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.