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or the result thereof, or if any person shall aid, counsel, procure, or advise any such voter, person, or officer to do any act herein made a crime, or to omit to do any duty the omission of which is hereby made a crime, or attempt so to do, or if any person shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, or otherwise prevent any citizen or citizens from assembling in public meeting to discuss or hear discussed any subject whatever, or if any person shall by any means break up, disperse, or molest any assemblage, or any citi zen in or of such assemblage when met or meeting to discuss or hear discussion, as aforesaid. or shall by any means prevent any citizen from attending any such assemblage, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a crime, and shall for such crime be liable to indictment in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, and on conviction thereof shall be adjudged to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or less than one hundred dollars, and suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years nor less than six months, in the discretion of the court, and pay the costs of

prosecution.

SEC 6. That no officer of Mississippi shall buy or sell treasury warrants, or claims of any sort upon the treasury of the State, or of any county or district thereof. All taxes and moneys collected by any officer shall be paid into the appropriate treasury; and any collector who may receive warrants in payment of taxes shall file with the treasurer a schedule, made under oath,

of such warrants, with the name and residence of each person from whom any such warrant may have been received. Any person who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as is prescribed in the fifth section

of this act.

SEC. 7. That the courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction of cases arising under this

act.

SEO. 8. That the poll-tax levied in any one year upon any citizen of Mississippi shall not exceed $1 50, and all laws in said State for the collection of taxes and debts shall be uniform, and every citizen shall be entitled to all the exemptions and immunities in these respects of the most favored citizen or class of citizens.

SEC. 9. That all lands which shall hereafter be forfeited and sold for non-payment of any tax, impost, or assessment whatever, in the State of Mississippi, or under proceedings in bankruptcy, or by virtue of the judgment or decree of any court in the said State of Mississippi, shall be disposed of only by sale in sepa rate sub-divisions not exceeding forty acres each: Provided however, That such portion of said land shall first be offered for sale as can be sold with the least injury to the remainder.

April 1-Its further consideration was postponed till the first Monday in December nextyeas 103, nays 62, (not voting 31.) as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Archer, Armstrong, Axtell, Bailey, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Blair, Brooks. Burr, Calkin, Cleveland, Cowles, Crebs, Cullom, Dawes, Deweese,,Dickinson, Dixon, Dockery, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Finkelnburg, Fitch, Garfield, Getz, Gilfillan, Golladay, Griswold, Haldeman, Hale, Hambleton, Hamill, Hawkins, Hawley, Hoag, Holman, Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Jenckes, Johnson, Thomas L. Jones, Kerr, Laflin, Loughridge,

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Lynch. Marshall, Mayham, McCarthy, McCormick, McCrary, McNeely, Mercur. Moffet, Jesse 11. Moore, William Moore. Morgan, Morrell, Morrill, Mungen, Niblack, O'Neill, Packer, Palmer, Peters. Poland, Pomeroy, Potter, Randall, Reading, Reeves, Rice, Rogers, Schenck, Schu maker, Scofield, Shanks, Slocum, Worthing on C. Smith, William Smyth, Stevens, Stiles, Stokes, Stone, Strickland, Swann, Sweeney, Taffe, Tanner, Tumble, Twichell, Van Auken. Voorhees, Cadwalader C. Washburn. William B. Washburn, Wells. Wilkinson, Willard, Eugene M. Wilson, Winans, Woodward-103.

