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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. The sec- 

 ond session of the thirty-eighth Congress,* com- 

 menced on the 5th of December, 1864. The 

 Senate was called to order by the President 

 pro tern., Senator Daniel Clark. The House 

 was at the same time called to order by the 

 Speaker, Mr. Schuyler Colfax. 



For the Message of the President to Con- 

 gress, see ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, 1864, PUBLIC 

 DOCUMENTS. 



In the House, on Dec. 13th, the joint resolu- 

 tion authorizing the President of the United 

 States to give the requisite notice of one year, 

 for terminating the treaty made by Great Bri- 

 tain in behalf of the British Provinces of North 

 America, was taken up. The consideration of 

 the resolution had been postponed from the 

 previous session. 



The motion to lay on the table having failed 

 to pass, the question came up on the passage 

 of the resolution, and it was adopted by the 

 following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Ames, Ashley, Baily, Au- 



* The following is a list of the members of Congress : 



8E N A TK. 



California John Conness, James A. McDougall. 

 Connecticut James Dixon, LatUyette 8. Foster. 

 Delaware Geo. R. Riddle, Willard Sanlsbury. 

 Illinois William A, Kichardson, Lyman Trumbull. 

 Indiana Thomas A. Hendrieks, Henry S. Lane. 

 Iowa James Harlan, Jamos W. Grimes. 

 Kansas Samuel C. Pomeroy, James H. Lane. 

 Kentucky Garrett Davis, Lazarus W. Powell. 

 Maine Lot M. Merrill, Nathan A. Farwell. 

 Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson. 

 Maryland Keverdy Johnson, Thomas II. Hicks. 

 Michigan Zaeharia'h Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 

 Minnesota Alexander Ramsay, Morton S. Wilkinson. 

 Missouri John B. Henderson, B. Gratz Brown. 

 New Hampshire Daniel Clark, John P. Hale. 

 New Jersey William Wright, John C. Ten Eyck. 

 New York Edwin D. Morgan, Ira Harris. 

 Nevada James W. Nye, William M. Stewart. 

 Ohio Benjamin F. Wade, John Sherman. 

 Oregon Benjamin F. Harding, James W. Nesmith. 

 Pennsylvania Charles R. Buckalew, Edgar Cowan. 

 Rhode Island William Sprague, Henry B. Anthony. 

 Vermont Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer. 

 Virginia Lemuel J. Bowdeu, John S. Carlile. 

 West Virginia Peter G. Van Winkle, Waitman T. 

 Willey. 



Wisconsin James R. Doolittle, Timothy 0. Howe. 



California Thomas B. Shannon, "William Higby, Cor- 

 nelius Cole. 



Connecticut Henry C. Doming, James E. English Augus- 

 tus Brandagee, John H. Hubbard. 



Delaware Nathaniel B. Smithers. 



lUinois Isaac N. Arnold, John F. Farnsworth. Elihu B. 

 Washburne, Charles M. Harris, Eben C. Ingersoll, Jesse O. 

 Norton, John E. Eden, John T. Stuart, Lewis W. Ross, An- 

 thony L. Knapp, James C. Robinson, William R. Morrison, 

 William J. Allen, James C. Allen. 



Indiana John Law, James A. Cravens, Henry W. Har- 

 rington, William S. Holman, George W. Julian, Ebenezer 

 Dumont, Daniel W. Voorhees, Godlove S. Orth, Schuyler 

 Coli'ax, Joseph K. Edgerton, James F. McDowell. 



Iowa James F. Wilson, Hiram Price, William B. Allison, 

 J. B. Grinnell, John A. Kasson, A. W. Hubbard. 



Kansas A. Carter Wilder. 



Kentucky Lucien Anderson, George H. Teaman, Henry 

 Grider, Aaron Harding, Robert Mallory, Green Clay Smith, 

 Brutus J. Clay, William H. Randall, William II. Wadsworth. 



Maine Lorenzo D. M. Sweat, Sidney Perham, James G. 

 Elaine, John H. Rice, Frederick A. Pike. 



Maryland John A. J. Cresswell, Edwin H. Webster, 

 Henry Winter Davis, Francis Thomas, Benjamin G. Harris. 



Massachusetts Thomas D. Eliot, Oakes Ames, Alexander 

 H. Rice, Samuel Hooper, John B. Alley, Daniel W. Gooch, 



gustus C. Baldwin, John D. Baldwin, Baxter, Bea. 

 man, Blaine, Blow, Boutwell, Boyd, Brandegee, 

 Brooks, Broomall, Ambrose W. Clark, Cole, Henry 

 Winter Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Eckley, English, Farns- 

 worth, Ganson, Gooch, Grinnell, Higby, Holman, 

 Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, John H. 

