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the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, direct.

Third. The residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury of the United States.

Sec. 6. That if any person or persons shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any note, bond, coupon, or other security issued under the authority of this act, or heretofore issued under acts to authorize the issue of Treasury notes or bonds; or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States from any foreign place with intent to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or shall have or keep in possession or conceal, with intent to utter, publish, or sell any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered note, bond, coupon, or other security, with intent to defraud anybody corporate or politic, or any other person or persons whatsoever, every person so offending shall be deemed fuilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, e punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding fifteen years, according to the aggravation of the offense.

Sec. 7. That if any person, having the custody of any plate or plates from which any notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities mentioned in this act, or any part thereof, shall have been printed, or which shall have been prepared for the purpose of printing any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, shall use such plate or plates, or knowingly permit the same to be used for the purpose of printing any notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, except such as shall be printed for the use of the United States by order of the proper officer thereof; or if any person shall engrave, or cause or procure to be engraved, or shall aid in engraving, any plate or plates in the likeness or similitude of any plate or plates designed for the printing of any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part thereof, or shall vend or sell any such plate or plates, or shall bring into the United States from any foreign place any such plate or plates, with any other intent or for any purpose, in either case, than that such plate or plates shall be used for printing of such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or some part or parts thereof, for the use of the United States, or shall have in his custody or possession any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any .such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part or parts thereof, shall have been printed, with intent to use such plate or plates, or cause or suffer the same to be used, in forging or counterfeiting any such notes, bonds, coupons, or other securities, or any part or parts thereof, issued as aforesaid, or shall have in his custody or possession any blank note or notes, bond or bonds, coupon or coupons, or other security or securities, engraved

and printed after the similitude of any notes,
bonds, coupons, or other securities, issued as
aforesaid, with intent to sell or otherwise use
the same; or if any person shall print, photo-
graph, or in any other manner execute or cause
to be printed, photographed, or in any manner
executed, or shall aid in printing, photographing, or executing any engraving, photograph,
or other print, or impression, in the likeness or
similitude of any such notes, bonds, coupons, or
other securities, or any part or parts thereof,
except for the use of the United States and by
order of the proper officer thereof, or shall vend
or sell any such engraving, photograph, print,
or other impression, except to the United States,
or shall bring into the United States from any
foreign place any such engraving, photograph,
print, or other impression for the purpose of
vending or selling the same, except by the direc-
tion of some proper officer of the United States,
or shall have in his custody or possession any
paper adapted to the making of such notes,
bonds, coupons, or other securities, and similar
to the paper upon which any such notes, bonds,
coupons, or other securities shall have been is-
sued, with intent to use such paper, or cause or
suffer the same to be used, in forging or counter-
feiting any of the notes, bonds, coupons, or other
securities, issued as aforesaid, every such person
so offending shall be deemed guilty of a felony,
and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by
imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not
exceeding fifteen years, according to the aggra-
vation of the offense.
Approved, February 25, 1862.

The legislative history of this act is this:
In House.

1862, January 22—Mr. Elbridge G. SpauldIng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill (H. R. 240) "to authorize the issue of United States notes and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for the funding of the floating debt of the United States," as follows:

Be it enacted, c&c, That for temporary purposes the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, one hundred millions of dollars of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer at the Treasury of the United States, or at the office of the Assistant Treasurer in the city of New York, at the pleasure of the United States, and of such denominations as he may deem expedient, not less than five dollars each; and such notes, and all other United States notes, payable on demand, not bearing interest, heretofore authorized, shall be receivable for all debts and demands due to the United States, and for all salaries, debts, and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States; and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States; and any nolder of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than fifty dollars, or other than a multiple of fifty, with the Treasurer of the United States, or either of the Assistant Treasurers, or either of the designated depositaries at Cincinnati or Baltimore, shall receive in exchange therefor duplicate certificates of deposit, one of which may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon issue to the holder an equal amount in bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may be desired, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum, and redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after twenty years from date, or in sums not less than twenty-five hundred dollars, for which, if requested, the Secretary, if he deems it expedient, may issue similar bonds, the principal and interest of which may be expressed in the currency of any foreign country, and payable there. And such United States notes shall be received the same as coin, at their par value, in payment for any bonds that may be hereafter negotiated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and may be reissued from time to time, as the exigencies of the public service may require. There shall be printed on the back of the United States notes, whi^h may be issued under the provisions of this act, the following words: "The within note is a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and is exchangeable for Donds of the United States bearing six per centum interest."

