.

OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

BEING THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS;

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON

DECEMBER 7, 1874,

IN THE NINETY-NINTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1875.

JOURNAL

OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 7th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, being the Second Session of the FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS held under the Constitution of the Government of the United States, and in the ninety-ninth year of the Independence of said States.

On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution for the meeting of Congress, James G. Blaine, the Speaker, (one of the Representatives from the State of Maine,) and the following-named members of the House of Representatives, appeared and took their seats, viz:

From the State of—

MAINE

NEW HAMPSHIRE

VERMONT

MASSACHUSETTS

RHODE ISLAND

CONNECTICUT.

NEW YORK...

John H. Burleigh.
William P. Frye.
Eugene Hale.

Austin F. Pike.
Hosea W. Parker.

Charles W. Willard.

Luke P. Poland.
George W. Hendee.

James Buffinton.
Benjamin W. Harris.
Henry L. Pierce.
Samuel Hooper.
Daniel W. Gooch.
Benjamin F. Butler.
E. Rockwood Hoar.
John M. S. Williams.
George F. Hoar.
Henry L. Dawes.

Benjamin T. Eames.

Joseph R. Hawley.
Stephen W. Kellogg,
Henry H. Starkweather.

Henry J. Scudder.
John G. Schumaker.

Samuel S. Cox.