NAYS-Messrs. Ambler, Arnell, Asper, Beaman, Beatty, Benton. Bingham, Bowen, Boyd, Buffinton, Burdett, Benjamin F. Butler, Roderick R. Butler, Cake, Cessna, Churchill, Amasa Cobb, Clinton L. Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Conger, Donley, Duvall, Ela, Fisher, Hay, Heaton, Hill, Hoar, Alexander H. Jones, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Knapp, Lash, Lawrence, Maynard, Eliakim H. Moore, Negley, Orth, Packard, Paine, Phelps, Prosser, Roots, Sargent, Sheldon, John A. Smith, William J. Smith, Stevenson, Stoughton, Tillman, Tyner, Upson, T. Wilson, Witcher-62. Van Horn, Ward. Welker, Whittemore, Williams, John

The Public Credit Act.

the first act approved by President GRANT: This bill became a law March 18. 1869, being

Be it enacted, &c., That in order to remove any doubt as to the purpose of the Government to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and to settle conflicting questions and interpretations of the laws by virtue of which such obligations have been contracted, it is hereby provided and declared, that the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States not bearing all the interest-bearing obligations of the United States, except in cases where the law authorizing the issue of any such obligation has expressly provided that the same may be paid in lawful money or other currency than gold and silver. But none of said interest-bearing obligations not already due shall be redeemed or paid before maturity unless at such time United States notes shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at such time of interest than the bonds to be redeemed can bonds of the United States bearing a lower rate be sold at par in coin. And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision tion of the United States notes in coin. at the earliest practicable period for the redemp

interest, known as United States notes, and of

March 12-It passed the House-yeas 97, nays 47 (not voting 49,) as follow:

Arnell, Asper, Axtell, Bailey, Banks, Beaman, BenjaYEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Ames, Armstrong, min, Bennett, Bingham, Blair, Boles, Boyd, Buffinton, Burdett, Cessna, Churchill, Clinton L. Cobb, Cook, Conger. Cowles, Cullom, Dawes, Donley, Duval, Dyer, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Finkelnburg, Fisher, Fitch, Gilfillan, Hale, Hawley, Heaton, Hoar, Hooner, Hotchkiss. Jenckes, Alexander II Jones, Judd, Julian, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Laflin, Losh, Lawrence, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, McGrew, Mercur. Jesse H. Moore, William Moore, Morrill, Negley, O'Neill, Packard, Paine, Palmer, Phelps, Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Roots, Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Sheldon, John A. Smith, Worthington C. Smith, William Smyth, Stokes, Stoughton, Strickland, Tanner, Tillman, Twichell Upson, Van Horn, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, Wheeler, Whittemore, Wilkinson, Willard, Williams, Winans-97.

NAYS-Messrs. Archer, Beatty, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Roderick R. Butler, Amasa Cobb, Coburn, Crebs, Deweese, Dickinson, Eldridge, Getz, Gol laday, Hawkins, Holman, Hopkins, Johnson. Thomas L Jones, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, Mayham, McCormick, Mc Neely, Moffet, Mungen, Neblack, Orth, Reading, Reeves, Rice Shanks, Joseph & Smith, Stiles, Stone, Strader, Sweeney:

Taffe, Trimble, Tyner, Van Trump, John T. Wilson, Winchester, Woodward-47.

March 16-It passed the Senate-yeas 42, nays 13, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Cameron, Cattell. Chandler, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry, Fessenden, Gilbert, Grimes, Harris, Howard, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill, Nye, Patterson, Pool, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Sawyer. Schurz. Scott, Sherman, Stewart Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Warner, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-42.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Carpenter. Casserly. Cole, Davis, Morton, Osborn, Rice, Ross, Spencer, Stockton, Thurman, Vickers-13.

Pending the consideration of this subject, the following proceedings took place:

IN HOUSE.

1869, March 12-Mr. Schenck introduced the

bill passed at third session of Fortieth Congress, and "pocketed" by President JOHNSON. (See page 13-395.)

