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U. S. COURTS - FORT WAYNE.
The Senate Joint Resolution No. 11, for instructing Congressmen to vote for a United States District Court at Fort Wayne, was taken up, and it failed to pass, yeas 49, nays 30, for want of the constitutional majority.
Mr. Satterwhite called up again the bill [S. 293] supplemental to the act for the election and fixing the compensation and duties of the Attorney General, and repealing the act of June 3, 1861, which failed heretofore this day for lack of the prescribed constitutional majority, and the second vote for the passage resulted yeas, 56; nays, 30; so the bill finally passed the House of Representatives.
The House then took the recess till 2 P. M.
