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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



cessantly to encourage young men to enlist, in 

 order to replenish our army and crush out the 

 rebellion. lie is just such a man as will reflect 

 credit on the Thirty-ninth Congress by his elec- 

 tion as Chaplain of this House." 



Mr. Johnson, of Pennsylvania, said : " I have 

 a nomination to make. If I were going to vote 

 for a fighting man, I would nominate General 

 Grant ; but I do not intend to vote for a fight- 

 ing man, and therefore I nominate Kev. John 

 Chambers, of Philadelphia." 



Whole number of votes cast was 168 ; neces- 

 sary to a choice, 85 ; of which 0. B. Boynton 

 received 89 ; Thomas H. Stockton, 22 ; John 

 Chambers, 15 ; B. H. Nadal, 14 ; J. G. Butler, 

 9 ; James Presley, 6 ; Charles B. Parsons, 5 ; 

 J. H. C. Bonte", 3; L. C. Matlock, 2; John 

 Walker Jackson, 2 ; Henry Slicer, 1. 



Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, submitted the 

 following resolution : 



Resolved (as the sense of this House), That the 

 public debt created during the late rebellion was 

 contracted upon the faith and honor of the nation ; 

 that it is sacred and inviolate, and must and ought 

 to be paid, principal and interest ; and that any at- 

 tempt to repudiate, or in any manner to impair or 

 scale the said debt, should be universally discoun- 

 tenanced by the people, and promptly rejected by 

 Congress if proposed. 



The question was then taken upon agreeing 

 to the resolution ; and it was decided in the 

 aifirmative, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Ancona, An- 

 derson, James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, 

 Barker, Baxter, Beaman, Benjamin, Berger, Bid- 

 well, Bingham, Elaine, Blow, Boutwell, Boyer, Bran- 

 dagee, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Bundy, 

 Chanler, Header W. Clark, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, 

 Conkling, Cook, Cullom, Culver, Darling, Davis, 

 Dawes, Dawson, Defrees, Delano, Deming, Denison, 

 Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, Dumont, Eckley, Eggleston, 

 Eliot, Farnsworth, Farquhar, Ferry, Finck, Garfield, 

 Glossbrenner, Goodyear, Grinnell, Griswold, Hale, 

 Abner C. Harding, Hart, Hayes, Henderson, Higby, 

 Hill, Hogan, Holmes, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asaherw. 

 Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, Demas Hubbard, 

 John H. Hubbard, Edwin N. Hubbell, James R. Hub- 

 bell, Hulburd, James Humphrey, James M. Hum- 

 phrey, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Johnson, Julian, Kasson, 

 Kelley, Kelso, Kerr, Ketchum, Kuykendall, Laflin, 

 Latham, George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, 

 Loan, Longyear, Marston, Marvin, McClurg, McCul- 

 lough, Mclndoe, McKee, McRuer, Mercur, Miller, 

 Moorhead, Morrill, Morris, Moulton, Myers, Newell, 

 Niblack, Nicholson, Noell, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Pat- 

 terson, Perham, Phelps, Pike, Plants, Pomeroy, 

 Price, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, William H. Ran- 

 dall, Raymond, Alexander H. Rice, Rogers, Rollins, 

 Ross, Sawyer, Schenck, Schofield, Shanklin, Shella- 

 barger, Sitgreaves, Sloan, Smith, Spalding, Starr, 

 Stevens, Stillwell, Strouse, Tabor, Thayer,^ Francis 

 Thomas, John L. Thomas, Thornton, Trowbridge, 

 Upson, Burt Van Horn, Ward, Warner, Elihu B. 

 Washburne, William B. Washburn, Welker, Went- 

 worth, Whaley, Williams, James F. Wilson, Windom, 

 "Winfield, and Wright 162. 



NAT Mr. Trimble 1. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Delos R. Ashley, Brooks, 

 Eldridge, Grider, Aaron Harding, Harris, Jones, Le 

 Blond, Lynch, Marshall, John H. Rice, Ritter, Rous- 

 seau, Taylor, Van Aernam, Robert T. Van Horn, 

 Voorhees, Stephen F. Wilson, and Woodbridge 19. 



Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, introduced the 

 following joint resolution ; which was read a 

 first and second time, and ordered to be referred 

 to the Committee on the Judiciary : 



Resolved ~by the Senate and House of Representative* 

 of the United States in Congress assembled, That the 

 following amendment to the Constitution of the Uni- 

 ted States shall be proposed, and when ratified by 

 the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States shall 

 be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the 

 Constitution of the United States : 



Neither the United States nor any State in the 

 Union shall ever assume or pay any part of the debt 

 of the so-called Confederate States of America, or of 

 any State, contracted to carry on war with the Uni- 

 ted States. , 



Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, also introduced 

 the following joint resolution; which was read 

 a first and second time, and ordered to be re- 

 ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary : 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 in Congress assembled, That the following amendment 

 to the Constitution of the United States shall be pro- 

 posed, and when ratified by the Legislatures of three- 

 fourths of the States shall be valid to all intents and 

 purposes as part of the Constitution of the United 

 States : 



Amend the ninth section of the first article by ex- 

 punging so much thereof as says, "No tax or duty 

 shall be laid on articles exported from any State." 



Mr. Stevens also introduced the following 

 joint resolution ; which was read a first and 

 second time, and ordered to be referred to the 

 Committee on the Judiciary : 



Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

 concurring), That the following amendment to the 

 Constitution of the United States shall be proposed 

 to the several States, and when ratified by the Legis- 

 latures of three-fourths of the States shall be valid to 

 all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution 

 of the United States : 



Representatives shall be apportioned among the 

 States which may be within the Union according to 

 their respective legal voters; and for this purpose 

 none shall be named as legal voters who are not 

 either natural-born citizens or naturalized foreigners. 

 Congress shall provide for ascertaining the number 

 of said voters. A true census of the legal voters 

 shall be taken at the same time with the regular 

 census. 



Mr. Stevens also introduced the following 

 joint resolution ; which was read a first and 

 second time, and ordered to be referred to the 

 Committee on the Judiciary : 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 in Congress assembled, That the following amendment 

 to the Constitution of the United States shall be 

 proposed, and when ratified by the Legislatures of 

 three-fourths of the States shall be valid to all in- 

 tents and purposes as part of the Constitution of the 

 United States : 



ARTICLE XIII. All national and State laws shall 

 be equally applicable to every citizen, and no dis- 

 crimination shall be made on account of race and 

 color. 



Mr. Broomall, of Pennsylvania, introduced a 

 joint resolution to alter the Constitution of the 

 United States, so as to base the representation 

 in Congress upon the number of electors, in- 

 stead of the population, of the several States ; 

 which was read a first and second time, and re- 

 ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 



