12                JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 5,

corded the privilege of a seat on this floor until the question
of their respective rights be decided.

Mr. Dennis, of Somerset, offered the following amend-
ment:

Add pending the contested election in Baltimore City."
Mr. Ford called for the previous question ;
Which call was sustained.

The question then being shall the main question be now
put.

On motion,
The yeas and nays were called, and appeared us follow:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Basin,		Naill,
Medders,	Starkey,	Wilson, of Har'd,
Dennis, of Som.,	Jacobs,	Bayless,
Long,	Landing,	McCoy,
Stanford,	Dennis, of Wor.,	Stake,
Lawson,	Kessler,	Beall,
Wilson, of Cecil,	Clagett,	Roop,
Jones, of P. G.,	Routzahn,	Gorsuch—25.
	NEGATIVE.
Messrs.	Hunter,	Goldsborough,
Kilbourn, Sp'r,	Quinlan,	Coudy,
Durant,	Renshaw,	Eakle,
Morgan,	Jones, of Talbot.	Brining,
Welch,	Linthicum,	Freaner,
Mackubin,	Holland,	Griffith,
Briscoe,	Maxwell,	Harding,
Parran,	Miller,	Gordon,
Burgess, Ford,	Bryan,	Barnard,
Johnson,	Mills,
Worthington,	Salmon,	Turner, of How.,
Denison, of Balt, co	Straughn,	Brown—34.

The question then recurring on the original order,
The yeas and nays were called and appeared as follow :

		Affirmative.
Messrs.		Long,	Salmon,
Kilbourn,	Speaker,	Stanford,	Naill,
Durant,		Lawson,	Straughn,