CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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The first session of the Forty-first Congress* 

 commenced at 12 M., March 4th. In the Senate, 

 Schuyler Colfax was qualified as Vice-President 

 of the United States, and took the chair. 



In the House, James G. Elaine was chosen 

 Speaker, he having received 135 votes, and 

 Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, 57 votes. 



In the Senate, on March 6th, the following 

 communication was received from President 

 Grant : 



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



SENATE. 



Alabama Willard Warner, George E. Spencer. 

 Arkansas Alexander McDonald, Benjamin F. Rice. 

 California Cornelius Cole, Eugene Casserly. 

 Connecticut William A. Buckingham, Orrin S. Ferry. 

 Delaware Thomas F. Bayard, Willard Saulsbury. 

 Florida Abijah Gilbert, Thomas W. Osborn. 

 Georgia Not admitted. 

 Illinois Lyman Trumbull, Richard Yates. 

 Indiana Oliver P. Morton, Daniel D. Pratt. 

 Iowa James W. Grimes, James Harlan. 

 Kansas Samuel C. Pomeroy, Edmund G. Ross. 

 Kentucky Garret Davis, Thomas C. McCreery. 

 Louisiana John S. Harris, William P. Kellogg. 

 Maine Hannibal Hamlin, William Pitt Fessenden. 

 Maryland William T. Hamilton, George Vickers. 

 Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson. 

 Michigan Zachariah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 

 Minnesota Alexander Ramsey, Daniel S. Norton. 

 Missouri Charles D. Drake, Carl Schurz. 

 Nebraska John M. Thayer, Thomas W. Tipton. 

 Nevada William M. Stewart, James W. Nye. 

 New Hampshire James W. Patterson, Aaron H. 



jfew Jersey Alexander G. Cattell, John P. Stockton. 



New York Roscoe Conkling, Reuben E. Fenton. 



North Carolina Joseph C. Abbott, John Pool. 



Ohio John Sherman, Allen G. Thurman. 



Oregon Henry W. Corbett, George H. Williams. 



Pennsylvania Simeon Cameron, John Scott. 



Rhode Island William Sprague, Henry B. Anthony. 



South Carolina Thomas J. Robertson, Frederick A. 

 Sawyer. 



Tennessee William G. Brownlow, J. S. Fowler. 



Vermont Justin S. Morrill, George F. Edmunds. 



West Virginia Arthur J. Boreman, Waitman T. Wil- 

 ley. 



Wisconsin Timothy O. Howe, Matthew H. Carpenter. 



Not admitted at this session. 



Mississippi, 



Virginia, 



Texas. 



HOUSE. 



Arkansas Logan H. Roots, Anthony A. C. Rogers, 

 Thomas Boles. 



Alabama Entitled to six members, but not yet elected. 

 California Samuel B. Axtell, Aaron A. Sargent, James 



A. Johnson. 



Connecticut Julius Strong, Stephen W. Kellogg, H. H. 

 Starkweather, William H. Barnum. 



Delaware Benjamin T. Biggs. 



Florida Charles M. Hamilton. 



Georgia Entitled to seven members, but no election 

 yet been held. 



Illinois John A. Logan, Norman B. Judd, John F. 

 Farnsworth, Elihu B. Washburne,* John B. Hawley, 

 Ebon C. Ingersoll, Burton C. Cook, Jesse H. Moore, 

 Shelby M. Cullom, T. W. McNeely. Albert G. Burr, Samuel 

 S. Marshall, John B. Hay, John M. Crebs. 



Indiana William E. Niblack, Michael C. Kerr, William 

 S. Holman, George W. Julian, John Coburn, Daniel W. 

 Voorhees, Godlove S. Orth, James M. Tyner, John P. C. 

 Shanks, William Williams, Jasper Packard. 



Iowa George W. McCrary, William Smyth, William 



B. Allison, William Loughridge, Francis W. Palmer, 

 Charles Pomeroy. 



Kansas Sidney Clarke. 



Kentucky Lawrence S. Trimble, William M. Sweeny, 

 Jacob S. Golladay, J. Proctor Knott, Boyd Winchester, 

 Thomas L. Jones, James B. Beck, George M. Adams, 

 John M. Rice. 



* Resigned, March. 6th. 



To the Senate of the United States : 



Since the nomination and confirmation of Alex- 

 ander T. Stewart to the office of Secretary of the 

 Treasury, I find that by the eighth section of the act 

 of Congress, approved September 2, 1789, it is pro- 

 vided as follows, to wit : 



'* And be it further enacted. That no person ap- 

 pointed to any office instituted by this act shall di- 

 rectly or indirectly be concerned or interested in 

 carrying on the business of trade or commerce, or be 

 owner in whole or in part of any sea-vessel, or pur- 

 chase, by himself or another in trust for him, any 



Louisiana I (vacancy), Lewis A. Sheldon, 3 (vacancy), 

 4 (vacancy), 5 (vacancy). 



