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113,568 recorded House and Senate votes since 1789, newest first (page 382 of 455)

To amend the bill, S. 511, by providing that no more than 320 acres in a contiguous tract shall be sold and that no…Senate · Feb 5, 1855
To amend the bill S. 511, by allowing the benefits of this bill to apply to those officers and soldiers called out by…Senate · Feb 5, 1855
To reconsider the vote by which the Senate accepted the amendment to S. 511, which amendment proposes that where…Senate · Feb 5, 1855
To consider S. 511, (10, stat. 701 3-3-1855), a bill extending the bounty land laws. (p. 559-1)Senate · Feb 5, 1855
To suspend all prior orders in order to take up the bill S. 273, for the construction of a railroad from the valley of…Senate · Feb 5, 1855
To table a motion to reconsider the vote by which S. 268, a bill providing for the relief of the claimants of the…Senate · Feb 2, 1855
To adjourn until monday, in respect for the death of senor don filipe molino, minister from guatemala.Senate · Feb 2, 1855
To order engrossment and third reading of the bill H.R. 562.Senate · Feb 1, 1855
To amend H.R. 562, by providing that the President accept the services of 3000 volunteers for emergencies with indian…Senate · Feb 1, 1855
To amend an amendment to H.R. 562 (3-3-1855), the army appropriations bill for fiscal 1855, so as to provide that the…Senate · Feb 1, 1855
To consider bill H.R. 117, to provide satifaction for the claims of american citizens for spoliations committed by the…Senate · Feb 1, 1855
To take up bill, S. 511, (10 stat. L. 701, 3-3-1855), extending the bounty land laws. (p. 435-3)Senate · Jan 29, 1855
To order engrossment and third reading of S. 268, a bill for the relief of the claimants of the private armed brig…Senate · Jan 26, 1855
To amend the bill H.R. 562, (3-3-1855), army appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1856, by…Senate · Jan 24, 1855
To amend bill, S. 511, by providing that provisions of this act apply to any officers, soldiers, and volunteers who…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend bill, S. 511, by providing that provisions of this act apply to those who served as volunteers at the attack…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend bill, S. 511, by providing that the provisions of the bill apply to volunteers called out under the authority…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend S. 511, by providing that the provisions of the bill shall apply to the armed force employed by any services…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend bill S. 511, by providing that the provisions of this bill shall apply to and embrace those who served as…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend the bill S. 511, by providing that widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war be entitled to…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend bill, S. 511, by eliminating all of bill after enacting clause and inserting a substitute, the nature of…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To amend bill S. 511, by giving all commissioned officers on the invalid pension list an additional 21% and all…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To postpone all prior orders during debate on the bill H.R. 562 (3-3-1855), making appropriations for the support of…Senate · Jan 23, 1855
To postpone further consideration until first monday in dec. Next, of bill S. 511. (p. 346-3)Senate · Jan 22, 1855
To amend S. 511 (10 stat. 701, 3-3-1855), a bill to extend the bounty land laws, by providing that the benefits be…Senate · Jan 19, 1855
To order engrossment and third reading of S. 481, for the claim of commodore thomas ap. Catesby jones. (p. 327-1)Senate · Jan 19, 1855
To postpone consideration of S. 332 until the first monday in dec. Next. (p. 300-3)Senate · Jan 18, 1855
To table bill S. 332. (p. 300-3)Senate · Jan 17, 1855
To amend S. 332, by proposing the substitute that no new judges be appointed and the duties now performed by the…Senate · Jan 17, 1855
To recommit S. 332, a bill to amend and modify the judicial system of the U.S., to the committee on the judiciary with…Senate · Jan 17, 1855
To reconsider vote by which S. 513 was tabled. (p. 294-2)Senate · Jan 17, 1855
To table S. 513.Senate · Jan 16, 1855
To amend bill, S. 513, by providing that senators, representatives and delegates, in Congress be paid a fixed annual…Senate · Jan 16, 1855
To amend bill, S. 513, to increase the compensation of the justices of the supreme court and of members of both houses…Senate · Jan 16, 1855
To amend bill, S. 332, to modify and amend judicial system of the U.S. By eliminating provision requiring associate…Senate · Jan 11, 1855
To amend first section of bill, S. 332, to modify and amend judicial system of the U.S. By providing to have the U.S…Senate · Jan 11, 1855
To amend S. 511, by limitting the lands to be entered under warrants issued under this act to 320 acres. (p. 179-1)Senate · Jan 4, 1855
To amend S. 511, by limitting the lands to be entered under warrants issued under this act to 640 acres and not 1280…Senate · Jan 4, 1855
To reconsider vote by which S. 511, was amended to have act apply to all children and not only minor children. (p…Senate · Jan 3, 1855
To amend bill, S. 511, (10 stat. L. 701, 3-3-1855), in addition to certain acts granting bounty land to certain…Senate · Jan 2, 1855
To amend the bill S. 523 (2-24-1855), to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the U.S., by…Senate · Dec 21, 1854
To amend H.R. 554. (2-28-1855), a bill to appropriate for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the U.S. For…Senate · Dec 20, 1854
To adjourn, to meet tomorrow at 12 o'clock. (p. 2218)Senate · Aug 4, 1854
