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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



The second section provides that before any 

 person shall be entitled to the benefit of this 

 act, he shall, within the district where he re- 

 sides, before a clerk of some court of the 

 United States, or a United States commission- 

 er, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation 

 to support the Constitution of the United 

 States, and to bear true faith and allegiance 

 to the same, which oath or affirmation shall 

 be forwarded by said officer to the Secretary 

 of State of the United States, who shall cause 

 a list of all persons complying with the pro- 

 visions of this act to be laid before Congress 

 at the opening of each session thereof; and 

 the officer before whom such oath or affirma- 

 tion is made shall give to the person taking it 

 a certificate of the fact, under such forms and 

 regulations as the Secretary of State shall 

 prescribe. 



The question was taken upon suspending 

 the rules and passing the bill; and upon a di- 

 vision there were yeas 163. 



The question was then taken by yeas and 

 nays ; and there were yeas 171, nays 31, not 

 voting, 37; as follows: 



YEAS Messrs. Acker, Ames, Archer, Arthur, 

 Banks, Barber, Barnum, Barry, Beck, Bell, Bev- 

 eridge, Bigga, Bingham, Bird, Austin Blair, James 

 G. Blair, Braxton, Bright. George M. Brooks, James 

 Brooks, Buckley, Burchard, Burdett, Caldwell, Car- 

 roll, William T. Clarke, Coghlan, Comingo, Conner, 

 Cotton, Crebs, Critcher, Crossland, Darrall, Davis, 

 Dawes, Dickey, Donnari, Dox, Du Bose, Duell, Duke, 

 Eames, Edwards, Eldridge, Ely, Farwell, Finkeln- 

 burg, Forker, Charles Foster. Wilder D. Foster, Frye, 

 Garfield, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Griffith, Halde- 

 man. Hale, Halsey, Hambleton, Hancock, Handley, 

 Hanks, Harper, George E. Harris, John T. Harris, 

 Hawley, Hav, Gerry W. Hazleton, John W. Hazleton, 

 Hereford, Ilcrndon, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, Hooper, 

 Hpugbton. Kelley, Kellogg, Kerr, Ketcham, King, 

 Kinsella, Lamison, Lamport, Leach, Lewis, Lynch, 

 Hanson, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, Mc- 

 Grew, McHenry, Mclntyre, McKee, McNeely, Mer- 

 riam, Merrick, Benjamin F. Meyers, Mitchell, Mon- 

 roe, Morey, Morgan, Leonard Meyers, Niblack, Hosea 

 W. Parker. Isaac C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, Aaron 

 F. Perry, Poland, Potter, Price, Prindle, Eandall, 

 Read, Edward Y. Rice, John M. Rice, Ritchie, Ellis 

 H. Roberts, William R. Roberts, Roosevelt. Sawyer, 

 Scofield. Sessions, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Sherwood, 

 Shoemaker, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, H. Boardman 

 Smith, John A. Smith, Worthington C. Smith, Snapp, 

 Snyder, R. Milton Speer, Thomas J. Speer, Stark- 

 weather, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Strong, Suther- 

 land, Swann, Sypher, Terry, Thomas, Turner, Tut- 

 hill, Twichell. Upson, Van Trump, Vaughan, Voor- 

 hees, Waddell, Wakeman, Wallace, Warren. Wells, 

 Wheeler, Whitelcy, Whitthorne, Willard, Williams 

 of New York, John T. Wilson, Winchester, and 

 Wood 171. 



NAYS Messrs. Ambler, Beatty, Buffinton, Co- 

 "burn 2 Conger, Dunnell, Goodrich, Hoar, Killinger, 

 Lansing, Lowe, Maynard, McCrary, McJunkin, Mer- 

 cur, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer, Porter, Rainey, 

 Rusk, Seeley, Shanks, Sprague, Taffe, Washington 

 Townsend, Tyner, Waldron, Walls, and Jeremiah 

 M. Wilson 31. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Adams, Averill, Bigby, 

 Benjamin F. Butler, RoderioK R. Butler, Camp- 

 bell, Freeman Clarke, Cobb, Cox, Creely, De Large, 

 Elliott, Farnsworth, Henry D. Foster, Harmer, 

 Havens, Hays, Kendall, McKinney, Moore, Mor- 

 phia, Negley, Perce, Eli Perry, Peters, Platt, Robin- 



son, Rogers, Sargent, Shober, Sloughton, Stowell, 

 St. John, Dwight Townsend, Walden, Williams of 

 Indiana, and Young 37. 



So (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) the 

 rules were suspended, and the bill (II. R. No. 

 1050) was passed. 



In the Senate, on January 22d, Mr. Robert- 

 son, of South Carolina, moved to proceed to 

 the consideration of House bill No. 1050, and 

 to lay aside the bill now before the Senate, in 

 order to proceed to its consideration. 



Mr. Trumbull said : " I hope that the mo- 

 tion of the Senator from South Carolina will 

 prevail, for two reasons: In the first place, 

 the last bill that passed the House is the most 

 liberal one, and it is the best one ; and, in the 

 second place, we shall thereby have an oppor- 

 tunity, if there is a majority of the Senate in 

 favor of amnesty, of voting against all amend- 

 ments, passing the bill, and making it a law 

 at once, and this will bring us to a vote at 

 some time. We shall never accomplish any 

 thing by constantly loading down amnesty 

 bills by riders. I know, or have reason to 

 know, at least, I believe, that there are a num- 

 ber of Senators who are opposed to any gen- 

 eral amnesty bill, and they are ready to vote 

 for any and every amendment that is offered, 

 with a view of embarrassing the bill and de- 

 feating it. I have no doubt there are some 

 Senators, conscientiously, according to their 

 convictions of duty, opposed to a general am- 

 nesty bill I so understand them and, of 

 course, those Senators will vote for any 

 amendment that may be offered ; but I trust 

 that the real friends of amnesty, those who 

 believe that the peace of this country, the 

 restoration of good feeling, and the establish- 

 ment of better governments in the South, will 

 be promoted by the passage of a liberal am- 

 nesty bill, will stand together and take the bill 

 as the House has passed it, and let us make it 

 a law, and not suffer it to be entangled with 

 these various amendments, which are sup- 

 ported, of course, by all those who are op- 

 posed to amnesty, and supported by others, I 

 suppose, because they think them proper 

 amendments." 



Mr. Conkling, of New York, said: "Mr. 

 President, I do not feel called upon to vote for 

 this motion, and certainly not for the reasons 

 which have been given us. It is suggested, 

 first, that the bill, in favor of which the motion 

 is made to postpone the pending measure, is 

 more liberal than the one we have before us, 

 in that it extends amnesty to men who assem- 

 bled in Southern conventions, as they were 

 called, and voted their States out of the Union, 

 who inaugurated, under solemn forms, the rev- 

 olution which plunged the nation into the Red 

 Sea of war. I am inclined to think that I 

 would rather have some other recommenda- 

 tion of the latter bill of the House than this. 



" But I rose to speak more particularly of 

 the other ground on which an appeal is made 