 Hubbard, Hulburd, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Julian, Kelley, 

 Francis W. Kellogg, Orlando Kellogg, Kernan, Knox, 

 Loan, Marvin, Mculurg, Samuel F. Miller, Moorhead, 

 Morrill, Daniel Morris, Amos Myers, Leonard Myeis, 

 Norton, Odell, Charles O'Neill, Orth, Patterson, Pe:- 

 ham, Pike, Pomeroy, Price, Alexander H. Rice, John 

 H. Rice, Robinson, Edward H. Rollins, Schenck, 

 Scofield, Scott, Shannon, Sloan, Smith, Smithers, 

 Spalding, Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Thomas, Tracy> 

 Up'sou, Van Valkenburgh, Elihu B. Washburne, Wii- 

 liam B. Washburn, Whaley, Williams, Wilder, Wil- 

 son, and Yeaman 85. 



NATS Messrs. Alley, Ancona, Arnold, James S. 

 Brown, Chanler, Cobfi, Cox, Thomas T. Davis, Den- 

 ison, Donnelly, Eden, Edgerton, Eldridge, Eliot, 

 Finck, Frank, Garfield, Harding, Harrington, Her- 

 rick, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Littlejohn, Long, Mallory, 

 Marcy, McDowell, Mclndoe, McKinney, William H. 

 Miller, James R. Morris, Morrison, Noble, John 

 O'Neill, Pendleton, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, 

 James S. Rollins, Ross, John B. Steele, William G. 

 Steele, Stiles, Stuart, Sweet, Townsend, Wads- 

 George S. Boutwell, John D. Baldwin, William B. Wash- 

 burn, Henry L. Dawes. 



Michigan Fernando C. Beaman, Charles Upson, John W. 

 Longyear, Francis W. Kellogg, Augustus C. Baldwin, John 



F. Driggs. 



Minnesota William Windom, Ignatius Donnelly. 



Missouri Henrv T. Blow, John G. Scott, Joseph W. 

 McClurg, Samuel H. Boyd, Austin A. King, Benjamin F. 

 Loan, William A. Hall, James S. Rollins. 



Ne-vada Henry G. Worthington. 



New Hampshire Daniel Marcy, Edward H. Rollins, 

 James W. Patterson. 



New Jersey John F. Starr, George Middleton, William 



G. Steele, Andrew J. Rogers, Nehemiah Perry. 



New York Dwight Townsend, Martin Kalbfleisch, Moses 

 F. Odell, Benjamin Wood, Fernando Wood, Elijah Ward, 

 John W. Chanler, James Brooks, Anson Herrick, William 

 Radford. Charles H. Winfleld, Homer A. Nelson, John B. 

 Steele, John V. L. Pruyn, John ,A. Griswold, Orlando Kel- 

 logg, Calvin T. Hulburd, James M. Marvin, Samuel F. Mil- 

 ler, Ambrose W. Clark, Francis Kernan, De Witt C. Little- 

 John, Thomas T. Davis, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Daniel Mor- 

 ris, Giles W. Hotchkiss, Robert B. Van Valkenburg, Freeman 

 Clarke, Augustus Frank, John B. Ganson, Reuben E. Fenton. 



Ohio George H. Pendleton, Alexander Long, Robert C. 

 Schenck, J. F. McKinney, Frank C. LeBlond, Clinton A. 

 White, Samuel S. Cox, William Johnson, Warren P. Noble, 

 James M. Ashley, Wells A. Hutchins, William E. Finck, 

 John O'Neill, George Bliss, James R. Morris, Joseph W. 

 White, Ephraim R. Eckley, Rufus P. Spaulding, James A. 

 Garfield. 



Oregon John R. McBride. 



Pennsylvania Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'Neill, Leon- 

 ard Myers, William D. Kelley, M. Russell Thayer, John D. 

 Stiles, John M. Broomall, Sydenham E. Ancona, Thaddeua 

 Stevens, Myer Strouse, Philip Johnson, Charles Denlson, 

 Henry M. Tracy, William H. Miller, Joseph Baily, Alexan- 

 der II. Cofiroth, Archibald McAllister, James T. Hale, Glennl 

 W. Scofleld, Amos Myers, John L. Dawson, James K. Moor- 

 bead, Thomas Williams, Jesse Lazear. 



Rhode Island Thomas A. Jenckes, Nathan F. Dixon. 



Vermont Frederick E. Woodbridge, Justin S. Morrill, 

 Portus Baxter. 



Virginia .Joseph E. Segar, Lucius H. Chandler, Benja- 

 min M. Kitchen. 



West Virginia Jacob B. Blair, William G. Brown, Kil- 

 lian V. Whaley. 



Wisconsin James S. Brown, Ithamar C. Sloan, Amasa 

 Cobb, Charles A. Eldridge, Ezra Wheeler, Walter D. 

 Mclndoe. 



Delegates from Territories. 



Arizona Charles D. Poston. 

 Colorado Hiraui P. Bennett. 

 Dakota William Jayne. 

 Idaho John M. Cannaday 

 New Mexico^ Francisco Pereah. 

 l't<th John F. Kinney. 

 Washington George E. Cole. 



