher, Blackmar, Blanchard, Botts, Boydon, Wm. G. Brown, 

 Butler, Canby, Chapman, Clingman, ('oeke, Collamer, Conger, Cranston, 

 Crowell, Dickey, Donnell, Garnett Duncan, Dunn, Eckert, Alexander 

 Evans, Nathan Evans, Faran, Farrelly, Fisher, Flournoy, Fulton, Gentry, 

 Giddings, Goggin, Gott, Green, Greeley, Gregory, Grinnell, Hale, Willard 

 P. Hall, Nathan K. Hall, James G. Hampton, Moses Hampton, Henry, 

 Isaac E. Holmes, Hubbard, Hunt, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jenkins, James H. 

 Johnson, George W. Jones, John W. Jones, Daniel P. King, William T. 

 Lawrence, Lcfiler, Ligon, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Mcllvaine, McKay, Mc- 

 Lane, Marvin, Morehead, Mullin, Murphy, Nelson, Nes, NicoU, Outlaw, 

 Peck, Pollock, Preston, Putnam, Rhett, Julius Rockwell, John A. Rock- 

 well, Rumsey, St. John, Shepperd, Sherrill, Silvester, Slingorland, Caleb 

 B. Smith, Truman Smith, Stanton, Stephens, Strohm, Strong, Tallmadge, 

 Taylor, Thibodeaus, Thomas, .Tames Thompson, R. W. Thompson, Robert 

 A. Thompson, Tompkins, Van Dyke, Wallace, Warren, White, Wick, and 

 Wilson— 107. 



NAYS — Messrs. Bedinger, Bingham, Bocock, Bowdon, Brady, Brod- 

 head, Charles Brown, Albert G. Brown, Buckner, Cathcart, Clapp, Frank- 

 lin Clark, Howell Cobb, Williamson R. W. Cobb, Crozier, Cummins, 

 Daniel, Darling, Dickinson, Dixon, Duer, Edwards, Embree, Peatherston, 

 Ficklin, Freedley, French, Fries, Gaines, Hammons, Haralson, Harris, 

 Hill, Elias B. Holmes, Inge, Irvin, Iverson, Kaufman, Kellogg, Kennon, 

 Lahm, La Sere, Sidney Lawrence, Levin, Lord, Lynde, Maclay, J<>b 

 Mann, Marsh, Miller, Morris, Morse, Palfrey, Peaslee, Phelps, Richard- 

 son, Richey, Robinson, Rockhill, Root, Sawyer, Smart, Robert Smith, 

 Starkweather, Charles E. Stuart, Jacob Thompson, John B. Thompson, 

 William Thompson, Thurston, Tuck, Venable, Vinton, Wentworth, Wiley, 

 Williams, and Woodward — 76. 



So the motion to reconsider was laid on the table. 

 House of Representatives, February 19, 1849. 



Mr. HiLLiARD, by unanimous consent, presented a report 

 of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of that 

 Institution to the present time ; which report was laid on 

 the table, and ordered to be printed. 