Mr. Allison moved to strike out the second section; which was agreed to-yeas 87, nays 56, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Archer, Bailey, Beaman, Beatty, Beck, Biggs, Bingham, Bird. Bowen, Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Cake, Cessna, Amasa Cobb, Coburn, Cullom, Davis, Deweese, Dickinson, Dyer, Eldridge,

Farnsworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fitch, Getz, Golladay, Haldeman, Hale, Hamill, Hawkins, Hay, Houg, Holman, Hooper, Hopkins, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Thomas L. Jones, Kelsey, Kerr, Knapp, Knott, Lawrence, Loughridge, Lynch, Marshall, Mayham, McCormick, McNeely, Moffet, Jesse H. Moore, Morrill, Mungen, Niblack, O'Neill, Orth, Reading, Sawyer, Scofield, Shanks, Worthington C. Smith, Stevenson, Stiles, Stone, Stoughton, Strader, Swann, Sweeney, Tatie, Trimble, Tyner, Van Horn, William B. Washburn, Welker, Wells, Wilkinson, Willard, illiams, Eugene M. W on, John T. Wilson, Winans, Winchester, Witcher, Wooward-87.

NAYS-Messrs. Armstrong, Asper, Axtell, Banks, Benjamin, Bennett, Blair, Boles, Boyd, Buffinton, Burdett, Roderick R. Butler, Churchill, Clinton L. Cobb, Conger, Cowles, Dawes, Dockery, Donley, Finkelnburg. Fisher, Garfield, Gilfillan, Heaton, Hoar, Johnson, Alexander II. Jones, Judd, Julian, Ketcham, Laflin, Lash, Logan, McGrew, Mercur. William Moore, Packard, Paine, Palmer, Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Roots, Sanford, Sargent, Schenck, Sheldon, John A. Smith, Stokes, Strickland, Tanner. Twichell, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Wheeler, Whittemore-56.

The bill was then passed by the vote previously given.

IN SENATE.

March 9-The following bill was reported from the Committee on Finance:

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YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Boreman, Carpenter, Casserly, Harris, Kellogg, McDonald, Norton. Nye, Pratt, RobertConkling, Corbett, Cragin, Ferry, Fessenden, Gilbert, son, Sawyer, Schurz. Scott, Sprague, Stewart, Stockton,

Sumner, Thurman, Trumbull, Vickers, Wilson-28.

Grimes, Hamlin, Morrill, Morton, Osborn, Patterson, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Warner, Williams-15.

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Brownlow, Drake,

Mr. Thurman moved to add to the 1st section the following proviso:

Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to the obligations commonly called fivetwenty bonds.

Which was not agreed to-yeas 12, nays 31, as follow:

Norton, Osborn, Pratt, Ross, Sprague, Stockton, ThurYEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Boreman, Casserly, Morton, man, Vickers-12.

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Brownlow, Carpenter, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Fenton, Ferry, Gilbert, Grimes, Hamlin, Harris, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill, Nye, Patterson, Ramsey, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Warner, Williams, Wilson-31.

Mr. Morton moved to strike from section 1st the words, "authorizing the issue of any such obligation;" which was not agreed to-yeas 14, nays 32, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Brownlow, Casserly, Morton, Norton, Pomeroy, Pratt, Robertson, Ross, Spencer, Sprague, Stockton, Thurman, Vickers-14.

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Boreman, Carpen

ter, Cattell, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Fenton, Ferry, Fes

senden, Gilbert, Grimes, IIamlin, Howard, Howe, Morrill, Patterson, Ramsey, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Warner, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-32.

March 15-This bill was then laid aside, and the House bill taken up and passed by the vote given above.

Amendment to the Tenure-of-Office Act. This bill passed both Houses, and became a

AN ACT to amend "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices."

