VOTES ON POLITICAL BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS. To Continue the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. hands of the Commissioner, not required otherwise for the due execution of the law, may be, in the discretion of the Commissioner, applied for the education of freedmen and refugees, subject to the provisions of law applicable thereto. SEC. 4. That officers of the veteran reserve corps, or of the volunteer service, now on duty in the Freedmen's Bureau as assistant commis sioners, agents, medical officers, or in other capacities, who have been or may be mustered out of service, may be retained by the Commissioner when the same shall be required for the proper execution of the laws, as officers of the bureau, upon such duty and with the same pay, compensation, and all allowances, from the date of their appointment, as now provided by law for their respective grades and duties at the dates of their muster out and discharge; and such officers so retained shall have, respectively, the same authority and jurisdiction as now conferred upon "officers of the bureau" by act of Congress passed on the 16th of July, 1866. Be it enacted, &c.. That the act entitled "An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees," approved March 3, 1865, and the act entitled "An act to continue in force and to amend 'An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes," passed on the 16th of July. 18667 shall continue in force for the term of one year from and after the 16th of July, in the year 1868, excepting so far as the same shall be herein modified. And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to re-establish said bureau where the same has been wholly or in part discontinued: Provided, He shall be satisfied that the personal safety of freedmen shall require it. SEC. 2 That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to discontinue the operations of the bureau in any State whenever such State shall be fully restored in its constitutional relations with the Government of the United States, and shall be duly represented in the Congress SEC. 5. That the Commissioner is hereby emof the United States, unless, upon advising with powered to sell for cash, or by instalments with the Commissioner of the bureau and upon full ample security, school buildings and other buildconsideration of the condition of freedmen's ings constructed for refugees and freedmen by affairs in such State, the Secretary of War shall the bureau, to the associations, corporate bodies, be of opinion that the further continuance of or trustees who now use them for purposes of the bureau shall be necessary: Provided, how- education or relief of want, under suitable guarever, That the educational division of said bu-antees that the purposes for which said buildings rean shall not be affected or in any way interfered with, until such State shall have made suitable provision for the education of the children of freedmen within said State. SEC. 3. That unexpended balances in the *See page 72 of Manual of 1866. See page 150 of Manual of 1867. The financial affairs of the bureau are as follow, as appears from a recent report on the subject in the House of Representatives, the figures in which were taken from the books of the bureau: From the establishment of the bureau, on the 15th of May, 1865, there have been appropriated by Congress for its sup $10,780,750 00 Love total expenditure from this appropriation, from 15th of May, 1865, to January 1, 1868, was as follows: Salaries of assistant and sub-assistant com missioners $302,244 88 were constructed shall be observed: Provided, That all funds derived therefrom shall be returned to the bureau appropriations and accounted for to the Treasury of the United States. IN HOUSE. 1868, March 19-The bill passed-yeas 97, nays 38, as follow: James M. Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Besides this appropriation by Congress, the bureau 470,834 37 35,546 98 4,981 55 385,410 81 50,000 00 $4,397,854 39 Balance in hands of agents, August 31, 1867.. 645,911 33 Undrawn from Treasury... 5,736,984 28 Amount on hand December 31, 1867.....$6,382,895 61 Total expended........... Of which, there were expended, for labor, 1,544,092 80 Leaving a balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1867... $61,601 39 Of this amount of $4,397,854 39 expended, $500,000 were applied, by a resolution of Congress, for the relief of destitute people in the South who were starving by reason of failure of the crops, and $50,000 were transferred to the Agricultural Department for seeds for the South-making $550,000. With these sums deducted from the expense account of the Bureau, the whole expenditure from appropriations by Congress, for the use of the Bureau from its establishment, amount to $3,847,854 39. No further appropriation was asked or made for the ensuing fiscal year, and the appropriations previously 1865, to July, 1869. made of $10,780,750 will carry the Bureau from May, 89 NAYS-Messrs. Buckalew, Doolittle, Fowler, Jenderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Vickers—11. Koontz, Laflin, William Lawrence, Loan, Logan, | Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Wi- NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Axtell, Barnes, Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Chanler, Eldridge, Getz, Golladay, Grover, Haight, Holman, Hotchkiss, Johnson, Kerr, Knott, George V. Lawrence, Marshall, McCormick, McCullough, Mercur, Moorhead, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps, Randall, Ross, Sitgreaves, Taber, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Van Trump, Wood, Woodward-38. IN SENATE. June 11-The bill passed without a division. Vote of Thanks to Ex-Secretary Stanton. 