CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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In the House, on May 28th, Mr. Poland, of 

 Vermont, moved "that the rules be so sus- 

 pended as to take from the Speaker's table 

 and pass at this time Senate bill No. 656, to 

 extend the provisions of the fourth section of 

 the act approved April 20, 1871." 



The question was then taken, and resulted 

 as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Averill, Banks, Barber, 

 Beatty, Beveridge, Bigby, Bingham, Buckley, Buf- 

 flnton, Burdett, Benjamin F. Butler, Roderick R. 

 Butler, Coburn, Cognlan, Conger. Darrall, Dawes, 

 Dickev, Duell, Dunnell, Eames, Elliott, Charles Fos- 

 ter, Wilder D. Foster, Frye, Halsey, Harmer, 

 George E. Harris, Hawley, Hays, Gerry W. Hazel- 

 ton, John W. Hazelton, Hill, Hoar, Hooper, Hough- 

 ton, Kelley, Killinger, Lamport, Lansing, Lynch, 

 Maynard, McGrew. McJunkin, McKee, Mercur, 

 Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Leonard, Myers, Negley, 

 Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer, Isaac C. Parker, Pen- 

 dleton, Pierce, Aaron F. Perry, Poland, Prindle, 

 Rainey, Ellis II. Roberts, Rusk, Sargent, Sawyer, 

 Scofield, Sessions, Shanks, Shellabarger, H. Board- 

 man Smith, John A. Smith, Snyder, Thomas J. 

 Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, Stevenson, Stowell, 

 St. John, Taffe, Thomas, Washington Townsend, 

 Twichell, Tyner, Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Wal- 

 dron, Wallace, Walls, Williams of Indiana, Jere- 

 miah M. Wilson, and John T. Wilson 94. 



NAYS Messrs. Acker, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, 

 Beck, Bell, Biggs, Bird, Austin Blair, James G. 

 Blair, Braxton, Bright, Brooks, Burchard, Caldwell, 

 Campbell, Carroll, Comingo, Conner, Cotton, Crebs, 

 Critcher, Crossland, Donnan, Dpx, Du Bose, Duke, 

 Eldredge, Ely, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, Forker, 

 Henry D. Foster, Garfield, Garrett, Getz, Giddings, 

 Golladay. Goodrich, Griffith. Haldeman, Hale, Ham- 

 bleton, Hancock, Handley, Hanks, Harper, John T. 

 Harris, Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, Holinan, 

 Kellogg, Kendall, Kerr, King, Lewis, Lowe, Man- 

 son, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McCrary, 

 McHenry, Mclntyre, McNeely, Merrick, Mitchell, 

 Morgan, Morphis, Niblack, Peters, Potter, Price, 

 Randall, Read, Edward Y. Rice, John M. Rice, 

 Ritchie, William R. Roberts, John Rogers, Sion H. 

 Rogers, Roosevelt, Sheldon, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, 

 Worthington C. Smith, R. Milton Speer, Stevens, 

 Stoughton, Strong, Sutherland, Swann, Sypher, 

 Terry, Tuthill, Van Trump, Waddell, Warren, 

 Wells, Whiteley, Whitthorne, Willard, Winchester, 

 Wood, and Young 108. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Adams, Barnum, Barry, 

 Boles, Clarke, Cobb, Cox, Creely, Crocker, Davis, 

 De Large, Farwell, Havens, Ketcham, Kinsella, 

 Lamison, Leach, McKinney, Benjamin F. Meyers, 

 Morey, Hosea W. Parker, Peck, Eli Perry, Platt, 

 Porter, Robinson, Seeley, Sherwood, Shober, Shoe- 

 maker, Snapp, Storm, Dwight Townsend, Turner, 

 Vaughan, Voorhees, Wheeler, and Williams of New 

 York 38. 



So (two-thirds not voting in favor thereof) 

 the rules were not suspended. 



Mr. Poland: "I desire to say, in connection 

 with the bill just voted upon, that the same 

 bill was reported to the House and the Senate 

 respectively by the joint select Committee on 

 the Condition of the late Insurrectionary 

 States^ That bill having passed the Senate, 

 I felt it rny duty to call it to the attention of 

 the House and have a vote upon it. Our com- 

 mittee having leave to report at any time, had 

 a majority voted in favor of the bill upon the 

 vote just taken, I should immediately have 



STATES. 



Missouri.. 13 



Nebraska 1 



Nevada 1 



New Hampshire 2 



New Jersey 7 



New York 32 



North Carolina 8 



Ohio 20 



Oregon 1 



Pennsylvania 26 



Rhode Island 2 



South Carolina 5 



Tennessee 9 



Texas 6 



Vermont 2 



Virginia.... . 9 



West Virginia.., 3 



Wisconsin 8 



offered the bill that was reported by the com- 

 mittee to the House, which is identical with 

 the Senate bill. But, inasmuch as this vote 

 has disclosed that a majority of this House are 

 opposed to the bill, I shall not offer the House 

 bill." 



Among the important measures adopted at 

 this session of Congress was one for the ap- 

 portionment of Representatives to Congress 

 among the several States according to the 

 census of 1870. By this act the number of 

 members of the House of Representatives was 

 fixed at 283. These were distributed as fol- 

 lows: 



STATES. 



Alabama 7 



Arkansas 4 



California 4 



Connecticut 4 



Delaware 1 



Florida 1 



Georgia 9 



Illinois 19 



Indiana 12 



Iowa 9 



Kansas 3 



Kentucky 10 



Louisiana 5 



Maine 5 



Maryland 6 



Massachusetts 11 



Michigan 9 



Minnesota 3 



Mississippi 6 



The admission of a new State will increase 

 the total number of Representatives. The 

 Tuesday next after the first Monday in No- 

 vember, in the year eighteen hundred and 

 seventy-six, is fixed and established as the day, 

 in each of the States and Territories of the 

 United States, for the election of Representa- 

 tives and Delegates to the Forty-fifth Con- 

 gress; and the Tuesday next after the first 

 Monday in November, in every second year 

 thereafter, is fixed and established as the day 

 for the election, in each of said States and 

 Territories, of Representatives and Delegates 

 to the Congress commencing on the fourth day 

 of March next thereafter. 



The act further provides that no State shall 

 hereafter be admitted to the Union without 

 having the population necessary to entitle it 

 to at least one representative. 



It is farther provided that if any State 

 should deny or abridge the right of any of the 

 male inhabitants of such State, being twenty- 

 one years of age, and citizens of the United 

 States, to vote at any election named in the 

 amendments to the Constitution, article four- 

 teen, section two, except for participation in 

 the rebellion or other crime, the number of 

 Representatives apportioned in the act to such 

 State shall be reduced in the proportion which 

 the number of such male citizens shall have 

 to the whole number of male citizens, twenty- 

 one years of age, in such State. 



An act to remove political disabilities im- 

 posed by the fourteenth article of the amend- 

 ments of the Constitution was passed and ap- 

 proved by the President on May 22d. It 

 removes all political disabilities imposed by 



