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of moral suasion used during the preceding year, to obtain payment of the 

 said arrears of interest ; and the said annual reports shall be printed for the 

 information of the people. 



The further consideration of the bill was postponed until 

 Monday next. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 27, 1846. 



The Speaker said the special order of the day was the 

 bill in relation to the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Mr. COBB offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That all debate in the Committee of the Whole House on the 

 state of^ the Union on House bill (No. 5) to establish the "Smithsonian 

 Institution " for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, shall 

 cease in two hours after the same shall be again taken up in the Committee 

 of the Whole House on the state of the Union, (if the committee shall not 

 sooner come to a conclusion upon the same;) and the committee shall then 

 proceed to vote on such amendments as may be pending or offered to the 

 same, and shall then report it to the House, with such amendments as may 

 have been agreed to by the committee. 



The said resolution was read ; when the question was 

 stated, Will the House agree to the said resolution ? Mr. 

 GRAHAM moved that it be laid upon the table. 



And the question being put, it was decided in the nega- 

 tive yeas, 78 ; nays, 82. 



The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the mem- 

 bers present, 



Those who voted in the affirmative are 



YEAS Messrs. John Q. Adams, Arnold, Ashmun, Barringer, Bedinger, 

 Bell, Buffington, Burt, W. W. Campbell, J. H. Campbell, Carroll, John 

 <r. Chapman, A. A. Chapman, Cocke, Cranston, Crozier, Dargan, Dar- 

 ragh, Garrett Davis, Delano, Dixon, Dockery, J. H. Ewing, E. H. Ewing, 

 Foot, Giddings, Graham, Grider, Grinnell, Hampton, Harper, Herrick, 

 Hoge, E. B. Holmes, S. D. Hubbard, Hudson, Washington Hunt, Hunter, 

 C. J. Ingersoll, Joseph Johnson, Daniel P. King, Thomas Butler King, 

 Lewis, Long, McHenry, Marsh, J. P. Martin, Barkley Martin, Miller, 

 Morris, Moseley, Parrish, Payne, Pendleton, Pettit, Pollock, John A. 

 Rockwell, Root, Runk, Seaman, Seddon, Severance, A. D. Sims, Truman 

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

 Tilden, Trumbo, Vinton, Wood, Woodruff, Woodward, Wright, Yancey, 

 .and Young. 



Those who voted in the negative are 



NAYS Messrs. Atkinson, Bayly, Biggs, James A. Black, Bowlin, 

 Brodhead, Brockenbrough, W. G. Brown, R. Chapman, Chipman, Clarke, 

 Cobb, Collin, Constable, Cunningham, Daniel, J. Davis, Dillingham, Dob- 

 bin, Dromgoole, Erclman, Faran, Ficklin, Fries, Garvin, Gentry, Giles, 

 Gordon, Grover, Hamlin, Haralson, Harmanson, Hopkins, Hough, G. S. 

 Houston, J. B. Hunt, Andrew Johnson, George W. Jones, Seaborn Jones, 

 Preston King, Lawrence, Leake, Leib, La Sere, Lumpkin, Maclay, Mc- 

 Clelland, McConnell, McCrate, McGaughey, Mcllvaine, McKay, Morse, 

 Moulton, Norris, Owen, Perrill, Phelps, Price, Rathbun, Relfe, Ritter, 

 Sawtelle, Sawyer, Scammon, Simpson, Thomas Smith, Robert Smith, Stan- 

 ton, St. John, Strong, Thomasson, Jacob Thompson, Thurrnan, Tibbatts, 

 Tance, Wentworth, Wick, Wilmot, Yell, and Yost. 



