VERMONT. Moses Robinson.. ..1789-1790. | Ezra Butler......... .1826-1828. Erastus Fairbanks...1852-1853. Thomas Chittenden..1790-1797. S. C. Crafts. ....1828-1831. J. S. Robinson.... .1853-1854. .1854-1856. Isaac Tichenor.......1797-1807. William A. Palmer...1831-1835. Stephen Royce.. Richard Skinner.. .1841-1843. Hiland Hall. .1858-1860. .1843-1844. Erastus Fairbanks...1860-1861. .1844-1846. Frederick Holbrook..1861-1863. ..1846-1849. John G. Smith... ...1863-1865. .1865-1867. .1820-1823. Carlos Coolidge... .....1849-1850. Paul Dillingham. C. P. Van Ness.......1823-1826. Charles K. Williams..1850-1852. John B. Page.........1867–..... VIRGINIA. Beverly Randolph....1788-1791. Wilson C. Nicholas...1814-1816. Thomas W. Gilmer...1840-1841. Henry Lee. Robert Brooke.. James Wood. James Monroe. John Page. William H. Cabell. James Monroe. 1791-1794. James P. Preston....1816-1819. John Rutherford. .1841-1842. .1794-1796. Thomas M. Randolph.1819-1822. John M. Gregory.. ....1842-1843. 1796-1799. James Pleasant.. .1822-1825. James McDowell.....1843-1846. .1799-1802. John Tyler.. .1825-1827. William Smith..... ..1846-1849. .1802-1805. William B. Giles.....1827-1830. John B. Floyd........1849-1852. .1805-1808. John Floyd... 1830-1834. Joseph Johnson. .1808-1811. L. W. Tazewell.. .1834-1836. Henry A. Wise.. .1811-1811. W. Robertson, (act.).1836-1837. John Letcher. George W. Smith....1811-1812. David Campbell... .1837-1840. Francis H. Pierpont..1861-1868. James Barbour.......1812-1814. .1844-1845. William A. Barstow..1853-1855. Lucius Fairchild......1866-.. Henry Dodge.........1845-1848. Coles Bashford.......1855-1857. TERRITORIES. John A. Gurley......1862-1363. M. M. Crocker, (Mil.). 1864–1866. John N. Goodwin....1863-1864. R. C. McCormick....1866–1868. COLORADO. John Evans..........1861-1865. Alexander Cummings 1865–1867. A. C. Hunt....... ...1867-..... DAKOTA. William Jayne.......1861-1863. Newton Edmunds....1863-1866. A. J. Faulk....... .1866-..... IDAHO. William H. Wallace..1863-1864. David W. Ballard....1866-1867. Isaac L. Gibbs.. .1867-1868. .1864-1866. MONTANA. Sidney Edgerton.....1864-1865. T. F. Meagher, (act.). 1865-1866. Green Clay Smith....1866-..... NEW MEXICO. James S. Calhoun....1851-1852. David Merriwether..1853-1857. Robert B. Mitchell...1865-1867. William C. Lane.. 1852-1853. Abraham Rencher...1857-1861. W. M. T. Arny, (act.).1867-. Solan Borland... 1853-1853. Henry Connelly. ......1861-1865.|. 1853-1857. R. D. Gholson. .1861-1861. William Pickering...1861-1867. J. P. Anderson. ....1837-1857. W. H. Wallace. ..1861-1861. M. F. Moore..........1867-..... Fayette McMullen....1857-1861.). CONGRESS. The first section of the Constitution provides that all legislative powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Congress must meet at least once in every year, on the first Monday in December, and also at the commencement of each Congress on the 4th of March. The Senate of the United States is composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years. At their first meeting under the Constitution, the Senators were divided into three classes, so that the terms of one-third of the Senators might expire every second year. By this means one-third of the Senate is renewed biennially. No person can be a Senator who is under thirty years of age, nor unless he has been nine years a citizen of the United States, and, when elected, is an inhabitant of the State for which he is chosen. By an act of Congress, approved July 25th, 1866, it is provided that the Legislatures of the several States shall elect Senators of the United States in the following manner: Each House shall by a viva voce vote of each member present, name a person for Senator on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof. On the day following, the Houses shall meet in joint assembly, and if the same person shall have received a majority of all the votes cast in each House, he shall be declared duly elected Senator of the United States; but if not, then the joint assembly shall proceed to choose, by a viva voce vote, a person for the purpose aforesaid, and the person who shall receive a majority of all the votes of the joint assembly, a majority of the members of each House being present, shall be declared duly elected. If such Senator is not elected on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet and take at least one vote per day until an election is secured. When a vacancy shall happen during the session of a Legislature, the same proceedings shall be held on the second Tuesday after notice of such vacancy shall have been received. Besides its ordinary capacity, the Senate is invested with certain judicial functions, and its members constitute a High Court of Impeachment. The judgment only extends to removal from office and disqualification. The House of Representatives is composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States. No person can be a Representative who is under twenty-five years of age, nor unless he has been seven years a citizen of the United States, and, when elected, is an inhabitant of the State for which he is chosen. Representatives are apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, which numbers are ascertained by an actual enumeration or census of all the inhabitants, made within every term of ten years. By the law of 23d of May, 1850, under which the existing apportionment of Representatives was originally made, it was enacted that the number of Representatives in Congress should be 233, that the representative population determined by the census of that year and thereafter should be divided by said number 233, and that the quotient so found should be the ratio of representation for the several States. The ratio thus ascertained under the census of 1860 