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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES (1869). 



In the House, action taken for counting the 

 votes for President and Vice-President, 171 ; 

 action on the vote of Louisiana, 171 ; do. on 

 the vote of Georgia, 171; total vote, 172; its 

 declaration, 172 ; protest offered in the House, 

 172; debate, 173; resolutions offered, 174; 

 further debate, 174, 175. 



In the Senate, the House bill to repeal the 

 act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices 

 considered, 175; amendment proposed, 175; 

 the House proposes to go back to the old sys- 

 tem, 176 ; the substantial principle upon which 

 the act of 1867 was founded ought to be re- 

 tained, 176 ; the amendment restrains the Pres- 

 ident except as to his Cabinet, 176 ; object of 

 the Tenure-of-Office Act. 177; remove every 

 obstacle from the incoming Administration, 

 178; operation of the new doctrine that the 

 President has not the power of removal, 178 ;. 

 our experience, 178; consequences of the as- 

 sassination of Lincoln, 179 ; practice of the 

 Government on the power of removal, 179 ; 

 amendments offered and rejected, 180; bill 

 laid aside during this session, 180. 



In the Senate, a bill for equal rights in the 

 District of Columbia passed, 180. 



In the Senate, a resolution considered rela- 

 tive to the public credit, 181 ; extract from the 

 President's message, 181 ; proposition to pay 

 the interest simply, 181 ; the platform of a 

 political party, 181 ; object of the resolution 

 to express disapprobation of the President's 

 message, 182 ; amendments proposed, 182 ; 

 resolution agreed to, 183. 



In the House, resolution offered relative to 

 repudiation, and passed, 183, 184; a bill to 

 strengthen the public credit reported, 184; 

 what is intended by this legislation, any thing 

 or nothing, 185 ; bill passed, 186. 



In the Senate, House bill to strengthen the 

 public credit reported, 186 ; amendments, 186 ; 

 bill passed, 187; House refuse to concur, and 

 a conference held, and a new bill reported, 

 187; explanation of it, 187; protest against its 

 passage, 188 ; undertake to bind the Govern- 

 ment to a material modification of the contract 

 to the benefit of the creditor and detriment of 

 the people, 188; did the people of the country 

 expect these bonds to be paid in depreciated 

 paper? 189; bill passed in both Houses, 190. 



Joint resolution relative to persons holding 

 offices in Virginia and Texas passed and sent 

 to the President, 190. 



The first session of Forty-first Congress 

 convened, 191 ; message from the President, 

 191 ; bill for the further protection of equal 

 rights in the District of Columbia passed both 

 Houses, 192. 



In the Senate, a bill to repeal the Tenure-of- 

 Office Act considered, 192 ; a suspension recom- 

 mended instead of a repeal, 192 ; not a subject 

 for legislation, 193; what is proposed to do, 

 193 ; report recommitted, 193 ; new bill re- 

 ported, amendment agreed to, 194; object of 

 the amendment, 194; explanation of the bill, 

 194; bill passed in both Houses, 195. 



A bill to strengthen the public credit con- 

 sidered, 196; amendments offered, 196; a bill 

 passed in the lower House, 197 ; in the Senate, 

 substituted for the Senate bill, and passed, 197. 



In the House, a motion to suspend the rules 

 for a resolution relative to Mongolians to be 

 introduced, was lost, 197 ; message from the 

 President, on reconstruction, 198; bill report- 

 ed and passed, 198-200. 



In the House, a resolution relative to Cuba 

 adopted, 202. 



X. Session of 1869-70 : Second session of 

 the Forty-first convenes, 117; in the Senate, a 

 bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction and 

 powers of the Supreme Court, 117; a bill to 

 repeal appellate jurisdiction in Jidbeaa-corpus 

 cases presented, 118; do. to remove all politi- 

 cal disabilities, 118; resolution to annul all 

 political disabilities, 118; do. relative to a 

 denial of the protection of the law, 118; do. 

 on a paper currency, 118 ; do. on repudiation, 

 118; do. on a tariff, 118. 



In the Senate, a bill to perfect reconstruc- 

 tion in Georgia, 119 ; amendment offered, 120 ; 

 wholly unnecessary, 120 ; ratification made 

 under duress, 12ft; the rebel States should be 

 made to feel the power of this nation, 120 ; a 

 direct impeachment of the whole reconstruc- 

 tion policy, 120 ; this is not a question which 

 concerns simply the State of Georgia, 121; 

 what is the effect of coercing Georgia to adopt 

 the amendment ? 121 ; we want an evidence 

 of their change of purpose since secession, 121 ; 

 there are a doctrine and a principle within the 

 present measure which may be returned like a 

 poisoned chalice, 122 ; proceedings in Georgia, 

 122 ; the coercion imposed on Georgia by the 

 proposed amendment, 123; who is to deter- 

 mine when an amendment to the Constitution 

 is ratified ? 123 ; the question as to what is the 



