APPENDIX. THE following amendment to the Constitution has been proposed by Congress, having passed the House of Representatives on the 25th of February, by. a vote of 143 to 43, and the Senate on the 26th, by a vote of 39 to 13: ARTICLE XV. I. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. II. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. It was ratified by the Kansas Legislature, February 27; by the Louisiana, Missouri, and Nevada Legislatures, March 1; by the Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin Legislatures, March 5; by the Maine Legislature, March 11; and by the Legislature of Arkansas, March 15. General Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated President of the United States, and Schuyler Colfax, Vice President, on the 4th of March, 1869. On the 5th, the following persons were nominated to the Cabinet by President Grant, and were confirmed by the Senate: Secretary of State. ELIHU B. WASHBURNE.. ..ADOLPH E. BORIE.. .Illinois. ..Ohio. Mr. Stewart, Mr. Washburne, and Gen. Schofield, Secretary of War, having resigned, the President, on the 11th of March, nominated Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State; George S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, and Gen. John A. Rawlins, 'Secretary of War. The nominations were immediately confirmed by the Senate, and the Executive Department was fully organized, as follows: MILITARY DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS. The following military nominations were made by the President, and confirmed by the Senate on the 5th of March: Lieutenant General W. T. Sherman to be General of the army; Major General P. H. Sheridan to be Lieutenant General, vice Sherman, promoted; Brigadier General J. M. Schofield to be Major General, vice Sheridan, promoted; Colonel Christopher C. Auger to be Brigadier General, vice Schofield, promoted. The following changes in the command of the Military Departments and Districts were made in accordance with an order issued from the Army Headquarters on March 5: Brigadier and Brevet Major General A. H. Terry was assigned to the Department of the South. Major General George G. Meade was assigned to the command of the military Division of the Atlantic, headquarters at Philadelphia. Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan was assigned to the command of the Department of Louisiana. Major General W. S. Hancock was assigned to the command of the Department of Dakota. Brigadier and Brevet Major General E. R. S. Canby was assigned to the command of the First Military District. Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds, Colonel of the 26th Infantry, was assigned to the command of the Fifth Military District. By another order, issued on the 16th of March, the following additional changes were made: Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan was assigned to the command of the Military Division of Missouri. Major General H. W. Halleck was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the South, to be composed of the Departments of the South, Louisiana, the Fourth Military District, and the States composing the present Department of the Cumberland; head-quarters at Louisville. Major General George H. Thomas was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Pacific. Major General J. M. Schofield was assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri; Illinois, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, were transferred to this Department. Brigadier and Brevet Major General O. O. Howard was assigned to the command of the Department of Louisiana. The Department of Washington was discontinued, and merged in the Department of the East. The First Military District was added to the Military Division of the Atlantic. (See page 124). FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.-STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE. Foreign Relations. Messrs. Sumner (chairman), Fessenden, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson, and Casserly. Commerce. Messrs. Chandler (chairman), Corbett, Kellogg, Spencer, Conkling, Buckingham, and Vickers. Finances. Messrs. Sherman (chairman), Williams, Cattell, Morrill, Warner, Fenton, and Bayard. Manufactures. Messrs. Morton (chairman), Yates, Robertson, Boreman, and McDonald. Agriculture. Messrs. Cameron (chairman), Robertson, Tipton, Gilbert, and McCreery. Appropriations. Messrs. Fessenden (chairman), Grimes, Wilson, Cole, Sprague, Sawyer, and Stockton. Military Affairs. Messrs. Wilson (chairman), Howard, Cameron, Morton, Thayer, Abbott, and Schurz. