The noes were all from the South except one from New Hampshire, ten from New York, and one from Pennsylvania.

The outcome was evidently unsatisfactory to the bulk of the members, for on the next day a motion to recommit the bill to a new committee of seventeen prevailed by a vote of 76 to 46.

Among the members who shifted their position over night were six of the ten from New York, four from Maryland, three from Virginia, and two from North Carolina.
In the new committee Bedinger of Kentucky, who was regularly on the Northern side, was chairman, and Early was not included.
This committee reported in February a bill providing, as a compromise, that forfeited negroes should be carried to some place in the United States where slavery was either not permitted or was in course of gradual extinction, and there be indentured or otherwise employed as the President might deem best for them and the country.

Early moved that for this there be substituted a provision that the slaves be delivered to the several states in which the captures were made, to be disposed of at discretion; and he said that the Southern people would resist the indenture provision with their lives.

This reckless assertion suggests that Early was either set against the framing of an effective law, or that he spoke in mere blind rage.
Before further progress was made the House laid aside its bill in favor of the one which the Senate had now passed.