e to his
memory."

Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, immediately after the President's
message had been read in the House of Representatives, offered the
following wing joint resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

_Resolved,_ That a committee of one member from each State represented
in this House be appointed on the part of this House, to join such
committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to consider
and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for
the Congress of the United States to express tho deep sensibility of
the nation to the event of the decease of their late President, Abraham
Lincoln, and that so much of the message of the President as refers to
that melancholy event be referred to said committee.

On motion of Hon. SOLOMON FOOT, the Senate unanimously concurred in the
passage of the resolution, and the following joint committee was
appointed--thirteen on the part of the Senate and one for every State
represented (twenty-four) on the part of the House of Representatives:

SENATE.

Hon. Solomon Foot, Vt.
Hon. Richard Yates, Ill.
Hon. Benj. F. Wade, Ohio.
Hon. Wm. Pitt Fessenden, Me.
Hon. Henry Wilson, Mass.
Hon. James R. Doolittle, Wis.
Hon. Jas. H. Lane, Ka.
Hon. Ira Harris, N.Y.
Hon. Jas. W. Nesmith, Oregon.
Hon. Henry S. Lane, Ind.
Hon. Waitman T. Willey, W. Va.
Hon. Chas. R. Buckalew, Pa.
Hon. John B. Henderson, Mo.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Hon. Ellihu B. Washburne, Ill.
Hon. James G. Blaine, Me.
Hon. James W. Patterson, N. H.
Hon. Justin S. Morrill, Vt.
Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, Mass.
Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, R. I.
Hon. Henry C. Deming, Ct.
Hon. John A. Griswold, N.Y.
Hon. Edwin R. V. Wright, N.J.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Pa.
Hon. John A. Nicholson, Del.
Hon. Francis Thomas, Md.
Hon. Robert C. Schenck, Ohio.
Hon. George S. Shanklin, Ky.
Hon. Godlove S. Orth, Ind.
Hon. Joseph W. McClurg, Mo.
Hon. Fernando C. Beaman, Mich.
Hon. John A. Kasson, Iowa.
Hon. Ithamar C. Sloan, Wis.
Hon. William Higby, Cal.
Hon. William Windom, Minn.
Hon. J. H. D. Henderson, Oregon.
Hon. Sidney Clarke, Kansas.
Hon. Kellian V. Whaley, W. Va.

That committee, by Hon. Mr. FOOT, made the following report, which was
concurred in by both Houses _nem. con._

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, late President of the United States, having occurred