- The Senate
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Membership (118 members):
- George T. Goldthwaite ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- George E. Spencer ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- Willard Warner ( Alabama Delegation ) Visualize
- Powell Clayton ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Stephen W. Dorsey ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander McDonald ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin F. Rice ( Arkansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Eugene Casserly ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- Cornelius Cole ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- John S. Hager ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- Aaron A. Sargent ( California Delegation ) Visualize
- William A. Buckingham ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- William W. Eaton ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Orris S. Ferry ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas F. Bayard ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Eli M. Saulsbury ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Willard Saulsbury ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Simon B. Conover ( Florida Delegation ) Visualize
- Abijah Gilbert ( Florida Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas W. Osborn ( Florida Delegation ) Visualize
- John B. Gordon ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Joshua Hill ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Homer V. M. Miller ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas M. Norwood ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- John A. Logan ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Richard J. Oglesby ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Lyman Trumbull ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Richard Yates ( Illinois Delegation ) Visualize
- Oliver P. Morton ( Indiana Delgation ) Visualize
- Daniel D. Pratt ( Indiana Delgation ) Visualize
- William B. Allison ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- James Harlan ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- James B. Howell ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- George G. Wright ( Iowa Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander Caldwell ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert Crozier ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- James M. Harvey ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- John J. Ingalls ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Samuel C. Pomeroy ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Edmund G. Ross ( Kansas Delegation ) Visualize
- Garrett Davis ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- Willis B. Machen ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas C. McCreery ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- John W. Stevenson ( Kentucky Delegation ) Visualize
- John S. Harris ( Louisiana Delegation ) Visualize
- William P. Kellogg ( Louisiana Delegation ) Visualize
- J. Rodman West ( Louisiana Delegation ) Visualize
- Hannibal Hamlin ( Maine Delegation ) Visualize
- Lot M. Morrill ( Maine Delegation ) Visualize
- George R. Dennis ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- William T. Hamilton ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- George Vickers ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- George S. Boutwell ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles Sumner ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- William B. Washburn ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry Wilson ( Massachusetts Delegation , Officers of the Senate ) Visualize
- Zachariah Chandler ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas W. Ferry ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Jacob M. Howard ( Michigan Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel S. Norton ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander Ramsey ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- Orza P. Stearns ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- William Windom ( Minnesota Delegation ) Visualize
- James L. Alcorn ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- Adelbert Ames ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry R. Pease ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- Hiram R. Revels ( Mississippi Delegation ) Visualize
- Francis P. Blair ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Lewis V. Bogy ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles D. Drake ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel T. Jewett ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Carl Schurz ( Missouri Delegation ) Visualize
- Phineas W. Hitchcock ( Nebraska Delegation ) Visualize
- John M. Thayer ( Nebraska Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas W. Tipton ( Nebraska Delegation ) Visualize
- John P. Jones ( Nevada Delegation ) Visualize
- James W. Nye ( Nevada Delegation ) Visualize
- William M. Stewart ( Nevada Delegation ) Visualize
- Aaron H. Cragin ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- James W. Patterson ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- Bainbridge Wadleigh ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander G. Cattell ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- John P. Stockton ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Roscoe Conkling ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Reuben E. Fenton ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Joseph C. Abbott ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Augustus S. Merrimon ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- John Pool ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Matt W. Ransom ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- John Sherman ( Ohio Delegation ) Visualize
- William P. Sprague ( Ohio Delegation ) Visualize
- Allen G. Thurman ( Ohio Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry W. Corbett ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- James K. Kelly ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- John H. Mitchell ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- George H. Williams ( Oregon Delegation ) Visualize
- Simon Cameron ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- John R. K. Scott ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry B. Anthony ( Rhode Island Delegation ) Visualize
- William Sprague ( Rhode Island Delegation ) Visualize
- John J. Patterson ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas J. Robertson ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Frederick A. Sawyer ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- William G. Brownlow ( Tennessee Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry Cooper ( Tennessee Delegation ) Visualize
- Joseph S. Fowler ( Tennessee Delegation ) Visualize
- James W. Flanagan ( Texas Delegation ) Visualize
- Morgan C. Hamilton ( Texas Delegation ) Visualize
- George F. Edmunds ( Vermont Delegation ) Visualize
- Justin S. Morrill ( Vermont Delegation ) Visualize
- John W. Johnston ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- John F. Lewis ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Arthur I. Boreman ( West Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry G. Davis ( West Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Waitman T. Willey ( West Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Matthew H. Carpenter ( Wisconsin Delegation ) Visualize
- Timothy O. Howe ( Wisconsin Delegation ) Visualize
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Sessions (146)
The first day of Senate business for the Second Session of the Forty-First Congress
