De Mott, Paul Dillingham, jr., James C. Dobbin, Stephen A. Douglass, George C. Dromgoole, Robert P. Dunlap, Joseph Edsall, Samuel S. Ellsworth, Jacob Erdman, James J. Faran, Orlando B. Ficklin, Henry D. Foster, George Fries, William S. Garvin, William F: Giles, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Gordon, Martin Grover, Hannibal Hamlin, Hugh A. Haralson, Thomas J. Henley, Joseph P. Hoge, George W. Hopkins, William J. Hough, George S. Houston, Edmund W. Hubard, Orville Hungerford, James B. Hunt, Robert M. T. Hunter, Charles J. Ingersoll, Timothy Jenkins, James H. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, Andrew Johnson, George W. Jones, Seaborn Jones, Andrew Kennedy, Preston King, John W. Lawrence, Shelton F. Leake, Owen D. Leib, Thomas W. Ligon, John H. Lumpkin, William B. Maclay, Moses McClean, Robert McClelland, John A. McClernand, Felix G. McConnell, John D. McCrate, Joseph J. McDowell, James J. McKay, John P. Martin, Barclay Martin, Joseph Morris, Isaac E. Morse, Mace Moulton, Archibald C. Niven, Moses Norris, Robert Dale Owen, Isaac Parish, Augustus L. Perrill, Thomas Perry, John Pettit, Sterling Price, George Rathbun, David S. Reid, James H. Relfe, John Ritter, Joseph Russell, Cullen Sawtelle, William Sawyer, John F. Scammon, Leonard H. Simms, Thomas Smith, Robert Smith, Frederick P. Stanton, David A. Starkweather, Henry St. John, Stephen Strong, George Sykes, William Taylor, James Thompson, Jacob Thompson, John W. Tibbatts, William M. Tredway, John Wentworth, Horace Wheaton, William W. Wick, Hezekiah Williams, David Wilmot, Bradford R. Wood, William W. Woodworth, Archibald Yell, and Jacob S. Yost.

The following named members voted for SAMUEL F. VINTON, one of the Representatives from the State of Ohio, viz:

Amos Abbott, John Quincy Adams, Lemuel H. Arnold, George Ashmun, Edward D. Baker, Daniel M. Barringer, Joshua F. Bell, John Blanchard, Milton Brown, Joseph Buffington, E. Carrington Cabell, William M. Cocke, Jacob Collamer, Henry Y. Cranston, John H. Crozier, Erastus D. Culver, Cornelius Darragh, Garrett Davis, Columbus Delano, James Dixon, Alfred Dockery, John H. Ewing, Solomon Foot, Meredith P. Gentry, Joshua R. Giddings, Henry Grider, Joseph Grinnell, James G. Hampton, Alexander Harper, Richard P. Herrick, Henry W. Hilliard, Elias B. Holmes, John W. Houston, Samuel D. Hubbard, Charles Hudson, Washington Hunt, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Daniel P. King, Thomas Butler King, Abner Lewis, Edward W. McGaughey, John H. McHenry, Abraham R. McIlvaine, George P. Marsh, William A. Moseley, John S. Pendleton, James Pollock, Alexander Ramsey, Julius Rockwell, John A. Rockwell, Joseph M. Root, John Runk, Robert C. Schenck, Luther Severance, Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Alexander H. Stephens, Andrew Stewart, John Strohm, Bannon G. Thibodeaux, William P. Thomasson, Benjamin Thompson, Daniel R. Tilden, Robert Toombs, Andrew Trumbo, Joseph Vance, Hugh White, Robert C. Winthrop, William Wright, and Bryan R. Young.

The following named members voted for MOSES NORRIS, one of the Representatives from the State of New Hampshire, viz:

Armistead Burt, Isaac E. Holmes, R. Barnwell Rhett, James A. Sedden, Alexander D. Sims, Richard F. Simpson, James A. Woodward, William L. Yancey, and John H. Harmanson.

The following named members voted for WILLIAM S. MILLER, one of the Representatives from the State of New York, viz:

William W. Campbell, John H. Campbell, Lewis C. Levin, Henry J. Seaman, and Thomas M. Woodruff.

Samuel F. Vinton voted for ROBERT C. WINTHROP, of Massachusetts.
James Graham voted for DANIEL M. BARRINGER, of North Carolina.
Edward Long voted for JOHN G. CHAPMAN, of Maryland.
William S. Miller voted for JOHN H. CAMPBELL, of Pennsylvania.
John G. Chapman voted for ANDREW STEWART, of Pennsylvania.

A majority of the whole number of members present having voted for JOHN W. DAVIS, he was declared by the Clerk duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the twenty-ninth Congress.

Mr. Davis was then conducted to the chair by James J. McKay, of North Carolina, and Samuel F. Vinton, of Ohio, where the oath to support the constitution of the United States, as prescribed by the constitution, and by the act of June 1, 1789, entitled "An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths," was administered to the Speaker by John Quincy Adams, one of the Representatives from the State of Massachusetts.

The same oath (or affirmation) was then administered by the Speaker to all the other members of the House who answered to their names. Delegates from Territories then appeared, were sworn to support the constitution of the United States, and took their seats, viz: From the Territory of Wisconsin-Morgan L. Martin. From the Territory of Iowa-Augustus C. Dodge.

On motion of Mr. Jacob Thompson,

Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate to inform that body that a quorum of the House of Representatives has assembled, and that John W. Davis, one of the Representatives from the State of Indiana, has been chosen Speaker; and that the House is now ready to proceed to business; and that the Clerk do go with said message.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Dickins, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate is assembled, and that the Senate is ready to procced to business.

And the Secretary withdrew.

On motion of Mr. McDowell,

Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the House is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.

Mr. McDowell, Mr. Hopkins, and Mr. Winthrop were appointed the committee on the part of the House.

Mr. McDowell moved the following resolution:

Resolved, That the standing rules and orders of the last House of Representatives be adopted as the rules and orders of proceeding of this House. The said resolution was read; when

Mr. Hamlin moved to amend the same, by inserting after the word "representatives" the following: "as they existed at the close of the last session, except the 33d rule"-(the 33d rule being that which limits debate to one hour.)

And, after debate,

The question was put, Will the House agree to the said amendment?

negative,Yeas,

And decided in the negative, Nays,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

The question recurred, Will the House agree to the said resolution? when A motion was then made by Mr. Reuben Chapman to amend the said resolution, by inserting after the word representatives the following: "as they stood at the close of the first session.

And the question being put, Will the House agree to the said amendment?

It was decided in the negative,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

The effect of the above amendment, if agreed to, would have been to restore the following rule, which was abolished at the 2d session of the last Congress:

"No petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper, praying the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, or any State or Territory, or the slave trade between the States or Territories of the United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever."

The question again recurred, Will the House agree to the said resolution? when

Mr. Isaac E. Holmes moved to amend the same by striking out all after the word resolved, and inserting the following: "That the rules of the House of Representatives as they existed at the close of the last session of Congress be, for the present, adopted as the rules of this House; and that a committee be appointed to revise the rules, and report to this House such alterations and amendments as may be deemed advisable."

And the question being put, Will the House agree to the said amend

It was decided in the affirmative.