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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



min F. Butler, Koderick R. Butler, Churchill, Wil- 

 liam T. Clark, Amasa Cobb, Clinton L. Cobb, Co- 

 burn, Conger, Cook, Cowles, Dawes, Degener, Dick- 

 ey Donley, Duval, Farnsworth. Ferriss, Fisher, Fitch, 

 Garfield, Gilfillan, Hale, Hamilton, Harris, Hawkins, 

 Hawley, Hay, Henin, Hoge, Hooper, Ingersoll, 

 Jenckes, Alexander H. Jones, Judd, Julian, Kelley, 

 Kellogg, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Laflin, Law- 

 rence, Loughridge, Maynard, McCarthy, McCrary, 

 McGrew. McKee, McKenzie, Mercur. Jesse H. 

 Moore, William Moore, Morphis, Daniel J. Morrell, 

 Myers, Ne^ley, O'Neill, Ortb, Packard, Paine, Pal- 

 mer, Peck, Perce, Phelps, Platt, Poland, Pomeroy, 

 Porter, Prosser, Rainey, Roots, Sargent, Sawyer, 

 Scofield, Shanks. Lionel A. Sheldon, Porter Shel- 

 don, John A. Smith, William J. Smith, Stark- 

 weather, Stevens, Stevenson, Stokes, Stoughton, 

 Strong, Tanner, Taylor, Tillman. Townsend, Twich- 

 ell, Tyner, Upson, Van Horn, Van Wyck, Wallace, 

 Cadwalader C. Washburn-Welker, Wheeler,- Whit- 

 more, Williams, John T. Wilson, Winans, Witcher, 

 and Wolf 123. 



NAYS Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnum, 

 Beatty, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Booker, Boyd, James 

 Brooks.Burr, Conner, Cox, Crebs, Dickinson, Dox, 

 Duke, Eldridge, Finkelnburg, Fox, Getz, Gibson, 

 Griswold, Haight, Haldeman 2 Hamill, Hoar, Holman, 

 Johnson. Kerr, Lewis, Manning, Marshall, Mayham, 

 McCormick, Morgan, Morrissey, Mungen, Niblack, 

 Peters, Potter, Randall, Reeves, Rice, Rogers, Schu- 

 maker, Sherrod, Shober, Slpcuin, Joseph S. Smith, 

 Stone, Swann, Sweeney, Trimble, Van Auken, Van 

 Trump, Voorhees, Wells, Willard, Eugene M. Wil- 

 son, Winchester, and Wood 63. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Ames. Bennett, Benton, 

 Blair, Boles, Buckley, Cake, Calkin, Cessna, Sidney 

 Clarke, Cleveland, Covode, Cullom, Darrall, Joseph 

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

 Hambleton, Hays, Hill, Holmes, Hotchkiss, Thomas 

 L. Jones, Knott, Lash, Logan, Lynch, McNeely, 

 Milnes, Eliakim H. Moore, Morey, Samuel P. Mor- 

 rill, Newsham, Packer, Sanford, Worthington C. 

 Smith, Stiles, Strader, Strickland, Sypher, Taffe, 

 Ward, William B. Washburn, Wilkinson, and Wood- 

 ward 48. 



So the joint resolution, as amended, was 

 passed. 



On January llth, the joint resolution with 

 the amendment of the House was reported in 

 the Senate. Several amendments were offered 

 and rejected, when the vote was taken on the 

 amendment of the House, and resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



YEAS Messrs. Abbott, Ames, Anthony, Bayard, 

 Boreman, Brownlow, Buckingham, Cameron, Car- 

 penter, Casserly, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, 

 Cragin, Davis, Edmunds, Fenton, Flanagan. Fow- 

 ler, Gilbert, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Harlan, 

 Harris, Howell, Jewett, Johnston, Kellogg, Lewis, 

 McCreery, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Pool, 

 Pratt, Ramsey, Revels, Rice, Ross, Saulsbury, Saw- 

 yer, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Stewart, 

 Stockton, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Vickers, War- 

 ner, Willey, Williams, Wilson, and Yates 57. 



ABSENT Messrs. Cattell, Ferry, Hamilton of Mary- 

 land, Howard, Howe, McDonald, Morrill of Maine, 

 Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Robertson, Sprague, 

 Thayer, Thurman, and Windom 15. 



So the amendment of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives was concurred in. % 



In the Senate on January 18th, Mr. Morton, 

 of Indiana, offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That a select committee of five Senators 

 he appointed, to which shall be referred the docu- 

 ments and papers recently laid before the Senate by 



the President in reference to the condition of the 

 Southern States ; and that such committee have power 

 to employ a clerk and stenographer, to send for per- 

 sons and papers, administer oaths, and investigate 

 the matters referred to in the documents and papers 

 aforesaid ; and the truth or falsehood of the crimes 

 and outrages of a political character alleged to have 

 been committed in the Southern States ; and whether 

 there be in those States security for persons and 

 property. 



Objection having been made to the imme- 

 diate consideration of the resolution, Mr. Mor- 

 ton moved to refer the papers before the Sen- 

 ate to a special committee. 



Mr. Morton : " I desire to avoid that objec- 

 tion by moving to refer those papers to a select 

 committee; and I will modify the resolution 

 in that way. The papers are on the table." 



Mr. Casserly, of California, said : " I move to 

 refer these papers to the same committee which 

 has thus far had charge of this subject since I 

 have been in the Senate the Judiciary Com- 

 mittee." 



Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, said : " I hope 

 these papers will be referred to a special com- 

 mittee, and that that committee will devote a 

 great deal of time to the examination of this 

 subject. These papers I know something about. 

 They present an appalling record, but probably 

 only about one-tenth part of the record of the 

 terrible crimes that have been committed in 

 this country, and which have dishonored not 

 only the country, but the age in which we 

 live. These crimes are going on ; we get the 

 account of but a small portion of them, per- 

 haps a tenth of them." 



Mr. "Warner, of Alabama : " I hope this ref- 

 erence will be made ; and I concur with the 

 Senator from Massachusetts in saying that the 

 question involved in the consideration of the 

 documents accompanying this message is the 

 gravest one that is now before or that can be 

 brought before this Senate. The condition of 

 things in the South demands attention. The 

 securing to all the citizens of the republic 

 there of the rights which you have given them, 

 and to whicli they are entitled under the Con- 

 stitution of the IJnited States, and the State 

 constitutions, and under the laws of Congress 

 and of the States, is the plainest and most sol- 

 emn duty now resting upon this Senate, and 

 upon this Congress ; and I hope that this com- 

 mittee maybe excused, if appointed, from other 

 labors, and that for the remainder of this ses- 

 sion they may give their whole time and all 

 their best energies and abilities to the investi- 

 gation of the condition of things in the South, 

 and to the devising of some remedy or some 

 means by which security of life and property 

 and the free exercise of the rights granted to 

 every American citizen by the Constitution 

 shall be guaranteed." 



Mr. Casserly, of California, said : " I think 

 we all understand this matter in its present 

 phase. There is no man of any candor here 

 who, whatever he may forbear to say in this 

 public presence, would not admit elsewhere 





