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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. The third 

 session of the Forty-first Congress* commenced 

 at Washington on December 5, 1870. (For the 

 President's message, see PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, 

 ANNUAL CYCLOPEDIA, 1870.) The Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Schuyler Colfax, presided in the Senate, 

 and James G. Blame presided as Speaker of 

 the House. 



In the House, on December 7th, Mr.^fungen, 

 of Ohio, offered the following resolution: 



Whereas, The President of the United States, in his 

 annual message to Congress, on the 5th day of this 

 month, says : ? ' I now firmly believe that, the moment 



* The following 5s a list of the members of Congress : 



8 ENATE. 



Alabama Willard Warner, George E. Spencer. 



Arkansas Alexander McDonald, Benjamin F. Eicc. 



California Cornelius Cole, Eugene Casserly. 



Connecticut William A. Buckingham, Orrin S. Ferry. 



Delaware Thomas F. Bayard, Willard Saulsbury. 



Florida Abijah Gilbert, Thomas W. Osboru. 



Georgia Joshua Hill, H. V. M. Miller. 



Illinois Lyman Trumbull, Richard Yates. 



Indiana Oliver P. Morton, Daniel D. Pratt. 



Iowa James B. Howell, James Harlan. 



Kansas Samuel C. Pomeroy, Edmund G. Ross. 



Kentucky Garret Davi?, Thomas C. McCreery. 



Louisiana John S. Harris, William P. Kellogg. 



Jfofcw Hannibal Hamlin, Lot M. Morrill. 



Maryland William T. Hamilton, George Vickers. 



Massachusetts Charles Sumner, Henry^Wilson. 



Michigan Zachariah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard. 



Minnesota Alexander Ramsey, Ozora P. Stearns. 



Mississippi Hiram H. Revels, Adelbert Ames. 



Missouri Francis P. Blair, jr., Carl Schurz. 



Nebraska John M. Thayer, Thomas W. Tipton. 



Nevada William M. Stewart, James W. Nye. 



New Hampshire James W. Patterson, Aaron H. 

 Cragin. 



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



New York Roscoe Conkling, Reuben E. Fenton. 



North Carolina Joseph C. Abbott, John Pool. 



OMo John Sherman, Allen G. Thurman. 



Oregon Henry W. Corbett, Geo-ge H. Williams. 



Pennsylvania Simon Cameron, John Scott. 



Rhode Island William Spragne. 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. 



Virginia- John W. Johnston, John F. Lewis. 



West Virginia Arthur J. Boreman, Waitman T. Willey. 



Wisconsin Timothy O. Howe, Matthew H. Carpenter. 



Texas Morgan C. Hamilton, James W. Flanagan. 



HOUSE. 



Alabama Alfred E. Buck, Charles W. Buckley, Robert 

 S. Heflin, Charles Hays, Peter M. Dox, Wm. C. Sherrod. 



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

 Thomas Bolos. 



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

 A. Johnson. 



Connecticut 3v\ms Strong, Stephen W. Kellogg, H. H. 

 Starkweather, William H. Barnum. 



Delaware Benjamin T. Biggs. 



Florida Charles M. Hamilton. 



Georgia W. W. Paine, Nelson Tift, Marion Bethune, 

 Jefferson F. Long, S. H. Cosker, W. T. Price, P. M. B. 

 Young. 



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

 Farnsworth, Horatio C. Burchard, 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 P. Wolf, William B. 

 Allison, William Longhridge, Francis W. Palmer, Charles 

 Pomeroy. 



Kansas Sidney Clarke. 



Kentucky Lawrence S. Trimble, William N. Sweeny, 

 Joseph H. Lewis, J. Proctor Knott, Boyd Winchester, 

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

 John M. Rice. 



it is known that the United States have entirely 

 abandoned the project of accepting as a part of its 

 territory the island of San Domingo, a free port will 

 be negotiated for by European powers in the bay of 

 Samana;" and whereas .President Monroe, in his 

 seventh annual message of December 2, 1823, set 

 forth certain principles of action since known as the 

 "Monroe doctrine," which principles have met with 



general acceptance among the people of the United 

 3, and which principles declared that we should 



States, 



consider any attempt on the part of European pow- 

 ers to extend their system of government to any por- 

 tion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace 

 and safety, and that we could not view their inter- 

 position for the purpose of oppressing or controlling 



Louisiana J. H. Sypher, Lionel A. Sheldon, C. B. Dar- 

 rall. Joseph P. Newsham, Frank Morey. 



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

 Blaine, John A. Peters, Eugene Hale. 



Maryland Samuel Hambleton, Stevenson Archer, 

 Thomas Swann, Patrick Hamill, Frederick Stone. 



Massachusetts James Bufflnton, Oakes Ames, Ginery 

 Twichell, Samuel Hooper, Benjamin F. Butler, Nathaniel 

 P. Banks, George M. Brooks, George F. Hoar, William 



B. Washburn, Henry L. Davves. 



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 George E. Harris, J. L. Morphis, Henry \V. 

 Barry, George C. McKee, Learrand W. Perce. 



Missouri Erastus Wells, "Gustavus A. Finkelnburg, 

 James R. McCormick, S. H. Boyd, Samuel S. Burdeit, 

 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, 

 Jacob 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, 

 ClarksonN. Potter, Chas. H.Van Wyck, John H. Ketcham, 

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

 Tanner, Orange Ferris, William A. Wheeler, Stephen 

 Sanford, Charles 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, Charles H. Holmes, John Fisher, 

 David S. Bennett, Porter Sheldon. 



North Carolina Clinton L. Cobb. Joseph Dixon. Oliver 

 H. Dockery. John Manning, jr., Israel G. Lash, Francis 

 E. Shober, Alexander H. Jones. 



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

 Schenck, William Lawrence, William Mungen, John A. 

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

 inson, Erasmus D. Peck. John T. Wilson, Philadelph 

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

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

 H. Upson, James A. Garfleld. 



OregonJoseph S. Smith. 



Pennsylvania Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'Neill, 

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

 JohnD. Stiles, Washington Townsenri. 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, John Covode, James S. Negley, Darwin Phelps, 

 Joseph B. Donlcy. 



Jthode Island Thomas A. Jenckes. Nathan F. Dixon. 



South Carolina C. C. Bowen, S. D. Hoge, Alexander 

 S. Wallace, Joseph H. Rainey. 



Tennessee Roderick R. Butler, Horace Maynard, Wil- 

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

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



Texas G. W. Whitmore, John C. Conner, W. T. Clark, 

 Edward Degener. 



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

 ing/ on C. Smith. 



Virginia Richard S. Ayer, James H. Platt, Jr., Charles 

 II. Porter, George W. Booker, R. T. W. Duke, William 

 Milnes, Jr., Lewis McKenzie. James K. Gibson. 



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

 John S. Witcher. 



Wisconsin Halbert E. Paine, David Atwood, Amasa 

 Cobb, Charles A. Eldridge. Philetus Sawyer, Cadwalader 



C. Washburn. 



