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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Averill, Banks, Barry, Be- 

 atty, Beveridge.Bigby, Bingham, Buckley, Buffin- 

 ton, Burchard, Burdett, Beniamin F. Butler, Eod- 

 erick E. Butler, Clarke, Coburn, Coghlan, Conger, 

 Cotton. Darrall, De Large, Dickey, Donnan, Duell, 

 Dunnell, Eames, Elliott, Charles Foster, Wilder D. 

 Foster, Frye, Hale, Halsey, Harraer, George E. Har- 

 ris, Havens, Hawley, Hays, Gerry W. Hazelton, 

 John W. Hazelton, Hill, Kelley, Keteham, Killinger, 

 Lamport, Lansing, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, 

 McGrew, McJunkin, McKee, Mercur, Merriam, Mon- 

 roe, Moore, Morey, Leonard, Myers, -Orr, Packard, 

 Packer, Palmer, Isaac C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, 

 Perce, Poland, Prindle, Kainey, Ellis H. Eoberts, 

 Eusk, Sargent, Sawyer, Sessions, Shanks, Sheldon, 

 Shellabarger, Shoemaker, H. Boardman Smith, 

 John A. Smith, Thomas J. Speer, Sprague, Stark- 

 weather, Stevenson, Stoughton, Strong, Sypher, 

 Washington Townsend. Turner, Twichell, Tyner, 

 Wakeman, Walden. Waldron, Wallace, Walls, 

 Whitely, Willard, Williams of Indiana, Jeremiah M. 

 Wilson, and John T. Wilson 101. 



NAYS Messrs. Ambler, Archer, Arthur, Barnum, 

 Beck, Bell, Biggs, Bird, Austin Blair, James G. 

 Blair, Braxton, Bright, Brooks, Caldwell Campbell, 

 Carroll, Comingp, Conner, Crebs, Critcher, Cross- 

 land, Dox Du Bose, Duke, Eldredge, Ely Fink eln- 

 burg, Forker, Henry D. Foster, Garrett, Getz, Gid- 

 dings, Golladay, Goodrich, Haldernan, Hambleton, 

 Hancock, Ilandley, Hanks, Harper, John T. Harris, 

 Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, Holman, Kellogg, 

 Kendall, Kerr, King, Lamison, Lewis, Manson, 

 Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McHenry, Mcln- 

 tyre, McNeely, Merrick, Mitchell, Morgan, Niblack, 

 Hosea W. Parker, Potter, Price, Eandall,Eead, Ed- 

 ward Y. Eice, John M. Eice, Eitchie, William E. 

 Eoberts, Eobinson, Sion H. Bogers, Eoosevelt, Sho- 

 ber, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, E. Milton Speer, Stevens, 

 Storm, Sutherland, Swann, Terry, Tuthill, Van 

 Trump, Vaughan, Waddell, Warren, Wells, Whit- 

 thorne, Williams of New York, Winchester, Wood, 

 and Young 96. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Acker, Adams, Barber, 

 Boles, Cobb, Cox, Creely, Crocker, Davis, Dawes, 

 Farnsworth, Farrell, Garfield, Griffith, Hoar, Hoo- 

 per, Houghton, Kinsella, Leach, McKinney, Benja- 

 min F. Meyers, Morphis, Negley, Aaron F. Perry, 

 Eli Perry, Peters, Platt, Porter, John Rogers, Sco- 

 field, Seeley, Sherwood, Worthington C. Smith, 

 Snapp, Snydcr, Stowell, St. John, Taffe, Thomas, 

 Dwight Townsend, Upson, Voorhees, and Wheeler 

 43. 



So (two-thirds not voting in favor thereof) 

 the rules were not suspended. 



A similar motion was made on June 7th, and 

 lost yeas 56, nays 89, not voting 95. The 

 hill was then presented in the Senate under a 

 new aspect. 



In the Senate, on June 7th, Mr. Kellogg, of 

 Louisiana, moving to amend the appropriation 

 bill then under consideration, said : "I move 

 to amend the hill by inserting after the word 

 * dollars,' at the end of line ninety-nine on 

 page 5, the following words," etc., etc. 



Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland: "I raise the 

 question of order on that amendment." 



The Presiding Officer: "The Senator from 

 Maryland will state his point of order." 



Mr. Hamilton of Maryland : " It is underta- 

 king I will not use a harsh term surrepti- 

 tiously on an appropriation bill to get in some 

 of the gravest legislation that has ever charac- 

 terized the action of Congress, in my judg- 

 ment, It is a proposition to reenact the elec- 



tion law which we had before us some time 

 since, and which is now before the House of 

 Representatives for their consideration. I 

 maintain that it is not in order, and I raise the 

 question of order against it." 



Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Conkling : " It is not 

 out of order." 



Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland : " I raise the 

 question of order under the rule." 



Mr. Kellogg : " It is clearly in order." 



The Presiding Officer : " The text appropri- 

 ates money " 



Mr. Casserly : " I ask my friend from Mary- 

 land to withdraw his point for a moment. 

 The difficulty about the amendment is that 

 except to those who have seen it before it was 

 offered it is nearly impossible to understand 

 the drift of it. It is evidently an elaborate 

 amendment as well as an extended one. I 

 should say the proper course to take with it 

 would be to pass it over for the present, and 

 let it be printed, so that we can see it to-mor- 

 row and understand the bearing of it." 



Mr. Kellogg: "I will state to the Senator 

 that I have taken the precaution to have it 

 printed, and I have here a number of copies 

 of it." 



Mr. Edmunds : " I wish to ask the Senator 

 from Louisiana whether this is in substance 

 the same bill that passed the Senate the other 

 day?" 



Mr. Kellogg: "Yes, sir." 



Mr. Casserly: "I ask the Senator from 

 Louisiana to let his amendment be passed over 

 for the present, and that his printed copies be 

 distributed, so that it can be examined." 



Mr. Kellogg: "No, sir; I decline to pass it 

 over." 



The Presiding Officer : " The Chair under- 

 stands that the Senator from California asks 

 the Senator from Louisiana to pass the amend- 

 ment over for the present." 



Mr. Kellogg: " I decline to do so." 



Mr. Casserly : " I make the request in order 

 that the printed amendment may be examined 

 by Senators. It is impossible either to raise a 

 point of order or to discuss intelligently an 

 amendment which nobody has seen, although 

 it seems the Senator has had it printed." 



Mr. Kellogg: " I decline to pass it over. I 

 have given notice of it." 



The Presiding Officer (Mr. Anthony, of Rhode 

 Island): " The Chair will rule on the point of 

 order. The Chair is somewhat under the diffi- 

 culty of the Senator from California of not pre- 

 cisely understanding how the amendment would 

 read ; but understanding that it applies to the 

 ' act of February 28, 1871, or any acts amend- 

 atory thereof or supplementary thereto,' ^he 

 Chair thinks it comes clearly within the rule 

 as decisions have been made to-day and here- 

 tofore. It directly relates to the money ap- 

 propriated in the bill." 



Mr. Thurman : " I appeal from the decision 

 of the Chair. That, I believe, is debatable." 



Mr, Edmunds ; " For five minutes." 



