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CONGEESS, UNITED STATES. 



Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, Benjamin F. Butler, 

 Eoderick E. Butler, Cake, Cessna, Churchill, Clarke, 

 Amasa Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cook, Covode, Cul- 

 lora, Dawea, Dockery, Donley, DuvaL Farnsworth, 

 Ferriss, Ferry, Finkelnburg, Fitch, Garfield, Hale, 

 Hamilton, Harris, Hawley, Hay, Heaton, Heflin, Hill, 

 Hoar, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Alexander H. Jones, Judd, 

 Julian, Kelley, Kellogg, Kelsey, Ketcham, Laflin, 

 Logan, Lougnridge, Lynch, Maynard, McCarthy, 

 MeGrew, McKee, McKenzie.William Moore, Morphis, 

 Daniel J. Morrell. Samuel P. Mori-ill, Myers, Negley, 

 O'Neill, Orth, Packard, Packer, Paine, Pearce, Peters, 

 Phelps. Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Bidgway, Boots, 

 Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, 

 Lionel A. Sheldon, Porter Sheldon, John A. Smith, 

 William J. Smith, Worthington C. Smith, William 

 Smyth, Starkweather, Stevens, Stevenson, Stokes, 

 Stoughton, Strickland, Strong, Sweeney, Taffe, Till- 

 man, Townsend, Twichell, Tyner, Upspn, Van Horn, 

 Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, William B. Wash- 

 burn, Welker, Wheeler, Wilkinson, Willard, Wil- 

 liams, John T. Wilson, and Winans 129. 



NATS Messrs. Adams, Archer, Beck, Biggs, Bird, 

 James Brooks. Burr, Calkin. Dickinson, Dox, El- 

 dridge, Getz, Griswold, Haight, Haldeman, Hamill, 

 Hplman. Johnson, Kerr, Knott. Mayham, McCor- 

 mickj McNeely, Morgan, Niblack, Potter, Eandall, 

 Eeadmg, Beeves, Eice, Eogers. Schumaker, Sher- 

 rod, Slocum, Stiles, Stone, Strader, Swann, Trimble, 

 Van Auken, Van Trump, Voorhees, Wells, Eugene 

 M. Wilson, and Wood 45. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Ames, Axtell, Bennett, Ben- 

 ton, Bingham, Cleveland, Clinton L. Cobb, Cowles, 

 Cox, Crebs, Davis, Dickey, Dixon, Dyer, Ela, Fisher, 

 Fox, Gibson, Gilflllan, Hambleton, Hawkins. Hays, 

 Hoge, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Thomas L. Jones, Knapp, 

 Lash, Lawrence, Marshall, McCrary, Mercur, Milnes, 

 Eliakim H. Moore, Jesse H. Moore, Morrissey, Mun- 

 gen, Palmer-Platt, Porter, Joseph S. Smith, Tanner, 

 Van Wyck, Winchester, Witcher, and Woodward 46. 



So the bill was passed. 



In the Senate, on March 29th, the hill from 

 the House was reported without amendment. 

 Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, moved to strike out 

 the following proviso : 



Provided further, That this act shall not affect in 

 any_ manner the conditions and guarantees upon 

 which the State of Texas was annexed and admitted 

 as a State. 



The amendment was agreed to, and the hill 

 passed hy the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Abbott, Boreman, Brownlow, 

 Buckingham, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Cor- 

 bett, Crag_in, Drake, Fenton, Ferry, Gilbert, Hamlin, 

 Harlan, Harris, Howard, Howell, Lewis, McDonald, 

 Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton. Nye, 

 Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pratt, Eamsey, Bevels, 

 Eice, Eobertson, Eoss, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Sher- 

 man, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, T-hayer, Tipton, 

 Warner, Willey, Williams, and Wilson if. 



NATS Messrs. Bayard, Casserly, Davis, Hamil- 

 ton, Johnston, McCreery, Norton, Saulsbury, Stock- 

 ton, Thurman, and Vickers 11. 

 . ABSENT Messrs. Anthony, Carpenter, Conkling, 

 Edmunds, Fowler, Howe, Kellogg, Pool, Spencer, 

 Trumbull, and Yates 11. 



In the House, the amendment of the Sen- 

 ate was concurred in by the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Ames, Arnell, 

 Asper, Atwood, Aver, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin, 

 Bennett, Benton, Blair, Boles, Boyd, George M. 

