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CONGRESS, U. S. 



The Yice-President, Hannibal Hamlin, called 

 the Senate to order. 



In the House of Representatives Galusha A. 

 Grow was elected Speaker. He received 99 

 votes of 159, the whole number cast. 



The political complexion of the Senate when 

 all the non- seceding States were represented, 

 was Republicans, 31 ; Democrats, 11 ; Union- 

 ists, 5 ; vacancy, 1. That of the House was 

 Republicans, 106 ; Democrats, 42 ; Unionists, 

 28 ; vacancies, 2. 



When the oath was administered to the mem- 

 bers of the House, Mr. Burnett, of Kentucky, 

 moved the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the question of the right of Charles 

 H. Upton, William G. Brown, R. V. Whaley, John S. 



Iowa. James F. "Wilson, William Vandever. 



Kansas. Martin F. Conway. 



Kentucky. James 8. Jackson, Henry Grider* Aaron 

 Harding, Charles A. Wickliffe, George W. Dunlap, Robert 

 Mallory, John J. Crittenden, William II. Wadsworth, John 

 W. Menzies. 



Maine. John N. Goodwin, Charles W. Walton, Samuel 

 C. Fessenden, Anson P. Morrill, John H. Kice, Frederick A. 

 Pike. 



Maryland. John W. Chrisfield, Edwin H. Webster, Cor- 

 nelius L. L. Leary, Henry May, Francis Thomas, Charles B. 

 Calvert. 



Jfcutttehtuetti, Thomas D. Eliot, James Bufflnton, Ben- 

 jamin F. Thomas, Alexander II. Rice, Samuel Hooper, John 

 B. Alley, Daniel W. Gooch, Charles E. Train, Goldsmith F. 

 Bailey, Charles Delano, Henry L. Dawes. 



Michigan. Bradley F. Grander, Fernando C. Beaman, 

 Francis W. Kellogg, Rowland E. Trowbridge. 



Minnesota. Cyrus Aldrich, William Windom. 



Missouri. Francis P. Blair, jr., James S. Rollins, William 

 A. Hall, Elijah F. Norton, Thomas L. Price, John S. Phelps, 

 John W. Noell. 



New Hampshire. Gilman Marston, Edward H. Rollins, 

 Thomas M. Edwards. 



New Jersey. John T. Nixon, John L. N. Stratton, Wil- 

 liam G. Steele, George T. Cobb, Nehemiah Perry. 



New York. Edward H. Smith, Moses F. Odell, Benjamin 

 Wood, James E. Kerrigan, William Wall, Frederick A. 

 Conkling, Elijah Ward, Isaac C. Delaplaine, Edward Haight, 

 Charles H. Van W'yck, JohnB. Steele, Stephen Baker, Abra- 

 ham B. Olin, Erastus Corning, James B. McKean, William 

 A. Wheeler, Socrates N. Sherman, Chauncy Vibbard, Rich- 

 ard Franchot, Roscoe Conkling, R. Holland Duell, William 

 E. Lansing, Ambrose W. Clark, Charles B. Sedgwick, Theo- 

 dore M. Pomeroy, Jacob P. Chamberlin, Alexander S. Diven, 

 Robert B. Van Volkenburg, Alfred Ely, Augustus Frank, 

 Burt Van Horn, Elbridge G. Spaulding, Reuben E. Fenton. 



Ohio. George H. Pendleton, John A. Gurley, Clement 

 L. Vallnndigham, William Allen, James M. Ashley, Chilton 

 A. White, Richard A. Harrison, Samuel Shellabarger, War- 

 ren P. Noble, Carey A. Trimble, Valentine B. Horton, Sam- 

 uel S. Cox, Samuel T. Worcester, Harrison G. Blake, Robert 

 H. Nugen, William P. Cutler, James R. Morris, Sidney Ed- 

 gerton, 'Albert G. Riddle, John Hutchins, John A. Bingham. 



Oregon. George K. Shiel. 



