Ohio, praying the adoption of the compromise measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden. Ordered, That they lie on the table. Mr. Bigler presented two petitions of citizens of Union county, Pennsylvania, a petition of citizens of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizens of Franklin township, Adams county, Pennsylvania, praying the adoption of the compromise measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden. Ordered, That they lie on the table. Mr. Kennedy, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of James K. Harwood, submitted a report, (No. 300,) accompanied by a bill, (S. 559,) for the relief of James K. Har wood. The bill was read and passed to a second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Bingham reported from the committee that they this day presented to the President of the United States the following enrolled bills: H. R. 181. An act to provide for a superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory and additional Indian agents. H. R. 341. An act for the relief of Moses Meeker. S. 268. An act for the relief of Mary K. Guthrie, widow of Presley N. Guthrie. Mr. King presented three petitions of citizens of New York, praying the repeal or material modification of the warehousing system. Ordered, That they lie on the table. Mr. Pearce, from the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill (H. R. 972) authorizing a loan, made the following report: The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill (H. R. 972) "authorizing a loan" having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend, and do recommend, to the respective houses as follows: That the House recede from their disagreement to the Senate's second amendment, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows: Strike out the whole amendment, and insert, in lieu thereof, the following: SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the residue of the loan authorized by the act of twenty-second of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, or so much thereof as is necessary, shall be applied to the redemption of the treasury notes issued under the act of seventeenth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, and for no other purpose; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, at his discretion, to exchange at par bonds of the United States, authorized by said act of twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and sixty, for the said treasury notes and the accruing interest thereon. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, to defray the expense of engraving and printing certificates of such stock, and other expenses incident to the execution of this act, the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated: Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed for any service performed under this act to any officer whose salary is established by law. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not be obliged to accept the most favorable bids as hereinbefore provided, unless he shall consider it advantageous to the United States to do so; but for any portion of such loan not taken under the first advertisement, he may advertise again at his discretion. J. A. PEARCE, WM. M. GWIN, Managers on the part of the Senate. JOHN S. PHELPS, THADDEUS STEVENS, Managers on the part of the House of Representatives. The Senate proceeded to consider the report; and, On motion by Mr. Pearce, Resolved, That the Senate concur therein. Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives thereof. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Hayes, chief clerk: Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed the resolution of the Senate (S. 58) authorizing Lieutenant T. A. M. Craven, United States Navy, to receive certain marks of distinction tendered him by the Spanish government; and It has passed the bill of the Senate (S. 10) in addition to "an act to promote the progress of the useful arts," with amendments, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate. The House of Representatives has passed a bill (H. R. 924) granting an invalid pension to John Rogers, of Tennessee, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate. The House of Representatives having ordered the printing of certain documents, I am directed to notify the Senate thereof. The President of the United States approved and signed the 5th instant the following acts: H. R. 670. An act granting an increase of pension to William G. Bernard, late a soldier in the United States Army. H. R. 876. An act for the benefit of Gabriel J. Johnston. H. R. 919. An act for the relief of T. M. Beauchamp and Betsy D. Townsend. Mr. Doolittle, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 469) for the relief of A. H. Jones and H. M. C. Brown, reported it without amendment. On motion by Mr. Wade, The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the joint resolution (H. R. 71) extending the time for taking testimony on the application of Cyrus H. McCormick for the extension of his patent; and, On motion by Mr. Pugh, that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, Pending debate, The President announced that the hour of one o'clock having arrived, it was the duty of the Chair to state that to-day had been set apart, by an order of the Senate, for the consideration of the Private Calendar, and to call up the first bill on the Private Calendar. On motion by Mr. Wade, to suspend the order assigning this day for the consideration of the Private Calendar, It was determined in the affirmative, On motion by Mr. Bragg, (Yeas..... 26 16 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Anthony, Bigler, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Foster, Green, Grimes, Harlan, Johnson, of Tennessee, King, Latham, Morrill, Pearce, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Bayard, Bragg, Clingman, Douglas, Fitch, Hunter, Johnson, of Arkansas, Kennedy, Lane, Nicholson, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Saulsbury, Sebastian, Thomson. So the motion of Mr. Wade was agreed to, and the order assigning to-day for the consideration of the Private Calendar was suspended; and The motion of Mr. Pugh having been modified on the motion of Mr. Fitch, by adding thereto: with instructions to report thereon to-morrow, After debate, On the question to agree to the motion as modified, Yeas..... It was determined in the negative, Nay.... On motion by Mr. Pugh, 18 24 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Clingman, Douglas, Fitch, Hunter, Johnson, of Arkansas, Johnson, of Tennessee, Lane, Mason, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Rice, Saulsbury, Sebastian, Wigfall. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Green, Grimes, Harlan, King, Morrill, Pearce, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson. No amendment being made, the resolution was reported to the Senate. On motion by Mr. Douglas, to amend the resolution by inserting in line 3, after the word "resisting," the words or supporting, and by inserting after the word "to," where it first occurs in the seventh line, or support of, Yeas It was determined in the negative, {eys..... On motion by Mr. Pugh, 18 25 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Clingman, Douglas, Fitch, Hunter, Johnson, of Arkansas, Johnson, of Tennessee, Kennedy, Lane, Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Saulsbury, Thomson. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Green, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, King, Latham, Morrill, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson. No further amendment being proposed, Ordered, That the resolution pass to a third reading. On the question, Shall the resolution pass? Yeas It was determined in the affirmative, Nays... On motion by Mr. Bayard, 28 18 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Green, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Johnson, of Tennessee, King, Latham, Morrill, Sebastian, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Bright, Clingman, Douglas, Fitch, Hunter, Johnson, of Arkansas, Kennedy, Lane, Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Rice, Saulsbury. So it was Resolved, That the resolution pass. Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives thereof. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Hayes, chief clerk: Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed the following bills, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H. R. 979. An act for the relief of Samuel Beaston, master of the schooner George Harris. H. R. 980. An act for the adjustment of the claims of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company under the treaty of 1846 with Great Britain. H. R. 981. An act to confirm a certain private land claim in the Territory of New Mexico. The House of Representatives has agreed to the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the bill (H. R. 972) authorizing a loan. The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed an enrolled bill (H. R. 972) and an enrolled resolution, (H. R. 71,) I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of its President. The Vice-President signed the enrolled bill (H. R. 972) authorizing a loan, and the enrolled resolution (H. R. 71) extending the time for taking testimony on the application of Cyrus H. McCormick for the extension of his patent, and they were delivered to the committee to be presented to the President of the United States. The Senate proceeded to consider the amendments of the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 10) in addition to "an act to promote the progress of the useful arts." Ön motion by Mr. Bigler, Ordered, That they be referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. The bills this day received from the House of Representatives for concurrence were read the first and second times by unanimous con sent. Ordered, That the bill numbered 924 be referred to the Committee on Pensions; that the bill numbered 979 be referred to the Committee on Commerce; that the bill numbered 980 be referred to the Committee on Public Lands; and that the bill numbered 981 be referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. The following message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Glossbrenner, his Secretary: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress, with my message of the 8th of January, the correspondence which occurred in December last between the "commissioners" of South Carolina and myself. Since that period, on the 14th January Colonel Isaac W. Hayne, the attorney general of South Carolina, called and informed me that he was the bearer of a letter from Governor Pickens to myself, which he would deliver the next day. He was, however, induced, by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other senators from the seceded and seceding States, not to deliver it on the day appointed, nor was it communicated to me until the 31st of January, with his letter of that date. Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence, the whole of which in my possession I now submit to Congress. A reference to each letter of the series, in proper order, accompanies this message. WASHINGTON, February 8, 1861. The message was read. On motion by Mr. Collamer, JAMES BUCHANAN. Ordered, That it lie on the table and be printed. On motion by Mr. Simmons, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties. on imports, and for other purposes, Yeas It was determined in the affirmative, {Nays... On motion on by Mr. Cameron, 26 23 The yeas and nays being desired by one fifth of the senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Anthony, Bigler, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark,. |