To postpone further consideration of the report of the judiciary committee relating to the right of the hon. Jared w…Senate · Aug 4, 1854
To reconsider the report of the judiciary committee on the question whether the hon. Jared w. Williams was entitled to…Senate · Aug 4, 1854
On passage, of the resolution, authorizing the secretary of the Senate to pay out of the Senate's contingent fund, to…Senate · Aug 4, 1854
To amend the resolution for publishing Senate debates and proceedings, by having these of the preceding and the…Senate · Aug 4, 1854
On sustaining dicision of chair, ruling out of order an amendment to the bill H.R. 1, granting and reducing price of…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To table the bill H.R. 1, to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators. (p…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 96, by striking out a clause directing the secretary of the navy to give notice, as provided for in the…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 96, eliminating a section authorizing postmaster general to terminate contracts for carrying mail from…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 96, by restoring a section authorizing postmaster general to give notice terminating contracts for the…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To recede from the amendment to the bill H.R. 392, which amendment increases the appropriation "for the removal of the…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by appropriating $90,000 for the purchase of the best breech-loading rifles, in the opinion of the…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by appropriating the sum of $129,885.23 1/2 for the payment of claim adjudicated by the board of…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To decide whether an amendment to H.R. 95, is in order, to be received by the Senate for consideration under rule 30…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
On agreeing to amendment as amended to the bill H.R. 95, authorizing the secretary of war to purchase, after tests for…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by permitting the secretary of war to purchase 3000 stand of the best breech loading rifles, instead…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by authorizing sale, at auctions of armories at springfield, mass., and harpers ferry. (p. 2188-2)Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by repealing an existing law appropriating money for removing the raft of the red river, and…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by providing that all men who served under command of naval or military officers in california…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by providing that no widow of any soldier or officer shall be deprived of any benefits granted for…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 95, by authorizing the board of officers organized aug. 31, 1852, to sit in calif., for the…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 95, by regulating and increasing allowances and benefits, and regulating promotions of private…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95, by appropriating the sum of $50,000 for an iron steamer to be used in the survey of the northern and…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 95 (8-5-1854), a bill making appropriations for support of the army for year ending june 30, 1855, by…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
On adoption, of the resolution extending the present session of Congress. (p. 2180-1)Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To proceed to the consideration of the resolution extending the present session of Congress. (p. 2180-1)Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, by authorizing President to organize a naval board to investigate fitness of all officers to and…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 383, by adding language repealing an act to aid the territory of minnesota in the construction of a…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend an amendment to H.R. 383, a private claims bill. The amendment in the first degree adds language repealing…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
That the Senate recede from its amendment to H.R. 48, (8-4-1854), the civil and diplomatic appropriations bill, which…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To sustain the decision of the chair that, although incongrous, it was still on order to amend H.R. 383, a private…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, by modifying existing law to entitle the eight officers of the texas navy at the time of annexation…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, by fixing the salary of the officer in charge of the superintendency of the nautical almanac at…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 97, by authorizing the President to imcorporate into the naval service of the U.S. The…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, by directing the President to assemble a naval board to investigate the fitness of all officers of…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, by increasing the appropriation for the use of the navy yard at memphis, tenn., from $13,400 to…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To amend H.R. 97, (8-5-1854), making appropriation for the naval service for the year ending june 30, 1855, by…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To table H.R. 122, (8-3-1854), a bill giving henry s. Snow a pension of $8.00 per month for life for injuries…Senate · Aug 3, 1854
To adjourn. (p. 2092-2)Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To amend H.R. 336, by authorizing the postmaster general to establish a mail on the mississippi from cairo to new…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