Pennsylvania. William E. Lehman, Charles J. Biddle, 

 John P. Verree, William D. Kelley, William Morris Davis, 

 John Hickman. Thomas B. Cooper, Sydenhani E. Ancona, 

 Thaddeus Stevens, John W. Killinger, James H. Campbell, 

 Hendrick B. Wright, Philip Johnson, Galusha A. Grow, 

 James T. Hale, Joseph Bailey, Edward McPhcrson, Samuel 

 S. Blair, John Covode, Jesse Lazear, James K. Moorhead, 

 Robert McKnight, John W. Wallace, John Patton, Elijah 

 Babbitt. 



Rhode Island. George H. Browne, William P. Sheffield. 



Tennessee. Horace Maynard. 



Vermont. Ezekiel P. Walton, Justin S. Morrill, Portus 

 Baxter. 



Virginia. Charles H. TTpton, Edmund Pendleton, Wm. 

 G. Brown, Jacob B. Blair, Kellian V. Whaley. 



Wisconsin. John F. Potter, Luther Hanchett, A. Scott 

 Sloan. 



Colorado. Hiram P. Bennett. 



Dakota. John B. S. Todd. 



Nebraska. Samuel G. Daily. 



Nevada. John C. Cradlebaugh. 



Nwo Mexico. John S. Watts. 



Utah. John M. Bernhisel. 



Washington. James H. Wallace. 



Carlisle, and E. H. Pendleton, to seats upon this floor, 

 be referred to the Committee of Elections, when formed, 

 and that they report to this House thereon. 



On making this motion he said it was not his 

 purpose to offer any factious opposition to the 

 action of the House, but the State Convention 

 repealed the law ordering an election of mem- 

 bers of Congress on the 23d of May. That 

 was the day upon which these persons claimed 

 to be elected. "If Virginia still be in the 

 Union, as is contended by many, then, sir, Vir- 

 ginia is sovereign, and she has the right to pre- 

 scribe the mode, manner, and time of holding 

 her election for members upon this floor. If 

 the reverse of that proposition be true, then 

 she has no right to be represented here." 



Mr. Carlile, of Western Virginia, in reply, 

 said, " that he was elected by nearly a unani- 

 mous vote, and the only question that could be 

 raised in his case was : had the convention of 

 Virginia itself convened by a law enacted by 

 the Legislature, and restricted in its action by 

 that law had that powerless body the right to 

 annul a solemn act of the Legislature of the 

 State ? For, the law convening the convention 

 expressly declared upon its face that no act of 

 that body changing the federal relations of the 

 State, or affecting the organic law of the State, 

 should have any validity until such act of the 

 convention had been referred to the people and 

 ratified by them at the polls." 



He further said : " I maintain, and those I 

 represent upon this floor maintain, that we 

 have as much right and as high an interest in 

 the government of the Union as we have in 

 that of our own State. I contend that both 

 proceed from the same sovereign power of the 

 people, and that while the State can change its. 

 own organic law, it cannot change its relations 

 to the Federal Union without the consent of 

 those who with the people of that State form 

 the Union." 



The whole subject was laid on the table, and 

 the members whose seats were not contested 

 were sworn in. 



The Message was communicated to both 

 Houses on the 5th. (See PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.) 



On the same day, in the Senate, Mr. Chand- 

 ler, of Michigan, gave notice of his intention to 

 offer a bill to confiscate the property of all 

 Governors of States, members of Legislatures, 

 judges of courts, and all military officers above 

 the rank of lieutenant, who shall take up arms 

 against the Government of the United States, 

 or aid or abet treason against the Government 

 of the United States, and that the said indi- 

 viduals shall be forever disqualified from hold- 

 ing any office of honor, emolument, or trust, 

 under this Government ; the property thus com 

 fiscated to be used in restoring to the Union 

 men of the rebel States any losses which may 

 have resulted to them in consequence of the 

 present rebellion. 



In the House, on the 8th, Mr. Loomis, of 

 Connecticut, offered the following resolution, 

 which was adopted : 



