TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1845-1847. 419 



Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS moved an amendment, to add at the close of 

 the last section the following proviso: 



And provided further, That no 'appropriation shall be made for the advancement of 

 this Institution except from moneys which properly belong to the Smithsonian fund. 



Agreed to. 



Mr. JOHN -A. MCCLERNAND gave notice of a substitute which he 

 intended to offer when in order (which was read for information). 



Mr. G. W. JONES moved a further proviso at the end of the bill, as 

 follows: 



Prodded, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to connect in any manner 

 whatever said Smithsonian Institution with any other" institution or society what- 

 ever. 



Rejected. 



The bill having now been gone through with, the question recurred 

 on the amendment of Mr. G. W. Jones, to strike out all of the bill 

 after the word "be," in the sixth line, first section, and insert: 



Paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the heirs at law or next of kin or resid- 

 uary legatee of the said James Smithson, or their authorized agents, whenever they 

 shall demand the same: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, in paying 

 over said money as herein directed, deliver to said heirs all State bonds or other 

 stocks of every kind which have been purchased with said money or any part thereof, 

 in lieu of so much of said money as shall have been so invested in State, bonds or 

 other stocks, and the balance of said sum of money, if any, not so invested, shall be 

 paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



Mr. A. D. SIMS moved as an amendment to the amendment the 

 proposition of which he had given notice (as a substitute for the bill) 

 to provide for the return of the money. 



The CHAIRMAN decided the amendment out of order at this time. 



Mr. GEORGE RATHBUN moved to amend the amendment of Mr. Jones 

 by striking out so much as relates to the restoring to the heirs, etc. , 

 of Mr. Smithson the bonds of the States (so that the money and not 

 the bonds should be returned). 



The amendment to the amendment was rejected. 



The question then recurring on the original amendment of Mr. 

 Jones was taken by tellers and decided in the negative ayes 8, noes 

 115. 



So the amendment was rejected. 



The question then being on rising and reporting the bill as amended 



Mr. ADAMS, in compliance with previous notice, offered the fol- 

 lowing substitute for the bill: 



Strike out the preamble, and all except the enacting clause, and 

 insert: 



That the President of the United States be requested, by the use of suitable means 

 of moral suasion, and no others, to obtain from the governments of the States of 

 Arkansas and Illinois payment of the arrears of interest due from the said States to 

 the United States, and the interest thereafter, and the principal as it shall become 



