CONGRESS, U. S. 



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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. The third 

 session of the 37th Congress* commenced at 

 Washington on the 1st day of December, 1862. 

 For the President's Message, see ANNUAL CY- 

 CLOPAEDIA, 1862. 



In the House, on the first day of the session, 

 Mr. Cox, of Ohio, offered the following resolu- 

 tion: 



Whereas, many citizens of the United States have 

 been seized by persons acting, or pretending to be 

 acting under the authority of the United States, and 

 have been carried out of the jurisdiction of the States 

 of their residence, and imprisoned in the military pri- 

 sons and camps of the United States, without any pub- 

 lic charge being preferred against them, and without 

 any opportunity being allowed to learn or disprove the 

 charges made, or alleged to be made, against them ; 

 and whereas, such arrests have been made in States 

 where there was no insurrection or rebellion, or pre- 

 tence thereof, or any other obstruction against the au- 

 thority of the Government; and whereas, it is the 

 sacred right of every citizen of the United States, that 

 he shall not be deprived of liberty without due process 

 of law, and when arrested, that he shall have a speedy 



* The following is a list of the members of both Houses: 



SENATE. 



Maine "William Pitt Fessenden, Lot M. Merrill. 

 New Hampshire Daniel Clark, John P. Hale. 

 Vermont Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer. 

 Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson. 

 Rhode Island Henry B. Anthony, Samuel G. Arnold. 

 Connecticut Lafayette S. Foster, James Dixon. 

 New For* Preston King, Ira Harris. 

 New Jersey John C. Ten Eyck, Kichard S. Field * James 

 W. WalLt 



Pennsylvania Edgar Cowan, David Wilmot 

 Delaware James A. Bayard, "Willard Saulsbury. 

 Maryland Anthony Kennedy, Thomas H. Hicks. 

 Virginia John S. Carlile, Waitman T. Willey. 

 Kentucky Lazarus W. Powell, Garrett Davis. 

 Missouri- John B. Henderson, Robert Wilson. 

 Ohio Benjamin F. Wade, John Sherman. 

 Indiana Jos. A. Wright, Henry S. Lane, David Turpie.$ 

 Illinois Orville H. Brownincr, Lyman Trumbull. 

 Michigan Zachariah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 

 Wisconsin Timothy O. Howe, James E. Doolittle. 

 lorca James W. Grimes, James Harlan. 

 Minnesota Henry M. Rice, Morton S. Wilkinson. 

 California Milton S. Latham, James A. McDougall. 

 Oregon James W. Nesmith, Benjamin F. Harding. 

 Kansas S. W. Pomeroy, James H. Lane. 



HOUSE. 



Maine John N. Goodwin, Charles W. Walton, Samuel 

 C. Fessenden, Anson P. Morrill, John H. Rice, Frederick A. 

 Pike, Thomas A. D. Fessenden.' 



New Hampshire Edward H. Rollins, Thomas M. Ed- 

 wards, Gilman Marston. 



Vermont E. P. Walton, Justin S. Morrill, Portus Baxter. 



Massachusetts Thomas D. Eliot, James Bufflnton, Ben- 

 jamin F. Thomas, Alexander H. Rice, John B. Alley, Chas. 

 R. Train, Amasa Walker, Charles Delano, Henry L. Dawes, 

 Samuel Hooper, Daniel W. Gooch. 



Rhode Island William P. Sheffield, George H. Browne. 



Connecticut Dwight Loomis, Alfred A. Burnham, Geo 

 C. Woodruff, James E. English. 



California Aaron A. Sargeant, T. G. Phelps, F. F. Low. 



Abraham B. Olin, Erastus Corning, William A. Wheeler, 

 Socrates N. Sherman, Richard Franchot, Roscoe Conkling, 

 R. Holland Duell, William E. Lansing, Ambrose W. Clark, 

 Charles B. Sedgwick, Theodore M. Pomeroy, Robert V. 

 Van Valkcnburgh, Augustus Frank, Burt Van Horn. El- 

 Dndge G. Snaulding, Reuben E. Fenton, Benjamin Wood, 

 James E. Kerrigan, Isaac C. Delaplaine, James B. McKean, 



* Appointed to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of John R* 

 i nornpson. 



-t Elected by the Legislature In January, 1863, to fill the rncancv occa- 

 sioned by the death of John R. Thompson. 



t David Turpie wns subsequently elected by the Legislature to fill the 

 vacancy temporarily filled by J. A/Wright 



and public trial by an impartial jury of his country- 

 men; therefore, 



Resolved, That the House of Representatives do 

 hereby condemn all such arrests as unwarranted by 

 the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as 

 a usurpation of power never given up by the people 

 to their rulers, and do hereby demand that all such ar- 

 rests shall hereafter cease, and that all persons so ar- 

 rested and yet held should have a prompt and public 

 trial, according to the provisions of the Constitution. 



