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Page 44
... Speaker said it would be open to amendment if the previous question should not be seconded . The question being then taken , the demand for the previous question was seconded - yeas 85 , nays 49 . Upon the question , " Shall the main ...
... Speaker said it would be open to amendment if the previous question should not be seconded . The question being then taken , the demand for the previous question was seconded - yeas 85 , nays 49 . Upon the question , " Shall the main ...
Page 45
... Speaker answered in the negative . And the main question , " Shall the resolution be adopted ? " was then taken , and decided in the affirma- tive - yeas 98 , nays 87 - as follows : YEAS - Messrs . Abbott , Ashmun , Belcher , Bingham ...
... Speaker answered in the negative . And the main question , " Shall the resolution be adopted ? " was then taken , and decided in the affirma- tive - yeas 98 , nays 87 - as follows : YEAS - Messrs . Abbott , Ashmun , Belcher , Bingham ...
Page 53
... Speaker , proceeding to discharge the duty thus imposed upon him , said : " " A case has occurred in which , under the rule of the House , it is the duty of the Speaker to vote . The Speaker regrets that in this , as in many other cases ...
... Speaker , proceeding to discharge the duty thus imposed upon him , said : " " A case has occurred in which , under the rule of the House , it is the duty of the Speaker to vote . The Speaker regrets that in this , as in many other cases ...
Page 54
... Speaker was in- terrupted by the Clerk , who showed him a paper con- taining the state of the vote . " The Speaker said the Clerk was mistaken in the vote . The vote stands - ninety - one in the affirmative , eighty - nine in the ...
... Speaker was in- terrupted by the Clerk , who showed him a paper con- taining the state of the vote . " The Speaker said the Clerk was mistaken in the vote . The vote stands - ninety - one in the affirmative , eighty - nine in the ...
Page 55
... Speaker stated that corrections of the journal would be in order on Monday morning , after the read- ing of the journal . " Mr. Wentworth asked if it would not be in order now to make a correction in the vote . " The Speaker replied ...
... Speaker stated that corrections of the journal would be in order on Monday morning , after the read- ing of the journal . " Mr. Wentworth asked if it would not be in order now to make a correction in the vote . " The Speaker replied ...
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