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object to the introduction of that resolution.
We have had enough of it read.
Mr. Cox. I move to suspend the rules to enable me to introduce it.
The reading of the resolution was resumed and completed.
Mr. Potter. I wish to ask the gentleman from Ohio if he is willing to insert, among the proposed commissioners, the name of James Buchanan?
(Laughter.)
Mr. Cox. No, sir; not at all. I call for the yeas and nays on the motion to suspend the rules.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr. Roscoe Conklin. I move that the House do now adjourn.
The motion was not agreed to.
The question was taken, [on the motion to suspend the rules,] and it was decided in the negative — yeas 41, nays, 85.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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