On agreeing to amended amendment to H.R. 336, authorizing the postmaster general to contract for coast to coast mail…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To amend H.R. 336, by cancelling a contract, together with a appropriation of ten thousand dollars, for transporting…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 336, by allowing and paying to the postmaster of washington city a commission of one mill per…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 336, (8-5-1854), post office appropriation bill, by appropriating $10,000 so that the…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
On passage of the bill, H.R. 116, (3-184), making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence for the…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To consider the articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city of washington june 5, 1854…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
On adoption of the resolution ratifying the angloamerican treaty. (p. 376)Senate · Aug 2, 1854
To amend the anglo-american treaty, which amendment provides to ratify proviso to be inserted at the end of article 2…Senate · Aug 2, 1854
On ordering engrossment and third reading of the bill H.R. 392. (p. 2040-2)Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by eliminating the appropriation of ***missing text*** the indian river and masquito lagoon at the…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by eliminating the appropriation of $15,000 for continuing the improvement of the harbor of…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by eliminating the appropriation of $50,000 for continuing the improvement of the appomattox river…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by authorizing the secretary of war to contract with the proper parties for the purchase of grants…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by appropriating $44,000 for the improvement of the brazos river in the state of texas. (p. 1209-1)Senate · Aug 1, 1854
On concurring in amendment to the bill H.R. 392, increasing from $18,000 to $100,000 the appropriation for the…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by appropriating $12,000 for further investigations and surveys for a canal across the isthmus of…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by increasing the appropriation from $18,000 to $100,000, for continuing improvements of the des…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by eliminating the appropriation of $25,000 to be used in the expense attending the custody and…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
On deciding, whether or not the words "each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend the anglo-american treaty, which amendment proposes to ratify a proposed new article 8, empowering each of…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
On deciding whether or not the word "coal" shall stand as part of the third article of the anglo-american treaty. (p…Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To adjourn, thereby forestalling consideration on the anglo-american treaty.Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To resume consideration of the anglo-american treaty. (p. 374)Senate · Aug 1, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by striking out the following words, "and the expense attending the custody and management of the…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To proceed to consideration of the bill H.R. 392. (p. 2040-2)Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 392. (p. 1205-1)Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by appropriating $70,000 for improving the savannah river from the city of savannah to augusta. (p…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 392. (p. 1200-3)Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 392, by authorizing the secretary of war to contract with the proper partner for the purchase…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
On agreeing, to the amended amendment to the bill H.R. 392, appropriating $50,000 for surveying the harbors of san…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on the H.R. 392. (p. 1190-1)Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To recess each day during the remainder of the session from three until seven p.m., made during debate on the river…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To grant leave to introduce a bill, repealing the fugitive slave law of 1850.Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To table an appeal from the decision of the chair, the chair's ruling being that it is not in order to debate a bill…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To pass H.R. 380, for the relief of betsy nash and as amended providing to pay the widow of james c. Batchelder who…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 380, by adding a provision that the secretary of the treasury pay to the widow of james c…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To postpone until the next day consideration of the bill H.R.380, directing the secretary of the interior to place the…Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To proceed to the consideration of executive business. (p. 2013-3)Senate · Jul 31, 1854
To adjourn made during debate on the H.R. 392, in order to stop debate on amendment proposing an appropriation of…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by appropriating $44,000 for the improvement of the brazos river in texas. (p. 1168-2)Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To postpone further consideration of the bill H.R. 392. (p. 1173-2)Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To table bill H.R. 392. (p. 1168-1)Senate · Jul 29, 1854
