HARRIS: Did not the senator from Missouri [Mr. Vest] offer an
amendment?

Mr. GARLAND: As I understand, he moved to refer the subject to
the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: Does the Chair understand that the
senator from Missouri has offered an amendment?

Mr. VEST: Yes, sir; I move to refer the matter to the Committee
on Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. CONGER: Let the resolution be reported.

The acting secretary read the resolution.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The senator from Missouri offers an
amendment, that the subject be referred to the standing Committee
on Revolutionary Claims. The question is on the amendment of the
senator from Missouri. [Putting the question.] The noes appear to
have it.

Mr. FARLEY called for the yeas and nays, and they were ordered
and taken.

Mr. BLAIR [after having voted in the negative]: I have voted
inadvertently. I am paired with the senator from Alabama [Mr.
Pugh]. Were he present he would have voted "yea," as I have voted
"nay." I withdraw my vote.

Mr. WINDOM: I am paired with the senator from West Virginia [Mr.
Davis], but as I understand he would vote "nay" on this question,
I vote "nay."

Mr. INGALLS: I am paired with the senator from Mississippi [Mr.
Lamar].

The result was announced--yeas 22, nays 31. So the motion was not
agreed to.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The question recurs on the adoption
of the resolution.

Mr. BAYARD: Is it in order for me to move the reference of the
subject to the Committee on the Judiciary?

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: It is in order to move to refer the
resolution to the Committee on the Judiciary, the Chair
understands.

Mr. BAYARD: Then I make a motion that the resolution be sent to
the Committee on the Judiciary. I would state that I voted with
some regret and hesitancy upon the motion of the senator from
Missouri [Mr. Vest] to refer this matter to the Committee on
Revolutionary Claims. My regret was owing to the fact that I do
not wish even to seem to treat a subject of this character in a
spirit of levity, or to indicate the slightest disrespect by such
a reference, to those whose opinions upon this subject differ
essentially from my own. I cast the vote because I considered it