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EMridge, Finck, Glossbrcnncr, Oridcr, Aaron Hanl- 



M, Kilwin V. JInMx'll James M. 



l!u!ti;'!:iv , KI-IT, Le Blond, Marshall, McCullough, 



Nililack, Nioholson, Nm-ll, Samuel J. Riiml:>ll, Kiti-T, 



Slniukliii, Sit^renves, 



.!jor, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble, and 



Wright 8. 



VOTIXO Messrs. Ancona, Bergen, Bnckland, 

 Culver, P.-nisoii, Goodyear, Hulburd, Johnson, 

 Jones, Radford, Sloan, Voorhccs, and Winfield 13. 



Tliis amendment was reported Imck on F 



rtiary 8th, from the Committee on the Judiciary 



>m it had hecn committed in the Senate. 



Mr. Tnunbull, of Illinois, stated, that it con- 

 si-trd of the Senate bill verlatitn with a few 

 tions. These limited the operation of the 

 bureau to those sections of the country within 

 which the writ of habeas corpus was suspended 

 on February 1, 1866, being tho insurrectionary 

 States and Kentucky. It had no operation ex- 

 cept where there were freodmen. It limited the 

 number of clerks and their pay ; and forbade 

 the purchase of land, except with special appro- 

 priations made by Congress. These limitations 

 constituted the chief features of tho House bill, 

 in which the Committee recommended the Sen- 

 ate to concur with a few exceptions, tho effect 

 of which waa to remove tho limitation of the 

 operations of tho bureau to certain sections of 

 tho country. This report was concurred in by 

 the Senate, and subsequently approved by tho 

 House. 



On February 19th, the President sent to the 

 Senate a message with his objections to tho bill. 

 (See PCBLIO DOCTTMENTB.) 



On motion of Mr. Lane, of Indiana, the con- 

 sideration of the message was postponed until 

 the next day, when tho message was discussed 

 by Messrs. Davis of Kentucky, Trumbull of Il- 

 linois, and Willey, of West Virginia. The vote 

 was then taken on the passage of the bill, the 

 objections of tho President to the contrary not- 

 withstanding, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, 

 Conncss, Cragin, Creswell, Fessenden, Foster, 

 Grimes, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kirk- 

 wood, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Nye, 

 Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sum- 

 ner, Trutnbull, Wade, Williams, Wilsou, and Yates 

 30. 



NATS Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, 

 Doolittle, Guthrie, Hendricks, Johnson, McDougall, 

 Morgan, Nesmith, Norton, Kiddie, Saulsbury, Stew- 

 urt, Stockton, Van Winkle, an.l Willey IS. 



ABSENT Messrs. Foot and Wright ^2. 



Two-thirds of the members present not hav- 

 ing voted for tho bill, it failed to become a law. 



In tho House, on May 22d, Mr. Eliot, of 

 Massachusetts, from tho select Committee on 

 Frecdruen's Affairs, reported a bill entitled " An 

 act to i-staMish a Bureau for the relief ofFrecd- 

 men and Refugees, and for other purposes." 

 Subsequently Mr. Eliot explained that the bill 

 continued the bureau for tho term of two years, 

 and provided that its care should be extended 

 to ail loyal refugees and freedmen. Other sec- 

 tions changed the objectionable features of the 

 previous act, and also embodied the provisions 

 of the Civil Ilights bill. lie then proceeded to 



examine the existing law, and to show that 

 more protc-rti in was necessary. Several amend- 

 in, -iits were offered and adopted, when the bill 

 passed by the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, Delos R. 

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

 Baxter, Bosnian, Bidwcll, Blaine, Broniwell, Buck- 

 land, Reader W. Clark, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, 

 Cook, Cullom. Dawes, Defrees, Deming, Dixon, 

 Dodge, Donnelly, Dumont, Eckley, Eggleston, Kliut, 

 Fai<|iihar, Ferry, Garfield, Abner C. Ilardinjr. Hart, 

 Ili'inlrrscni, BlgDJ, ll'ilmr-;. Hooper, Asahel W. Hub- 

 bard, Chester D. Hubbard, Demas Hubbard, John 

 II. Ifubhard, James R. Uubbell, Ingersoll, Jenckes, 

 Julian, Kelley, Latham, George V. Lawrence, Wil- 

 liam Lawrence, Loan, Longyear, Lynch. Marston, 

 McClurg, McKue, McRuer, Mercur, Moorhead, Mor- 

 rill, Morris, Myers, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Patterson, 

 Perham, Pike, Plants, Price, Alexander H. Rice, 

 John H.Rice, Rollins, Sawyer, Schenck, Schofield, 

 Shellabarger, Sloan, Starr, Stevens. Stillwell, 

 Thayer, Francis Thomas, Trowbridge, Upson, Van 

 Aernam, Burt Van Horn, Ward, Henry D. Wasbburn, 

 William B. Washburn, Welkcr, Whaley, William*, 

 James F. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, and Wood- 

 bridge 96. 



NATS Messrs. Ancpna, Bergen, Chanler, Darling, 

 Davis, Dawson, Eldridge, Glossbrenner, Goodyear, 

 Grider, Hale, Aaron Harding, Hogan, Edwin N. 

 Hubbell, James M. Humphrey, Kuykendall, Lo 

 Blond, Marshall, Marvin, McCuIlouirh, Niblack, Nich- 

 olson, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, Raymond, Hit- 

 ter, Ross, Sitgreaves, Strouse, Taylor, Trimble, and 

 Wright 32. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Alley, Barker, Benjamin, 

 Bingham, Blow, Boutwell, Boyer, Brandagce, 

 Broomall, Bundy, Coffroth, Conkling, Culver, De- 

 lano, Denison, Driggs, Farnsworth, Finck, Grinnell, 

 Griswoldj Harris, Hayes, Hill, Hotchkiss, Hulburd, 

 James Humphrey, Johnson, Jones, Kasson, Kelso, 

 Kerr, Ketcham, Laflin, Mclndoe, Miller, Moulton, 

 Noell, Phelps, Pomeroy, William H. Randall, Rogers, 

 Rousseau, Shanklin, Smith, Spalding, Tabor, John 

 L. Thomas, Thornton, Robert T. Vanllorn, Warner, 

 Eilhu B. Washburne, Wentworth, Windom, and 

 Winfield 55. 



On June 26th the bill came up for consider- 

 ation in the Senate. Some amendments were 

 proposed by Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, and 

 adopted, the u*ost important of which was to 

 strike out the sixth section of the bill and in- 

 sert seven others, relating to lands in South 

 Carolina and Georgia, occupied under tho order 

 of General Sherman. On a motion to limit the 

 number of officers and their pay 



Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, said: "The ques- 

 tion now is whether the commissioner shall 

 have the power to appoint as many clerks and 

 agents as he pleases ; and I did not think that 

 the Senator was happy in meeting that particu- 

 lar point. He says that the salary is fixed. I 

 say to the Senator that tho salary is not fixed. 

 The number is not defined, and the salary is not 

 fixed. This bill provides that the clerks and 

 agents snail not receive less than $500 nor more 

 than $1,200 ; but if the commissioner chooses, 

 ho may give to one man $5UO and to another 

 man $1,200 for doing the very same thing." 



'Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, followed, say- 

 ing : " I take it we would all agree with the Sena- 

 tor from Indiana and fix the number of officers 

 and define their pay if it was in our power to do 

 so ; but we do not know precisely the number o* 