On concurring in amendment as amended to H.R. 392, permitting the pres. Of the U.S. To cause a resurvey of public work…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To amend an amendment to H.R. 392, by giving the President the power to suspend appropriations for public works, where…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To amend an amendment to H.R. 392, by giving the President, instead of "said secretary," the power to suspend…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 392, making appropriation for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
On concurring in the amendment of the house, to the bill S. 388, (8-3-1854), incorporating the washington and…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To table S. 388, authorizing the extension of the washington and alexandria railroad into the district of columbia…Senate · Jul 29, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 392. (p. 1161-2)Senate · Jul 28, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by authorizing war secretary to withold appropriations for public works and report to Congress his…Senate · Jul 28, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 392. (p. 1160-1)Senate · Jul 28, 1854
To amend H.R. 392, by authorizing war secretary to suspend appropriations for public works for good reason, pending…Senate · Jul 28, 1854
To proceed to the consideration of the bill H.R. 392, making appropriations for the repair, preservation and…Senate · Jul 28, 1854
To proceed to the consideration of the bill S. 211, authorizing the President to incorporate the officers of the late…Senate · Jul 28, 1854
On passage of the bill H.R. 48.Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To reconsider an amendment to the bill, H.R. 48, authorizing an appropriation for the continuance of the water works…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend the bill H.R.48, by providing that the auxiliary guards of the city of washington are hereafter to be…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To reconsider the vote by which the Senate agreed to amend H.R. 48, by increasing the compensation of U.S. Marshals in…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by increasing the salaries of certain officers of the treasury, asst. Secy. Of state, commissioner…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, by increasing the salaries of the United States district judges by distributing less than…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To adjourn, made during debate on the bill H.R. 48, (p. 1975-3)Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by increasing the annual salaries of the director of the mint, at philadelphia, to $5,000, the…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
On agreeing to an amendment to the bill H.R. 48, appropriating the sum of $300,000 to enlarge the general post office…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by fixing the salaries of the ministers of great britain and france at $15,000 per annum each and no…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, by increasing the salaries of the ministers of great britain from $15,000 to $18,000 per…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, by setting the salaries of the ministers of great britain and france at $15,000 per annum…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, so as to give the clerks in the office of the coast survey higher renumeration and put them…Senate · Jul 27, 1854
To adopt an amendment to H.R. 48, which amendment sets the salaries of the ministers to great britain and france at…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on the bill H. R. 48. (p. 1943-3)Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by increasing the appropriation for the salaries of the supreme court judges from 41 to 59 thousand…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To adjourn, thereby stopping debate on the bill H.R. 48. (p. 1942-3)Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by providing that the SEC. Of the treasury pay to robert c. Schenck, late envoy to brazil, and john…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by providing that only the expenses of robert c. Schenck late envoy to brazil and john s. Pendleton…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, by authorizing the secretary of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of robert c…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
On agreeing to amendment to amendment of H.R. 48, paying the sum of $18.000 to robert c. Schenck in full compensation…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
On agreeing to amendment to H.R. 48, which amendment appropriates $370,000 plus 10 per cent for compensation of…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by authorizing the secretary of the interior to make contracts, conditional upon congressional…Senate · Jul 26, 1854
To amend H.R.48, by eliminating from the clause, "to be ***missing text*** appropriates $10,000 for life boats and…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by appropriating $300,000 to be paid to the state of california, for the expenses of said state…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, by appropriating $2,500, per year for a secretary of the President, and that a messenger be assigned…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
On agreeing to amendment to the bill H.R. 48, which appropriates $2,500 per year for a secretary to the President who…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
