de, Willey, Williams, Wilson, and
Yates.

The following Senators voted against the resolution:

Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Dixon, Doolittle, Guthrie,
Hendricks, Johnson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Stockton, and Wright.

Five Senators were absent: Messrs. Cragin, Davis, Henderson,
McDougall, and Nesmith.

On the day succeeding the adoption of the concurrent resolution by the
Senate, the amendments of that body came before the House of
Representatives. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens moved that the House concur in
the amendments of the Senate. He said: "The Senate took what to them
appeared to be the proper view of their prerogatives, and, though they
did not seem to differ with us as to the main object, the mode of
getting at it with them was essential, and they very properly put the
resolution in the shape they considered right. They have changed the
form of the resolution so as not to require the assent of the
President; and they have also considered that each house should
determine for itself as to the reference of papers, by its own action
at the time. To this I see no objection, and, while moving to concur,
I will say now, that when it is in order I shall move, or some other
gentleman will move when his State is called, a resolution precisely
similar, or very nearly similar, to the provision which the Senate has
stricken out, only applicable to the House alone."

The House then concurred in the amendments of the Senate, so the
resolution passed in the following form:

"_Resolved_, by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That a joint committee of fifteen members shall
be appointed, nine of whom shall be members of the House,
and six members of the Senate, who shall inquire into the
condition of the States which formed the so-called
Confederate States of America, and report whether they, or
any of them, are entitled to be represented in either house
of Congress, with leave to report at any time, by bill or
otherwise."

A resolution subsequently passed the House, "That all papers offered
relative to the representation of the late so-called Confederate
States of America, shall be referred to the joint committee of fifteen
without debate, and no members shall be admitted from either of said
so-called States until Congress shall declare such States entitled to
representation."

On the fourteenth of December the Speaker announced the names of the
committee