CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



Tn tin- M<iu<e, ft motion was made to proceed 

 Mr. Mr. .oka, of New York, sir 



> Gi-orgo H. Williams, 1871 ; Henry W. Corbet t, 



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tOM.1871 : Sam'l 0. Pomoroy, 1873. 

 0. Van WliiL.li-, l-W; Waltinan T. 

 1871. 



.-vart.lSfiO; .Tames W.Nyp. 1878. 

 .11, 1861) ; John M. Tbayer, 1871. 



n o u 8 . 

 In the House the following members answered to their 



Miiint John Lynch, Sidney Perham, James 0. Blalnc, 

 Kr.-.I.-rl.-k A. 1'lke, John A. Peters. 



\,> credentlali presented. 

 ;'iv.lrriek E. Woodbndge, Worthington C. 

 Smith, I. nk<- S. l',,!:iM.l. 



,tt* Thomas T). Eliot, O.ikos Amos. Glncry 

 Twit.-h.-ll, Sumiirl Hiici|..-r, Benjamin F. Duller, Nathaniel 

 J. Houtwell, John D. Baldwin, William 

 15. Wa-libiirn, lli'iiry L. Dawes. 



\n credentials presented. 



r> iltnlials jirt'sented. 



York Stephen Tabcr, Demas Barnes, William 



inson, John Fox, John Morrlasey, Thomas E. Stow art, 



John W. (.'hauler, .lames Brooks, Fernando Wood, William 



!!. Kdbertsnn, (.'liarlos II. Van Wyck, John H. Ketchatn, 



ThiMiias ('..rnell, John V. T,. Pruyn, John A. Grlswold, 



Fi-rrK Calvin T. llulhurd, James M. Marvin, 



i C. Fluid.", Addisim H. Lailln. John C. Churchill, 



hy, Tlioodnr.' M. Pomeroy, William II. Kel- 



lliam 3. Lincoln, Hamilton Ward'. Lewis S.-lye, Burt 



V.ui Horn, .lames M. Humphrey, Hi-nry Van A< main. 



-William Moore, Charles llaight, Charles 

 'in Hill, Georpe A. Halsey. 



Pfnnmjlcanin Charles O'Neill, Leonard Myers, William 

 D. Kelley, Caleb N. Taylor, Benjamin M. Boyer, John M. 

 nee (ictz. Thaddcns Stevens, Henry L. 

 ! >aiiiel M. Van Auken, Charles Denison, Ulysses Mcr- 

 '.'. Miller, Adam J. Glossbrenm-r, William H. 

 . Dani.-l J. Morrill, Stephen F. Wilson, Glenn! W. 

 !. Darwin A. Kinney, Jolin Covode, James K. Moor- 

 :.ninas Williams. Georgo V. Lawrence. 

 J>, fiifi'/;' John A. Nicholson. 



Mnryliitiii Hiram McCnllough, Stevenson Archer, Chas. 

 I". Phefpe, Francis Thorns, Frederiek Stone. 



Ohio Benjamin Kir^U -.- t"ii. Rutherford B. llayef, Robert 

 C. Schenok, William 1-awrence, \Villlam Mungvn, Reader W. 

 Hr.banrer, Cornelius S. Hamilton, Ralph 

 P. Baokland, James M. Ashley, John T. Wilson, Philndelph 

 Van Tromp, George W. Morgan, Martin Welker, Tobias A. 

 Plants, John A. BIngham, Epuraim K. Eckley, Bufus P. 

 Bpaldiiic. .I.'!'M.-< A. liarfleld. 



'icJcy No crc<lentials presented. 

 <# No credentials presented. 



aw William K. Nlblack, Michael C. Kerr, Morton 

 C. Hunter. William S. Holman, George W. Julian, John Co- 

 l.nrn. ll.'iiry 1 >. Washb'urn., Godlove S. Orth, Schuylcr Col- 

 fav. William Williams, John P. C. Shanks. 



Hlhioix \orman 15. Judd, John F. Farnsworth, Abnor 

 ('. llanliii'.', Kbon C. Injrersoll, Burton C. Cook, Heurv P. H. 

 ISromuvll. >h. ll.y M. Cullom, Lewis W. Ross, Albert O. 

 r.nrr, Samuel S. Marshall, Jehu Baker, Green B. Raum, John 

 A. Logan. 



iirir- William A. Pile, Carman A. Newcomb, Thom- 

 as K. Noell, Joseph J. Gravely. Joseph W. McClnrr. 

