Maclntyre, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McCrary, McGrew, Merriam, Merrick, Monroe, W. E. Niblack, Orr, Packer, Palmer, Poland, Bead, E. Y. Rice, E. H. Roberts, W. R. Roberts, Roosevelt, Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield, Shellabarger, Shober, Shoemaker, H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Speer, Starkweather, Stevenson, Swann, Terry, W. Townsend, Upson, Van Trump, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Warren, Wells, Wheeler, C. W. Willard, J. T. Wilson—97.

Not Voting—Messrs. Adams, Barry, J. B. Beck, Biggs, J. G. Blair, Boles, Bright, Brooks, Carroll, Coburn, Creely, Farwell, Forker, Haldeman, Hambleton, Handley, Hereford, Hooper, Kelley, Ketcham, Kinsella, Lewis, Manson, McNeely, Mitchell, J. H. Moore, Morgan, H. W. Parker, Pendleton, Peters, Porter, Ritchie, Seeley, Sessions, Slater, Slocum, Sprague, Taffe, Tyner, Wallace, Whitthorne, J. M. Wilson, P. M. B. Young—43.

Mr. Garfield moved to reconsider the vote and to lay the motion to reconsider on the table.

The Speaker ruled that, having once been reconsidered, it could not be reconsidered again.

The Speaker desired to make this statement personal to himself: "The Chair now desires to make a statement personal to himself. In reading the bill the Chair presumes the language of this amendment would make the Speaker's salary $10,000 for this Congress. The salary of the Speaker the last time the question of pay was under consideration was adjusted to that of the Vice President and members of the Cabinet. The Chair thinks that adjustment should not be disturbed, and the question which he now raises does not affect the pay of other members of the House. He asks unanimous consent to put in the word "hereafter," to follow the words "shall receive." This will affect whoever shall be Speaker of the House of Representatives hereafter, and does not affect the Speaker of this House, but leaves him upon the same plane with the Vice President and Cabinet officers upon the salary as before adjusted."

Mr. Randall objected, but afterwards withdrew the objection.

The Speaker stated that "the Chair will interline that amendment in the bill by unanimous consent."

Mr. Farnsworth, after a pause, objected.

Mr. Speaker declared that the objection came too late.

Mr. Farnsworth insisted on his objection.

The Speaker stated that unless the gentleman appealed from the decision of the Chair the objection would be regarded as having come too late.

Mr. Eldredge moved "to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was adopted, which the Speaker cannot make."

The Speaker ruled the motion out of order, one motion to reconsider having already been made.

Mr. Farnsworth appealed from the decision of the Chair in ruling that his objection came too late.

Mr. Maynard moved to lay the appeal on the table. Agreed to.

Separate votes were asked for upon five different amendments to the bill—the House employees' salary amendment being one of them.

With the exception of those amendments the action of the Committee of the Whole on the Senate amendments was concurred in by a twothirds vote.

Upon agreeing to the amendment increasing the salaries of the employees of the House the vote was—yeas 74, nays 32; no quorum voting.

Mr. Holman called for the yeas and nays. Refused, only seven members voting therefor.

The House again divided, and the amendment was concurred in—yeas 101; nays not counted.

The last amendment of the Senate upon which a separate vote was reserved was the following, to be added to the bill:

Sec. 3. That from and after the 1st day of January, 1873, the salaries of the Assistant Secretaries, the Solicitor, the Register, and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of Customs, the Auditors of the Treasury, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Commissioner of Pensions, and the Assistant Postmasters General, the superintendent of the money order system, and the superintendent of foreign mails of the Post Office Department, shall be $4,000 each per annum.

In this the Committee of the Whole recommend concurrence, with an amendment inserting after the words "Assistant Secretaries" the words "Assistant Secretary of State and the Examiner of Claims in the Department of State."

The amendment as amended was concurred in —yeas 69; nays not counted.

Mr. Garfield moved to reconsider the various votes upon the amendments to this bill, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table. The latter motion was agreed to.

Mr. Garfield moved a conference with the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses.

Mr. Holman moved that the bill be laid upon the table, and called for the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were refused, and the motion disagreed to.

The motion for a committee of conference was then agreed to.

Subsequently the Speaker announced as the conferees on the part of the House upon the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the legislative bill, Mr. Garfield of Ohio, Mr. B. F. Butler of Massachusetts, and Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania.

