Mines and Mining. Messrs. Conness (chairman), Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Ross, Saulsbury, and Whyte.

Revision of the Laws of the United States. Messrs. Conkling (chairman), Sumner, Bales, Bayard, and Pool.

Special Committee on Railways. Messrs. Sherman (chairman), Sumner, Buckalew, Chandler, Stewart, Ramsey, and Vickers.

Committee to inquire whether any improper means have been used, or attempted to be used, for influencing the vote of Senators upon the Impeachment. Messrs. Buckalew, Morrill (Me.), Chandler, Stewart, and Thayer.

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE SENATE.

Printing. Messrs. Anthony, Whyte, and Harris.

Enrolled Bills. Messrs. Ross, Patterson (N. II.), and Dixon.

Library. Messrs. Morgan, Howe, and Fessenden.

Retrenchment. Messrs. Edmunds, Williams, Patterson (N. H.), and Buckalew.

To Revise and Fix the Pay of the Officers of the Two Houses. Messrs. Fessenden, Sherman, and Buckalew.

To Examine Claims and Accounts for Repairs, and Furnishing the Executive Mansion. Messrs. Harland (chairman), and Norton.

Ordnance. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Cameron, and Drake.

Revising Rules of the Senate. Messrs. Anthony (chairman), Pomeroy, and Edmunds.

HOUSE APPOINTMENTS TO FILL VACANCIES.

Revision of Laws. Messrs. McKee (Ky.), Dickey (Penn.), Boyden (N. C.), and Butler (Tenn.) Elections. Messrs. Pettus (Penn.), and Stover (Mo.)

Commerce. Mr. Kellogg (Ala.)

Appropriations. Mr. Scofield (Penn.)

Pacific Railroad. Mr. Trimble (Ky.)

Reconstruction. Mr. Norris (Ala.)

Military. Messrs. Deweese (N. C.), and Sypher (La.)

Freedmen's Affairs. Mr. Bowen (S. C.)

Education and Labor. Mr. Whittemore (S. C.)

Revolutionary Pensions. Messrs. Jones (N. C.), Clift (Ga.), and Blackburn (La.)
Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Dockery (N. C.), Goss (S. C.), and Edwards (Ga.)

Mileage. Mr. Young of Georgia.

Enrolled Bills. Mr. Callis of Alabama.

Expenditures in the State Department. Messrs. Vidal (La.), Corley (Ga.), and Boles (Ark.)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Messrs. Lash (N. C.), and Tift (Ga.)
Expenditures in the War Department. Mr. French of North Carolina.

Expenditures in the Navy Department. Messrs. Buckalew (Ala.), and Gove (Ga.)
Expenditures in the Post-Office Department. Mr. Newsham of Louisiana.
Expenditures in the Interior Department. Messrs. Pierce (Ala.), and Prince (Ga.)
Expenditures on Public Buildings. Mr. Haughey of Alabama.

Thomas W. Tipton.

5. Omar D. Conger.
6. Randolph Strickland.

MINNESOTA.

1. Morton S. Wilkinson.
2. Eugene M. Wilson.

21. Alexander H. Bailey.
22. John C. Churchill.
23. Dennis McCarthy.
24. George W. Cowles.
25. William H. Kelsey.
26. Giles W. Hotchkiss.
27. Hamilton Ward.
28. Noah Davis, Jr.
29. John Fisher.

30. David S. Bennett.
31. Porter Sheldon.

NORTH CAROLINA.

1. C. L. Cobb.
2. David Heaton.
3. Oliver H. Dockery.
4. John T. Deweese.
5. Israel G. Lash.
6. Francis E. Shober.
7. Plato Durham.

OHIO.

1. Philip W. Strader.
2. Job E. Stevenson.
3. Robert C. Schenck.
4. William Lawrence.
5. William Mungen.
6. John A. Smith.
7. James J. Winans.
8. John Beatty.

9. Edward F. Dickinson.
10. Truman H. Hoag.
11. John T. Wilson.
12. Philad. V. Trump.
13. George W. Morgan.
14. Martin Welker.
15. Eliakim H. Moore.
16. John A. Bingham.
17. Jacob A. Ambler.
18. William H. Upson.
19. James A. Garfield.
OREGON.

1. J. S. Smith.

PENNSYLVANIA.

1. Samuel J. Randall.
2. Charles O'Neill.
3. John Moffatt.
4. William D. Kelley.
5. John R. Reading.
6. John D. Stiles.

7. Washington Townsend.
8. J. Lawrence Getz.
9. Oliver J. Dickey.
10. Henry L. Cake.

11. Daniel M. Van Auken.
12. George W. Woodward.
13. Ulysses Mercur.
14. John B. Packer.

15. Richard J. Haldeman.

1. Halbert E. Paine.
2. Benjamin F. Hopkins.
3. Amasa Cobb.

4. Charles A. Eldridge.
5. Philetus Sawyer.
6. Cad. C. Washburne.

POLITICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CONGRESS.

Were the States all reconstructed and represented in Congress, the number of Senators would be 74, and the number of members of the House of Representatives 243. But as Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia are not represented, the present number is, in the Senate 66, and in the House of Representatives, 225.

In the Fortieth Congress, the members are politically classified as follows: In the SenateRepublicans, 54; Democrats, 12; Republican majority, 42. Democrats, 48-3 vacancies; Republican majority, 126. In the House-Republicans, 174;

In the Forty-first Congress, the members elect are: In the Senate-Republicans, 56; Democrats, 11-7 vacancies; Republican majority, 45. In the House-Republicans, 132; Democrats, 74; Republican majority, 58,-37 vacancies, or not yet elected.

