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 Maclay, McQueen, Mason, Maynard, Miles, Miller, Millson, Moore, Niblack, Peyton, Phelps, Phillips, Powell, Quitman, Ready, Reagan, Reilly, Ruffin, Russell, Sandidge, Savage, Scales, Scott, Searing, Seward, Henry M. Shaw, Shorter, Sickles, Singleton, Samuel A. Smith, William Smith, Stallworth, Stephens, Stevenson, James A. Stewart, Talbot, George Taylor, Miles Taylor, Trippe, Ward, Warren, Watkins, White, Whitely, Winslow, Woodson, Wortendyke, Augustus R. Wright, John Y. Wright and Zollicoffer—112.

The bill as amended was sent back to the Senate, and the amendment was rejected, (April 2, 1858,) by the following votes:

—Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benjamin, Biggs, Bigler, Bright, Brown, Clay, Evans, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond, Houston, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Arkansas, Johnson of Tennessee, Jones, Kennedy, Mallory, Mason, Pearce, Polk, Pugh, Sebastian, Slidell, Thompson of Kentucky, Thompson of New Jersey, Wright and Yulee—32.

—Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collauer, Crittenden, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas, Fessenden, Foote, Foster, Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, King, Seward, Simmons, Stuart, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson—23.

The House insisted, and the whole matter seemed ready to fall to the ground, when on the 13th of April, the Senate proposed a Committee of Conference by a vote of 30 to 24. The committee appointed by the Chair, consisted of Messrs. Green, Hunter and Seward. On motion of Mr. English of Indiana, the House agreed to the conference proposed by the Senate, and the Chair appointed Messrs. English of Indiana, A. H. Stevens of Georgia, and W. A. Howard of Michigan to manage the conference on the part of the House. The vote stood 108 to 108; the Speaker voted in the affirmative.

The result of the conference was a bill allowing a sort of half way submission of the Constitution to the people of Kansas. If they voted Yes, then the Constitution was to be adopted, and Kansas under it was to be considered one of the States of the Union, without any further action of Congress. If they voted No, then it was to be considered as rejected, and the people were prohibited from forming any other Constitution, or applying for admission, until a legally authorized census should show that they had a population equal to the ratio for a Representative in Congress; then the legislature might call a Constitutional Convention, and a new application for admission might be made. After a desperate struggle, the conference measures passed both Hhuses of Congress. The vote in the House was as follows:

Yays and Nays in the House.——Messrs. Ahl, Anderson, Atkins, Avery, Barksdale, Bishop, Bocock, Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Burnett, Burns, Caruthers, Caskie, John B. Clark, Clay, Clemens, Clingman, Cobb, John Cochrane, Cockerill, Corning, Cox, James Craig, Burton Craige, Crawford, Currie, Davidson, Dewart, Dowdell, Edmundson, Elliott, English, Eustis, Florence, Foley, Garnett, Gartrell, Gillis, Gilmer, Goode, Greenwood, Gregg, Groesbeck, Lawrence W. Hall, Hatch, Hawkins, Hopkins, Houston, Hughes,