JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on Monday, the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and in the ninety-third year of the independence of the United States, being the Third Session of the FORTIETH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of the government of the United States. On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, Schuyler Colfax, the Speaker, one of the representatives from the State of Indiana, and the followingnamed members of the House of Representatives, appeared and took their seats, viz: John Lynch. Stephen Taber. Demas Barnes. William E. Robinson. John Fox. Thomas E. Stewart. John W. Chanler. James Brooks. Fernando Wood. William H. Robertson. John H. Ketcham. Orange Ferriss. Calvin T. Hulburd. James M. Marvin. William C. Fields. Addison H. Laflin. John C. Churchill. Dennis McCarthy. Theodore M. Pomeroy. William H. Kelsey. William S. Lincoln. Henry Van Aernam. William Moore. John Hill. Samuel J. Randall. Charles O'Neill. Leonard Myers. William D. Kelley. Benjamin M. Boyer. John M. Broomall. Henry L. Cake. Daniel M. Van Auken. George W. Woodward. Ulysses Mercur. George F. Miller. Adam J. Glossbrenner. William H. Koontz. Daniel J. Morrell. Stephen F. Wilson. Glenni W. Scofield. John Covode. James K. Moorhead. George V. Lawrence. Hiram McCullough. Stevenson Archer. Charles E. Phelps. Francis Thomas. John R. French. David Heaton. Israel G. Lash. Nathaniel Boyden. Alexander H. Jones. B. F. Whittemore, C. C. Bowen. Simeon Corley. James H. Goss. PENNSYLVANIA... MARYLAND.. NORTH CAROLINA. SOUTH CAROLINA.... GEORGIA. ALABAMA.... LOUISIANA.. OHIO.... J. W. Clift. Nelson Tift. W. P. Edwards. Samuel F. Gove. C. H. Prince. P. M. B. Young. Francis W. Kellogg. Benjamin W. Norris. John B. Callis. Thomas Haughey. J. Hale Sypher. Joseph P. Newsham. Michael Vidal. Benjamin Eggleston. Samuel F. Cary. Robert C. Schenck. William Lawrence. William Mungen. Reader W. Clarke. John Beatty. Ralph P. Buckland. James M. Ashley. Philadelph Van Trump. Columbus Delano. Martin Welker. Tobias A. Plants. John A. Bingham. Ephraim R. Eckley. Rufus P. Spalding. James A. Garfield. Lawrence S. Trimble. J. Proctor Knott. Thomas L. Jones. James B. Beck. George M. Adams. Samuel McKee. Roderick R. Butler. Horace Maynard. William B. Stokes. James Mullins. John Trimble. Samuel M. Arnell. William E. Niblack. Michael C. Kerr. Morton C. Hunter. George W. Julian. John Coburn. Henry D. Washburn. Godlove S. Orth. Schuyler Colfax. William Williams. John P. C. Shanks. KENTUCKY... TENNESSEE INDIANA.. ILLINOIS.. MISSOURI... ARKANSAS.. MICHIGAN. Norman B. Judd. George W. Anderson. ... Thomas Boles. Fernando C. Beaman. John F. Driggs. William Higby. Ignatius Donnelly. FLORIDA.. IOWA... WISCONSIN.. CALIFORNIA.... MINNESOTA. OREGON. KANSAS.. WEST VIRGINIA... NEBRASKA... The following delegates also appeared and took their seats, viz: Oliver J. Dickey, a member elect from the State of Pennsylvania, in the place of Thaddeus Stevens, deceased; S. Newton Pettis, a member |