Sec. 2. That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fund the treasury notes and floating debt of the United States, he is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon bonds or registered bonds, to an amount not exceeding five hundred millions of dollars, and redeemable, at the pleasure of the Government, after twenty years from date, and bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually. And the bonds herein authorized shall be of such denominations, not less than fifty dollars, as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Treasury, or in sums not less than two thousand five hundred dollars, for which, if requested, the Secretary, if he deems it expedient, may issue similar bonds, the principal and interest of which may be expressed in the currency of any foreign country, and payable there. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue said bonds, at their par value, to any creditor or creditors of the United States who may elect to receive them in satisfaction of their demands: Provided, That all such claims or demands shall have been first audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may also exchange such bonds, at any time, for lawful money of the United States, or for any of the treasury notes that may have been or may hereafter be issued under any former act of Congress, or that may be issued under the provisions of this act.

[A third section directed the form of signing and countersigning the notes and bonds.]

January 2fr—The bill came up, and was committed to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union.

February 6—The Committee of the Whole reported the bill to the House, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, and an amendment to said amendment in the nature of a substitute for it.

The Stevens Amendment.

The amendment, offered by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens in Committee, was then read, as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert:

That to meet the necessities of the Treasury of the United States, and to provide a currency receivable for the public dues, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer, at the Treasury of the United States at Washington or New York, and of such denominations as he may deem expedient, not less than five dollars each: Provided, however, That fifty millions of said notes shall be in lieu of the demand Treasury notes authorized to be issued by the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; which said demand notes shall be taken up as rapidly as practicable, and the notes herein provided for substituted for them: And provided, further, That the amount of the two kinds of notes together shall at no time exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. And such notes herein authorized shall be receivable in payment of all taxes, duties, imposts, excises, debts, and demands of every kind due to the United States, and for all salaries, debts, and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. And any holders of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than fifty dollars, or some multiple of fifty dollars, with the Treasurer of the United States, or either of the assistant treasurers, shall receive in exchange therefor duplicate certificates of deposit, one of which may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon issue to the holder an equal amount of bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually at the Treasury or sub-treasuries of the United States, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after twenty years from the date thereof: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, upon presentation of said certificates of deposit, issue to the holder thereof, at his option, and instead of the bonds already described, an equal amount of bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable semi annually in coin, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years from the date thereof. And such United States notes shall be received the same as coin, at their par value, in payment for any loans that may be hereafter sold or negotiated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and may be reissued from time to time as the exigencies of the public interests shall require. There shall be printed onthe back of the United States notes, which may be issued under the provisions of thie act, the following words: "The within note is a. legal tender in payment of all debts, public anil

private, and is exchangeable for bonds of the United States bearing six per centum interest, at twenty years, or in seven per centum bonds at five years."

Sec. 2. That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fund the Treasury notes and floating debt of the United States, he is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon bonds, or registered bonds, to an amount not exceeding five hundred millions of dollars, and redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after twenty years from date, and bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually. And the bonds herein authorized shall be of such denominations, not • less than fifty dollars, as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may dispose of snch bonds at any time for lawful money of the United States, or for any of the Treasury notes that have been, or may hereafter be, issued under any former act of Congress, or for United States notes that may be issued under the provisions of this act; and all stocks, bonds, and other securities of the United States held by individuals, corporations, or associations within the United States, shall be exempt from taxation by any State or county.

[Sections 3,4, and 5 directed the form of signing the bonds and notes, and punishing the forging, &c, of them.]

The Horton Amendment.

The amendment to the amendment, offered by Mr. Valentine B. Horton (it having the sanction of one-half of the Committee on Ways and Means,) was then read as follows:

Strike out all after the word " that," where it first occurs, and insert: For temporary purposes the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, one hundred million of dollars of Treasury notes, bearing interest at the rate of three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, payable in two years after date to bearer at the Treasury of the United States or at the office of the Assistant Treasurer in the city of New York, or at the office of the designated depositary in the city of Cincinnati, and of such denominations as he may deem expedient, not less than five dollars each; and such notes shall be receivable for all public dues, except duties on imports, and for all salaries, debts, and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States, at the option of such individuals, corporations, and associations; and any holder of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than fifty dollars, or some multiple of fifty, with the Treasurer of the United States, or either of the Assistant Treasurers, or either of the designated depositaries at Cincinnati or Baltimore, shall receive in exchange therefor duplicate certificates of deposit for the amount, with any accumulated interest thereon, one of which may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon issue to the holder an equal amount in bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may be desired,

bearing interest at the rate of seven and threetenths per centum per annum, payable semiannually in coin, and redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after ten years from date; and such Treasury notes shall be received the same as coin, at their par value, with accumulated interest, in payment for any bonds that may be hereafter negotiated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time, as the exigencies of the public service may require, issue any amount of such Treasury notes equal to the amount redeemed. There shall be printed on the back of the United States notes which may be issued under the provisions of this act the following words: "The within note is receivable in payment of all public dues, except duties on imports, and is exchangeable for bonds of the United States bearing seven and three-tenths per centum interest per annum, payable in coin, semi-annually."

Sec. 2. That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fund the Treasury notes and floating debt of the United States, he is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon bonds, or registered bonds, to an amount not exceeding five hundred millions of dollars, two hundred millions bearing interest at the rate of seven and three-tenths per centum per annum, payable semi-annually in coin, and redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after ten years from date, and three hundred millions redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after twenty-four years from date, and bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually in coin. And the bonds herein authorized shall be of such denominations, not less than fifty dollars, as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury may also exchange at par such bonds at any time for lawful money of the United States, or for any of the Treasury notes that have been or may hereafter be issued under any former act of Congress, or that may be issued under the provisions of this act.

[Other sections related to details.]

The amendment to the amendment (Mr. HoeTon's) was disagreed to—yeas 55, nays 95:

Yeas—Messrs. Sydenham E. Ancona, Portus Baxter, Charles J. Biddle, George H Browne, William G. Brown, George T. Cobb, Frederick

A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Martin F. Conway, Erastus Corning, Samuel S. Cox, James A. Cravens, John W. Crisfield, John J. Crittenden, Alexander S. Diven, Thomas D. Eliot, James B. English, John N. Goodwin, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, William S. Holman, Valentine

B. Horton, Philip Johnson, John Law, J^e Lazear, Owen Lovejoy, Henry May, John $. Menzies, Justin S. Morrill, James R. Morris, John T. Nixon, Warren P. Noble, Elijah HNorton, Robert H. Nugen, Moses F. Odell, George H. Pendleton, Nehemiah Perry, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Albert G. Porter, Edward H. Rollins, Charles B. Sedgwick, William P. Sheffield, George K. Shiel, William G. Steele, John L. N. Stratton, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Charles R. Train, Clement L. Vallandigham. William H. Wadsworth, E. P. Walton, Elijah tfard, Edwin H. Webster, Chilton A. While, ffendrick B. Wright—55.

Nays—Messrs. Cyrus Aldrich, John B. Alley, Isaac N. Arnold, James M. Ashley, Elijah Babbitt, Goldsmith F. Bailey, Joseph Baily, Stephen Baker, Fernando C. Beaman, John A. Bingham, Francis P. Blair, Jr., Jacob B. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Harrison G. Blake, James Buffinton, Alfred A. Burnham, James H. Campbell, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Ambrose W. Clark, Schuyler Colfax, William P. Cutler, Wm. Morris Davis, Charles Delano, Isaac C. Delaplaine, R. Holland Duell, George W. Dunlap, W. McKee Dunn, Sidney Edgerton, Thomas M. Edwards, Alfred Ely, Reuben E. Fenton, Samuel C. Fessenden, George P. Fisher, Richard Franchot, Augustus Frank, Daniel W. Gooch, Bradley F. Granger, John A. Gurley, Edward Haight, James T. Hale, Luther Hanchett, Richard A. Harrison, John Hickman, Samuel Hooper, John Hutchins, George W. Julian, William D. Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, John W.Killinger, Anthony I. Knapp, William E. Lansing, Cornelius L. L. Leary, Dwight Loomis, James B. McKean, Robert McKnight, Edward McPherson, Gilman Marston, Horace Maynard, William Mitchell, James K. Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill, Abraham B. Olin, John Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Frederick A. Pike, Thomas L. Price, Alexander H. Rice, John H. Rice, William A. Richardson, James S. Rollins, Aaron A. Sargent, John P. C. Shanks, Samuel Shellabarger, Socrates N. Sherman, A. Scott Sloan, Elbridge G. Spaulding, John B. Steele, Thaddeus Stevens, Carey A. Trimble, Rowland E. Trowbridge, Charles H. Upton, Burt Van Horn, Rob't B. Van Valkenburgh, Charles H. Van Wyck, John P. Verree, William Wall, John W. Wallace, Charles W. Walton, Kellian V. Whaley, Albert S. White, Charles A. Wickliffe, James F. Wilson, William Windom, Samuel T. Worcester—95.