In Senate.

1873, March 1—A message from the House announced that the House had agreed to some and disagreed to other amendments of the Senate to the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill; that it had agreed to other amendments of the Senate to that bill with amendments; asked a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, &c.

Mr. Morrill of Maine moved that the Senate non-concur in the action of the House, and agree to the conference asked.

Subsequently the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the legislative appropriation bill—Mr. Edmunds calling for the reading of the changes made by the House.

The amendment proposed by the House to the first Senate amendment, which was to strikeout of the bill, on line 16, the word "and" and insert " $3,600," so that the clause will read "principal clerk, $3,600," was read. The House agreeing to that amendment with an amendment, as follows:

Add to said amendment:

That on and after the 4th day of March, A.D. 1873, the President of the United States shall receive for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $50,000 per annum in full for his services, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury; the Vice President of the United States shall also receive for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $10,000 per annum in full for his services, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtof the United States shall receive the sum of $10,500 per annum; and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of $10,000 per annum each, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury; the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General, and the Postmaster General shall receive $10,000 per annum each for their services; and each Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, State, and Interior Departments shall receive as annual compensation, to be paid quarterly, $6,500; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall hereafter receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 per annum ; and Senators and Representatives in Congress and Delegates from the Territories admitted to a seat in Congress, including Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in the Forty-Second Congress, shall receive $6,500 per annum each; and this shall be in lieu of any other pay or any allowance for mileage, newspapers, stationery; and the sum of $1,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated therefor. And there is hereby appropriated a sum sufficient to make the annual salaries of such of the clerks in the office of the House of Representatives as receive $2,500 and upward, (including the petition clerk and printing clerk,) and not increased in this act, $3,000 each; and of such as receive $2,160, the sum of $2,500 each; and of such as receive $1,800, the sum of $2,160 each; and of the clerks of the following committees, namely: Claims, Judiciary, Public Lands, Military Affairs, and Elections, $2,500 each; the Doorkeeper of the House, $3,000; and additional pay to the chief engineer, $360, (so as to equalize his pay with that of the chief engineer of the Senate,) and additional pay to the foreman of laborers, $120 per annum. And it is hereby provided that the increase of compensation to the officers, clerks, and others in the employ of the Senate and House of Representatives shall apply to the present Congress, and a sum sufficient therefor is hereby appropriated. And the messenger in charge of documents in the office of the Clerk of the House, the sum of $2,160

per annum; and such as now receive $1,440, the sum of $1,800 per annum; and such as now receive $3.60 per day, the sum of $1,800 each per annum. That the salaries of all employes in the department of the Doorkeeper and the post office of the House and elsewhere about the House of Representatives be increased in the same ratio and for the same period as those in the Clerk's department whose salaries are raised by this act. That the Clerk of the Committee on Patents and Private Land Claims and Committee on Commerce be paid $1,800 per annum.

Mr. Edmunds moved to amend the amendment of the House by striking out all after the increase of the salary of the President. Disagreed to—yeas 20, nays 38:

Yeas—Messrs. Boreman, Buckingham, Caldwell, Casserly, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Hamlin, Harlan, Howe, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Pratt, Sherman, Thurman, Wilson, Wright—20.

Nays—Messrs. Ames, Bayard, Blair, Brownlow, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton, Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Fenton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Gilbert, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Kelly, Lewis, Logan, Machen, Morton, Norwood, Nye, Pool, Ramsey, Ransom, Rice, Robertson, Sawyer, Schurz, Spencer, Stevenson, Stewart, Trumbull, Vickers, West—38.

Mr. Sherman called for a separate vote on non-concurring in this House amendment.

Mr. Morton moved to strike out so much of that amendment as refers to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, but subsequently withdrew the motion.

Mr. Buckingham moved to amend the House, amendment by inserting after the word " ther^.-. for" in the provision for Senators, &c, the. following proviso:

"Provided, That the increase in the salaries ofSenators, Members, and Delegates in Gongress; shall not take effect until on and after March.4; 1877."

Mr. Buckingham's amendment-was disagree^ to.

Mr. Hill moved ta so- amend the House, amendment as to fix the salaries of Senators, &cM at "$7,500" instead of "$6,500" per annum, but subsequently withdrew the motion.

