###HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, December 3, 1866. In conformity to the Constitution, the 39th Congress of the U.S. of Amer. ica convened this day in its 2nd session. At 12 o'clock m., Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the HoRep, a member from the State of Indiana, called the House to order. Rev. C. B. BoyNTox, the Chaplain, offered up prayer in Almighty these words: God, our heavenly Father, Creator and Preserver of all things, and IRedeemer of men, as the only proper object of worship we approach Thee once more with our offerings of thanksgiving, praise, and prayer. Thanks be to God for this good hour, so full of the evidences of Thy remembering love and Thy. tecting care. Through the months in which we have been separated from each other Thou hast watched over Thy servants, these public men; Thou hast guarded their lives, their health, and their interests well, watching them in all their course; Thou hast, protected their families from sickness and disaster, and the death shadow has fallen during all these months only on one of the families connected with this Congress. We thank Thee, O God, that Thou hast preserved them all but that. We pray Thy blessing, and for the consolations that Thou alone canst give to the friends of him whom Thou hast taken away. We thank Thee that Thou didst nerve up these men so that they have done a duty while absent from this spot more important in its results, as we trust, than what they were able to do while here, even. We bless Thee that Thou gavest them the wisdom and the strength to enlighten the people on the great questions at issue before the country, and we thank Thee for that magnificent uprising of a free people, instructed as they were to make right decisions in reference to every great question presented, so that when their decisions were uttered we knew that it was not in vain to depend upon the intelligence of the American people. We thank Thee, O God, that Thou hast been pleased to bring these men together once more, to enter upon their duties thus strengthened and encouraged by all the experience that they have had of the overruling providence of God and of the supporting power of the people upon whom they depended. And now, O God, grant them wisdom, we pray Thee, to enter upon the discharge of these new responsibilities with added strength and courage. May they have increased faith in God; faith in the righteous cause; faith in the power of truth; faith in the intelligence and right mindedness of the people, and so may they go forward to perfect the work which they have so nobly begun. Grant, we pray Thee, that with a true Christian and manly courage they may perform all things that are demanded by the welfare and best interest of the country. Everything that justice mingled with mercy requires, may they be ready to perform. May they leave nothing to be done by those who shall come after them that they of right ought to perform; and as the result of their deliberations and decisions we pray that there may be no spot in this land that is not wholly consecrated to freedom Christian freedom. May there be no foot of our territory which shall not be free, so that every man, wherever the flag floats, or ought to be unfurled, shall be secure in life, liberty, and property. We pray Thee, O God, that the end of what they do may be, that every man shall be invested anew with every civil and every political right that belongs to a proper manhood; and may there be no flinching or faltering in anyone question connected with these great issues. O God, bless all those who have any influence upon the destinies of the land. M?y all the high officers of the Government, the president included, be taught of God Himself, in fluenced by the Holy Ghost, so that if it be possible there may be harmony in all the operations of every dept of the Government. We ask not for harmony that is the result of any compromise, of any yielding, of the right. May those who are right be stronger than ever in the right; and may peace be procured by the yielding of those who are wrong. Will God bless the Senate of the U.S. also. And now we pray Thy blessing on us individually in every relation of life, an when at last all is over may we be able to step off into that unknown unknown except to faith with a good hope in Jesus Christ; and we will give all the praise and the glory now and forever unto the triune God. Amen. CALL OF The ROLL. The Clerk then called the roll, and the following named Members and Delegates answered to their names: MAINE. John Lynch, John H. Rice, Sidney Perham, Frederick A. Pike. James G. Blaine, NEWHAMPSHIRE. Edward H. Rollins, James W. Patterson. VERMONT. Justin S. Morrill, Portus Baxter. MASSACHUSETTS. Thomas D. Eliot, George S. Boutwell, Oakes Ames, John D. Baldwin, Alexander H. Rice, William B. Washburn, Samuel Hooper, Henry L. Dawes. Nathaniel P. Banks, RHDISLAND. Thomas A. Jenckes, Nathan F. Dixon. CONNECTICUT. Samuel L. Warner, Augustus Brandegee. John H. Hubbard, NEWYORK. Calvin T. Hulburd, Addison H. Laflin, Sidney T. Holmes, Daniel Morris, Roswell Hart, Burt Van Horn, Henry Van Aernam. NEWJERSEY. John F. Starr, Charles Sitgreaves, William A. Newell, Andrew J. Rogers. PENNSYLVANIA. Samuel J. Randall, Adam J. Glossbrenner, Charles O'Neill, William H. Koontz, Leonard Myers, Abraham A. Barker, William D. Kelley, Stephen F. Wilson, Benjamin M. Boyer, Glenni W. Scofield, John M. Broomall, John L. Dawson, Sydenham E. Ancona, James K. Moorhead, Thaddeus Stevens, Thomas Williams, Ulysses Mercur, George W. Lawrence. George F. Miller, DELAWARE. John A. Nicholson. MARYLAND. John L. Thomas, Francis Thomas. Charles E. Phelps, Stephen Taber, Nelson Taylor, John W. Chanler, William E. Dodge, William A. Darling, John H. Ketcham, Robert S. Hale, OHIO. James M. Ashley, Hezekiah S. Bundy, William E. Finck, Martin Welker, Tobias A. Plants, John A. Bingham, Ephraim R. Eckley. Benjamin Eggleston, Rutherford B. Hayes, Robert C. Schenck. William Lawrence, Francis C. LeBlond, Reader W. Clarke, Samuel Shellabarger, James R. Hubbell, Rufus P. Spalding, Ralph P. Buckland, James A. Garfield. KENTUCKY. Lawrence Trimble, George S. Shanklin, Burwell C. Ritter, William H. Randall, Aaron Harding, Samuel McKee. TENNESSEE. Nathaniel J. Taylor, William B. Stokes, Horace Maynard, John W. Leftwich. INDIANA. William E. Niblack, Henry D. Washburn, Michael C. Kerr, Godlove S. Orth, Ralph Hill, Schuyler Colfax, John H. Farquhar, Joseph H. Defrees, George W. Julian, Thomas N. Stilwell. Illinois. Shelby M. Cullom, Samuel S. Marshall. Jehu Baker, Andrew J. Kuykendall, Samuel W. Moulton. John Wentworth, John F. Farnsworth, Ellihu B. Washburne, Abner C. Harding, Ebon C.ingersoll, Henry P. H. Bromwell, MISSOURI. Robert T. Van Horn, Benjamin F. Loan, John F. Benjamin. Henry T. Blow, Thomas E. Noell, John R. Kelso, Joseph W. McClurg, MichigAN. Fernando C. Beaman, Rowland E. Trowbridge, Charles Upson, John F. Driggs, Thomas W. Ferry, IOWA. Hiram Price, Josiah B. Grinnell, William B. Allison, John A. Kasson. WISCONSIN. Halbert E. Paine, Philetus Sawyer, Amasa Cobb, Walter D. McIndoe. Charles A. Eldridge, CALIFORNIA. Donald C. McRuer, John Bidwell. William Higby, MINNESOTA. William Windom, Ignatius Donnolly, OREGON. James H. D. Henderson. KANSAS. Sidney Clarke. WESTVIRGINIA. Chester D. Hubbard, Kellian W. Whaley. Ueorge R. Latham, NEWMEXICO. UTAH. J. Francisco Chaves. William H. Hooper. WASHINGTON. NEBRASKA. Arthur A. Denny. Phineas W. Hitchcock. COLORADO. DAKOTA. Allen A. Bradford. Walter A. Burleigh. ARIZONA. IDAHO. John N. Goodwin. E. D. Holbrook. MONTANA. Samuel McLean.