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William Sprague and Thomas F. Bayard join the Senate
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William. T. Hamilton joins the Senate; the standing committees of the Senate are appointed
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Reuben F. Fenton joins the Senate
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The death of William Pitt Fessenden is announced
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Alexander McDonald joins the Senate
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The credentials of Lot M. Morrill are presented and read
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John Pool and James B. Howell join the Senate
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John F. Lewis joins the Senate
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John W. Johnston joins the Senate
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The credentials of Hiram R. Revels are presented
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Hiram R. Revel's credentials continue to be considered
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Hiram R. Revels is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Committee on the Judiciary makes a report on the eligibility of Adelbert Ames to a seat in the Senate
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Morgan C. Hamilton and J. W. Flanagan are sworn in and take their seats in the Senate
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Adelbert Ames is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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S. 916 is proposed and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports back S. 916
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The Second Session of the Forty-First Session adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the Third Session of the Forty-First Congress
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Thomas F. Bayard and William T. Hamilton join the Senate
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Jacob M. Howard joins the Senate; the standing committees of the Senate are appointed
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Garrett Davis, John Pool, Hiram Revel, and John Thayer join the Senate
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Thomas J. Robertson joins the Senate
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Willard Warner joins the Senate
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Senator C. D. Drake resigns
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Daniel T. Jewett is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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S. 1234 is proposed and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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Ozra Stearns is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate; the Committee on the Judiciary reports resolutions on the Senators-elect from Georgia
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The credentials of Francis P. Blair are presented
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Francis P. Blair is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Senate continues to consider the resolution on the Senators-elect from Georgia
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Joshua Hill is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports back S. 1234
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H. M. V. Miller is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The third session of the Forty-First Congress adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the First Session of the Forty-Second Congress
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Eli Saulsbury is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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Standing committees are appointed
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John W. Johnston joins the Senate
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The Committee on Privileges and Elections reports that Morgan C. Hamilton was entitled to his seat in the Senate; the resolution is adopted
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Morgan C. Hamilton is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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Powell Clayton is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Senate receives H. R. 320 from the House, it is read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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The Senate receives H. R. 380 from House; the Committee on the Judiciary reports H. R. 320, with amendments
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H. R. 380 is read twice by its title and laid on the table; H. R. 320 is considered in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 320 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 320 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 320 in Committee of the Whole; it is reported to the Senate, as amended, and passed; the bill is sent to the House for concurrence
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The Senate insists on its amendments to H. R. 320 and agrees to a committee of conference on H. R. 320
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The Senate receives the committee of conference report on H. R. 320; the Senate concurs in the report
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It is proposed that H. R. 380 be taken up, the motion is rejected; the second Committee of Conference on H. R. 320 makes a report, the Senate adopts the report and H. R. 320 passes in the Senate
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H. R. 380 is referred to the Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities; H. R. 320 is enrolled and signed by the President pro tempore; the first session of the Forty-Second Congress adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the second session of the Forty-Second Congress
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Eli Saulsbury and George Vickers join the Senate
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Daniel D. Pratt and Matthew H. Carpenter join the Senate; H. R. 380 is proposed to be taken up
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J. W. Flanagan joins the Senate; standing committees are appointed
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William T. Hamilton, Joshua Hill, and Morgan C. Hamilton join the Senate; the select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities reported H. R. 380 without amendment; the credentials of Mr. Norwood are referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections
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Thomas F. Bayard and William H. Stewart join the Senate
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Garrett Davis joins the Senate; the Committee on Privileges and Elections reports a resolution on the contested election case of Thomas M. Norwood
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Thomas M. Norwood is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate; H. R. 380 is made the special order for the following day
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The Senate considers H. R. 380 in Committee of the Whole
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Henry B. Anthony is elected President pro tempore of the Senate; H. R. 380 is amended in Committee of the Whole and reported back to the Senate
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H. R. 380 is brought up to be considered by the Senate, before it can be considered the Senate adjourns
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William Sprague joins the Senate; further consideration of H. R. 380 is postponed until Monday