Maine John Lynch, Samuel P. Morrill, James G. 

 Blame, John A. Peters, Eugene Hale. 



Maryland Samuel Hambleton, Stevenson Archer, 

 Thomas Swann, Patrick Hamill, Frederick Stone. 



Massachusetts James Buffinton, Oakes Ames, Ginery 

 Twichell, Samuel Hooper, Benjamin F. Butler, Nathaniel 

 P. Banks, George S. Boutwell,* George F. Hoar, William 

 B. Washburn, Henry L. Dawes. 



Michigan Fernando C. Beaman, William L. Stoughton, 

 Austin Blair, Thomas W. Ferry, Omar D. Conger, Ran- 

 dolph Strickland. 



Minnesota Morton S. Wilkinson, Eugene M. Wilson. 



Mississippi Entitled to five members, but no election. 



Missouri Erastus Wells, Gustavus A. Finkelburg, 

 James R. McCormick, S. H. iBoyd, Samuel S. Burdett, 

 Robert T. Van Horn, Joel F. Asper, John F. Benjamin, 

 David P. Dyer. 



Nebraska John Taffe. 



Nevada Thomas Fitch. 



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

 cob Benton. 



New Jersey William Moore, Charles Haight, John T. 

 Bird, John Hill, Orestes Cleveland. 



New York Henry A. Reeves, John G. Schumaker, 

 Henry W. Slocum, John Fox, John Morrissey, Samuel S. 

 Cox, Hervey C. Calkin, James Brooks, Fernando Wood, 

 Clarkson N. Potter, George W. Greene, John H. Ketcbam, 

 John A. Griswold, Stephen L. Mayham, Adolphus H. 

 Tanner, Orange Ferris, William A. Wheeler, Stephen 

 Sandford, Charles S. Knapp, Addison H. Laflin, Alex- 

 ander H. Bailey, John C. Churchill, Dennis McCarthy, 

 George W. Cowles, William H. Kelsey, Giles W. Hotch- 

 kiss, Hamilton Ward, Noah Davis, John Fisher, David S. 

 Bennett, Porter Sheldon. 



North Carolina Clinton L. Cobb, David Heaton, Oliver 

 H. Dockery, John T. Deweese, Israel G. Lash, Francis E. 

 Shober, Alexander H. Jones.t 



Ohio Peter W. Strader, Job E. Stevenson, Robert C. 

 Schenck, William Lawrence, William Mungen, John A. 

 Smith, James J. Winans, John Beatty, Edward F. Dickin- 

 son, Truman H. Hoag, John T. Wilson, Philip Van 

 Trump, George W. Morgan, Martin Welker, Eliakim H. 

 Moore, John A, Bingham, Jacob A. Ambler, William H. 

 Upson, James A. Garfield. 



Oregon Joseph S. Smith. 



Pennsylvania Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'Neill, 

 Leonard Myers, % William D. Kelley, John R. Reading, 

 John Stiles, Washington Townsend, J. Lawrence Getz, 

 Oliver J. Dickey, Henry L. Cake, Daniel M. Van Auken, 

 George W. Woodward, Ulysses Mercur, John B. Packer, 

 Richard J. Haldeman, John Cessna, Daniel J. Morrell, 

 William H. Armstrong, Glenni W. Scofield, Calvin W. 

 Gilfillan, 21 (vacancy), James S. Negley, Darwin Phelps, 

 Joseph B. Donley. 



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



South Carolina Benjamin F. Whittemore, C. C. Bowen, 

 S. D. Hoge, 4 (vacancy). 



Tennessee Roderick E. Butler, Horace Maynard, Wil- 

 liam B. Stokes. Lewis Tillman, William F. Prosser, 

 Samuel M. Arnell, Isaac R. Hawkins, W. J. Smith. 



Vermont Charles W. Willard, Luke P. Poland, Worth- 

 ington C. Smith. 



West Virginia Isaac H. Duvall, James C. McGrew, 

 John S. Witcher. 



Wisconsin Halbert E. Paine, Benjamin F. Hopkins, 

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

 walader C. Washburn. 



Not admitted at tltis session. 



Texas, 

 Virginia. 



* Resigned, March 12th. 



t Did not qualify. 



j In place of John Moffet, unseated. 