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Grimes (chairman), Anthony, Cragin, Nye, Drake, Scott, and Stockton. Judiciary. Messrs. Trumbull (chairman), Stewart, Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Carpenter, and Thurman. Post Offices and Post Roads. Messrs. Ramsey (chairman), Pomeroy, McDonald, Harlan, Cole, Gilbert, and Thurman. Public Lands. Messrs. Pomeroy (chairman), Williams Tipton, Osborn, Warner, Sprague, and Casserly. Private Land Claims. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Ferry, Sawyer, Kellogg, and Bayard. Indian Affairs. Messrs. Harlan (chairman), Ross, Corbett, Thayer, Buckingham, Pool, and Davis. Pensions. Messrs. Edmunds (chairman), Tipton, Spencer, Pratt, Brownlow, Schurz, and McCreery. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Yates (chairman), Pool, Fowler, Brownlow, and Saulsbury. Claims. Messrs. Howe (chairman), Willey, Scott, Sprague, Robertson, Pratt, and Davis. District of Columbia. Messrs. Hamlin (chairman), Patterson, Sumner, Rice, Harris, Pratt, and Vickers. Patents. Messrs. Willey (chairman), Ferry, Carpenter, Osborn, and Norton. Messrs. Morrill (chairman), Trumbull, Ferry, Cole, and Territories. Messrs. Nye (chairman), Cragin, McDonald, Schurz, Howard, Boreman, and McCreery. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Sherman, Ramsey, Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, Drake, Rice, Abbott, Fenton, and Scott. Mines and Mining. Messrs. Stewart (chairman), Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Ross, Saulsbury and Fowler. Recision of the Laws of the United States. Messrs. Conkling (chairman), Sumner, Carpenter, Pool, and Bayard. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Messrs. Cragin (chairman), Edmunds, and Davis. Printing. Messrs. Anthony (chairman), Harris, and Casserly. Library. Messrs. Cattell (chairman), Howe, and Fessenden. Enrolled Bills. Messrs. Thayer (chairman), Patterson, and Abbott. Engrossed Bills. Messrs. Ross (chairman), Buckingham, and Norton. Education. Messrs. Drake (chairman), Morrill, Pomeroy, Sawyer, and Corbett. COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. Ways and Means. Messrs. Schenck (chairman), Hooper, Allison, Maynard, Kelley, Brooks, Blair, McCarthy, and Marshall. Appropriations. Messrs. Dawes (chairman), Beaman, Kelsey, Washburn, (Wis.), Lawrence, (Ohio), Sargent, Dickey, Niblack, and Beck. Banking and Currency. Messrs. Garfield (chairman), Lynch, Judd, Coburn, Smith, (Vt.), Packer, (Penn.), Lash, Cox, and Jones, (Ky.) Judiciary. Messrs. Bingham (chairman), Davis, (N. Y.), Butler, (Mass.), Cook, Peters, Mercur, Loughridge, Eldridge, and Kerr. Claims. Messrs. Washburne (Mass.), (chairman), Hotchkiss, Holman, Cobb, Stokes, Ela, Dockery, Stiles, and Moore. Reconstruction. Messrs. Butler (Mass.), (chairman), Farnsworth, Beaman, Paine, Ward, (N. Y.), Julian, Poland, Whittemore, Beck, Woodward, and Morgan. Foreign Affairs. Messrs. Banks (chairman), Orth, Judd, Wilkinson, Sheldon, Willard, Ambler, Wood, and Swann. Reorganization of the Civil Service. Messrs. Hotchkiss (chairman), Jenckes, Armstrong, Maynard, and Kerr. On Ninth Census. Messrs. Stokes (chairman), Garfield, Banks, Allison, Laflin, Cullom, Wilkinson, Haldeman, and Schumaker. