394 CONGRESSIONAL rUOCEEDINGS. 



The yeas and nays being desired by onc-lif th of the members present, 

 Those who voted in the affirmative were — 



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

 Brodhead, William G. Brown, Augustus A. Chapman, Reuben Chapman, Chase, 

 Clarke, Cobb, Collin, Constable, Cunningham, Daniel, Billingham, Dobbin, Drom- 

 goole, Dunlap, Erdman, Faran, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon, (Jrover, Hamlin, Haralson, 

 Harmanson, Hopkins, Hough, George S. Houston, James B. Hunt, Hunter, Andrew 

 Johnson, George W. Jones, Seaborn Jones, Preston King, Lawrence, La Sere, Lump- 

 kin, McClelland, MeConneil, McCrate, McKay, Morris, Morse, Moulton, Norris, 

 Payne, Phelps, Price, Rathbun, Reid, Relfe, Ritter, Sawyer, Scammon, Seddon, 

 Thomas Smith, Robert Smith, St. John, Strong, Jacob Thompson, Thurman, Tib- 

 batts, Vance, Wentworth, Wick, Wilmot, Yell, and Yost. 



Those who voted in the negative were — 



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

 Brown, Buffington, Burt, William W. Campbell, John IL Campbell, Carroll, John 

 G. Chapman, Cocke, Collamer, Cranston, Crozier, Dargan, Darragh, Garret Davis, 

 Jefferson Davis, Dockery, John H. Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing, Foot, Fries, Giddings, 

 Graham, Grider, Grinnell, 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, Seaman, Severance, Alexander D. Sims, 

 Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Stephens, Strohm, Thibodeaux, 

 Thomasson, Tilden, Trumbo, A^inton, Wood, Woodruff, Woodward, Wright, Yancey, 

 and Young. 



So the said resolution was rejected. 

 April 28, 1846— House. 



On motion of Mr. R. D, Owen, the House resolved itself into Com- 

 mittee of the Whole (Mr. A, Burt, of South Carolina, in the chair) and 

 resumed the consideration of the bill to provide for the estal)lishment 

 of the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowl 

 edge among men, and the amendments thereto pending. 



Mr. A. D. Sims said that, before entering on the consideration of 

 the main question before the committee, he desired to invite its atten- 

 tion to the consideration of the Smithsonian 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 made by him 

 was paid over to the United States. The money, under the action of 

 Congress, was loaned out to certain States. No mat^r for what pur- 

 pose that fund might be dedicated, the faith and the honor of the 

 country, by the action of Congress, were pledged to regard it at all 

 times as being in the Treasury of the United States; and the United 

 States was in fact itself a creditor of the States to whom the money 

 was loaned; so that the Arkansas, or Michigan, or Illinois bonds or 

 securities — or the securities of any State to which this money had ])een 



