The New York herald., 1845-03-03
House or Represent tatiyes

House or Representatives.
WAsnlroroS, Saturday. March !, lS4b.
Thiry-hve members present at 10 o'clock the hour Of
meeting
Prayer by the Rev. Mr.. DAILY.
MIR CAMPBELL, OF c., asked the unanimous consent
Of the House allow him record tor the Texas
Resolutions as he had been Obliged to leave the House
yesterday in consequence of sickness The 40 members
present gave an unanimous consent.
Inc Journal was partly read when Its tuIsher reading
and on motion Of the same gentleman,
Inc rules were susPended and the House went into
certain post roads Dad which was read by sections. few
amendments agreed to- and then the committee and
reported the bill with the amendments
The previous question was then moved, and all the
amendments agreedt to, and the bill read third time
bills brought to the Speaker for his sigma
ture, one OF which was announced by the Clerk as
eJoint Resolutions for the Annexation OF Texas"
"Good "good" resounded from the democrats, 'thats
On motion of Mr. Mckay the House resolved itself into
Committee OF the Whole on the State ofthe Union.
MIR. HAMLIN OF Maine, in the Chair
The committee resumed the consideration of the mill.
tary appropriation BILL to which some amendments were
adopted and then the committee and reported
The previous question demanded and ordered, and
the main question ordered.
to appropriate 900 instead Of $2O0 OOO for the
iacure Of small arms in the National Armory The Yeas
and Nays were ordered. Yeas IS, Nsys7.
On an amendment for 900 for armory in Illinois
the Yea, and Nays were also demanded and ordered
All the remaining amendments were agreed to without
division and the bill was then ordered to third read
Mr. M'KAY ofN. Co. offered resolution to suspend the
operation OF the joint rule prohibiting bills being
either House from the other during the last three days
the bill lor Post Roads, which agreed under the
operation Of the previous question
Mr RArHBuN Of N. Y, moved to take up the bills on
the Speakers table from the Senate
The SPEAKER said it was not in order.
Mr. RAIhsur, Of N Y enqured how they could reach
the Post Once bill, which had been returned with
am endment
The SPEAKER said by the regular order of business
RATu ra led fort thar dnr
Mr. r D. OWEN wished to 60 into Committee of the
MT. .HAaDrs-Rathbun, move suspension of the rules
to get at 1t.
Mr. M'KAY wanted to move for recess from to APP.
Mr. RArHBuN who had the floor, still moved suspen-
sion Of the rules to take up the Post Office b-Cared
The bill was then taken up and Mr. RATHBUN moved
the previous question, which seconded and the main
question ordered.
The amendments were then reported and the Senate
having agreed to the House amendments had agreed to
another giving the members the frankng privilege until
July .: !: now and also making another amendment
On agreeing with these amendments the Yeas and Nays
were asked for Only 10 stood up in faver of the Yeas
and and the srsAKER saying he thought that
sufficient number, count demanded, and las stood
up against them.
When this was announced, &" Good, good,n broke out
The question then put, and the amendments were
he
The amendments were then declared to be agreed to,
and this bill only wants the signature Of the President to
become q law Hurrah for Postage Reform and its in
domitable friends Messrs Rathbun Preston King, Hunt
and others deserve great credit for their in
pushing this bill through the House.
Mr.. MCKAY then wanted the general consent of the
House to resolution to take from to Al O'Clock
MEMBER.-"I objsct" while all the rest of the House
were saying agreed agreed"
Mr. Mckay then moved q suspension of the rules to
enable him to offer this resolution which carried by
an almost unanimous vote. ..5 l
The resolution for then put and carried.
The House then went into Committee OF the Whole,
and motion of
1Mr. OWEN, took up Senate bill to grant lands to ndi
ana to complete the Wabash and Erie Canal
Nr. McCLELLAND, of Mich. offered an amendment
Mr. DOUGLASS OF Illinois, offered an amendment to the
amendment
to Mr. McCLELLAND to withdraw his amendment, which
he did
Mr. KENNEDY moved the appropriation of the num-
ber of acres for the State of Maryland
Mr.. OWEN objected to the amendment, because he
thought every such appropriation should stand on its
wasting the time of the House when every moment was
precious
Mr.. KErNEDY's amendment was defeated
Mr. HoPKIrs Of Va, Mr.. Chapman Of Ala, Mr. Raynor
of NJ c. and Mr. Clingman of N c., offered amendments
which were rejected, and on motion of
Mr.. JAMESON Of Mo-, the committee rose and
previous question to terminate debate in minute
going into committee.
The House then went into committee again, when two
or three amendments rejected and the committee
rose and reported the bill
Mr.. RAyNoR obtained tho floor and offered his amend
ment which had been rejected in committee to give 6O
Mr.. HARRISON moved an amendment to that and upon
that the previous question ordered and and nays
also but this amendment withdrawn and then the
yeas and nays ordered on Mr. Raynors amendment
Yeas 46, Nays IS.
The bill was then read third time, and
Mr.. JAMESON having moved the previous question on
the passage Of the BILL and O'Clock having arrived
The House took recess till half past four O'Clock.