Mr. Edmunds renewedMr. Morton's motion to strike out of the House amendment all that relates to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates. Disagreed to—yeas 24, nays 36:

Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Boreman, Buckingham, Casserly, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan, Fr«slinghuysen, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamlin, Harlan, Howe, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont* Morton, Pratt, Schurz, Sherman, Thurman, Windom, Wright—24.

Nays—Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Blair, Brownlow, Caldwell, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton, Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Fenton, Flanagan, Gilbert, Ooldthwaite, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Kelly, Lewis, Machen, Norwood, Nye, Pool, Ramsey, Ransom, Rice, Robertson, Sawyer, Spencer, Stevenson, Stewart, Stockton, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, West—36.

Mr. Morrill of Maine moved to strike, ou^ all that'part of the amendment which relates to the clerks of the House of Representatives and House committees.

The amendment was rejected. Mr. Edmunds moved that the Senate concur with this House amendment.

Mr Bayard moved to amend it by inserting "judges of the Court of Claims, $8,000 per annum." Rejected—yeas 21, nays 31.

The Senate refused to concur in the House amendment—yeas 2, nays 55: Yeas—Messrs. Bayard, Stockton—2. Nays—Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Anthony, Blair, Boreman, Brownlow, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Casserly, Chandler, Conkling, Cooper, Corbett, Cragin, Davis, Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Gilbert, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Hitchcock, Howe, Kelly, Lewis, Logan, Machen, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Norwood, Pool, Pratt, Ramsey, Ransom, Robertson, Sauhbury, Sawyer, Schu'rz, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Stevenson, Thurman, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, West, Wilson, Windom, Wright—55.

After concurring in the House amendment relating to suit against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Senate, on motion of Mr. Morrill of Maine, insisted on all its remaining amendments disagreed to by the House, nonconcurred in the amendments of the House to the Senate amendments, and asked for a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses.

Mr. Morrill of Maine, Mr. Carpenter, and Mr. Bayard were appointed the conferees on th« part of the Senate.

"Baport of the Committee of Conference.

In House. March 3—Mr. Garfield rose to a privileged question,.and presented the report of the committee -of .conference on the disagreeing votes of the two,Houses on the amendments to the bill, (H. R. No. J2991,) the legislative appropriation bill. [See-below, under head of Senate.]

Mr. Garfield called the previous question on agreeing to this report; which was seconded— yeas 118, nays.not counted. The main question was then ordered—yeas 103, nays 84, not voting

Do '.

Yeas—Messrs..&dams, Averill, Banks, E. W, Beck, Bigby, Biggs, Bingham, /. G. Blair, Boarman, Boles, Buckley, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, R. P.<Caldwell, Campbell, Carroll, 0. L. Cobb, Coghlan, Conner, Critcher, Crocker, Darrall, Dickey, Dodds, JOu Bose, Duell, Duke, .Eldredge, Elliott, H. D, Foster, Garrett, Getz,

■ Giddings, Golladay, < Qriffith, Haldeman, Han

■ cock, Hanks, Harmer, Harper, G. E. Harris, Hays, J. W. Hazelton, Herndon, Houghton, Kelley, Kendall, King, Lamison, Lamport, Lansing, Leach, Maynard, McHenry, McKee, McNeely, B- F. Meyers, Morey, Morphis, Cu Myers, Negley, S. :L- Niblack, Packard, Peck, Perry, Peters, J. H. Piatt, Price, Prindle, Rainey, Randall, J. JL Rice,}J. 'CfRobinson, J. Rogers, S.H. Rogers, Sargent,,Shanks,.H. Sherwood, Slater, Sloss, W. C, Smith,: &n.appt^or;w,.Stough,tQn, Slow ell, St.

John, Sutherland, Sypher,Taffe, C. R. Thomas, D. Townsend, Turner, Tuthill, Twichell, Voorhees, Waddell, Wakeman, Wallace, Whiteley, Williams of Indiana, Winchester, P. M. B. Young—103.