 Brooks, Buck, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Bur- 

 dett, Benjamin F. Butler, Cake, Cessna, Clarke, Clin- 

 ton L. Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cook-Covode, Cowles, 

 Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dickey, Dixon, Dockery, 

 Donley, Duval, Dyer, Ela, Farnswortn, Ferriss, 



Ferry. Finkelnburg. Fisher. Garfield, Gilfillan, Hale, 

 Hamilton, Harris, Hawley, Hay, Heaton, Heflin, Hill, 

 Hoar, Hoge, Hooper, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Alexander 

 H. Jones, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Knapp, Lash, 

 Lawrence, Logan, Loughbridge, Lynch. Maynard, 

 McCarthy, McCrary, McGrew. McKenzie, Mercur, 

 Milnes, Eliakim H. Moore, William Moore, Morphis, 

 Daniel J. Morrell, Myers, Negley, O'Neill, Orth, 

 Packard, Packer, Paine, Pearce, Peters, Platt, Poland, 

 Pomeroy, Prosser, Boots, Sanford, Sargent. Sawyer, 

 Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, Lionel A. Sheldon, Por- 

 ter Sheldon, John A. Smith, William J. Smith, 

 Worthington C. Smith, William Smyth, Stevens, 

 Stevenson, Stokes, Stoughton, Strickland, Taffe, 

 Tillman, Tyner, Upson, Van Horn, Van Wyck, 

 Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, William B. Wash- 

 burn, Welker. Wheeler, Wilkinson, Williams, John 

 T. Wilson, Winans, and Witcher 130. 



NATS Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Beck, 

 Biggs, Bird, James Brooks, Burr, Calkin, Cleveland, 

 Cox, Crebs, Dickinson, Dox, Eldridge. Getz, Gibson, 

 Griswold, Haight, Haldeman, Hambleton, Hamill, 

 Holman, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, Mayham, McCor- 

 mick, McNeely, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, Potter, 

 Eandall, Eeadmg, Eice, Eidgway, Schumaker, Slier- 

 rod, Slocum, Joseph S. Smith, Stiles, Stone, Swann, 

 Sweeney, Trimble, Van Trump, Wells, Eugene M. 

 Wilson, and Wood 50. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Armstrong, Bailey, Banks, 

 Barnum, Bingham, Booker, Bowen, Eoderick E. 

 Butler, Churchill, Amasa Cobb, Fitch, Fox, Haw- 

 kins, Hays, Hotchkiss, Johnson, Thomas L. Jones, 

 Kellogg, Ketcham, Laflin, McKce, Jesse H. Moore, 

 Samuel P. Morrill, Morrissey, Palmer, Phelps, Por- 

 ter, Eeeves, Eogers, Starkweather, Strader, Strong, 

 Tanner. Townsend, Twichell, Van Auken, Voorhees, 

 Willard, Winchester, and Woodward 40. 



On March 30th the President sent the fol- 

 lowing message to both Houses of Congress : 



EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 30, 1870. 

 To the Senate and House of Representatives : 



It is unusual to notify the two Houses of Congress 

 by message of the promulgation, by proclamation 

 of the Secretary of State, of the ratification of a con- 

 stitutional amendment. In view, however, of the 

 vast importance of the fifteenth amendment to the 

 Constitution, this day declared a part of that sacred 

 instrument, I deem a departure from the usual cus- 

 tom justifiable. A measure which makes at once 

 four million people voters who were heretofore de- 

 clared by the highest tribunal in the land not citi- 

 zens of the United States, nor eligible to become so 

 (with the assertion that ''at the time of the Decla- 

 ration of Independence the opinion was fixed and uni- 

 versal in the civilized portion of the white race, 

 regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, 

 that black men had no rights which the white man 

 was bound to respect"), is indeed a measure of 

 grander importance than any other one act of the 

 kind from the foundation of our free Government to 

 the present day. 



Institutions like ours, in which all power is derived 

 directly from the people, must depend mainly upon 

 their intelligence, patriotism, and industry. I call 

 the attention, therefore, of the newly-enfranchised 

 race to the importance ' of their striving in every 

 honorable manner to make themselves worthy of 

 their new privilege. To the race more favored here- 

 tofore by our laws I would say, withhold no legal 

 privilege of advancement to the new citizen. The 

 framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a 

 republican Government could not endure without 

 intelligence and education generally diffused among 

 the people. The " Father of his Country '' in hia 

 Farewell Address, uses this language : " Promote, 

 then, as a matter of primary importance, institu- 

 tions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In 

 proportion as the structure of the Government gives 



