bills, with his "objections thereto in
writing," to the very last. Among the last doings of the Thirty-ninth
Congress was the passage of the Tenure-of-office Bill and the Military
Reconstruction Bill over vetoes. In humiliating contrast with the
circumstances one year before, when the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill prevailed, the veto of the Military Reconstruction Bill had but
ten supporters in the Senate.

The following is a complete list of the bills vetoed by the President
during the Thirty-ninth Congress, and of the bills which were passed
over the veto, and those which became laws without the President's
signature:

FIRST SESSION.--To enlarge the powers of the Freedmen's
Bureau; vetoed February 19, 1866.

To protect all persons in the United States in their civil
rights, and furnish the means of their vindication; vetoed;
and passed, April 9, 1866, over veto.

For the admission of the State of Colorado into the Union;
vetoed May, 1866.

To enable the Montana and New York Iron Mining and
Manufacturing Company to purchase a certain amount of the
public lands not now in market; vetoed June, 1866.

To continue in force and to amend an act entitled "an act to
establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees,
and for other purposes;" vetoed; passed, July 16, 1866, over
veto.

For the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union;
not signed; failed through the adjournment of Congress.

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SECOND SESSION.--To regulate the elective franchise in the
District of Columbia; vetoed; passed, January 8, 1867, over
veto.

To admit the State of Colorado into the Union; vetoed
January 18, 1867.

For the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union;
vetoed; passed, February 9, 1867, over veto.

To provide for the more efficient government of the
insurrectionary States; vetoed; passed, March 2, 1867, over
veto.

To regulate the tenure of office; vetoed; passed, March 2,
1867, over veto.

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_Bills which became laws without the President's signature,
the constitutional limit of ten days having expired without
their return:_

To repeal section 13 of "an act to suppress insurrection, to
punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the
pr