Nays—Messrs. Ambler, Arthur, Barber, Barnum, Beatty, S. N. Bell, Bird, A. Blair, Buffinton, Burchard, F. Clarke, Coburn, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Crebs, J. J. Davis, Dawes, Donnan, Dox, Dunnell, Eames, Ely, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, W. D. Foster, Frye, Goodrich, Hambleton, Handley, J. B. Hawley, J. R. Hawley, Hay, G. W. Hazelton, Hereford, Hibbard, Hill, G F. Hoar, Holman, Kellogg, Kerr, Ketcham, Kinsella, Lewis, Maclntyre, Manson, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McCrary, McGrew, McJunkin, Merriam, Merrick, Monroe, W. E. Niblack, Packer, Palmer, H. W.Parker, Potter, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Scofield, Sessions, Shellabarger, Shoemaker, Slocum, J. A. Smith, Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, B. N. Stevens, Stevenson, Swann, Terry, W. Townsend, Upson, Walden, Waldron, Warren, Wells, Wheeler, C. W. Willard, J. T. Wilson —84.

Not Voting—Messrs. Acker, Ames, Archer, Barry, /. B. Beck, Braxton, Bright, Brooks, Bunnell, Comingo, Creely, Crossland, Esty, Farwell, Forker, C. Foster, Garfield, E. Hale, Halsey, /. T. Harris, Havens, Hooper, Killinger, Lowe, J. Lynch, McKinney, Mitchell, J. H. Moore, Morgan, Orr, I. C. Parker, Pendleton, Perce, Poland, Porter, Read, E. Y. Rice, Ritchie, W. R. Roberts, Roosevelt, Sawyer, Seeley, Sheldon, Shober, H. B. Smith, Snyder, Tyner, Van Trump, Vaughan, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, J. M. Wilson, Wood— 53.

Mr. Sargent moved to reconsider the vote by which the main question was ordered, and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

The main question—upon agreeing to the conference report—was then taken, and the report adopted—yeas 102, nays 95, not voting 43:

Yeas—Messrs. Adams, Averill, Banks, Bigby, Bingham, J.G. Blair, Boarman, Boles, Buckley, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, R. P. Caldwell, Carroll, C. L. Cobb, Coghlan, Conner, Critcher, Crossland, Darrall, Dickey, DuBose, Duell, Duke, Eldredge, Elliott, H. D. Foster, Garfield, Garrett, Getz, Giddings, Golladay, Griffith, Hancock, Hanks, Harmer, Harper, G. E. Harris, Hays, J. W. Hazellon, Herndon, Houghton, Kendall, King, Lamison, Lamport, Lansing, Leach, Lowe, Maynard, McHenry, McJuukiu, McKee, McKinney, McNeely, B. F Meyers, Morey, Morphis, L. Myers, Negley, S. L. Niblack, Packard, I. C. Parker, Peck, Perce, Perry, Piatt, Price, Prindle, Rainey, Randall, J. M. Rice, J. C. Robinson, J. Rogers, S. II. Rogers, Sargent, Shanks, Sheldon, II. Shervjood, Sloss, Snapp, Snyder, Storm, Stoughton, Stowell, St. John, Sutherland, Sypher, Taffe, C. R. Thomas, 1). Townsend, Turner, Tuthill, Twichell, Voorhees, Waddell, Wallace, Whiteley, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, Winchester, P. M. B. Young —102.

Nays—Messrs. Ambler, Archer, Arthur, Barber, Barnum, Beatty, S. N. Bell, Bird, A. Blair, Bright, Buffinton, Bunnell, Burchard, Campbell, F. Clarke, Coburn, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Crebs, Crocker., /. /. Davis, Dawes, Donnan, Dox, Eames, J#7/,farnswortii, Finkelnburg, C. Foster, W. D. Foster, Frye, Goodrich, E. Hale, Hambleton, Handley, J. T. Harris, Havens, J. B. Hawley, J. R. Hawley, Hay, G. W. Hazelton. Hibbard, Hill, G. F. Hoar, ITolman, Kellogg, Kerr, Ketcham, Killinger, Lewis, J. Lynch, Maclntyre, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McCrary, McGrew, Merriam, Merrick, Monroe, W. E. Niblack, Orr, Packer, Palmer, H. W. Parker, Pendleton, Poland, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield, Sessions, Shellabarger, Shoemaker, Slater, Slocum, H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, B. N. Stevens, Stevenson, Terry, W. Townsend, Upson, Walden, Waldron, Warren, Wells, Wheeler, C. W. Willard, J. T. Wilson—95.