1868, May 28-Mr. Edmunds offered this resolution: Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring,) That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered, to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton for the great ability, purity, and fidelity to the cause of the country with which he has discharged the duties of Secretary of War, as well amid the open dangers of a great rebellion as at a later period when assailed by the Opposition, inspired by hostility to the measures of justice and pacification provided by Congress for the restoration of a real and permanent peace. June 1-Mr. Hendricks moved to strike out the latter clause, beginning with the words " well." as Mr. Henderson moved to amend so as to make the resolution read as follows: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered, to Hon. Edwin M Stanton, for the great ability, purity, and fidelity to the cause of the country with which he discharged the duties of Secretary of War amid the open dangers of a great rebellion. Which was rejected without a count; also, the amendment offered by Mr. Hendricks. Mr. Henderson moved to amend by adding to the resolution these words: And Congress takes this occasion to tender its thanks to Chief Justice Chase for the great ability, purity, and distinguished learning which have illustrated his position on the bench of the Supreme Court. Which was disagreed to-yeas 11, nays 30, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew, Doolittle, Fowler, Hender son, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Vickers-11. NAYS-Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morril of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Williams, Wilson, Yates -30. The resolution was then adopted-yeas 37, nays 11, as follow: IN HOUSE. June 19-The resolution passed-yeas 102, nays 25, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Delos R. Ashley, Bailey, Baldwin, Beatty, Benjamin, Benton, Blaine, Blair, Boutwell, Buckland, Butler, Cake, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cornell, Covode, Cullom, Delano, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, Eliot, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Fields, Garfield, Gravely, Griswold, Halsey, Harding, Higby, Hill, Hooper, Chester D. Hubbard, Hulburd, Jenckes, Judd, Julian, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, Lincoln, Loan, Logan, Loughridge, Lynch, Mallory, Maynard, McCarthy, Mo Clurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Morrell, Mullins, Myers, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Peters, Pike, Pile, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, Shellabarger, Smith, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Stokes, Taffe, Taylor, Twichell, Upson, Van Aernam, Van Wyek, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, Thomas Williams, William Williams, James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Windom, Woodbridge, and Mr. Speaker Colfax-102. NAYS-Messrs. Archer, Beck, Brooks, Cary, Chanler, -25. Quorum of Supreme Court. 1867, December 4-The SENATE passed, without a division, this bill: Be it enacted, &c., That any number of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, not less than five, and being a majority thereof, shall constitute a quorum. IN HOUSE. 1868, January 13-The rules were suspended, (yeas 114, nays 38,) and the above bill with an amendment was reported to the House from the Judiciary Committee. The amendment was a new section, to which the proviso was added in the House, the whole being as follows: SEC. 2. That no cause pending before the Supreme Court of the United States, involving the action or effect of any law of the United States, shall be decided adversely to the validity of such law without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of said court in the decision upon the several points in which said law or any part thereof may be deemed invalid: Provided, however, That if any circuit or district court of the United States shall adjudge any act of Congress to be unconstitutional or invalid, the judgment, before any further proceedings shall be had upon it, shall be certified up to the Supreme Court of the United States, and shall be considered therein; and if upon the consideration thereof two-thirds of all the members of the Supreme Court shall not affirm said judgment below, the same shall be declared and held reversed. Pending this new section, Mr. Thomas Williams moved to substitute for it these words: In all cases of writs of error from and appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, where is drawn in question the validity of a Cole, Conkling, Conness, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, statute or an authority exercised by the United Ferry, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Howard, States, or the construction of any clause of the Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Constitution of the United States, or the validity Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, of a statute of or an authorit exercised under Harlan, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton. Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Ross, Stewart, Sumuer, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-33. any State on the ground of repugnance to the Constitution or laws of the United States, the hearing shall be had only before a full bench of the judges of said court, and no judgment shall be rendered or decision made against the valid-ricks, McCreery, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee, Sauls NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Hendity of any statute or of any authority exercised by the United States except with the concurrence of all the judges of the said court. Which was disagreed to-yeas 25, nays 124. The yeas were: Messrs. Arnell, Delos R. Ashley, James M. Ashley, Bingham, Cake, Sidney Clarke, Covode, Farnsworth, Harding, Judd, William Lawrence, Loan, Logan, May. nard, McCarthy, McClurg, Mullins, Pile, Price, John Trimble, Van Aernam, Robert T. Van Horn, Ward, Thomas Williams, William Williams. Mr. James F. Wilson submitted the proviso in the section printed above, which was agreed to yeas 111, nays 38 (all Democrats except Mr. Hawkins.) The amendment as amended was agreed to; and the bill then passed-yeas 116, nays 39, a party vote, except that Mr. Hawkins of Tennessee voted against the bill; which was not again considered in the Senate. Another Judiciary Act. March 11-The Senate passed, without objection, the first section of the bill found below. March 12 The House passed it, with the second section added, as an amendment, without a division. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the judiciary act," passed the 24th of September, 1789. bury-9. Same day-The House passed the bill-yeas 115, nays 34, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Anderson, Arnell, Delos R Ashley, James M. Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Cake, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Coburn, Cook, Covode, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, Gravely, Halsey, Higby, Hill, Hooper, Hopkins, Chester D. Hubbard, Hulburd, Hunter, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, Laflin, William Lawrence, Lincoln, Loan, Logan, Loughridge, Mallory, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Morrell, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters, Pike, Pile, Plants, Poland, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Selye, Shanks, Smith, Spalding, Aaron F. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens, Taffe, Taylor, Thomas, John Trimble, Twichell, Upson, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van Horn, Van Wyck, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Ellihu B.Washburne, William B. Washburn, Welker, Thomas Williams, James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, Windom, Woodbridge-115. NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Beck, Brooks, Burr, Cary, Chanler, Eldridge, For, Getz, Gloss brenner, Golladay, Holman, Hotchkiss, Hubbard, Humphrey, Johnson, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, McCormick, Mungen, Niblack, Nicholson, Prum, Ross, Sitgreaves, Stone, Taber, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Woodward-34. Whereupon the Speaker declared it to be a law. For the Further Security of Equal Rights in the The following were the proceedings in Con IN SENATE. 1867, July 17-This bill was passed: Be it enacted, &c., That final judgment in any circuit court of the United States, in any civil action against a collector or other officer of the revenue, for any act done by him in the per-gress on this bill : formance of his official duty, or for the recovery of any money exacted by or paid to him, which shall have been paid into the Treasury of the United States, may, at the instance of either party, be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error, without regard to the sum or value in controversy in such action. SEC. 2. That so much of the act approved February 5, 1867, entitled "An act to amend an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," approved September 24, 1789, as authorizes an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court to the Supreme Court of the United States, or the exercise of any such jurisdiction by said Supreme Court on appeals which have been or may hereafter be taken, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, March 12-The Senate concurred in the House Williams-32. Be it enacted, &c., That in the District of Columbia no person shall be excluded from any office by reason of race or color, and so much of all laws making any such discrimination are hereby repealed." Yeas 25, nays 5, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Edmunds, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Nye, Patterson Sprague, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Willey, Wilof New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, son, Yates-25. NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Hendricks, Johnson-5. IN HOUSE. July 18-The bill was amended by substituting after the word "that" the following: The word "white," wherever it occurs in the laws relating to the District of Columbia, or in the charter or ordinances of the city of Washington or Georgetown, and operates as a limitation on the right of any elector of said District, or either of said cities, to hold any office, or to be selected and to serve as