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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. The 

 third session of the Fortieth Congress * com- 

 menced on December 7, 1868. (For the Presi- 

 dent's Message, see PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, Ax- 

 NUAL CYCLOPEDIA, 1868.) 



Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, was President 

 pro tern, of the Senate, and Schuyler Colfax, 

 of Indiana, Speaker of the House. 

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



SENATE. 



Alabama Willard Warner, George E. Spencer. 

 Arkansas Alexander McDonald, Benjamin F. Rice. 

 California Cornelius Cole, John Conness. 

 CWwettCT^-Janies Dixon, Orrin S. Ferry. 

 2kknoare3&mea A. Bayard, Willard Saulsbury. 

 Florida Adoniiah S. Welch, Thomas W. OB born. 

 Georgia Not admitted. 

 Illinois Lyman Trumbull, Eichard Yates. 

 Indiana, Oliver P. Morton, Thomas A. Hendricks. 

 Iowa James W. Grimes, James Harlan. 

 Kansas Samuel C. Pomeroy, Edmund C. Ross. 

 Kentucky Garret Davis, Thomas C. McCreery. 

 Louisiana John S. Harris, William P. Kellogg. 

 Maine Lot M. Morrill, William Pitt Fessenden. 

 Maryland William Pinkney Whyte, George Vickers. 

 Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Henry Wflson. 

 Michigan Zachariah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 

 Minnesota Alexander Ramsey, Daniel S. Norton. 

 Missouri Charles D. Drake, John B. Henderson. 

 Nebraska John M. Thayer, Thomas W. Tipton. 

 Nevada -William M. Stewart, James W. Nye. 

 New Hampshire James W. Patterson, Aaron H. 



New' Jersey Alexander G. Cattell, Frederick T. Fre- 

 linghuysen. 



New ForJfc Roscoe Conkling, Edwin D. Morgan. 



North Carolina Joseph C. Abbott, John Poor. 



Ohio John Sherman, Benjamin F. Wade. 



Oregon Henry W. Corbett, George H. Williams. 



Pennsylvania Simeon Cameron, Charles R. Buckalew. 



Rhode Island William Sprague, Henry B. Anthony. 



South Carolina Thomas J. Robertson, Frederick A. 

 Sawyer. 



Tennessee David D. Patterson, J. S. Fowler. 



Vermont Justin S. Morrill, George F. Edmunds. 



West Virginia Peter G. Van Winkle, Waitman T. 

 Willey. 

 . Wisconsin Timothy O. Howe, James R. Doolittle. 



Not admitted, at this session. 

 Mississippi William L. Sharkey, J. L. Alcorn. 

 Virginia John C. Underwood, Joseph Segar. 

 Texas David G. Burnett, O. M. Roberts. 



Alabama Francis W. Kellogg, Charles W. Buckley, 

 Benjamin W. Norris, Charles W. Pierce, John B. Callis, 

 Thomas Haughey. 



Arkansas Eagan W. Roots, J. F. Elliott, Thomas 

 Boles. 



California Samuel B. Axtell, William Higby, James 



A. Johnson. 



Connecticut Richard D. Hubbard, Julius Hotchkiss, 

 Henry H. Starkweather. William H. Barnum. 



Delaware John A. Nicholson. 



Florida Charles M. Hamilton. 



Georgia- J. W. Clift, Nelson Tift, William P. Edwards, 

 Samuel F. Gove, Charles H. Prince, John H. Christy, P. 

 M. B. Young. 



Illinois Norman B. Judd, John F. Farnsworth, Elihu 



B. Washburne, Abner C. Harding, Ebon C. Ingersoll, 

 Burton C. Cook, Henry P. H. Bromwell, Shelby M. Cul- 

 lotn, Lewis W. Ross, Albert G. Burr, Samuel S. Marshall 

 Jehu Baker, Green B. Raum ; at large, John A. Logan. 



//uftana-Wtlliam D. Niblack, Michael C. Kerr, Morton 



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

 Cobum, Henry D. Washburn, Godlove S. Orth, Schuyler 

 Colfax, William Williams, John P. C. Shanks'. 



7<H0a--Jaine8 F. Wilson, Hiram Price, William B. Alii- 

 son, William Loughridge, Granville M. Dodge, Asahel W. 

 Hnbbard. 



Kansas Sidney Clarke. 



Kentucky Lawrence S. Trimble (vacancy), Jacob S. 

 Golladay, J. Proctor Knott, Asa P. Grover, Thomas L. 

 Jones, James B. Beck, George M. Adams. Samuel McKee. 



Louisiana J. Hale Sypher (vacancy), Joseph P. New- 

 Bham, Michael Vidal, W. Jasper Blackburn. 