A BILL to strengthen the public credit, and relating to contracts for the payment of coin. Be it enacted, &c., That in order to remove any doubt as to the purpose of the Government to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and to settle conflicting questions and inter-law: pretations of the laws by virtue of which such obligations have been contracted, it is hereby provided and declared, that the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin, or its equivalent, of all the interest-bearing obligations of the United States, except in cases where the law authorizing the issue of any such obligation has expressly provided that the same may be paid in lawful money or other currency than gold and silver: Provided, however, That before any of said interest-bearing obligations not already due shall mature or be paid before maturity, the obligations not bearing interest, known as United States notes, shall be made convertible into coin at the option of the holder.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first and second sections of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices," passed March 2, 1867, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and in lieu of said repealed sections the following are hereby enacted:

That every person holding any civil office to which he has been or hereafter may be appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall have become duly qualified to act therein, shall be entitled to hold such office

during the term for which he shall have been appointed, unless sooner removed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the appointment, with the like advice and consent, of a successor in his place, except as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That during any recess of the Senate the President is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to suspend any civil officer appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, except judges of the United States courts, until the end of the next session of the Senate, and to designate some suitable person, subject to be removed in his discretion by the designation of another, to perform the duties of such suspended officer in the meantime; and such person so designated shall take the oaths and give the bonds required by law to be taken and given by the suspended officer, and shall, during the time he performs his duties, be entitled to the salary and emoluments of such office, no part of which shall belong to the officer suspended; and it shall be the duty of the President within thirty days after the commencement of each session of the Senate, except for any office which in his opinion ought not to be filled, to nominate persons to fill all vacancies in office which existed at the meeting of the Senate, whether temporarily filled or not, and also in the place of all officers suspended; and if the Senate during such session shall refuse to advise and consent to an appointment in the place of any suspended officer, then, and not otherwise, the President shall nominate another person as soon as practicable to said session of the Senate for said office.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That section three of the act to which this is an amendment be amended by inserting after the word "resignation," in line three of said section, the following: "or expiration of term of office."

Approved, April 5, 1869.

The final vote was as follows:

IN HOUSE, March 31.

IN SENATE, March 31.

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Boreman. Brownlow, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Chandler. Conkling, bert, Grimes, Hamlin, Harlan, Harris. Howard, Kellogg, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds. Fenton, Ferry, GilMorrill, Nve, Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Ramsey, Rice, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Spencer, Sumner, Tipton. Trumbull, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-42. NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Casserly, Davis, McCreery, Sprague, Stockton, Thurman, Vickers-8.

PRELIMINARY VOTES.

The following is the action of each House in detail: IN HOUSE.

1869, March 9-The bill to repeal the tenureof office act was introduced by Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, and read a first and second time and passed-yeas 138, nays 16, (not voting 39,) as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Allison, Ambler. Archer, Asper, Artell, Bailey. Banks, Beaman, Leck, Bennett, Biggs, Burdett, Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Roderick R. But Bingham, Blair, Boutwell, Bowen, Boyd. Buffinton, ler, Cake. Cessna, Churchill, Clarke, Cleveland, Amasa Cobb. Clinton L. Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Conger, Crebs, Cullom. Davis, Dawes, Deweese, Dickey, Dickinson, Dyer, Eldrig Ferry, Finckelnburg, Fisher, Fitch, Gilfillan. Goll day, Griswold, Haldeman, Hale. Hamill, Hawkins, Hawley, Ilay, Heaton, Hill, Hoag, Hoar, Hol man, Ingersoll, Johnson, Alexander II. Jones, Thomas L. Jnes, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Kerr. Ketcham, Knapp, Knott Lash, Logan. Loughridge, Marshall, Mayham. McCmick, McCrary, McGrew, McNeely, Moffet, Eliakim II. Moore, Jesse II. Moore, Morrill, Negley, Niblack, O'Neill, Orth, Packard, Packer, Paine, Palmer, Peters, Phelps, Pomeroy, Fotter, Prosser, Randell, Leading, Rice, Rogers, Sargent, Schumaker, Scofield, Shanks. Sheldon, Slocum, John A. Smith, William J. Sm: h, Stevenson, Stiles, Stone. Stoughton, Strader. Strickland, Swann, Sweeney Trimble Twichell, Tyner.Upson, Van Auken, Van Horn, Van Trump, Voorhees, Cadwalader C, Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker. Wells Wheeler, Williams, Eugene M. Wilson. John T. Wilson, Winans, Winchester, Witcher. Wood. Woodward—138.