was 126,823; and upon this basis the 233 Representatives were apportioned among the several States, one Representative for every district containing that number of persons; giving to each State at least one Representative. Subsequently, by the act of March 4th, 1862, the ratio was changed, and the number of Representatives from and after March 3d, 1863, was increased from 233 to 241, by allowing one additional Representative to each of the following States, viz: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; and this number has been increased by the admission of Nevada and Nebraska with one representative each, to 243. In addition to the Representatives from the States, the House admits a delegate from each organized Territory, who has the right to debate on subjects in which his Territory is interested, but is not entitled to vote. The members of each House receive a salary of $5,000 per annum, and mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile. For each day's absence, except when caused by sickness, $8 per diem is deducted from the salary. The President of the Senate pro tem. receives the same compensation as the Vice President. The Speaker of the House of Representatives receives double the salary of a member. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES. By Act of March 4, 1862, under the Census of 1860 and by additional Act of March 3, 1863. The Fortieth Congress commenced its first regular session March 4th, 1867; adjourned March 29th to July 3d, and again July 20th to November 21st. Its second regular session began December 2d, 1867; was adjourned July 27th to September 21st, and then to October 16th, and again to November 10th, and then sine die. The third regular session began December 7th, 1868. IOWA. KANSAS. .1871. ..1873. Thomas A. Hendricks. Indianapolis. Oliver P. Morton.......Indianapolis......1873. Roscoe Conkling... .Utica... James W. Grimes..... Burlington........1871. Edmund G. Ross.... Lawrence.. Gen. J. C. Abbott......New Hanover......1871. F. T. Frelinghuysen... Newark.. 1869. .......1871. .1869. .....1873. NORTH CAROLINA. ..Pasquatauk........1873. STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE. Foreign Relations. Messrs. Sumner (chairman), Fessenden, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson, (N. II.), and Finance. Messrs. Sherman (chairman), Morgan, Williams, Van Winkle, Cattell, Henderson, and Morrill, (Vt.) Appropriations. Messrs. Morrill, (Me.), (chairman,) Grimes, Howe, Wilson, Cole, Conkling, and Guthrie. Commerce. Messrs. Chandler (chairman), Morrill, (Me.), Morgan, Sprague, Corbett, Patterson, (Tenn.), and Doolittle. *Not represented in the Senate. + For Committees of 3d Session, see page 261. Manufactures. Messrs. Sprague (chairman), Pomeroy, Yates, Cole, and Dixon. Military Affairs and the Militia. Messrs. Wilson (chairman), Howard, Sprague, Cameron, Morton, Thayer, and Doolittle. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Grimes (chairman), Anthony, Cragin, Nye, Frelinghuysen, Drake, and Hendricks. Judiciary. Messrs. Trumbull (chairman), Stewart, Frelinghuysen, Edmunds, Conkling, -, and Hendricks. Post Offices and Post Roads. Messrs. Ramsey (chairman), Conness, Pomeroy, Van Winkle, Harlan, Morrill, (Vt.), and Dixon. Public Lands. Messrs. Pomeroy (chairman), Stewart, Edmunds, Cattell, Williams, Tipton, and Hendricks, Private Land Claims. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Howard, Ferry, Norton, and Bayard. Indian Affairs. Messrs. Henderson (chairman), Morrill, (Me.), Ross, Corbett, Thayer, Buckalew, and Doolittle. Pensions. Messrs. Van Winkle (chairman), Edmunds, Trumbull, Fowler, Tipton, Davis, and Bayard. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Nye (chairman), Chandler, Howe, Patterson, (Tenn.), and Conness. Claims. Messrs. Howe (chairman), Willey, Frelinghuysen, Howard, Morrill, (Vt.), Cole, and Davis. District of Columbia. Messrs. Harlan (chairman), Sumner, Henderson, Willey, Patterson, (N. H.), Corbett, and Patterson, (Tenn.) Patents and the Patent Office. Messrs. Willey (chairman), Sherman, Thayer, Ferry, and Norton. Public Buildings and Grounds. Messrs. Fessenden (chairman), Trumbull, Grimes, Ferry, and. Territories. Messrs. Yates (chairman), Nye, Cragin, Fowler, Ramsey, Ferry, and Davis. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Sherman, Morgan, Conness, Ramsey, Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, and Drake. Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Messrs. Cragin (chairman), Drake, and Buckalew. Engrossed Bills. Messrs. Fowler (chairman), Sumner, and Norton. Mines and Mining. Messrs. Conness (chairman), Stewart, Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Conkling, and Saulsbury. SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE. Committee on Revising the Rules of the Senate. Messrs. Anthony (chairman), Pomeroy, and Edmunds. JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE SENATE. Printing. Messrs. Anthony (chairman), Ross, and -. Enrolled Bills. Messrs. Ross (chairman), Patterson, (N. H.), and Dixon. The Library. Messrs. Morgan (chairman), Howe, and Fessenden. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEES ON THE PART OF THE SENATE. Retrenchment. Messrs. Edmunds (chairman), Williams, Patterson, (N. H.), and Buckalew. Revise and Fix the Pay of the Officers of the Two Houses. Messrs. Fessenden (chairman), Sherman, and Buckalew. Examine the Accounts for Furnishing the Executive Mansion. Messrs. Harlan (chairman), and Norton. Ordnance. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Cameron, and Drake. Chaplain.... Sergeant-at-Arms.. OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. Superintendent of Document Room...... Superintendent of Folding Room... .Rev. Edgar H. Gray, D. D. |