January 30, 1869
The PRESIDENTpro tempore. The morning hour having expired, the unfinished business of yesterday, being the joint resolution (S. R. No. 8) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is before the Senate.
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- PRESIDENTpro The scans read: “PRESIDENT” (microfilm scan), “PRESIDENTpro” (main scan)
Several Senators. Let us vote on this question.
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Mr. CRAGIN. I hope the Senator from Nevada will not object to our taking a vote on this motion. There will be no further debate.
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Mr. STEWART. I cannot give way.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from New Hampshire asks the unanimous consent of the Senate to pass over the order of the day informally for the purpose of taking a vote on this subject.
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Mr. STEWART. I object.
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Mr. EDMUNDS and others. Let us settle it now.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore■. Objection being made, Senate joint resolution No. 8 is before the Senate, the pending question being on the amendment of the Senator from Connecticut, [Mr. Dixon,] upon which the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Ferry] is entitled to the floor.
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Mr. STEWART. If the debate on the other subject is concluded, and the Senator from Connecticut is willing to yield the floor long enough to allow the vote to be taken, I will consent that that shall be done.
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Mr. FERRY. I am willing to yield to allow a vote to be taken.
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The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut yields for that purpose; and the question is on the motion to reconsider the vote rejecting the concuirent resolution, upon which the yeas and nays have been ordered.
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- concuirent The scans read: “concurreat” (microfilm scan), “concuirent” (main scan)
The question being taken by yeas and nays, resulted—yeas 21, nays 29; as follows: yeas—Messrs. Abbott, Anthony. Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conness, Cragin, Edmunds. Ferry, Fessenden, Harlan. Kellogg, McDonald, Nye. Patterson of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Rice, Stewart, Thayer, Welch, and Williams—21. T
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- yeas—Messrs. The scans read: “AS—Messrs.” (microfilm scan), “yeas—Messrs.” (main scan)
NAYS—Messrs. Buckalew, Conkling, Corbett, Davis. Dixon, Doolittle, Drake, Grimes, Harris, Hendricks, McCreery, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Norton, Osborn, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pool, Ramsey, Robertson* Sherman' Sprague, Sumner, Trumbull, Vickers, Wade, Warner, Willey, and Wilson—29.
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- McCreery, The scans read: “MeCreery,” (microfilm scan), “McCreery,” (main scan)
- Wilson—29. The scans read: “Wilso:” (microfilm scan), “Wilson—29.” (main scan)
ABSENT—Messrs. Bayard, Cameron, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Mort oh Ross, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Spencer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Whyte, and Yates—16.
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- Mort oh The scans read: “Morton,” (microfilm scan), “Mort oh” (main scan)
So the motion to reconsider was not agreed to.
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