On agreeing to amendment H.R. 48, enabling the secy. Of state to reimburse edward riddle, on account of his official…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
On concurring in an amendment to H.R. 48, which amendment provides for construction of waterworks for cities of…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, (app. 8-4-1854), making appropriation for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To postpone until the first monday in dec. Next the consideration of the bill S. 186, paying claims of revolutionary…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To proceed to consideration of S. 186, a bill providing for the final settlement of the claims of the officers of the…Senate · Jul 25, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 48, (8-4-1854), making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for…Senate · Jul 24, 1854
To amend H.R. 48, (8-4-1854), making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year…Senate · Jul 24, 1854
To reconsider vote passing S. 96. (p. 1848-3,1849-1)Senate · Jul 22, 1854
To reconsider a resolution to print ten thousand extra copies of the kansas and nebraska act. (p. 1848-3)Senate · Jul 21, 1854
On ordering to engrossment and third reading the bill S. 96. (p. 1847-2)Senate · Jul 21, 1854
To amend the bill S. 96, (2-28-1855), providing for the payment of such creditors of the late republic of texas as are…Senate · Jul 21, 1854
On passage of the amended bill H.R. 37. (p. 1844-2)Senate · Jul 21, 1854
To agree to an amendment to H.R. 37, which amendment provides that after fiscal 1855, the minimum price of the public…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend a substitute for H.R. 37, by eliminating the word "white" from sections which describe persons entitled to…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by excluding from the application of this act, the alternate sections of land reserved from…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by reducing proposed price of public land from twenty-five, and twelve and a half cents an acre, to…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by eliminating a provision reducing the price to 25 cents per acre for land remaining unsold up to…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by adding a clause granting all public lands lying within the limits of any state which have been…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by eliminating from proposed amendment all after the enacting clause, and substituting a provision…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by eliminating sections which provide that any person may enter upon lands within a state…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To adjourn, with the understanding that a vote be taken on the bill at 11:30 the next day, made during debate on the…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 37.Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by reducing to 12 and 1/2 cents an acre all public lands which have been offered for sale for thirty…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by granting veterans who served twenty days in any of the wars since 1790 or their widows and minor…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 37. (p. 1109,1,3)Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by giving to house-builders the privilege now had by partners to have patents issued to…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by giving the citizens of the old states six months in which to take up actual residence on the…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by entitling every white citizen who is the head of a family and desires to emigrate, to a…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To table H.R. 37. (p. 1108-1)Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To agree to an amendment to H.R. 37, in the nature of a substitute which grants to settlers the opportunity to…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by providing that act shall not apply to public lands lying north west of the ohio river, ceded by…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To postpone consideration of H.R. 37, and make it the special order of the day for the second monday of dec. Next. (p…Senate · Jul 20, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on H.R. 37. (p. 1819-3)Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To table H.R. 37. (p. 1819-2,3)Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by giving any free white citizen male over 21 years the right to enter lands offered for…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by eliminating section which includes lands acquired under provisions of this act from…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by eliminating the word "contracted" in 4th section, "that all lands acquired under the…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by providing that when the patent shall have been issued, the settler shall pay to the gov…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To proceed to the consideration of executive business. (p. 1810-3)Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on the homestead bill H.R. 37. (p. 1792-3)Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 378 by providing that, instead of paying 25 cents an acre, the settlers pay 50 cents an acre…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, to grant a homestead of 160 acres of the public lands to actual settlers, by increasing…Senate · Jul 19, 1854
To withdraw a motion to reconsider the vote passing the bill S. 60, (2-17-55), authorizing the construction of a…Senate · Jul 18, 1854
To table memorial from the "penn society for promoting the abolition of slavery" asking that the Senate proceed to…Senate · Jul 18, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, to grant a homestead of 160 acres of public lands to actual settlers, by eliminating the…Senate · Jul 17, 1854
