CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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amendment, ordered to be engrossed for a third 

 reading, and read the third time. 



The question, being taken by yeas and nays, 

 resulted as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Boutwell, Car- 

 penter, Chandler, Clayton, Cragin, Edmunds, Fen- 

 ton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Frelinghuysen, 

 Ilamlin, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Logan, Morrill of 

 Maine, Morton,' Oglesby, Patterson, Pease, Pratt, 

 Ramsey, Sargent, Sclmrz, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, 

 Washburn, West, and Wright 32. 



NATS Messrs. Bogy, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, 

 Goldthwaite, Hager, Hamilton of Texas, Johnston, 

 Merrimon, Eansom, Sprague, Stevenson, Thurman, 

 and Tipton 14. 



ABSENT Messrs. Alcorn, Bayard, Boreman, 

 Brownlow, Buckingham, Cameron, Conkling, Con- 

 over, Dorsey, Ferry of Connecticut, Gilbert, Gordon, 

 Hamilton of Maryland, Hitchcock, Jones, Kelly, 

 Lewis, McCreery, Mitchell, Morrill of Vermont, 

 Norwood, Robertson, Saulsbury, Stewart, Stockton, 

 Wadleigh, and Windom 27. 



So the bill was passed. 



On January 7th the bill was taken up in the 

 House and read the first and second time. 



Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, said : " Mr. 

 Speaker, it will be recollected that on the last 

 day of the session previous to the recess, on 

 the 23d of December, an effort was made in 

 the House to go to the Speaker's table with a 

 view of taking up and acting on Senate bill 

 No. 1044, to provide for the resumption of 

 specie payments ; such is the title of the bill. 

 Objections were interposed of a character that 

 we all recollect arid which it is not necessary 

 to recapitulate. It was, however, by unani- 

 mous consent, agreed that the bill should be 

 the special order for to-day at one o'clock, to 

 the exclusion of all other orders. It was also 

 ordered that the bill should be printed in the 

 Record of the proceedings of that day, and afeo 

 printed in the usual form for the information 

 of members and of the country. The bill has 

 thus been printed and has been before us. It 

 is very brief in its text. Its propositions are 

 not numerous free banking, free coinage, sil- 

 ver change for fractional currency, the re- 

 sumption of specie payments in 1879, coupled 

 with free banking, and the additional provi- 

 sion that upon the issue of one hundred dollars 

 to national banks eighty dollars of legal-tender 

 notes shall be retired from circulation until 

 the amount shall be reduced to $300,000,000. 



" I am urged by a large number of gentle- 

 men to submit the proposition directly to the 

 House, for its consideration and determina- 

 tion, whether they will accept the Senate bill 

 as it stands. Several gentlemen have ex- 

 pressed a desire to offer amendments of differ- 

 ent kinds ; others, a desire to address the House 

 upon the subject. I have agreed, and in compli- 

 ance with that agreement I ask, that should the 

 House sustain the previous question and order 

 the main question, every gentleman who has 

 an amendment to suggest or remarks to sub- 

 mit may be allowed to present them and have 

 them printed in the Record of to-day's pro- 

 ceedings. Upon that suggestion I now call 



the previous question upon the third reading 

 and passage of the bill." 



The House divided ; and the tellers re- 

 ported that there were yeas 100, nays 91. 



So the previous question was seconded. 



Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said: "I call 

 for the yeas and nays on ordering the main 

 question." 



The yeas and nays were ordered. 



The Speaker : " The question is upon order- 

 ing the main question, which is, shall the bill 

 be read a third time ? " 



The question was taken ; and there were 

 yeas 125, nays 106, not voting 57. 



The Speaker: "The main question having 

 been ordered, the question is now on ordering 

 the bill to be read a third time." 



The bill was ordered to a third reading. 



