CHAPTER III.—Formation of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.
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Lack of Excitement — Cause — The Resolution — Dilatory
Motions — Yeas and Nays — Proposed Amendments in the
Senate — Debate in the Senate — Mr. Howard — Mr. Anthony
— Mr. Doolittle — Mr. Fessenden — Mr. Saulsbury — Mr.
Hendricks — Mr. Trumbull — Mr. Guthrie — Passage of the
Resolution in the Senate — Yeas and Nays — Remarks of Mr.
Stevens on the Amendment of the Senate — Concurrence of the
House — The Committee appointed.