CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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President of the United States ' be the order 

 of the day, why is it that the Senator from 

 Massachusetts alone is assaulted, and all those 

 who concurred with him in opposing the rati- 

 fication of the treaty and now concur with him 

 in opposition to this resolution, members of 

 the Kepublican party, Republican Senators, 

 are left without assault, and that no scalp of 

 theirs is taken from their heads ? 



" You are hurrying this thing so that the 

 subject may be acted upon before the 4th of 

 March next ; and the question is, are you pre- 

 pared to bring in as one of the States of this 

 Union one hundred and twenty thousand peo- 

 ple, not one hundred of whom can speak the 

 English language ; not one hundred of whom 

 are white; not one out of ten thousand of 

 whom, perhaps, can read in any language or 

 ever had any education that could be called 

 education at all? And when I speak of edu- 

 cation, I do not speak simply of the education 

 that is derived from books. There are thou- 

 sands of men in the United States who are 

 educated on the subject of government suffi- 

 ciently to be safe depositaries of the right to 

 vote. Your juries educate them; your courts 

 educate them; your stump-speeches educate 

 them ; the debates in your legislative bodies 

 educate them ; and thousands and thousands 

 of intelligent men, fully competent to judge 

 of public affairs and to cast intelligent votes 

 in the United States, are unable either to read 

 or to write. But there has not been any such 

 education as this in Dominica ; nothing of the 

 kind. It has been a land of throes and con- 

 vulsions ever since the foreign rule was at an 

 end; ever since it has been an independent 

 country, with no civil order, no regular gov- 

 ernment, none of the education that attends a 

 man in the United States from the time he can 

 speak and understand until he is laid away in 

 his grave; nothing of. that kind, but rather a 

 volcano of human passions and a river of hu- 

 man blood. That kind of people are the popu- 

 lation there ; and the question is whether here, 

 this day, you are willing to take one hundred 

 and twenty thousand of such people and make 

 them the members of a State in this republic? " 



The question being taken on the motion to 

 refer, it was lost yeas 13 ; nays 31. 



On the adoption of the resolution, the vote 

 was: 



YEAS Messrs. Abbott. Ames, Brownlow, Carpen- 

 ter, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Ed- 

 munds, Flanagan, Hamilton of Texas, Hamhn, Har- 

 lan, Howe, Howell, Morton, Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy, 

 Pool, Eamsey, Eevels, Eoss, Sawyer, Scott, Sherman, 

 Stewart, Thayer, Warner, Willey, and Williams 32. 



NAYS Messrs. Casserly, McCreery, Morrill of Ver- 

 mont, Patterson, Schurz, Stockton, Sumner, Thur- 

 man, and Tipton 9. 



ABSENT. Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Boreman, 

 Buckingham, Cameron, Cattell, Davis, Fenton, Fer- 

 ry, Fowler, Gilbert, Hamilton of Maryland, Harris, 

 Howard, Johnston, Kellogg, Lewis, McDonald, Mor- 

 rill of Maine, Pratt, Eice, Eobertson, Saulsbury. Spen- 

 cer, Sprague, Trumbull, Vickers, "Wilson, Windom, 

 and Yatea 80. 



. So the joint resolution was passed. 



In the House, on January 9th, on motion of 

 Mr. Orth, of Indiana, the joint resolution was 

 considered. 



Mr. Ambler, of Ohio, moved to add to the 

 third resolution the following : 



Provided. That nothing in these resolutions con- 

 tained shall be held, understood, or construed as 

 committing Congress to the policy of annexing the 

 territory oi said Bepublic of Dominica. 



Mr. Cox, of New York: "I call for the yeas 

 and nays upon agreeing to that amendment." 



The yeas and nays were ordered. 



The question was taken ; and it was decided 

 in the affirmative, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Adams, Ambler, Archer, Asper, 

 Axtell, Barmitn, Beaman, Beatty, Beck, Biggs, Bird, 

 Booker, Boyd, George M. Brooks, James Brooks, 

 Burchard, Burr, Calkin, Coburn, Conger, Conner, 

 Cook, Cox, Crebs, Dawes, Dickey, Dickinson, Dox, 

 Duke, Ela, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Finkeln- 

 burg, Fox, Garfield, Getz, Gibson. Griswold, Haight, 

 Haldeman, Hale, Hamill, Hawkins, Hawley, Hay, 

 Hoar, "- 1 '"--- T " V - 



Kelsey, 

 McCormick, 



Morrissey, Mungen, Niblack" Palmer, Peters, Pome- 

 roy, Potte. , Bandall, Beeves, Eice, Eogers, Sargent, 

 Schumaker, Shanks, Lionel A. Sheldon, Sherrod, 

 Shober, Slocum, John A. Smith, Joseph S. Smith, 

 Starkweather, Stevens, Stone, Strong, Swann, Swee- 

 ney, Tanner, Tillman, Townsend, Trimble, Tyner, 

 Upson, Van Auken-Van Trump, Voorhees, Cadwal- 

 ader C. Washburn, Welker, Wells, Wheeler, Willard, 

 Williams, Eugene M. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Win- 

 chester, Wolf; and Wood 108. 



NAYS Messrs. Armstrong, Am ell, Atwood, Ayer, 

 Bailey, Banks, Barry, Benjamin, Bennett, Bingham, 

 Bowen, Buck, Buffinton, Burdett, Benjamin F. But- 

 ler, Eoderick K. Butler, Churchill, William T. Clark, 

 Amasa Cobb, Clinton L. Cobb, Degener, Donley, 

 Duval, Fisher, Fitch, Gilfillan, Hamilton, Harris, 

 Heflin, Hoge, Jenckes, Alexander H. Jones, Kelley, 

 Kellogg, Ketch am, Knapp, Laflin, Lawrence. Lough- 

 ridge. Maynard, McCarthy, McGrew, McKee, Mc- 

 Kenzie, Mercur, Jesse H. Moore, William Moore, 

 Morphis, Myers, Negley, O'Neill, Orth, Packard, 

 Paine, Peck', Perce, Platt, Poland, Porter, Prosser, 

 Eainey, Sawyer, Scofield, Porter Sheldon, William 

 J. Smith, Stevenson, Stokes, Stoughton, Taylor, 

 Twichell, Van Horn. Van Wyck, Wallace, Whit- 

 more, Winans, and Witcher Y6. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Allison, Ames, Benton, 

 Blair, Boles, Buckley, Cake, Cessna, Sidney Clarke, 

 Cleveland, Covode, Cowles, Cullom, Darrall, Joseph 

 Dixon, Nathan F. Dixon, Dockery, Dyer, Ferry, 

 Hambleton, Hays, Hill, Holmes, Hotchkiss, Inger- 

 soll, Thomas L. Jones, Knott, Lash, Logan, Lynch, 

 McNeely, Milnes, Eliakim H. Moore, Morey, Samuel 

 P. Morrill, Newsham, Packer, Phelps, Boots, San- 

 ford, Worthington C. Smith, Stiles, Strader, Strick- 

 land, Sypher, Taffe, Ward, William B. Washburn, 

 Wilkinson, and Woodward 50. 



So the amendment was adopted. 



The joint resolution, as amended, was then 

 ordered to a third reading, and read the third 

 time. 



The question upon the passage of the joint 

 resolution was taken ; and it was decided as 

 follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Armstrong, Ar- 

 nell, Asper, Atwood, Ayer, Bailey, Banks, Barry, 

 Beaman, Benjamin, Bingham. Bowen, George M. 

 Brooks, Buck, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, Benja- 



