252 CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



A motion was now made and passed to strike 

 out the last clause of the amendment ; where- 

 upon Mr. Trumbull offered as amendment to 

 the amendment his original proposition, which 

 was as follows 



Sec, . And be it furtJier enacted, That no person 

 exercising or performing, or undertaking to exercise 

 or perform, the duties of any office which by law is 

 required to be filled by the advice and consent of the 

 Senate, shall before confirmation by the Senate re- 

 ceive any salary or compensation for his services, 

 unless such person be commissioned by the Presi- 

 dent to fill up a vacancy which has happened by 

 death, resignation, or expiration of term, during the 

 recess of the Senate and since its last adjournment. 



This was agreed to. An extended debate 

 now ensued on the policy of the Administra- 

 tion, etc., in which Messrs. Wilson of Massa- 

 chusetts, Cowan of Pennsylvania, Doolittle of 

 Wisconsin, and others engaged. Subsequently 

 the amendment was rejected by the following 

 vote : 



YKAS Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Harris, 

 Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Mor- 

 rill, Nye, Pomeroy, Eamsey, Sprague, Sumner, 

 Trumbull, and Wade 16. 



NATS Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Dayis, Dixon, 

 Doolittle, Edmunds, Fessenden, Foster, Guthrie, 

 Johnson, Lane of Kansas, McDougall, Morgan, Nes- 

 mith, Norton, Poland, Kiddle, Saulsbury, Sherman, 

 Stewart, Van Winkle, Willey, and Wilson 23. 



ABSENT Messrs. Brown, Conness, Cragin, Cres- 

 well, Grimes, Hendricks, Kirkwood, Williams, 

 Wright, and Yates 10. 



In the House, on May 7th, Mr. Julian, of 

 Indiana, offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee be in- 

 structed to inquire into the expediency of reporting 

 a bill providing that hereafter the elective franchise 

 shall not be denied or abridged in any of the Terri- 

 tories of the United States on account of race or 

 color; and providing further, and thereby giving 

 notice of the fact, that henceforward no State which 

 the people of any of said Territories may organize 

 shall be admitted into the Union whose constitution 

 shall sanction such denial or abridgment of the elec- 

 tive franchise. 



A motion was made to lay it on the table, 

 which was lost by the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Delos R. Ashley, Boyer, Coffroth, 

 Dawson, Delano, Denison, Eldridge, Finck, Gloss- 

 brenner, Grider, Griswold, Aaron Harding, James R. 

 Hubbell, Kerr, Latham, Le Blond, Marshall, Newell, 

 Niblack, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, William H. 

 Randall, Raymond, Rogers, Shanklin, Sitgreaves, 

 Taylor, Thornton, and Whaley 29. 



NATS Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, 

 James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Baxter, Beaman, 

 Benjamin, Bid well, Bingham, Boutwell, Bromwell, 

 Broomall, Buckland, Reader W. Clark, Conkling, 

 Cook, Cullom, Deming, Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, 

 Dumont, Eckley, Eliot, Farnsworth, Ferry, Garfield, 

 Abner C. Harding, Hart, Henderson, Holmes, 

 Hooper, Asahel W. Hubbard, Jenckes, Julian, Kas- 

 son, Ketcham, Laflin, "William Lawrence, Longyear, 

 Lynch, McClurg, McKee, McRuer, Mercur, Miller, 

 Morrill, Morris, Myers, O'Neill, Paine, Perham, Pike, 

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

 Schofield, Stevens, Francis Thomas, Trowbridge, 

 Upson, Van Aernam, Warner, Elihu B. Washburne, 

 Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, 

 Williams, James F. Wilson, Windom, and Wood- 

 bridge 76. 



CONNECTICUT. 



The resolution was then adopted. The ses- 

 sion of Congress closed on July 28th. Three 

 hundred and eighteen acts and one hundred 

 and eight resolutions were passed. Those re- 

 lating to the finances of the Government, tax- 

 ation, the system of weights and measures, etc., 

 are noticed elsewhere iu this volume. 



CONNECTICUT. The political canvass in 

 this State commenced early in the year, and, from 

 causes unconnected with local questions or is- 

 sues, assumed toward its close an interest and 

 importance which fixed upon it the attention 

 of the whole country. On February 7th, the 

 Democrats met in convention at Hartford, to 

 nominate candidates for Governor and other 

 State officers. Origen S. Seymour, who had 

 been the candidate of the party for Governor at 

 the two previous elections, declined a renomi- 

 nation ; and lest this act should be imputed to a 

 change of views by him, he announced in a let- 

 ter to the convention that, in his judgment, 

 " the position of the Democratic party on all the 

 great questions of the day was never more satis- 

 factory than at present." "We are all, I take 

 it," he added, " for preserving the Constitution 

 as it is ; for healing the wounds of the Union ; 

 and for treating every part of our common 

 country with fairness and justice. We are, 1 

 suppose, united in opposition to the section 

 alism of the party in power in opposition to 

 the assaults by that party upon the Constitu- 

 tion, and in opposition to the recent outrage 

 by that party, in Congress, upon the sacred right 

 of representation." The convention nominated 

 for Governor, James E. English, who had rep- 

 resented the second Congressional district in 

 the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congress, 

 and had voted for the Constitutional Amendment 

 abolishing slavery; for Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Ephraim H. Hyde ; for Secretary of State, Jesse 

 Olney ; for Treasurer, Heman H. Barbour ; and 

 for Comptroller, Thomas II. C. Kingsbury. The 

 resolutions adopted by the convention affirmed 

 that Congress possesses no power under the 

 Constitution to determine who shall be eligible 

 to the right of suffrage, and that any attempt 

 to force upon the people of a State a class of 

 inhabitants as citizens and voters is a violation 

 of the spirit and letter of the Constitution, and 

 an infringement of State rights; that the States 

 which attempted to secede were never out of 

 the Union, and having recently declared null 

 and void their pretended acts of secession, and 

 expressed their devotion to the Union and the 

 Constitution, are of right entitled to all the 

 privileges and powers of States belonging to 

 and exercised by them previous to their at- 

 tempted secession; that the late Confederate 

 States, having adopted the amendment to the 

 Constitution abolishing slavery, and the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States having, in conse- 

 quence, recognized said States, any attempt by 

 Congress to prevent the representation of such 

 States in the national councils is " deserving of 

 the severest reprehension of the people of each 

 and every State; " and that "the distinguished 



