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CONGRESS, UXITED STATES. The first 

 session of the 38th Congress* commenced on 

 the 7th of December, 1863. In the Senate the 

 Vice-President took the chair. 



Objections were made to the administration 

 of the oath to the Senators from West Vir- 

 ginia by Mr. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, on 

 the ground that West Virginia was not a State 

 of the United States. A motion to administer 

 the oath was carried yeas, 36 ; nays, 5. 



Before the result was announced, Mr. Hale, 

 of New Hampshire, objected to the vote of 

 Mr. Wilson, of Missouri, on the ground that he 

 had been appointed a Senator by the Governor 

 of Missouri, subsequent to which appointment 

 the Legislature of the State had assembled and 

 adjourned without electing a Senator. 



Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, said : " The 

 General Assembly of my State, elected in Xo- 

 vember, 1862, met in December, 1862, and ad- 

 journed in March, 1863, to a future day, the 

 second Tuesday in November, 1863. The Gen- 



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



SENATE. 



California John Conness, James A. McDougall. 

 Connecticut James Dixon, Lafayette S. Foster. 

 Delaware James A. Bayard, Willard Saulsbury. 

 Illinois William A. Richardson, Lyman Trumbull. 

 Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, Henry S. Lane. 

 Iowa James Harlan, James W. Grimes. 

 Kansas Samuel C. Pomeroy, James H. Lane. 

 Kentucky Garrett Davis, Lazarus W. Powell. 

 M'line Lot M. Morrill, William Pitt Fessenden. 

 Massachusetts Charles Stunner, Henry Wilson. 

 Maryland Reverdy Johnson, Thomas II. Hicks. 

 Michigan Zachariah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 

 Minnesota Alexander Ramsay, Morton S. Wilkinson. 

 Missouri John B. Henderson, B. Gratz Brown. 

 Neic Hampshire Daniel Clark, John P. Hale. 

 New Jersey William Wright, John C. Ten Eyck. 

 New York Edwin D. Morgan, Ira Harris. 

 Ohio Benjamin F. Wade, John Sherman. 

 Oregon Benjamin F. Harding, James W. Nesmith. 

 Pennsylvania Charles R. Buckalew, Edgar Cowan. 

 Shode Island William Sprague, Henry B. Anthony. 

 Vermont Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer. 

 Virginia Lemuel J. Bowden, John S. Carlile. 

 We. it Virginia Peter G. Yam Winkle, Waitman T. 

 Wilier. 



Wisconsin James R. Doolittle, Timothy O. Howe. 



Calif orn ia Thomas B. Shannon, William Higbv. Cor- 

 nelius Cole. 



Connecticut Henry C. Deming. James E. English, Au^us- 

 tns Brandagee, John H. Hubbard. 



Delaware Nathaniel B. Smithers. 



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

 Washburne, Charles M. Harris, OwenLovejoy, Jesse O. Nor- 

 ton, John R. Eden, John T. Stuart, Lewis W. Ross, Anthony 

 L. Knapp, James C. Robinson, William R. Morrison, Wil- 

 liam 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, GoSlove S. Orth, Schuyler 

 Colfax, 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 Clav Smith 

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



M'i i ne~ Lorenzo D. M. Sweat, Sidney Perham, James G 

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



Maryland John A. J. Cress well, Edwin H. Webster 

 Deary Winter Davis, Francis Thomas, Benjamin G. Harris 



Massachusetts Thomas D. Eliot, Oakes Acnes, Alexander 

 H. Ric*, Simuel Hooper, John B. Alley, Daniel W. Gooch 



eral Assembly, before the adjournment in 

 March, 1863, called a joint session for the pur- 

 pose of electing Senators, which joint session 

 was to meet on the Thursday succeeding the 

 second Tuesday in ^November of 1863. On the 

 13th day of Xovember last the General Assembly 

 elected Mr. Brown in the place of my colleague." 



The question was considered on the next day, 

 and Mr. Wilson was declared not to be entitled 

 to a seat. 



In the House Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, was 

 elected Speaker by 101 votes, and Edward Mc- 

 Pherson was elected clerk by 102 votes. The 

 vote for Speaker was as follows : 



Whole number of rotes cast, 181 ; necessary to a 

 choice, 91 ; of which 



Mr. Colfax received . . .101 



Mr. Cox 43 



Mr. Dawson 12 



Mr. Mallory 10 



Mr. Stebbins .8 



Mr. King 6 



Mr. Blair, of Missouri, 2 



Mr. Stiles 1 



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. 



uri Francis P. Blair, jr., Henry T. Blow," John G. 

 Scott, Joseph W. McClurg, Samuel EL Boyd, Austin A. 

 King, Benjamin F. Loan, William A. Hall, James S. Rollins. 



New Hampshire Darnel Marcy, Edward H. Rollins, 

 James W. Patterson. 



New Jersey John F. Starr, George Middleton, William 



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



New York Henry G. Stebbins, Martin Ka'lbfleisch, Moses 

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

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

 Radford, Charles H. Winfield, 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 Yalkenburg, Freeman 

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

 Garfleld. 



Oregon John R. MeBride. 



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

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

 Stiles, John M. BroornalL, Sydenham E. Ancona, Thaddeus 

 Stevens, Myer Strause, Philip Johnson, Charles Dennison, 

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

 der H. Coffroth, Archibald McAllister, James T. Hale, Glenni 

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

 head, Thomas Williams, Jesse Lazear. 



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



Vermont Frederick E. Woodbridge, Justin S. Morrill. 

 Portus Baxter. 



Virginia Joseph E. Segar, Lucius H. Chandler Benjamin 

 M. Kitchen. 



West Virginia Jacob B. Blair, William G. Brown, Killian 

 T. Whaley. 



Wisconsin James S. Brown. Ithamar C. S oan, Annas* 

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

 Mclndoe. 



Delegates from Territories 

 Arizona 



Colorado Hiram P. Bennett. 

 Dakota William Jayne. 

 Idaho John M. Cannaday. 

 Nebraska Samuel G. Daily. 

 Nevada Gordon If. Mott. 

 New Mexico Francisco Pereab. 

 Utah John F. Kinney. 

 Washington George E. Cole. 



