The following named members voted for Rev. W. G. BROWNLOW, viz: Augustus C. Baldwin, James Brooks, John F. Driggs, and Kellian V. Whaley.

Mr. John Ganson and Mr. Andrew J. Rogers voted for Rev. Mr. PETTET, and Mr. John A. Griswold voted for Rev. Mr. GANS.

Rev. W. H. Channing having received a majority of all the votes given was declared by the Speaker duly elected Chaplain of the House of Representatives for the 38th Congress.

Notices were given, under the rule, of motions for leave to introduce bills and a joint resolution as follows, viz:

By Mr. Yeaman: A bill to amend an act approved March 3, 1863, entitled "An act to amend an act to establish a court for the investigation of claims against the United States," approved February 24, 1855.

By Mr. Holman: A bill to repeal so much of the thirtieth section of an act entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863, as authorizes exemption from military service by the payment of $300.

By Mr. Ward: A joint resolution to authorize the appointment of commissioners to negotiate a new treaty with the British government for the British provinces of North America, based upon the true principles of reciprocity.

By Mr. Pendleton: A bill to repeal an act to regulate the duties of the Clerk of the House of Representatives in preparing for the organization of the House, passed March 3, 1863;

Also, a bill to admit to seats upon the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives the members of the cabinet, with the right to debate matters pertaining to the business of their departments, respectively.

By Mr. Wilson: A bill to increase the pay of private soldiers to fifteen dollars per month;

Also, a bill for the relief of Robert Stephenson;

Also, a bill for the relief of the 37th regiment of Iowa volunteer infantry. By Mr. Ancona: A bill granting a pension to Charles M. Pott;

Also, a bill for the relief of the heirs-at-law of the late Major William S. Henry, of the United States army.

By Mr. Windom: A bill for the relief of the sufferers from the Indian outbreak in Minnesota.

By Mr. Coffroth: A bill to aid in the completion of the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad for military and postal purposes;

Also, a bill to pay the citizens of Pennsylvania for losses sustained by them during the invasion of Pennsylvania by the rebel army.

Also, a bill to encourage volunteering, by increasing the wages of the volunteer;

Also, a bill to increase the pensions of the privates in the army who were and are killed in battle or who died or die from sickness while engaged in the service of the United States.

And then,

On motion of Mr. Fenton, at 1 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m., the House adjourned.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1863.

The following memorial and petitions were laid upon the Clerk's table, under the 131st rule of the House:

By Mr. Morrill: The memorial of Commander Edmund Lanier, of the United States navy, praying that Congress will take such action on the law constituting the advisory board that his wrongs may be redressed; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.

By Mr. Moorhead: The petition of John P. Sherwood-heretofore referred February 13, 1863; which was referred to the Committee on Patents.

By Mr. Eliot: The petition of citizens of New Bedford, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for an uniform ambulance and hospital system; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Thomas: The petition of Margaret Ann Northen, praying for compensation for damages done to her property by the army of the United States; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Holman: The petition of Ethelbert C. Hibben, in behalf of the estate of John L. Robinson, deceased, late United States marshal for the district of Indiana, praying compensation for services rendered in preparing to take the enumeration of the eighth census; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Schenck: The petition of Rufus L. Harvey-heretofore referred December 19, 1861; which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions

By Mr. Holman: The petition of Henry Barricklow-heretofore referred March 12, 1860; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

By Mr. Fenton: The petition of Alexander C. Crary, praying for the back pay due his father, Archibald Crary, for services rendered during the revo lutionary war; which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

By Mr. Ellihu B. Washburne: The petition of Thomas C. Brown, praying that the government of the United States recognize the amount of his claim against Tramison Landry, of the parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana, whose property has been confiscated by the government; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Grinnell: The petition of William B. Beebee, praying for an increase of the compensation of the invalid corps.

By Mr. Stevens: The petition of the officers of the Independent Company of Pennsylvania volunteers, acting as engineers, praying for an increase of pay;

By Mr. Dawes: The petition of citizens of Longmeadow, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for an uniform system of ambulances and hospitals;

By Mr. Garfield: The petition of paymasters' clerks in the United States army, praying for an increase of their salaries.

By Mr. Spalding: The petition of the citizens of the State of Ohio, praying that the bounty of one hundred dollars be paid to all soldiers discharged from the army for disability.

By Mr. Garfield: The petition of the officers of the fifth regiment United. States colored volunteers, praying that colored troops be placed upon an equality with white troops in reference to pay and emoluments.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

By Mr. Grinnell: The petition of the State of Iowa, praying for the estab lishment of a mail route from Washington to Granville; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Spalding: The petition of citizens of the State of Ohio, praying for the passage of an emancipation act;

Also, the petition of women of the State of Ohio, praying for the passage of an emancipation act.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. Holman: The petition of the commissioners of Dearborn county, State of Indiana, praying for rebuilding of the bridge across White Water river, burned by the rebels, under Morgan, in July, 1863.