Not Voting—Messrs. Acker, Ames, Barry, E. W. Beck, J. B. Beck, Biggs, Braxton, Brooks, Comingo, Creely, Dodds, Dunnell, Esty, Farwell, Forker, Haldeman, Ilalsey, Hereford, Hooper, K^lley, Kinsella. Manson, Mitchell, J. H. Moore, Morgan, Peters, Porter, Potter, Bead, E. Y. Rice, Ritchie, W. R. Roberts, Roosevelt, Seeley, Shober, Swann, Tyner. Van Trump, Vaughan, Wakeman, Whitthorne, Williams ol* New York, Wood—43.

[note.—Mr. Ephraim L. Acker of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Mark H. Dunnell of Minnesota, claim that their names are erroneously placed among the non- voting on thiscall. They statethat they voted in the negative, and that they have proof from Representatives to that effect.—Ed.] Mr. Garfield moved to reconsider this vote, and also moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table; which latter motion was agreed to.

In Senate.

1873, March 3—Mr. Morrill of Maine presented the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the legislative appropriation bill, (H. R. 2991,) the recommendation as to the salary provision of which was as follows:

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House to the first amendment of the Senate, and agree to the said amendment, modified so as to read as follows:

That on and after the 4th day of March, A. D. 1873, the President of the United States shall receive in full for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $50,000 per annum, to be paid monthly; the Vice President of the United States shall receive in full for his services during the term for which he shall have been elected the sum of $10,000 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of $10,500 per annum, and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of $10,000 per annum each, to be paid monthly; the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General, and the Postmaster General shall receive $10,000 per annum each for their services, to be paid monthly; and each Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, State, and Interior Departments shall receive as annual compensation, to be paid monthly, $6,000; and the Speaker of the

House of Representatives shall, after the present Congress, receive in full for all his services compensation at the rate of $10,000 per annum; and Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, including Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in the Forty-Second Congress, shall receive $7,500 per annum each, and this shall be in lieu of all pay and allowances; and all those holding such office at the passage of this act, and whose claim to a seat has not been adversely decided, shall receive $7,500 per annum each, and this shall be in lieu of all pay and allowances, except the actual individual traveling expenses from their homes to the seat of Government and return by the most direct route of usual travel, once for each session of the House to which such Senator, member, or delegate belongs, to be certified to under his hand to the disbursing officer, and filed as a voucher: Provided, That, in settling the pay and allowances of Senators, members, and delegates in the Forty-Second Congress, all mileage shall be deducted, and no allowance made for expenses of travel. And there is hereby appropriated a sum sufficient to make the annual salaries of such of the clerks in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representative^ as receive $2,500 and upward, and less than $3,000, (including the petition clerk and printing clerk,) $3,000 each; and of such as receive $2,000 and upward, and less than $2,500, the sum of $2,500 each; and of such as receive $1,800 and upward, and less than $2,000, the sum of $2,000 each; and of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives $5,000 each; and of the chief clerk and journal clerk of the House, while such positions are held by the present incumbents, and no longer, $3,600 each; and of the doorkeeper of the House and the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, while the position is held by the present incumbents, and no longer, $3,000; and of the postmaster of the Senate, $2,592; assistant postmaster, $2,000; and of two mail carriers, $1,700; and of the superintendent and first assistant of the Senate document room, $2,500 each; and second assistant in said document room, $1,800; and of the additional compensation to the reporters of the House and Senate for the Congressional Globe, $1,500 each; and additional pay to the chief engineer of the House, $360, (so as to equalize his pay with that of the chief engineer of the Senate.) And it is hereby provided that the increase of compensation to the officers, clerks, and others in the employ of the Senate and House of Representatives provided for in this act shall begin with the present Congress, and the pay of all the present employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the employees in the Library of Congress and those under the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, now employed in the Capitol building, and also the House reporters whose pay has not been specifically increased by this act, holding their places by appointment under the respective officers thereof, or by the authority of the Committee of Contingent Expenses of the Senate, or the Committee of Accounts of the House, be increased fifteen per cent, of their present compensation on the amount actually received and payable to them respectively from the beginning of the present Congress, or from the date of their appoiutment during the present Congress, and who shall be actually employed at the passage of this act. And the amounts of money necessary to carry the foregoing provisions into effect are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Mr. Morrill of Vermont raised the point of order that the committee on conference had transcended their jurisdiction in fixing the salaries of Senators, &c, at "$7,500" per annum.

