The Congress of the U. S. consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless otherwise provided by law. Senate. The Senate is composed of two members from each State. They are chosen by the Legislatures of the several States, for the term of six years, one third being elected biennially. The Vice-President of the U. S. is President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen from among the Senators by the Senate. The full number, if all the States were represented, would be 74. SENATE. BENJAMIN F. WADE, Ohio, President pro tempore. JOHN W. FORNEY, Pennsylvania, Clerk. Vote of U. S. Senate on 2d, 3d and 11th Articles of Impeachment, preferred by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson, President of the U.S. Whole number of Senators, 54. Two thirds (36) necessary for conviction. Those voting GUILTY, were Messrs. Morrill of Me., Cragin and Patterson of N. H., Edmunds and Morrill of Vt., Sumner and Wilson of Mass., Sprague and Anthony of R. I., Ferry of Conn., Morgan and Conkling of N. Y., Freelinghuysen and Catell of N. J., Cameron of Penn., Willey of West Va., Wade and Sherman of Ohio, Morton of Ind., Chandler and Howard of Mich., Yates of Ill., Howe of Wis., Ramsey of Minn., Harlan of Iowa, Drake of Mo., Pomeroy of Kans., Stewart and Nye of Nev., Tipton and Thayer of Neb., Conness and Cole of Cal., Williams and Corbett of Oregon-35; all Republicans. Those voting NOT GUILTY, were Messrs. FESSENDEN of Me., Dixon of Conn., Buckalew of Penn., Bayard and Salisbury of Del., Johnson and McVickers of Md.. VANWINKLE of West Va., Patterson and FOWLER of Tenn., Davis and McCreery of Ky., TRUMBULL of Ill., Hendricks of Ind., HENDERSON of Mo., Ross of Kans., GRIMES of Iowa, Doolittle of Wis., Norton of Minn.19; 7 Repubs. and 12 Dems. Dixon, Buckalew, Patterson, Doolittle and Norton, were elected Republicans, but gave their support, with the Democrats, to the President against the majority of Congress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people, in separate districts composed of contiguous territory, for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different States according to population. After each decennial enumeration, the aggregate representative population of the United States is ascertained by the Secretary of the Interior, by adding to the whole number of free persons in all the States, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed. three fifths of all other persons. This aggregate is divided by 233, and the quotient, rejecting fractions, if any, is the ratio of apportionment among the several States. The representative population of each State is then ascertained in the same manner, and is divided by the above named ratio, and this quotient gives the apportionment of Representatives to each State. The loss by fractions is compensated for by assigning one additional member to as many States having the largest fractions as may be necessary to make the whole number of Representatives 241. If, after the apportionment, new States are admitted, Representatives are assigned to such States upon the above basis, in addition to the limited number of 241; but such excess continues only until the next appor tionment under the succeeding census. The present number of Representatives is 248. There are, beside, Delegates, one each from Arizona, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, New-Mexico, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, who have a right to speak, but not to vote. The compensation of members is mileage (being $8 for every twenty miles of travel in the usual road, in going to and returning from the seat of government), and $10,000 for each Congress. The ratio of Representation, by the census of 1860, is 126,823. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Indiana, Speaker. EDWARD D. MOPHERSON, Pennsylvania, Clerk. NEHEMIAH G. ORDWAY, New-Hampshire, Serg't-at-Arms. ALABAMA. CALIFORNIA. Samuel B. Axtell. COLORADO.* CONNECTICUT. Richard D. Hubbard. DELAWARE. FLORIDA. GEORGIA. ILLINOIS. John A. Logan. Norman B. Judd. 6 Godlove S. Orth. 1 4 1 IOWA. KENTUCKY. MASSACHUSETTS. 10 1 9 Lawrence S. Trimble. John F. Farnsworth. James A. Beck. Elihu B. Washburne. George M. Adams. Abuer C. Harding. 11 INDIANA. William E. Niblack. Michael C. Kerr. Morton C. Hunter. William S. Holman. George W. Julian. John Coburn. John D. Young. LOUISIANA. J. Sypher. Wm. J. Blackburn. MAINE. John Lynch. MARYLAND. Henry D.Washburne. Francis Thomas. Not admitted. Frederick Stone. 6 5 5 William Windom. Ignatius Donnelly. MISSISSIPPI. MISSOURI. 2 9 NEW-JERSEY. William Moore. NEW-YORK. 19 Daniel J. Morrill. Benjamin Eggleston. Stephen Taber. Burt Van Horn. Ralph P. Buckland. Rufus Mallory. RHODE-ISLAND. 2 Thomas A. Jenckes. Nathan F. Dixon. SOUTH-CAROLINA. 4 8 TENNESSEE. Roderick R. Butler. PENNSYLVANIA. 24 James M. Humphrey. George F. Miller. Republicans (in Roman), 145; Democrats (in Italics), 49. ARIZONA. Coles Bashford. DAKOTA. Walter A. Burleigh. IDAHO. Territories. MONTANA. James M. Cavanaugh. NEW-MEXICO. C. P. Clever. UTAH. William H. Hooper. WASHINGTON, WYOMING. James S. Casement. 6 |