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• The bill passed by a vote of one hundred and sixteen in the affirmative--fifty-four voting in the negative The friends of the measure having received evidence that it would not meet with Executive approval, and not supposing that a vote of two-thirds could be secured for its passage over the President's veto, determined not to urge it immediately through the Senate There was great reluctance on the part of many Senators and members of the House to come to an open rupture with the President. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• This was rejected; fifteen voting in the affirmative, and nineteen in the negative Mr. Willey opposed the bill before the Senate in a speech of considerable length. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• It passed the House--one hundred and nine voting in the affirmative, and fifty-five in the negative I wish to inquire, Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Stevens, "if it is in order for me now to say that we indorse the language of good old Laertes, that Heaven rules as yet, and there are gods above At the evening session of the Senate on the same day, the bill "to provide for the more efficient government of the insurrectionary States" was announced as having passed the House, and at once received its first reading. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• He seemed to take that as an affirmative, and I think he felt that to shut you up there to feed on gold was about the only thing that would fit the case. —  The Path to Honour
• When Kinross had asked her if it was Miss Bibby who was up so early and walking among the trees, she volunteered, in addition to the affirmative--which would have been quite enough--that she walked about like that when she was doing some of her deep-breathing exercises. —  In the Mist of the Mountains

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