To amend the resolution, organizing the officers of the Senate by providing that at the commencement of the first…Senate · Jul 17, 1854
To amend the resolution organizing the officers of the Senate, by increasing the salaries of messengers by 20% from…Senate · Jul 17, 1854
To adjourn. (p. 358)Senate · Jul 15, 1854
To remove the injunction of secrecy from the anglo-american treaty.Senate · Jul 15, 1854
To remove the injunction of secrecy from the anglo-americans treaty of june 5, 1854, extending the right of fishing…Senate · Jul 15, 1854
To adjourn, during debate on the homestead bill. H.R. 37. (p. 1749-3)Senate · Jul 14, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by providing that any person sixteen years of age and upwards may apply for patent, but it…Senate · Jul 14, 1854
To amend the bill H.R. 37, by providing that foreign born persons who fail to become citizens within six years from…Senate · Jul 14, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by providing that the benefits of this act shall not extend to the children heirs, or devisees of…Senate · Jul 14, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, by confirming the operation of the bill to free white persons. (p. 1740-3)Senate · Jul 14, 1854
To amend H.R. 37, a bill to grant a homestead of 160 acres of the public lands to actual settlers by providing that…Senate · Jul 14, 1854
On passage, of the bill S. 60, (2-17-55), authorizing the construction of a line of telegraph from the mississippi…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
On adoption of the resolution relating to the ratification of the articles of agreement and convention made and…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
On adoption of the resolution relating to the treaty between the U.S. And the kickapoo tribe of indians. (p. 351)Senate · Jul 11, 1854
To reconsider the vote by which clause in article 3 was stricken out, which clause gives the President authority to…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
To amend a resolution by retaining clause, proposed to be stricken out from art 10, providing that the President may…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
Shall the clause in article moved to be stricken out stand, which gives the President authority to assign to each…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
On adoption of the resolution ratifying the articles of agreement and convention concluded with the ioway tribe of…Senate · Jul 11, 1854
To postpone until the second monday of dec. Next the bill H.R. 37, granting a homestead of 160 acres of the public…Senate · Jul 10, 1854
On adoption of the resolution ratifying the articles of agreement and convention made and concluded between the U.S…Senate · Jul 10, 1854
On ordering engrossment and third reading of S. 310, to revive and extend to dec. 27, 1856. The letters patent granted…Senate · Jul 7, 1854
On ordering to engrossment and 3rd reading the bill S. 328, extending the patent rights of obed hussy for a term of…Senate · Jul 7, 1854
On ordering to engrossment and third reading, the bill S. 338, relating to claim of robert c. Thompson, only surviving…Senate · Jul 7, 1854
To order S. 338, to be engrossed for a third reading, which bill provides for the claim of robert c. Thompson, only…Senate · Jul 6, 1854
On passage, of the bill S. 44, granting public lands to the several states for the benefit of the indigent insane.Senate · Jul 6, 1854
To table a resolution fixing the time at 10 o'clock a.m. For the daily meeting of the Senate on and after monday next…Senate · Jul 5, 1854
To table S. 388, (8-3-1854), a bill authorizing the extension of the alexandria and washington railroad into the…Senate · Jul 5, 1854
On passage of the bill S. 411, establishing a line of steam mail ships between san francisco and shanghai, touching at…Senate · Jul 5, 1854
To amend S. 415, (8-1-54), directing the secretary of the treasury to pay to MR. Nightingale, administrator of the…Senate · Jun 30, 1854
To amend the bill S. 158, by reducing amount of claim to $15,000.Senate · Jun 30, 1854
To reconsider the vote passing the bill S. 158.Senate · Jun 30, 1854
To reconsider the vote by which the bill S. 158, was ordered to be engrossed. S. 158, is a bill directing the…Senate · Jun 30, 1854
On ordering engrossment and third reading of S. 411, establishing a line of steam mail ships between san francisco in…Senate · Jun 29, 1854
On passage of H.R. 405, (6-29-1854), appropriating $10,000,000, $7000,000 to be paid on the exchange of the…Senate · Jun 29, 1854
To refer the resolution relating to mexican american treaty as modified and the proposed amendment to the committee on…Senate · Jun 29, 1854
To open the doors of the Senate, made during consideration of the resol. Removing the injunction of secrecy from the…Senate · Jun 29, 1854
To table in order to postpone indefinitely the ratification of treaty between the U.S. And mexico. (p. 342)Senate · Jun 29, 1854
To open the doors of the Senate, made during consideration of the resol. To remove the injunction of secrecy from the…Senate · Jun 29, 1854
On ordering for a third reading the bill H.R. 404, changing day of annual assembly of Congress.Senate · Jun 27, 1854
On ordering engrossment and third reading of S. 305, directing re-examination of the account between the U.S. And the…Senate · Jun 27, 1854
On ordering to engrossment and third reading the bill S. 268 authorizing the secretary of state to direct, examine and…Senate · Jun 23, 1854
To adjourn, made during debate on S. 44, an act making a grant of public lands to the several states of the union for…Senate · Jun 20, 1854