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Cornelius Cole joins the Senate
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George Goldthwaite is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate; Mr. Sumner and Mr. Vickers give speeches on H. R. 380
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The Senate receives H. R. 1050 from the House requesting the concurrence of the Senate; H. R. 380 is taken up and before it can be considered, it is set aside to take up another bill
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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Mr. Sumner modifies his amendment to H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380; Mr. Robertson proposes to set aside H. R. 380 in order to consider H. R. 1050, another amnesty bill newly received from the House
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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H. R. 380 is before the Senate as the regular order of business, but before it can be discussed the Senate adjourns
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380, its further consideration is postponed and made the special order for Monday
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The credentials of Matthew W. Ransom are presented and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections; the Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 380; the passage of H. R. 380 is rejected
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Henry B. Anthony is elected President pro tempore of the Senate
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Matthew W. Ransom is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Senate considers H. R. 1050 in Committee of the Whole
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H. R. 1050 continues to be considered in Committee of the Whole, it is reported to the Senate and is not passed
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S. 1102 is introduced and placed on the Calendar
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Henry B. Anthony is elected President pro tempore of the Senate
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The second session of the Forty-Second Congress adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the third session of the Forty-Second Congress
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William T. Hamilton and John W. Johnston join the Senate; Henry B. Anthony is elected President pro tempore of the Senate
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George Goldthwaite and Henry W. Corbett join the Senate
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Thomas Norwood and Lyman Trumbull join the Senate; standing committees are appointed
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Thomas F. Bayard and Matthew W. Ransom join the Senate
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George E. Spencer joins the Senate
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John P. Stockton and James W. Nye join the Senate
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The death of Senator Garrett Davis is announced
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John Pool, Frederick A. Sawyer, and Arthur I. Boreman join the Senate
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Francis P. Blair joins the Senate
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Willis Machen is sworn in; Henry Wilson resigns
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The third session of the Forty-Second Congress adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the first session of the Forty-Third Congress; S. 1 is proposed
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Thomas Robertson, John B. Gordon, and Phineas W. Hitchcock join the Senate; S. 1 is considered in Committee of the Whole
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William T. Hamilton joins the Senate
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Standing committees are appointed
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Thomas Bayard, Thomas Norwood, George Goldthwaite, and Simon Conover join the Senate; Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland is elected Chaplain of the Senate
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Matthew Carpenter is elected President pro tempore of the Senate
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James Flanagan and William M. Stewart join the Senate
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The Senate considers S. 1 in Committee of the Whole
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John S. Hager is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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James Harvey and Henry Pease are sworn in and take their seats in the Senate
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The death of Mr. Sumner is announced
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports S. 1 with an amendment
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S. 1 is amended by the Senate while in Committee of the Whole and reported to the Senate
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The Senate continues to consider S. 1
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William B. Washburn is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate; S. 1 is briefly discussed in the Senate
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S. 1 is before the Senate; before it can be debated, the Senate goes into executive session
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The Senate continues to consider S. 1
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In a twenty hour meeting, the Senate passes S. 1 and sends it to the House for concurrence
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The first session of the Forty-Third Congress adjourns
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The first day of Senate business for the second session of the Forty-Third Congress
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John Johnston, A. S. Merrimom, Matt Ransom, William Sprague, and John Stockton join the Senate
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John Gordon and Morgan Hamilton join the Senate; standing committees are appointed
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George Goldthwaite, Oliver Morton, and Thomas Norwood join the Senate
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Thomas Bayard and Reuben Fenton join the Senate
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Thomas Tipton joins the Senate
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Matthew H. Carpenter is elected President pro tempore of the Senate
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The death of William Buckingham is announced
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The Senate receives H. R. 796; it is referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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William M. Stewart joins the Senate
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William Eaton is sworn in and takes his seat in the Senate
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports H. R. 796, without amendment
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The Senate proceeds to consider H. R. 796 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate continues to consider H. R. 796 in Committee of the Whole
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The Senate passes H. R. 796; the bill is enrolled and signed by the Vice-President
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The Senate is notified of the President's approval of H. R. 796
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