By Mr. Kernan: The petition of citizens of Oneida county, State of New York, praying for the construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls. By Mr. Sloan: The petition of citizens of Columbus, State of Wisconsin, praying for the construction of a railroad from New York city to Washing

ton.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

By Mr. Stevens: The petition of Lucinda Fisher, widow of Andrew Fisher, praying for a pension.

By Mr. Fenton: The petition of Margaret Doig, praying for a pension on account of the services of her late husband, Ezra King, in the war of 1812. By Mr. Ashley: The petition of Frederick Sheridan, praying compensation for injuries sustained in the wagon-road expedition in 1859.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House depositions taken in the contested election cases in the third congressional district of Missouri, in the sixth congressional district of Missouri, and in the seventh congressional district of Virginia; which were severally referred to the Committee of Elections.

The Speaker also laid before the House

I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the disbursements of the contingent fund of his department for the last fiscal year; which was referred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department and ordered to be printed.

II. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures for the last fiscal year; which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed.

III. A letter from the secretary of Utah Territory, transmitting copies of the laws passed by the legislative assembly of said Territory at its last session; which laws were referred to the Committee on the Territories.

Reverend William H. Channing, Chaplain elect of the House of Representatives for the thirty-eighth Congress, appeared, and having taken the oath required by the act of July 2, 1862, entered upon the duties of hist

office.

The Speaker then announced that he had appointed the following standing committees for the present Congress, viz:

Committee of Elections-Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts; Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana; Portus Baxter, of Vermont; Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky; John Ganson, of New York; Glenni W. Scofield, of Pennsylvania;

Nathaniel B. Smithers, Delaware; Charles Upson, of Michigan; James S. Brown, of Wisconsin.

Committee of Ways and Means.-Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania; Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont; George H. Pendleton, of Ohio; Reuben E. Fenton, of New York; Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts; Robert Mallory, of Kentucky; Henry T. Blow, of Missouri; John A. Kasson, of Iowa; Henry G. Stebbins, of New York.

Committee of Claims-James T. Hale, of Pennsylvania; William S. Holman, of Indiana; Edwin H. Webster, of Maryland; James M. Ashley, of Ohio; William J. Allen, of Illinois; Giles W. Hotchkiss, of New York; William G. Brown, of West Virginia; John V. L. Pruyn, of New York; Alexander Long, of Ohio.

Committee on Commerce.-Ellihu B. Washburne, of Illinois; Thomas D. Eliot, of Massachusetts; Elijah Ward, of New York; Nathan F. Dixon, of Rhode Island; John A. J. Creswell, of Maryland; Nehemiah Perry, of New Jersey; Charles O'Neill, of Pennsylvania; John W. Longyear, of Michigan; Wells A. Hutchins, of Ohio.

Committee on Public Lands.-George W. Julian, of Indiana; James E. English, of Connecticut; William Higby, of California; William B. Allison, of Iowa; William H. Wadsworth, of Kentucky; Ithamar C. Sloan, of Wisconsin; Fernando Wood of New York; John F. Driggs, of Michigan; Samuel F. Miller, of New York.

Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.-John B. Alley, of Massachusetts; Jesse O. Norton, of Illinois; Aaron Harding, of Kentucky; Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota; James G. Blaine, of Maine; James Brooks, of New York; Cornelius Cole, of California; Josiah B. Grinnell, of Iowa; William E. Finck, of Ohio.

Committee for the District of Columbia--Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois; Ebenezer Dumont, of Indiana; John B. Steele, of New York; Lucien Anderson, of Kentucky; James W. Patterson, of New Hampshire; James R. Morris, of Ohio; Thomas T. Davis, of New York; Henry W. Tracy, of Pennsylvania; Ezra Wheeler, of Wisconsin.

Committee on the Judiciary.-James F. Wilson, of Iowa; George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts; Francis Kernan, of New York; Francis Thomas, of Maryland; Thomas Williams, of Pennsylvania; Austin A. King, of Missouri; Frederick E. Woodbridge, of Vermont; Daniel Morris, of New York; George Bliss, of Ohio.

Committee on Revolutionary Claims.-Hiram Price, of Iowa; John D. Stiles, of Pennsylvania; Jesse O. Norton, of Illinois; Martin Kalbfleisch, of New York; Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts; Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin; Ebenezer Dumont, of Indiana; William Johnson, of Ohio; John G. Scott, of Missouri.