The Vice President overruled the point of order.

Mr. Wright moved that the report be recommitted to the committee of conference, with instructions to strike out all that is contained in the amendment reported back on the subject of salaries, except so much as relates to the salary of the President.

Mr. Trumbull made the point of order that it is not competent for the Senate to instruct a committee of conference, which must be "full and free."

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Founds) overruled the point of order.

Mr. Trumbull appealed from the decision of the chair.

The decision of the chair did not stand as the judgment of the Senate, and was overruled— yeas 11, nays 46:

Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Boreman, Chandler, Ferry of Michigan, Hamilton of Maryland, Harlan, Howe, Pratt, Sherman, Sprague, Wright—11.

Nays—Messrs. Alcorn, Bayard, Blair, Brownlow, Buckingham, Caldwell, Cameron, Carpenter, Casserly, Clayton, Cole, Conkling, Cooper, Cragin, Davis, Flanagan, Goldthwaite, Hamilton, of Texas, Hamlin, Hill, Hitchcock, Kelly, Lewis, Logan, Machen, Morrill of Maine, Norwood, Nye, Osborn,J. W. Patterson, Pool, Ramsey, Ransom,

Rice, Robertson, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Stevenson, Stewart, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, West, Windom—46.

Mr. Wright moved to recommit the report without instructions. Disagreed to—yeas 24 nays 40:

Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Boreman, Buckingham, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan, Frelinghuysen, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamlin, Harlan, Kelly, Morrill of Vermont, Pratt, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Sprague, Thurman, Windom, Wright—24.

Nays—Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Bayard, Blair, Brownlow, Caldwell, Cameron, Carpenter, Gasserly, Clayton, Cooper, Davis, Flanagan, Gilbert, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Hitchcock, Howe, Lewis, Logan, Machen, Morrill of Maine, Norwood, Nye, Osborn, J. W. Patterson, Pool, Ramsey, Ransom, Robertson, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Spencer, Stewart, Stockton, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, West—40.

The Senate then concurred in the report of the committee on conference—yeas 36, nays 27, not voting 10:

Yeas—Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Bayard, Blair, Brownlow, Caldwell, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton, Cooper, Davis, Flanagan, Gilbert, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Hitchcock, Lewis, Logan, Machen, Morrill of Maine, Norwood, Nye, Osborn, Pool, Ransom, Rice, Robertson, Sawyer, Spencer, Stewart, Stockton, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, West—36.

Nays—Messrs. Anthony, Boreman, Bucking ham, Casserly, Chandler, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan, Frelinghuysen, Hamilton of Maryland, Hamlin, Howe, Kelly, Morrill of Vermont, J. W. Patterson Pratt. Ramsey, Saulsbury, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Sprague, Thurman, Windom, Wright—27.

Absent—Messrs. Cole, Fenton, Ferry of Connecticut, Harlan, Johnston, Morton, romeroy Stevenson, Sumner, Wilson—10.

Forty-third Congress—First Session. In House.

1873, Dec. 4—Mr. E. Hale asked unanimous consent to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That a special committee of seven be appointed to take into consideration the subject of the repeal of the "salary bill" so called, and that said committee be instructed to report at the earliest practicable day, and that all bills on'the subject be referred to said committee.

The resolution was considered and agreed to, and leave given to report at any time.

Bills on the subject were introduced by Messrs. Kajbsoit, W. E. Niblaok, Poland, E. Hale, E.

H. Roberts, Hurlbut, Wells, Burchard, Starkweather, W. Townsehd, Morey, Cox, Lawrence, Eldredge, Field, Arthur, WhitThorne, J. B. Hawley, Marshall, and Storm, and a resolution by Mr. Kellogg.

The Speaker announced as the select committee on the subject of salaries of members of Congress, &c.:

Messrs. E. Hale, Maynard, Kasson, ScoField, R. S. Hale, W. E. Niblack, and Jewett.

December 8—Mr. E. Hale reported from the Special Committee on Salaries a bill and a joint resolution. Following is the bill:

That so much of the act entitled "An act