NAYS-Messrs. Arnell, Boles, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Hotchkiss, Jenckes, Lawrence, Maynard. Schenck, Worthington C. Smith, Stokes, Taffe, Tillman, Ward, Whittemore, Willard-16.

IN SENATE.

March 11-It was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary-yeas 34, nays 25, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Brownlow, Buckingham, arpenter, Cattell, Chandler, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Gilbert, Hamlin. Harris, Howard, Howe, Morrill, Norton, Nye, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ramsey. Rice, Sawyer, Schurz. Scott, Stewart. Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Williams, Wilson, Yates-34.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Boreman. Cameron, Casserly, Corbett, Davis, Fenton, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, McCreery, McDonald, Morton, Pool, Pratt, Robertson, Ross, Sherman, Spencer, Sprague, Stockton, Thayer, Thurman, Vickers, Warner-25.

March 24-Mr. Trumbull reported the bill from the Committee on the Judiciary, amended so as to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Ames, Armstrong,
Arnell, Asper, Bailey, Banks. Beaman, Bennett, Bing-
ham, Blair, Boles, Bowen, Buffinton, Burdett, Benjamin
F. Butler, Roderick R. Butler, Cake, Cessna, Churchill,
Amasa Cobb, Clinton L. Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Conger,
Cowles, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dockery, Donley, Duval,
Ela, Ferriss, Finkelnburg, Fisher, Fitch, Garfield, Gil-
fillan, Hale, Hawley, Hay, Heaton, Hill, Hooper, Hop-
kins, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Alexander H. Jones, Judd,
Kelsey, Knapp, Laflin, Lash, Logan, Lynch. Maynard,
McCarthy, McCrary, McGrew, Mercur, Eliakim II.
Moore, Jesse II. Moore, William Moore, Morrell, Morrill,
O'Neill, Packard, Packer, Paine, Palmer, Peters, Phelps,
Pomeroy, Prosser, Roots, Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer,
That the 1st and 2d sections of an act enti-
Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, Sheldon, John A. Smith,
William J. Smith, William Smyth, Stevens, Stevenson, tled "An act regulating the tenure of certain
Stokes, Stoughton, Strickland, Taffe, Tanner. Tillman, civil officers," passed March 2, 1867, be, and the
Twichell, Tyner. Upson, Van Horn, Ward, Cadwalader |
C. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, Wheeler, same are hereby, repealed, and in lieu of said
Williams, John T. Wilson, Winans, Witcher-108.
NAYS-Messrs. Archer, Axtell, Beatty, Beck, Benton,
Biggs, Bird, Boyd, Brooks, Burr, Calkin, Clarke, Cleve-
land, Crebs, Davis, Deweese, Dickinson, Eldridge, Ferry,
Getz, Golladay, Griswoll, Haldeman, Hambleton. Humill,
Hawkins, Hoag, Hoar, Holman, Johnson, Thomas L. Jones,
Julian, Kerr, Loughridge, Marshall, Mayham, McCor-
mick, M-Neely. Moffet, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, Orth, Po-
land, Petter, Randall, Reading, Reeves, Rice, Rogers, Schu-
maker, Slocum, Worthington C. Smith, Siles, Stone, Swann,
Sweeney, Trimble. Van Auken, Voorhees, Wells. Whittemore,
Wilkinson, Willard, Eugene M. Wilson, Wood, Woodward
-67.

repealed sections the following are hereby enacted: That every person holding any civil office to which he has been or may hereafter be appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall have become qualified to act therein, shall be entitled to hold such office during the term for which he shall have been appointed, unless sooner removed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the appointment, with the like advice and consent,

of a successor in his place, except as herein | Twichell, Ward, Welker, Wheeler, John T. Wilson, otherwise provided.