In the Senate, on December 7th, Mr. Cragin, 

 of New Hampshire, offered the following as 

 an amendment to the Constitution : 



ARTICLE . No State shall deny the right of suf- 

 fra^e or abridge the same to any male citizen of the 

 United States twenty-one years of age and upward, 

 except for participation in rebellion or other crime, 

 and excepting also Indians not taxed ; but any; State 

 may exact of such citizen a specific term of residence 



Maine John Lynch, Sidney Perham, James G. Blaine, 

 John A. Peters, Frederick A. Pike. 



Mainland Hiram McCullough, Stevenson Archer, 

 Charles E. Phelps, Francis Thomas, Frederick Stone. 



Massachusetts Thomas D. Eliot, Oakes Ames, Ginery 

 Twichell, Samuel Hooper, Benjamin F. Butler, Nathaniel 

 P. Banks, George S. Boutwell, John D. Baldwin, William 

 B. Washburn, Henry L. Dawes. 



Michigan Fernando C. Beaman, Charles TTpson, Aus- 

 tin Blair, Thomas W. Ferry, Rowland E. Trowbridge, 

 John F. Driggs. 



Minnesota William Windom, Ignatius Donnelly. 



Missouri William A. Pile, Carman A. Newcomb, 

 James R. McCormick, Joseph J. Gravelly, John H. 

 Stover, Robert T. Van Horn, Benjamin F. Loan, John F. 

 Benjamin, George W. Anderson. 



Nebraska -John Taffe. 



Nevada Delos R. Ashley. 



New Hampshire Jacob H. Ela, Aaron F. Stevens, Ja- 

 cob Benton. 



New Jersey William Moore, Charles Haight, Charles 

 Sitgreaves, John Hill, George A. Halsey. 



New York Stephen Taber, Demas Barnes, William 

 E. Robinson, John Fox, John Morrissey, Thomas E. 

 Stewart, John W. Chanter, James Brooks, Fernando 

 Wood, William H. Robertson, Charles H. Van Wyck, 

 John H. Ketcham, Thomas Cornell, John V. L. Pruyn, 

 John A. Griswold, Orange Ferris, Calvin T. Hulburd, 

 James M. Marvin, William C. Fields, Addison H. Laflin, 

 Alexander H. Bailey, John C. Churchill, Dennis Mc- 



Carthy, Theodore M. Pomeroy, William H. Kelsey, Wil- 

 S. Lincoln, Hamilton Ward, Lewis Selye, Burt Van 



liam 



Horn, James M. Humphrey, Henry Van Aernam. 



North Carolina S. R. French, David Heaton, O. H. 

 Dockery, J. T. Dewees, Israel G. Leash, Nathaniel Boy- 

 den, A. H. Jones. 



Ohio Benjamin Eggleston, Samuel F. Carey, Robert 

 C. Schenck, William Lawrence, William Mungen, Reader 

 W. Clarke, Samuel Shellabarger, John Beatty, Ralph P. 

 Buckland, James M. Ashley, John T. Wilson, Philadelph 

 Van Trump, Columbus Delano, Martin Welker, Tobias 



A. Plants, John A. Bingham, Ephraim R. Eckley, Rufus 

 P. Spalding, James A. Garfleld. 



Oregon -Rufus Mallory. 



Pennsylvania Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'Neill, 

 Leonard Myers, William D. Kelley, Caleb N. Taylor, 

 Benjamin M. Boyer, John M. Broomall, J. Lawrence 

 Getz, O. J. Dickey, Henry L. Cake, Daniel M. Van 

 Auken, George W. Woodward, Ulysses Mercur, George 

 F. Miller, Adam J. Glossbrenner, William H. Koontz, 

 Daniel J. Morrell, Stephen F. Wilson, Glenni W. Scofield, 

 S. Newton Pettis, John Covode, James K. Moorhead, 

 Thomas Williams, George V. Lawrence. 



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



South Carolina B. F. Whittemore.C. C. Bowen, Simon 

 Corley, James H. Goss, J. P. M. Epping, E. H. Dickson. 



Tennessee Robert E. Butler, Horace Maynard, William 



B. Stokes. James Mullins, John Trimble, Samuel M. Ar- 

 nell, Isaac R. Hawkins, David A. Nunn. 



Vermont Frederick E. Woodbridge, Luke P. Poland, 

 Worthington C. Smith. 



West Virginia Chester D. Hubbard, Bethuel M. Kitch- 

 en, Daniel Polsley. 



Wisconsin Halbert E. Paine, Benjamin F. Hopkins, 

 Amasa Cobb, Charles A. Eldridge, Philetus Sawyer, Cad- 

 walader C. Washburn. 



Not admitted at this session. 



Texas- 

 Virginia 



Delegates from the Territories. 

 Arizona Coles Bashford. 

 Colorado George M. Chilcott. 

 Dakota Walter A. Burleigh. 

 Idaho E. D. Holbrook. 

 Montana James M. Cavanagh. 

 New Mexico Charles P. Clever. 

 Utah William H. Hooper. 

 Washington Alvan Flanders. 



