JAMES SMITHSON AND HIS BEQUEST. 49 



tures was negatived by 72 to 39, while the annual appropriation for a 



The sections requiring experiment and research in agriculture, manufac 

 inires &c., the publication of books, pamphlets, tracts, &c, and "he offer-' 



rTfhtirr '''T' "^'^ '*"^^^" '"'''- ^ -n^endment that all copy- 

 right books, maps, charts, prints, &c, should be delivered to the S 



i?ernTt"hlnT''r' ^'^^ ^^^ *'^^ ^'^ Government coUections depo . 

 ited m It should be known as the National Museum. 



Before a vote was taken on the bill as amended, a substitute for it 



oTthe f"t""' Y "'i- "^"'^^ '' °^"^^' '' ^^- ^ork, retaining mo 



mittee of the Whole by a vote of 83 to 40. It was then reported to the 

 House, and passed by a vote of 85 to 7G. * «P"rieu to me 



T f ""^"^/l^^ prominent men in the affirmative were John Q. Adams 

 John Bell, Garret Davis, Jefferson Davis, Columbus Delano slephen 



Hilhard, George P. Marsh, R. D. Owen, F. P. Stanton, A. G. Th^man 

 Samuel F. Vinton, David Wilmot. -Lnurman, 



Among the nays were Howell Cobb, E. M. T. Hunter, J. R. Ingersoll 

 Andrew Johnson, George W. Jones, Preston King, Alexander HSte 

 phens, and Jacob Thompson. ^exanaer H. Ste- 



On the 10th of August, 1846, the Senate proceeded U> consider this 



bate r2orf3'T"' ""' '^^^^"^' *^' ^^^ '' p--^ -' '-t^^^^ 



bate by 20 to 13. Ihe yeas were, Messrs. Archer, Atchison, Barrow 

 Berrien Cameron, Cilley, Thomas Clayton, John M. Clayton CorwT 

 Davis Evans, Greene, Houston, Huntingt^^, Jarnagin, JoCn of 2 

 ryland, Johnson of Louisiana, Lewis, Mangum MiUer^Morehead Phe^^ 

 Speight, Spurgeon, Upham, Webster. • jJ^^eips, 



Those who voted in the negative were, Messrs. AUen, Ashley Ather 



Jfisil! r'l f^'"^ by President James K. Polk on Uie 10th of Au- 

 gust, mo, aad became a law, and the Smithsonian Institution was or 

 ganized under it with the following Board of Regents- 



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