SEC. 2 And be it further enacted, That during any recess of the Senate the President is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to suspend any civil officer appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, except judges of the United States courts, until the end of the next session of the Senate, and to designate some suitable person subject to be removed in his discretion by the designation of another to perform the duties of such suspended officer in the meantime; and such person so designated shall take oaths and give bonds required by law to be taken and given by the suspended officer, and shall during the time he performs his duties be entitled to the salary and emoluments of such office, no part of which shall belong to the officer suspended. It shall be the duty of the President within thirty days after the commencement of each session of the Senate, except for any office which in his opinion ought not to be filled, to nominate persons to fill all vacancies in office which existed at the meeting of the Senate, whether temporarily filled or not, and also in the place of all officers suspended, and if the Senate during such session shall refuse to advise and consent to an appointment in the place of any suspended officer, and shall also refuse by vote to assent to his suspension, then, and not otherwise, such officer, at the end of the session, shall be entitled to resume the possession of the office from which he was suspended, and afterwards to discharge its duties and receive its emoluments as though no such suspension had taken place.

Which was agreed to-yeas 37, nays 15, as

follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Buckingham, Carpenter, Cattell, Chandler, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Gilbert, Hamlin, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Kellogg, Morrill, Osborn, Patterson, Pratt, Ramsey, Rice, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-37.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Casserly, Davis, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, McCreery, McDonald, Norton, Ross, Sprague, Stockton, Thurman, Vickers, Warner-15. IN HOUSE.

March 25-A motion to refer to the Committee on the Judiciary was agreed to-yeas 94, nays 79, not voting 23.

March 26-This vote was reconsidered, without a division, and the House refused to concur in the amendment of the Senate-yeas 70, nays 99, (not voting 27,) as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Armstrong, Asper, Bailey, Beaman, Beatty, Benton, Bingham, Boles, Burdett, Roderick R. Butler, Cessna, Churchill, Clinton L. Cobb, Coburn, Cowles, Dixon, Dockery, Donley, Duval, Ela, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Finkelnburg, Garfield, Gilfillan, Hawley, Hill, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Kelley, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Laflin, Lash, William Lawrence, Lynch, Maynard, McCarthy, McGrew, Mercur, Eliakim H. Moore, William Moore. Packer, Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Roots, Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, William J. Smith, William Smyth, Stevens, Stoughton, Strickland, Taffe. Tillman,

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Winans-70.

NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Ambler, Archer, Axtell, Banks, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Blair, Boyd, Brooks, Buffinton, Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Culkin, Clarke, Cleveland, Amasa Cobb, Cook, Conger, Crebs, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Deweese, Dickey, Dickinson, Dyer, Eldridge, Ferry, Fisher, Fox, Getz, Golladay, Griswold, Haight, Haldeman, Hambleton, Hawkins, Hay, Heaton, Hoag, lloar, Holman, HopJulian, Kerr, Knott, Logan, Loughridge, Marshall, Maykins. Johnson, Alexander H. Jones, Thomas L. Jones, ham, McCrary, McNeely, Moffet, Jesse II. Moore, Morgan, Mungen, Niblack, O'Neill, Orth, Packard, Paine, Palmer, maker, Sheldon, Slocum, John A. Smith, Joseph S. Smith, Phelps, Randall, Reading, Reeves, Rice, Rogers, SchuStevenson, Swann, Sweeney, Tanner, Townsend, Trimble, Tyner, Upson, Van Horn, Van Trump, Cadwalader C. Wilkinson, Williams, Eugene M. Wilson, Winchester, Washburn, William B. Washburn, Wells, Whittemore, Witcher, Wood, Woodward—99.

IN SENATE.

March 30-A motion to recede from its amendments was lost-yeas 20, nays 37, as follow: Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, McCreery, McDonald, MorYEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Cusserly, Cole, Davis, Fenton, ton, Pool, Robertson, Ross, Sprague, Stockton, Thayer, Thurman, Vickers, Warner-20. NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Gilbert, Hamlin, HarBuckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Cattell, Conkling, lan, Harris, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, Morrill, Nye, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pratt, Ramsey, Rice, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Spencer, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Willey, Williams, Wilson-37.