Committee on Public Expenditures.-Calvin T. Hulburd, of New York; John M. Broomall, of Pennsylvania; Francis C. Le Blond, of Ohio; George W. Julian, of Indiana; Jesse Lazear, of Pennsylvania; Jacob B. Blair, of West Virginia; Edward H. Rollins, of New Hampshire; Andrew J. Rogers, of New Jersey; Charles M. Harris, of Illinois.

Committee on Private Land Claims.-M. Russell Thayer, of Pennsylvania; Giles W. Hotchkiss, of New York; Anthony L. Knapp, of Illinois; Daniel W. Gooch, of Massachusetts; John O'Neill, of Ohio; Charles H. Wingfield, of New York; Ephraim R. Eckley, of Ohio; Lorenzo D. M. Sweat, of Maine; Henry W. Harrington, of Indiana.

Committee on Manufactures.-James K. Moorhead, of Pennsylvania; Orlando Kellogg, of New York; Sydenham E. Ancona, of Pennsylvania; Isaac N. Arnold, of Illinois; Freeman Clarke, of New York; Chilton A. White, of

Ohio; Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts; John F. Starr, of New Jersey; Benjamin G. Harris, of Maryland.

Committee on Agriculture.-Brutus J. Clay, of Kentucky; Kellian V. Whaley, of West Virginia; Joseph Baily, of Pennsylvania; Calvin T. Hulburd, of New York; John Law, of Indiana; William D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Sidney Perham, of Maine; Augustus C. Baldwin, of Michigan; George Middleton, of New Jersey..

Committee on Indian Affairs.-William Windom, of Minnesota; Walter D. McIndoe, of Wisconsin; James C. Allen, of Illinois; John R. McBride, of Oregon; A. Carter Wilder, of Kansas; Homer A. Nelson, of New York; Sempronius H. Boyd, of Missouri; Thomas B. Shannon, of California; Charles Denison, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Military Affairs.-Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio; John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois; George H. Yeaman, of Kentucky; James A. Garfield of Ohio; Benjamin F. Loan, of Missouri; Moses F. Odell, of New York; Henry C. Deming, of Connecticut; Francis W. Kellogg, of Michigan; Archibald McAllister, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on the Militia.-Robert B. Van Valkenburgh, of New York; Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky; Sydenham E. Ancona, of Pennsylvania; Edwin H. Webster, of Maryland; Orlando Kellogg, of New York; William R. Morrison, of Illinois; James G. Blaine, of Maine; Amasa Cobb, of Wisconsin; John F. McKinney, of Ohio.

Committee on Naval Affairs.-Alexander H. Rice, of Massachusetts; James K. Moorhead, of Pennsylvania; John A. Griswold, of New York; Frederick A. Pike, of Maine; William D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania; James S. Rollins, of Missouri; Rufus P. Spalding, of Ohio; Augustus Brandegee, of Connecticut; Joseph K. Edgerton, of Indiana.

Committee on Foreign Affairs-Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland; Daniel W. Gooch, of Massachusetts; Samuel Cox, of Ohio; Theodore M. Pomeroy, of New York; Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana; William H. Randall, of Kentucky; John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania; Asabel W. Hubbard, of Iowa; John T. Stuart, of Illinois.

Committee on the Territories.-James M. Ashley, of Ohio; Fernando C. Beaman, of Michigan; James A. Cravens, of Indiana; Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois; John H. Rice, of Maine; Henry Grider, of Kentucky; James M. Marvin, of New York; Joseph W. McClurg, of Missouri; Philip Johnson, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.-Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of New York; John Law, of Indiana; Walter D. McIndoe, of Wisconsin; Anson Herrick, of New York; Rufus P. Spalding, of Ohio; John R. Eden, of Illinois; Brutus J. Clay, of Kentucky: Daniel Marcy, of New Hampshire; Alexander H. Coffroth, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Invalid Pensions.-Kellian V. Whaley, of West Virginia; Benjamin Wood, of New York; Sidney Perham, of Maine; James F. McDowell, of Indiana; William B. Washburn, of Massachusetts; William H. Miller, of Pennsylvania; Freeman Clarke, of New York; Lewis W. Ross, of Illinois; J. A. J. Creswell, of Maryland.

Committee on Roads and Canals.-Isaac N. Arnold, of Illinois; Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of New York; William A. Hall, of Missouri; Fernando C. Beaman, of Michigan; William B. Washburn, of Massachusetts; Elijah Ward, of New York; Ephraim R. Eckley, of Ohio; William B. Allison, of Iowa; Myer Strouse, of Pennsylvania.

Committee on Patents.-Thomas A. Jenckes, of Rhode Island; Leonard Myers, of Pennsylvania; Warren P. Noble, of Ohio; John H. Hubbard, of Connecticut; John W. Chanler, of New York.

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.-John H. Rice, of Maine;