It was laid upon the table. Yeas, 80; 

 nays, 40. 



Subsequently, on the same day, Mr. Richard- 

 son, of Illinois, offered the following resolu- 

 tion : 



Resolved, That the President of the United States be 

 requested to inform the House what citizens of Illinois 

 are now confined in the Forts Warren, La Fayette, 

 and Delaware, or the old Capitol prison, and any other 

 forts or places of confinement ; what the charges are 

 against said persons ; also the places where they were 

 arrested. That the President be further requested to 

 inform this House of the names of the persons that 

 have been arrested in Illinois and taken to and confined 



Chauncey Vibbard, Jacob B. Chamberlain, Alexander S. 

 Diven, Alfred Ely. 



New Jersey William G. Steele, George T. Cobb, Ne- 

 hemiah Perry, John T. Nixon, John L. N. Stratton. 



Pennsylvania William E. Lehman, John P. Verree, 

 William D. Kelley, William Morris Davis, John Hickman, 

 Sydenhatn E. Ancona, Thaddeus Stevens, James H. Camp- 

 bell, Galusha A. Grow, Charles J. Biddle, Joseph Bailey, 

 Edward McPherson, Samuel S. Blair, Jesse Lazear, Jarnca 

 K. Moorhcad, Robert McKnight, John W. Wallace, John 

 Patton, Elijah Babbitt, J. D. Stiles, John W. Killinger, 

 Hcjidrick B. Wright, Philip Johnson, James T. Hale, John 

 Covodc. 



Maryland Cornelius L. L. Leary, Henry May, Francis 

 Thoinas, Charles B. Calvert, John W. Crisfleld, Edwin H. 

 Webster. 



Virginia Charles II. Upton, Jacob B. Blair, Joseph 

 Segar, William G. Brown, Kellam V. Whaley. 



Ohio George H. Pendleton, John A. Gurley, Clement L. 

 Vallandigham, William Allen, James M. Ashley, Chilton A. 

 White, Richard A. Harrison, Samuel Shellabarger, Warren 

 P. Noble, Carey A. Trimble, Valentine B. Horfon, Samuel 

 8. Cox, Samuel T. Worcester, Harrison G. Blake, James R. 

 Morris, Sidney Edgerton, Albert G. Riddle, John Hutchins, 

 John A. Bingham, Robert H. Nnsren, William P. Cutler. 



Kentucky Charles A. Wickiiffc, George W. Dunlap, 

 John W. Menzies, Aaron Harding, Samuel L. Casey, George 

 H. Teaman, Henry Grider, Robert Mallory, John J. Crit- 

 tenden, William H. Wadsworth. 



Tennessee Horace Maynard, A. J. Clements. 



Indiana John Law, James A. Cravens, W. McKee 

 Dunn, William S. Holtnan, George W. Julian, Albert G. 

 Porter, Schuyler Colfax, William Mitchell, Daniel W. Voor- 

 hees, Albert S. White, John P. C. Shanks. 



Illinois Elihu B. Washburne, Isaac N. Arnold, Owen 

 Lovejoy, William Kellogg, William A. Richardson, James 

 C. Robinson, Philip B. Foulke, William J. Allen, Anthony 

 L. Knapp. 



Missouri Francis P. Blair, ]r., Elijah H. Norton, John 

 W. Noell, James S. Rollins, William A. Hall, Thomas L. 

 Price, John S. Phelps. 



Michigan Bradley F. Granger. Fernando C. Beaman, 

 Rowland E. Trowbridge, Francis W. Kellogg. 



Iowa William Vandcver, James F. Wilson. 



Wisconsin John F. Potter, Walter Mclndoc, A. Scott 

 Sloan. 



Louisiana Benjamin F. Flanders,* Michael Hahn.* 



Minnesota Cyrus Aldrich, William Windom. 



Delaware George P. Fisher. 



Oregon George K. Shiel. 



Kansas Martin F. Conway. 



Dakota John B. S. Todd. 



Nebraska Samuel G. Daily. 



Utah John M. Bernhisel. 



Nevada John Cradlebaugh. 



Colorado H. P. Bennet. 



New Mexico John S. Watts. 



Washington William H. Wallace. 



* Elected by authority of the military governor of Lonuiana, Decem- 