The question being on the passage of the 

 bill, 



The question was taken ; and it was decided 

 in the affirmative, as follows: 



TEAS Messrs. Albert, Averill, Barber, Barrere, 

 Barry, Bass, Begple, Biery, Bradley, Burchard, Bur- 

 leigh, Burrows, Roderick R. Butler, Cain, Carpenter, 

 Cason, Cessna, Chittenden, Clayton, Clements, 

 Stephen A. Cobb, Corwin, Cotton, Crooke, Crounse, 

 Curtis, Danford, Dobbins, Donnan, Duell, Eames, 

 Farwell, Freeman, Frye, Garfleld, Gunckel, Eugene 

 Hale, Harmer, Harrison, Hathorn,John B. Hawley, 

 Hays, Gerry W. Hazelton, John W. Hazelton, Hen- 

 dee, Hodges, Hooper, Hoskins, Houghton, Howe, 

 Hunter, Hynes, Kasson, Kellogg, Killinger, Lam- 

 port, Lansing, Lawrence, Loughridge, Lowe, 

 Lowndes, Lynch, Martin, Mavnard, McCrary, Alex- 

 ander S. McDill, James W. McDill, MacDougall, Mc- 

 Kee, McNulta, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Myers, 

 Negley, O'Neill, Orr, Orth, Packard, Packer, Page, 

 Parsons, Pelham, Pendleton, Pike, Thomas C. Platt, 

 Poland, Pratt, Purman, Ray, Richmond, Ellis H. 

 Roberts, James W. Robinson, Rusk, Sawyer, Henry 

 B. Sayler, Scofield, Isaac W. Scudder, Sener, Ses- 

 sions, Shanks, Sheats, Lazarus D. Shoemaker, 

 Small, Smart, A. Herr Smith, H. Boardman Smith, 

 J. Ambler Smith, John Q. Smith, Sprague, Stanard, 

 Starkweather, St. John, Strawbridge, Taylor, Charles 

 R. Thomas, Christopher Y. Thomas, Thompson, 

 Thornburgh, Todd, Tremain, Tyner, Waldron, Wal- 

 lace, Jasper D. Ward, Marcus L. Ward, Wheeler, 

 White, Whiteley, Wilber, George Willard, John M. 

 S. Williams, William Williams, William B. Williams, 

 James Williams, and Jeremiah M. Wilson 136. 



NAYS Messrs. Adams, Archer, Arthur, Ashe, 

 Atkins, Banning, Beck, Bell, Berry, Blount, Bowen, 

 Bright, Bromberg, Brown, Buffinton, Caldwell, John 

 B. Clark, Jr., Freeman Clarke, Clymer, Comingo, 

 Cook, Cox, Crittenden, Crossland, Crutchfield, 

 Dawes, DeWitt, Eldridge, Field, Finck, Giddings, 

 Glover, Gooch, Gunter, Hagans, Hamilton, Hancock, 

 Benjamin W. Harris, Hanry R. Harris, John T. 

 Harris, Hatcher, Havens, Joseph R. Hawley, Here- 

 ford, Herndon, E. Rockwood Hoar, George F. Hoar, 

 Holman, Hunton, Kelley, Knapp, Lamar, Lamison, 

 Lawson, Leach, Magee, Marshall, McLean, Milliken, 

 Mills, Morrison, Neal, Nesmith, Niblack, Niles, 

 Hosea W. Parker, Isaac C. Parker, Perry, Pierce, 

 Randall, Read, Robbins, Milton Sayler, Schell, 

 Henry J. Scudder, Sherwood, Sloss, William A. 

 Smitn, Southard, Stephens, Stone, Storm, Swann, 

 Townsend, Vance, Waddell, Wells, Whitehead, 

 Whitehouse, Whitthorne. Charles W. Willard, Wil- 

 lie, Ephralm K. Wilson, Wolfe, Wood, Woodworth, 

 John D. Young, and Pierce M. B. Young 98. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Albright, Barnum, Bland, 

 Buckner, Bundy, Benjamin F. Butler, Cannon, 



