CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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man, Hamblcton, Hancock, Handley , Hanks, Harper, 

 John T. Harris, Hereford, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, 

 Kcrr, King, Kinsella, Lamison, Lamport, Leach, 

 Lewis, Manson, Marshall, McClelland ? McCormick, 

 McHenry, McKinney, McNeely, Mernck, Benjamin 

 F. Meyers, Moore, Morgan, Niblack, Hosea W. Par- 

 ker, Eli Perry, Peters, Poland, Potter, Price, Eandall, 

 Bead, Edward Y. Eice, John M. Eice, Eitchie, Wil- 

 liam K. Roberts, Kobinson, Eogers, Shanks, Sher- 

 wood, Shober, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, Worthington 

 C. Smith, Snapp, E. Milton Speer, Stevens, Storm, 

 Sutherland, Swann, Terry, Washington Townsend, 

 Tuthill, Van Trump, Waddell, Waldron, Warren, 

 Wells, Whitthorne, Willard, Winchester, and Wood 

 107. 



NAYS Messrs. Ames, Averill, Banks, Barber, 

 Beatty, Bigby, Bingham, George M. Brooks, Buffin- 

 ton, Burchard, Burdett, Eoderick E. Butler, Oobb, 

 Coburn, Conger, Cotton, Darrall.Dawes, Donnan, 

 Duell, Eames, Charles Foster, Wilder D. Foster, 

 Frye, Garfield, Hale, Halsey, Harnier, George E. Har- 

 ris, Havens, Gerry W. Hazleton, John W. Hazleton, 

 Hoar, Houghton, Keller, Kellogg, Ketcham, Kil- 

 linger, Lansing, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, 

 McGrew, McJunkin, McKee, Mercur, Merriam, Mon- 

 roe, Mornhis, Leonard Myers, Negley, Orr, Packard, 

 Packer, Palmer, Isaac C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, 

 Perce, Aaron F. Perry, Platt, Porter, Prindle, Eainey, 

 Ellis H. Eoberts, Eusk, Sessions, Sheldon, Shella- 

 barger, Shoemaker, H. Boardman Smith, John A. 

 Smith, Snyder, Thomas J. Speer, Sprague, Stark- 

 weather, Stevenson, Stoughton, ^Stowell, $>trong, St. 

 John, Sy 



Jeremiah M. Wilson, and John T. Wilson 98. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Barry, Bird, James G. Blair, 

 James Brooks, Buckley, Benjamin F. Butler, Creely, 

 De Large, Dickey, Edwards, Elliott, Henry D. Fos- 

 ter, Golladay, Goodrich, Hawley, Hay, Hays, Hooper, 

 Kendall, Mclntyre, Mitchell, Morey, Eoosevelt, Saw- 

 yer, Scofield, Seeley, Turner, Vaughan, Voorhees, 

 Wallace, Williams of New York, and Young 31. 



So the amendment was agreed to, and the 

 resolution adopted. 



In the Senate, on December 4th, Mr. Sum- 

 ner, of Massachusetts, said: "I offer the peti- 

 tion of a large number of colored citizens of 

 Brooklyn, in the State of New York. As it is 

 very brief, I will read it : " 



We, the undersigned, citizens of the city of Brook- 

 lyn, State of New York, feeling ourselves aggrieved, 

 inconvenienced, and degraded because of our color, 

 and for the want of a law like unto the one offered 

 to the Senate by Hon. Charles Sumner, known as 

 Sumner's bill, supplementary to the civil rights bill, 

 do respectfully pray for the passage of the same ; 

 and as in duty bound we will ever pray. 



" As that bill is on the calendar of the Sen- 

 ate, I ask that this petition lie on the table." 



The Vice-President: "The petition will lie 

 on the table." 



Mr. Sumner: "I also offer the petition of 

 Dr. Augusta, professor of anatomy in the med- 

 ical department of Howard University, and 

 Dr. Purvis, professor of medical jurisprudence 

 in Howard University, which is very brief, 

 and therefore I will read it : " 



We, the undersigned petitioners, respectfully rep- 

 resent to your honorable body that the Medical 

 Society of the District of Columbia, an institution 

 chartered by Congress, seeks to degrade us as med- 

 ical practitioners on account of our race and color, 

 and in contravention of the Constitution and laws of 



the United States, by denying to us rights accorded 

 to white practitioners, and thereby violating its act 

 of incorporation. We therefore most respectfully 

 petition that the charter of said society be repealed. 

 And your petitioners will ever pray. 



"It will be remembered that at the last 

 Congress I reported a bill from the Committee 

 on the District of Columbia in pursuance of 

 the prayer of these very petitioners. There 

 was no final action on that bill, and of course 

 it fell with the expiration of the Congress. I 

 seize this earliest occasion to call attention 

 again to that question by presenting this peti- 

 tion. It seems to me that Congress owes it to 

 the colored race everywhere throughout the 

 country to put an end to outrage, at least here 

 in the national capital. As the Committee on 

 the District of Columbia is not yet appointed, 

 I ask that the petition lie on the table." 



The Vice-President: "It will lie on the 

 table for the present." 



In the Senate, on December 12th, Mr. Mor- 

 ton, of Indiana, said : " If it is in order, I move 

 to proceed to the consideration of the concur- 

 rent resolution that I offered yesterday in re- 

 gard to the final adjournment, and which was 

 then laid on the table under the rule." 



The motion was agreed to ; and the Senate 

 proceeded to consider the following resolu- 

 tion: 



Resolved by tTie Senate (the House of Eepresenta- 

 tives concurring), That each House of Congress 

 shall be adjourned sine die, by the Presiding Officer 

 thereof, on the third Monday of May, 1872, at twelve 

 o'clock meridian. 



Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, said: "I 

 offer the following amendment, to be added to 

 the resolution by way of proviso : " 



Provided, That there shall be no adjournment of 

 Congress until after the passage of a supplementary 

 civil rights law securing equality before the law 

 without distinction of race or color. 



Mr. Schurz, of Missouri, said : " Will it be 

 in order to move an amendment to the amend- 

 ment?" 



The Yice-President: "Certainly." 



Mr. Schurz : " Then I move to add to this 

 amendment : " 



A bill to reduce the tariff and internal taxation, 

 and a bill to reform the civil service of the United 

 States. 



The Vice-President : "The question is on 

 the amendment to the amendment proposed 

 by the Senator from Missouri." 



Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, said: "Mr. Presi- 

 dent, I do not know that I am in favor of all 

 the propositions which are suggested. I am 

 certainly in favor of an early adjournment; 

 and I am in favor of giving equal rights to all 

 our people ; and I am very much in favor of 

 a reform in the civil service ; and I am for re- 

 ducing taxes ; but it is manifest that we can- 

 not dispose of all those questions this morn- 

 ing, and I think it will be a mere waste of 

 time to discuss this resolution. I move to 

 lay on the table the pending propositions, 