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Wheeler (chairman), Logan, Morrill, (Penn.), Van Horn, (Mo.), Hopkins, Buffinton, Lynch, Palmer, Roots, Van Trump, Voorhees, Axtell, and Wilson, (Min.) Commerce. Messrs. Dixon (chairman), O'Neill, Ingersoll, Sawyer, Finkelnburg, Bennett, Conger, Holman, and Potter. Public Lande. Messrs. Julian (chairman), Ketchum, Townsend, Fitch, Hawley, Winans, Smyth, (Iowa), Wilson, (Min.), and McCormick. Post Offices and Post Reads. Messrs. Farnsworth (chairman), Ferry, Hill, Twitchell, Boyd, Tyner, Fitch, Smith, and Adams. Manufactures. Messrs. Morrill (Penn.), (chairman), Ames, Sawyer, Smith, (Vt.), Sanford, Upson, Morrill, (Me.), Cleveland, and Rice. Agriculture. Messrs. Wilson (Ohio), (chairman), Loughridge, Fisher, Smith, (Tenn.), Dyer, Benton, Crebs, Axtell and Reeves. Indian Affairs. Messrs Clark (chairman), Van Horn, Shanks, Taffe, Bailey, Deweese, Armstrong, Mungen, and Trimble. Territories. Messrs. Cullom (chairman), Ward, Taffe, Dyer, Pomeroy, Moore, (Ohio), Duval, Hambleton, and Cleveland. Revolutionary Pensions. Messrs. Deweese (chairman), Willard, Knapp, Gilfillan, Winans, Butler, (Tenn.), Rice, Rogers, and Smith, (Oregon.) Invalid Pensions. Messrs. Benjamin (chairman) Benton, Wilson, (Ohio), Hay, Phelps, Bowen, Strickland, Bird, and Sweeney. Roads and Canals. Messrs. Ingersoll (chairman), Ames, Cobb, (N. C.), Smith, (Ohio), Prosser, McGrew, Wells, and Winchester. Mines and Mining. Messrs. Ferris (chairman), Sargent, Hawkins, Strickland, 'Pomeroy, Duval, Roots, Dickinson, and Briggs. Military Affairs. Messrs. Logan (chairman), Cobb, (Wis.), Negley, Packard, Stoughton, Witcher, Asper, Morgan, and Slocum. Militia. Messrs. Shanks (Ind.), (chairman), Clarke, Smythe, Boles, Donley Moore, (Ohio Trimble, Reading, and Beck. District of Columbia. Messrs. Cook (chairman), Welker, Williams, (Ind.), Gilfillan, Boles, Hamilton, Cowles, Stone, and Knott. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Boyd (chairman), Ambler Prosser, Stoughton Witcher, Jones, (N. C.), Negley, Morrissey, and McNeeley. Public Expenditures. Messrs. Coburn (chairman), Sawyer, Wilson, (Ohio), Hawkins, Knapp, Donley, Jones, (N. C.), Getz, and Hamill. Private Land Claims. Messrs. Orth (chairman), O'Neil, Dixon, Welker, Maynard, Washburn, (Wis.), Swann, Knott, and Potter. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Scofield (chairman), Ferry, Stevens, Ketcham, McCrary, Hale, Archer, and Haight. Freedmen's Affairs. Messrs. Dockery (chairman), Shanks, (Ind.), Bailey, Tillman, Hawley, McGrew, and Moffatt. Education and Labor. Messrs. Arnell (chairman), Beatty, Hoar, Townsend, Hamilton, (Fla.), Burdett, Tyner, McNeeley, and Rogers. Revision of Laws. Messrs. Poland (chairman), Ferris, Blair, McCrary, Hoar, Finkelnburg, Upson, Voorhees, and Johnson. Coinage, Weights and Measures. Messrs. Heaton (chairman), Kelley, Hooper, Hill, Davis, Shober, and Griswold. Patents. Messrs. Jenckes (chairman), Stevens, Smith, (Ohio), Tillman, Moore, (Ill.), Johnson, Sanford, Van Auken, and Calkin. Public Buildings and Grounds. Messrs. Hopkins (chairman), Beatty, Smith, (Tenn.), Tanner, and Getz. Mileage. Messrs. Hawkins (chairman), Mercur, Packard, Stevenson, and Fox. Expenditures in the State Department. Messrs. Bailey (chairman), Hale, Twitchell, Styles, and Archer. Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Messrs. Allison (chairman), Wheeler, Lash, Randall, and Briggs. Expenditures in the War Department. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Tanner, Cessna, Cobb, (N. C.), and Burr. Expenditures in the Navy Department. Messrs. Lynch (chairman), Cowles, Dickey, Hamill, and Reeves. Expenditures in the Post Office Department. Messrs. Moore (N. J.), (chairman), Bingham, Hay, Benjamin, and Mayham. Expenditures in the Interior Department. Messrs. Ela (chairman), Bennett, Packer, Strader, and Adams. Expenditures of Public Buildings. Messrs. Churchill (chairman), Ela, Phelps, Hoag, and Hambleton. On Rules. The Speaker (chairman), Messrs. Banks, Ferry, Garfield, and Brooks. GENERAL INDEX. A. ABDUL-AZIZ, Sultan of Turkey, 590. ABYSSINIA, chief town, 598; area and popula- ADJUTANT General's Department, 111. AFRICA, 598; divisions and subdivisions, with AGRICULTURE, department of, 183; commis- AGRICULTURAL, exchanges, 184; museum, 184; ALABAMA, Governors of, 64; U. S. Senators of, Capital, 275; area, 275; population, 275, Capital, 482; area, 482; population, 482, ALBERT, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, ALDEBARAN, Occultation of, 19. ALEXANDER II., Emperor of Russia, 582. AMERICA, area, 523; population, 523; compara- ANAM, area and population, 592; divisions, 503; ANGLICAN Church, 616-617. ANHALT, capital, 561; area, 561; population, APPLICATIONS, for admission to U. S. Military States and Territories, see under each, also see 805 |