A committee of conference was then voted, and Messrs. Trumbull, Edmunds, and Grimes appointed conferees.

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Resolved. That in passing the resolution for the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States this house never intended that Chinese or Mongolians should become voters.

The motion to suspend the rules was lostyeas 42, nays 106, not voting 48. The YEAS were Messrs. Archer, Axtell, Bird, Brooks, Burr, Calkin, Crebs, Dickinson, Eldridge, Fitch, Golla day, Haight, Haldeman, Hambleton, Hamill, Hawkins, Holman, Johnson, Thomas L. Jones, Kerr, Knott, Mayham, McNeely, Potter, Randall, Reading, Reeves, Sargent, Slocum, Joseph S. Smith, William J. Smith, Stiles, Stone, Strader, Swann, Van Auken, Van Trump, Wells, Eugene M. Wilson, Winchester, Wood, Woodward.

XLIII.

PRESIDENT GRANT'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS,

AND MESSAGE ON RECONSTRUCTION, AND THE OFFICIAL PROCLAMATIONS OF THE YEAR.

President Grant's Inaugural Address, March | debt will be trusted in public place, and it will

4th, 1869.

Citizens of the United States:

go far towards strengthening a credit, which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the treasury for every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrenchment in expenditure in every de

Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have taken this oath without mental reservation, and with the determination to do to the best of my ability all that it requires of me. The re-partment of government. sponsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammelled. I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people.

On all leading questions agitating the public mind I will always express my views to Congress, and urge them according to my judgment; and, when I think it advisable, will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose. But all laws will be faithfully executed whether they meet my approval or not.

I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws are to govern all alike, those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent

execution.

The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding Administrations have never had to deal with. In meeting these it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, without prejudice, hate or sectional pride, remembering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.

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When we compare the paying capacity of the country now-with the ten States in poverty from the effects of war, but soon to emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity than ever before with its paying capacity twenty-five years ago, and calculate what it probably will be twentyfive years hence, who can doubt the feasibility of paying every dollar then with more ease than we now pay for useless luxuries? Why, it looks as though Providence had bestowed upon us a strong box in the precious metals locked up in the sterile mountains of the far west, and which we are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us.

Ultimately it may be necessary to insure the facilities to reach these riches, and it may be necessary also that the general government should give its aid to secure this access. But that should only be when a dollar of obligation to pay secures precisely the same sort of dollar to use now, and not before. Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance, the prudent business man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant future. The nation should follow the same rule. A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt and all industries encouraged.

The young men of the country, those who from their age must be its rulers twenty-five years hence, have a peculiar interest in maintaining the national honor. A moment's reflecThis requires security of person, property, tion as to what will be our commanding influence and free religious and political opinion in every among the nations of the earth in their day, if part of our common country, without regard to they are only true to themselves, should inspire local prejudice. All laws to secure these ends them with national pride. All divisions, geowill receive my best efforts for their enforcement. graphical, political, and religious, can join in A great debt has been contracted in securing this common sentiment. How the public debt to us and our posterity the Union. The pay-is to be paid, or specie payments resumed, is not ment of this, principal and interest, as well as so important as that a plan should be adopted the return to a specie basis, as soon as it can be and acquiesced in. accomplished without material detriment to the A united determination to do is worth more debtor class or to the country at large, must be than divided counsels upon the method of doing. provided for. To protect the national honor Legislation upon this subject may not be necesevery dollar of government indebtedness should sary now, nor even advisable, but it will be when be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stip-the civil law is more fully restored in all parts ulated in the contract. Let it be understood of the country, and trade resumes its wonted that no repudiator of one farthing of our public channels.

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