a juror, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and it shall be unlawful for any person or officer to enforce or at NAYS-Messrs. Buckalew, Fowler, Hendricks, McCreery, Norton, Vickers-6. March 25-The bill was returned with the ob-tempt to enforce said limitation after the passage of this act. jections of the President. March 27-The bill passed the Senate, over the veto-yeas 33, nays 9, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, And passed-yeas 90, nays 20, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Anderson, James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blair, Boutwell, Broomall, Buckland, Butler, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke. Sidney Clarke, Cobb, ner, Golladay, Grover, Haight, Holman, Richard D. Hubbard, Humphrey, Johnson, Jones, Kerr. Knott, Mallory, Marshall, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps. Pruyn, Randall, Robinson, Ross, Sitgreaves, Taber, Van Auken, Van Trump, Wood, Woodward-39. Coburn, Cook, Cornell, Covode, Dawes, Dixon, Driggs, | Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Chanler, Eldridge, Getz, Glossbren July 19-The Senate concurred without division, adding an amendment about juries for 1867, which was also agreed to without division, and likewise concurred in by the House. The bill was presented to the President the day of the adjournment, and was not acted upon by him before adjournment. 1867, December 5-The same bill again passed the Senate-yeas 32, nays 8, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler, Harlan, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson-32. NAYS-Messrs. Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Hendricks, Johnson, Norton, Patterson of Tennessee-8. December 9-The House passed it—yeas 104, nays 39, as follow: The ten days within which the President was required to act having expired during the Christmas adjournment, the President held that the bill fell, and he neither returned it with his objections, nor proclaimed it a law by reason of non-action. The law of the case is a disputed point, and led to a message from him January 23, 1868, in reply to a resolution of the Senate of January 8. The Eight-Hour Bill. 1868, January 6-The House passed this bill, without a division: Be it enacted, &c., That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed, or who may be hereafter employed, by or on behalf of the gov ernment of the United States; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. June 24-The Senate considered it, and Mr. Sherman moved to add a proviso: "Unless otherwise provided by law, the rate of wages paid by the United States shall be the current rate for the same labor, for the same time, at the place of employment;" Which was disagreed to-yeas 16, nays 21, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Arnell, James M. Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Benjamin, YEAS-Messrs. Cattell, Corbett, Davis, Edmunds, FerBenton, Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell, Bromwell, Broom-ry, Fessenden, Howard, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, all, Buckland, Butler, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Morrill of Vermont, Patterson of New Hampshire, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Ross, Sherman, Sumner, Van Winkle, Williams-16. Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, Eliot, FarnsNAYS-Messrs. Buckalew, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Craworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Halsey, Hamil- gin, Dixon. Doolittle, Harlan, Hendricks, Johnson, Mcton, Harding, Hawkins, Hooper, Hopkins, Hubbard, Donald, McCreery, Morton, Nye, Patterson of TennesHulburd, Hunter, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Judd, Julian, see, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Tipton, Wade, Wilson Kelley, Kelsey, Ketcham, Koontz, Laflin, William -21. Lawrence, Lincoln, Logan, Loughridge, Lynch, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Moorhead, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, Nunn, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters, Pike, Plants, Poland, Polsley, Price, Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Shanks, Smith, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens, Stewart, Stokes, Thomas Trimble, Trowbridge, Upson, Van Aernam, Robert T. Van Horn, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, Thomas Williams,-26. William Williams, James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Windom-104. NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Beck, The bill then passed-yeas 26, nays 11, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew. Chandler, Cole, Conness, Cragin, Dixon, Doolittle, Fowler, Harlan, Hendricks, Howard, McCreery, McDonald, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Patterson of Tennessee, Ramsey, Ross, Stewart, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Williams, Wilson, Yates, NAYS-Messrs. Corbett, Davis, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Pomeroy, Sherman, Sumner, Van Winkle-11. XXXIII. GENERAL POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Votes of State Legislatures on the Fourteenth In Political Manual for 1867, p. 68, and in the combined Manual, p. 194, is given the action of the States up to April, 1867. The record then stood: RATIFYING STATES.