The Stevens amendment was then agreed to without a division; and the bill as amended engrossed and read a third time.

The bill, amended by the substitution of Mr. Stevens's proposition, was then passed—yeas 93, nays 59:

Yeas—Messrs. Cyrus Aldrich, John B. Alley, Isaac N. Arnold, James M. Ashley, Elijah Babbitt, Goldsmith F. Bailey, Joseph Baily, Stephen Baker, Fernando C. Beaman, John A. Bingham, Francis P. Blair, Jr., Jacob B. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Harrison G. Blake, James Buffinton, Alfred A. Burnham, James H. Campbell, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Ambrose W. Clark, Schuyler Colfax, William P. Cutler, William Morris Davis, Charles Delano, Isaac C. Delaplaine, R Holland Duell, W. McKee Dunn, Sidney Edgerton, Thomas M. Edwards, Alfred Ely, Reuben E. Fenton, Samuel C. Fessenden, George P. Fisher, Richard Franchot, Augustus Frank, Daniel W. Gooch, Bradley F. Granger, John A. Gurley, Edward Haight, James T. Hale, Luther Hanchett, Richard A. Harrison, John Hickman, Samuel Hooper, John Hutchins, George W. Julian, William D. Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, John W. Killinger, William E. Lansing, Cornelius L. L. Leary, Dwight Loomis, James B. McKean, Robert McKnight, Edward McPherson, Oilman Marston, Horace Maynard, William

Mitchell, James K. Moorhead, Anson P. Morrill, Robert H. Nugen, Abraham B. Olin, John Patton, Timothy G. Phelps, Frederick A. Pike, Thomas L Price, Alexander H. Rice, John H. Rice, Albert G. Riddle, James S. Rollins, Aaron

A. Sargent, John P. C. Shanks, Samuel Shellabarger, Socrates N. Sherman, A. Scott Sloan, Elbridge G. Spaulding, John B. Steele, Thaddeus Stevens, Carey A. Trimble, Rowland E. Trowbridge, Charles H. Upton, Burt Van Horn, Robt.

B. Van Valkenburgh. Charles H. Van Wyck, John P. Verree, William Wall, John W.Wallace, Charles W. Walton, Kellian V. Whaley, Albert S. White, James F. Wilson, William Windom, Samuel T. Worcester—93.

Nays—Messrs. Sydenham E. Ancona, Portus Baxter, Charles J. Biddle, George H. Browne, George T. Cobb, Frederick A. Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Martin F. Conway, Erastus Corning, Samuel S. Cox, James A. Cravens, John W. Crisfield, Alexander S. Diven, George W. Dunlap, Thomas D. Eliot, James E English, John N. Goodwin, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, William S. Holman, Valentine B. Horton, Philip Johnson, Anthony L. Knapp, John Law, Jesse Lazear, Owen Lovejoy, Robert Mallory, Henry May, John W. Menzies, Justin S. Morrill, James R. Morris, John T. Nixon, Warren P. Noble, Elijah H. Norton, Moses F. Odell, George H. Pendleton, Nehemiah Perry, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Albert G. Porter, William A. Richardson, James C. Robinson, Edward H. Rollins, Charles B. Sedgwick, William P. Sheffield, George K. Shiel, William G. Steele, John L. N. Stratton, Benjamin F. Thomas, Francis Thomas, Charles R. Train, Clement L. Vallandigham, Daniel W. Voorhees, William H. Wadsworth, E. P.Walton, Elijah Ward, Edwin H. Webster, Chilton A. White, Charles A. Wickliffe, Hendrick B. Wright —59.

In Senate.