 T. Van Horn, Benjamin F. Loan, John F. Benjamin, George 

 W. Anderson. 



./(/^/Fernando C. Bcaman, Charles Upson, Austin 

 Blair, Thomas W. Ferry, Rowland E. Trowbriage, John F. 



Tames F.Wilson, Illram Price. William B. Allison, 

 William L<Mi(,'lirid;,'i', (iranville M. l)odge, Asahel W. Hub- 

 b.ird. 



\YiMContin llallii-rt E. Paine, Benjamin F. Hopkins, 

 Aina.a Cobb, Charles A. Eldridge, Phlletus Sawyer, C. C. 

 Woshburn. 



.a in No credentials presented. 



William Wiudom. Ignatius Donnelly. 

 I\<itimix Siiliu-y Clarki-. 



II ' ' iiester D. Hubbard. Bethnel M. Kitchen, 



Polaley. 



Hr. 



/,-</ No i-n-dcntials presented. 



The followlnr members failed to answer to their names: 

 Ellhu B. Washbnrne, of Illinois ; Samuel J. Randall, of IVnn- 

 Mallory, of Oregon. 



I observe in calling the roll tlu-n- are sixteen 



; St.-it.--. MX ,,)' which huve bcenral 

 the Clc-rk, hut. lia\c in. r.-|u-.-, ntntii.u iij- 

 floor of thi> 1 1. HI-.-, iiiid tc-ii of wljidi, altl 

 upon tin- list, have not been called hy the 

 Clerk. 



"Mr. Clerk, twenty States are about to pro- 

 coed to the organization of this House- iu the 

 niid-t of ;i cri-is, ny, in the midst of a revolution 

 civil I hope it is to be the very (rr.v. 

 has ever been the fortune, or the misfortune of 

 our country rather, to pass through. Of the 

 original States, there are now absent, of the 

 thirteen original States which framed the Con- 

 stitution of the United States, the work of our 

 fathers seven of these original tuirteen have 

 no Representatives upon tlje floor of this House. 



" My attention has been called to the fact that 

 there are precedents which authorize not alone 

 this extra, but this very extraordinary convoca- 

 tion of the Congress of the United States, but 

 there are no precedents in our political history 

 which justify the assembling and organization of 

 this House while so large a number of - 

 are absent, and with so short a notice given to 

 the absent States, with the power and right to 

 be represented here. 



" Sir, there are those who believe this is not 

 as thus assembled a legal, constitutional Con- 

 gress. I am not lawyer enough to pronounce 

 an opinion upon that point. I do not believe it 

 to be a dejure Congress, nor that this .is a dc 

 jure Government created by this Congress; but 

 I recognize it as a de facto Congress, if not de 

 jure, and therefore I obey its authority as I 

 would the authority of a de facto government 

 if I were under the dominion of the Turk, the 

 Tartar, the Comanche, the Ojibway, or the 

 Potawattomie. I respect authority wherever it 

 may be presented. I bow to the omnipotence 

 of force, and entertaining these views, which 

 are concurred in by those who act with me on 

 party questions, wo bow, but while we bow, we 

 have prepared a solemn protest against any fur- 

 ther revolutionary action upon the part of this 

 House until a full Congress is assembled. 



" And now, Mr. Clerk, I will proceed to read 

 the protest, which, in due time, I shall ask to 

 have entered upon the Journal of the Honse, 

 airaiust any further action of this House of Rep- 

 resentatives until an organization can be prop- 

 erly and legally effected : " 



Whereat, it appears by the record just rend that 

 the following States, seventeen in number, are not 

 now represented upon the floor of this House ; the 

 States of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecti- 

 cut, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, California, Arkansas, 

 and Nebraska States entitled by the act of Congress 

 of March 4th, 18i5'2, and subsequent acts, to n 

 sentotiori. in Congress as follows, namely : New 

 Hampshire, three Representatives ; Rhode Island, 

 two Representatives: Connecticut, four Repn- 

 tives ; Virginia, eight Representatives; Noiih 

 Una, seven Representatives; South Carolina, four 

 Representatives; Georgia, seven Represent./ 

 Florida, one Representative; Alabama, six Represent- 