-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Oregon, Nevada-21. REJECTING STATES-Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky-3. Besides the ten insurrectionary States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,* Mississippi, * President Johnson's telegram to ex-Provisional Governor Parsons, of Alabama, on the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment: EX-GOVERNOR PARSONS'S TELEGRAM. MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, January 17, 1867. Legislature in session. Efforts making to re consider vote on constitutional amendment. Re Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, as reorganized un- | passed the Senate February 19, 1868, and the NOT ACTED-Iowa, California, Nebraska-3. Subsequent Action of State Legislatures. Since that date, Iowa and Nebraska ratified the amendment and California rejected it, thus increasing the ratifying States to 23, and the rejecting to 4, excluding the insurrectionary States, or 14 with them. The Legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey of 1868 passed resolutions for the withdrawal of their previous ratification. In Ohio the vote on withdrawing, January 13, 1868, was as follow: The resolution was repassed over the Gov. ernor's veto, in the Senate, March 5-yeas 11, nays 9, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Bowne, Dater, Edsall, Gaskill Hopper, Little, (Prevident,) Rice, Robins, Wildrick, Winfield-11. NAYS-Messrs. Bettle, Blackman, Clark, Cobb, Hays, Horner, Plummer, Richey, Warwick-9. The vote on passing in the House, March 25, was yeas 45, nays 13, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Albertson, Allen, J. L. Baldwin, Bergen, Brown, Christic, H. C. Clark, H. F. Clark, Coghlan, Col lins, Corlies, Corson, Cox, Duryer, Evans, (Speaker) Ful mer, Givens, Hedden, Hendrickson, Henry, Hering, Hood, In Senate-yeas 19, nays 17, as follow: Hough, Huff Hunt, Jones, Lanning. Lippincott, Magona YRAS-Messrs. Berry, Campbell, Carter, Dickey, Dowd-gle. Maxwell, Molony, Pearce, Pickel, Price, Probasco, ney, Emmitt, Evans, Godfrey, Golden, Hutcheson, Jami Rosenbaum, Sharp, Smith, Strong, Taylor, Van Vorst, son, Kenney, Lawrence, Linn, May, Rex, Scribner, Stam- Vliet, Westcott, Whelan, Wills-15. (One Democrat abbaugh, Winner-19. NAYS-Messrs. Biggs, Brooks, Burrows, Conant, Cozey, Everett, Griswold, Hall, Jones, Keifer, Kessler, Kraner, Potts, Simmons, Torrence, Woodworth, Yeo man-17. In House-yeas 56, nays 46, as follow. YEAS-Messrs. Acker, Baker, Ball, Belville, Boehmer, Branch, Buell, Callen, Cockerill, Cusac, Denman, Dilworth, Dungan, Fielding, Finley, Fitch, Gaston, Gerhart, Gordon, Headley, Henricks, Hill of Defiance, Hord, Hughes of Butler, Hughes of Highland, Jewett, Jones, Kemp, Kennon, Larwill, Lawson, Leete, Mann, McMarrell, Moffett, Neal, Newman, Nichol, Parks, Purr, Pennisten, Read, Richardson, Robinson, Ross, Rutter, Shaw, Stickney, Sicaim, Swetland, Thompson of Stark, Thornhill, Walling, Wilson, Worth, Mr. Speaker Follett-56. NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Betts, Borden, Bronson, Brooke, Canfield, Cannon, Carpenter, Coleman, Dennis, Dickson, Dunn, Eames, Gallup, Hare, Hill of Erie, Hill of Fulton, Howard, Johnson, Kain, Kennett, Kerr of Fayette, Kerr of Jefferson, Lawrence, Lee, Lewton, McMorran, Moore, Parker, Pond, Ritezell, Rough, Rukenbrod, Saylor, Scott of Hamilton, Scott of Warren, Sherwin, Sinclair, Sisler, Skaats, Thompson of Columbiana, Ullery, Warnking, Warren, Welsh, Wolf -46. In New Jersey, the resolution of withdrawal sent.) NAYS-Messrs. Atwater, J. R. Baldwin, Cowperthwaite, Gage, Keim, Kennedy, Lord, Mackin, Nixon, Peck, Reeves, Speer, Van Voorhies-13. (One Republican absent.) Of the Insurrectionary Statos, Arkansas ratified the amendment, April 6, Senate, yeas 23, nays 0; and, April 3, House, yeas 56, nays 0. Florida ratified the amendment, June 9, in Senate, yeas 10, nays 3; and in House of Rep resentatives, yeas 25, nays 14. North Carolina ratified it, July 1, in the Senate 36 to 2, in the House 72 to 23. With the ratification by the Legislatures of the remaining States whose restoration to representation is dependent upon that condition, as set forth in the act of June 25, 1868, the requisite three-fourths of the thirty-seven States will be secured, even conceding the right of Ohio and New Jersey to withdraw. port from Washington says it is probable an Votes on Constitutional Amendments in the enabling act will pass. We do not know what to believe. I find nothing here. LEWIS E. PARSONS. Exchange Hotel. His Excellency ANDREW JOHNSON, President. REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT. UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WASHINGTON, D. C., January 17, 1867. What possible good can be obtained by reconsidering the constitutional amendment? I know of none in the present posture of affairs; and I do not believe the people of the whole country will sustain any set of individuals in attempts to change the whole character of our Government by enabling acts or otherwise. I believe, on the contrary, that they will eventually uphold all who have the patriotism and courage to stand by the Constitution, and who place their confidence in the people. There should be no faltering on the part of those who are honest in their determination to sustain the several co-ordinate departments of the Government, in accordance with its original design. Hon. LEWIS E. PARSONS, ANDREW JOHNSON Montgomery, Alabama. States. IN MICHIGAN. |