1862, February 10—Mr. William P. FessenDen, from the Committee on Finance, reported said bill with amendments, so that it would read as follows:

Be it enaeted, &c, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer, at the Treasury of the United States, and of such denominations as he may deem expedient, not less than five dollars each: Provided, however, That fifty millions of said notes shall be in lieu of the demand treasury notes authorized to be issued by the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty one; which said demand notes shall be taken up as rapidly as practicable, and the notes herein provided for substituted frrthem: And provided, further, That the amount of the two Kinds of notes together shall at no time exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and such notes herein authorized shall be receivable in payment of all public dues and demands of every description, and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except interest as aforesaid. And any holders of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than fifty dollars, or some multiple of fifty dollars, with the Treasurer of the United States, or either of the assistant treasurers, shall receive in exchange therefor duplicate certificates of deposit, one of which may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon issue to the holder an equal amount of bonds of the United States, "coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after twenty years from the date thereof. And such United States notes shall be received the same as coin, at their par value, in payment for any loans that may be hereafter sold or negotiated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and may be reissued from time to time, as the exigencies of the public interests shall require. There shall be printed on the back of the United States notes which may be issued under the provisions of this act, the following words: "The within note is a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and is exchangeable for bonds of the United States bearing six per centum interest, at twenty years."

Section two only varied from that of the House bill by changing the clause "and the Secretary of the Treasury may dispose of such bonds at any time for lawful money of the United States," &c, to "and the Secretary of the Treasury may dispose of such bonds at any time, at the market value thereof, for the coin of the United States."

Section three is identical with that of the House bill. Section four refers to temporary deposits.

Sec. 5. That all duties on imported goods, the proceeds of the sale of the public lands, and the proceeds of all property seized and sold under the laws of the United States as the property of rebels, shall be set apart as a special fund, and shall be applied as follows:

First. To the payment in coin of the interest of the debt of the United States.

Second. To the purchase or payment of one per centum of the entire debt of the United States, to be made within each fiscal year after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to be set apart as a sinking fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct.

Third. The residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury of the United States.

Sections six and seven, which relate not to the principle of the measure, were substantially the same as sections four and five of the House bill.

February 12—The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, adopted sundry amendments, one being to insert in the "legal-tender" clause the words "and the notes authorized by the act of July 17, 1861."

February 13—Mr. Collamer moved to amend the bill by striking out of the first section the words—

"And such notes herein authorized, and the notes authorized by the act of July 17, 1861, shall be receivable in payment of all public dues

and demands of every description, and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender ia payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except interest as aforesaid."

Which was disagreed to—yeas 17, nays 22:

Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, /. A. Bayard, Collamer, Cowan, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Kennedy, King, Latham, Nesmith, Pearce, Powell, Willard Saulsbury, Simmons, Thomson, Willey —17.

Nays—Messrs. Chandler, Clark, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, McDougall, Morrill, Pomeroy, Rice, Sherman, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson of Massachusetts, Wilson of Missouri—22.

The bill, having been further amended, was reported to the Senate, and passed—yeas 30, nays 7:

Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Latham, McDougall, Morrill, Pomeroy, Rice, Sherman, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson of Massachusetts, Wilson of Missouri—30.

Nays—Messrs. Collamer, Cowan, Kennedy, King, Pearce, Powell, Willard Saulsbury—7.

In House.

February 20—Pending the question on agreeing to the Senate amendments, the first five were agreed to.

The 6th Senate amendment was to strike out of the first section, legal tender clause, the words "and for all salaries, debts, and demands owing by the United States, to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States," and to insert in lieu thereof: "and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin," &c.

Mr. Stevens proposed to amend this Senate amendment by inserting after the word "notes" the words "and for payments to be made to officers, soldiers, and sailors of the army and the navy of the United States, and for all supplies furnished to said government;" which was disagreed to—yeas 67, nays 72:

Yeas—Messrs. Cyrus Aldrich, Sydenham E. Ancona, Elijah Babbitt, Joseph Baily, Stephen Baker, Charles J. Biddle, John A. Bingham, Francis P. Blair, jr., Jacob B. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, George H. Browne, James Buffinton, James H. Campbell, Jacob P.Chamberlain, Ambrose W. Clark, George T. Cobb, Wilham Morris Davis, Alexander S. Diven, Thomas M. Edwards, Alfred Ely, Reuben E. Fenton, Samuel C. Fessenden, George P. Fisher, Richard Franchot, Augustus Frank, Daniel W. Gooch Bradley F. Granger, James T. Hale, Luther Hanchett, Richard A. Harrison, William S. Holman, Samuel Hooper, Philip Johnson, George W. Julian, William Kellogg, John W. Killinger, William E. Lehman, Edward McPherson, Gilman Marston, Horace Maynard, William Mitchell, Anson P. Morrill,

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