NATIONAL PLATFORMS OF 1868.

REPUBLICAN, AT CHICAGO, MAY.

The National Republican party of the United States, assembled in National Convention in the city of Chicago, on the 21st of May, 1866, make the following declaration of principles: 1. We congratulate the country on the assured success of the reconstruction policy of Congress, as evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States lately in rebellion, of constitutions securing equal civil and political rights to all; and it is the duty of the Government to sustain those institutions and to prevent the people of such States from being remitted to a state of anarchy.

2. The guaranty by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and must be maintained: while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States.

3. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime; and the national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness in the uttermost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, not only according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. 4. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized, and reduced as rapidly as the national faith will permit.

5. The national debt, contracted as it has been for the preservation of the Union for all time to come, should be extended over a fair period for redemption; and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of interest thereon, whenever it can be honestly done.

6. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to so improve our credit that capi. talists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now pay, and must continue to pay so long as repudiation, partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or suspected.

7. The Government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy; and the corruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical reform.

8. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession to the Presidency of Andrew Johnson, who has acted treacherously to the people who elected him and the cause he was pledged to support; who has usurped high legislative and judicial functions; who has refused to execute the laws; who has used his high office to induce other officers to ignore and violate the laws; who has employed his executive powers to render insecure the property, the peace, liberty and life, of the citizen; who has abused the pardoning power; who has denounced the national legislature as unconstitutional who has persistently and corruptly resisted, by every means in his power, every proper attempt at the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion; who has perverted the public patronage into an engine of wholesale corruption; and who has been justly impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty-five Senators.

9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers, that because a man is once a subject he is always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the United States, as a relic of feudal times, not authorized by the laws of nations, and at war with our national honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are entitled to protection in all their rights of citizenship, as though they were native-born; and no citizen of the United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest and imprisonment by any foreign power for acts done or words spoken in this country; and, if so arrested and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to interfere in his behalf.

10. Of all who were faithful in the trials of the late war, there were none entitled to more especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen who endured the hardships of campaign and cruise, and imperilled their lives in the service of the country; the bounties and pensions provided by the laws for these brave defenders of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten; the widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of the people-a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation's protecting care.

11. Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development, and resources, and increase of power to this republic, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.

12. This convention declares itself in sympathy with all oppressed peoples struggling for their rights.

13 That we highly commend the spirit of magnanimity and forbearance with which men who have served in the rebellion, but who now frankly and honestly co-operate with us in restoring the peace of the country and reconstructing the southern State governments upon the basis

of impartial justice and equal rights, are received back into the communion of the loyal people; and we favor the removal of the disqualifications and restrictions imposed upon the late rebels in the same measure as the spirit of disloyalty will die out, and as may be consistent with the safety of the loyal people.

14. That we recognize the great principles laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independence, as the true foundation of democratic government; and we hail with gladness every effort toward making these principles a living reality on every inch of American soil.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' NATIONAL CONVENTION AT CHICAGO, MAY.

1. Resolved, That the soldiers and sailors, steadfast now as ever to the Union and the flag, and fully recognizing the claims of General Ulysses S. Grant to the confidence of the American people, and believing that its victories under his guidance in war will be illustrated by him in peace by such measures as shall secure the fruits of our exertions and the restoration of the Union upon a loyal basis, we declare it as our deliberate conviction that he is the choice of the soldiers and sailors of the Union for the office of President of the United States.

2. That in the maintenance of those principles which underlie our Government, and for which we fought during four years, we pledge our earnest and active support to the Republican party as the only political organization which, in our judgment, is true to the principles of loyalty and equality before the law.

3. That speaking for ourselves and the soldiers and sailors who imperilled their lives to preserve the Union, we believe that the impeachment of Andrew Johnson by the House of Representatives, for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, and his trial by the United States Senate, have presented unmistakable proofs of his guilt, and that whatever may be the judgment of the tribunal before which he is arraigned, the verdict of guilty has been rendered by the people, and we regard any Senator who has voted for acquittal as falling short of the proper discharge of his duty in this hour of the nation's trial, and as unworthy of the confidence of a brave and loyal people.

4. That the soldiers and sailors recognize no difference between native and adopted citizens, and they demand that the Government shall protect naturalized citizens abroad as well as those of native birth.

GENERAL GRANT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

WASHINGTON, D. C. May 29, 1868.

General JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, President National Union Republican Convention:

In formally accepting the nomination of the National Union Republican Convention of the 21st of May instant, it seems proper that some statement of views beyond the mere acceptance of the nomination should be expressed.

The proceedings of the convention were marked by wisdom, moderation, and patriotism, and I believe express the feelings of the great mass of those who sustained the country through its recent trials. I endorse their resolutions. If elected to the office of President of the United States, it will be my endeavor to administer all the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the view of giving peace. quiet and protection everywhere. In times like the present it is impossible, or at least eminently improper, to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or wrong, through an administration of four years. New political issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising; the views of the public on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people. I always have respected that will and always shall.

Peace and universal prosperity, its sequence, with economy of administration, will lighten the burden of taxation, while it constantly reduces the national debt. Let us have peace. With great respect, your obedient servant,

MR. COLFAX'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

U. S. GRANT.

WASHINGTON, May 30, 1868.

Hon. J. R. HAWLEY, President National Union Republican Convention:

DEAR SIR; The platform adopted by the patriotic convention over which you presided, and the resolutions which so happily supplement it, so entirely agree with my views as to a just national policy, that my thanks are due to the delegates, as much for this clear and auspicious declaration of principles as for the nomination with which I have been honored, and which I gratefully accept.