374 Registration, Disfranchisement, and Election Returns in the Rebel States, under the Reconstruction Acts. Registration Returns. Votes on calling Constitutional Conventions. Votes on Ratification of Constitutions recommended by Conventions. Whites. Colored. Total. Whites. Color'd. Total. Alabama... 61,295 104,518 165,813 18,553 71,730 90,283 5,583 5,583 96.866 70,812 1,005 71,817 Feb'y 4, 1868. 66,831 27,576 13,558 41,134 27,913 26,597 54,510 Mar. 15, 1868. ...... Florida. 11,914 16,089 28,003 350 $200 1,220 13.080 14,300 203 203 14,503 14,520 9,491 24,011 May 4, 1868. Georgia.... 96.333 95,168 191,501 10,500 32,000 70,283 102,283 4,000 127 4,127 106,410 89,007 71,309 160,316 April 20, 1868. Louisiana .... 45,218 84,436 129,654 * 75,083 24,006 79.174 66,152 48,739 114,891 April 17, 1868. *Mississippi 139,690 69.739 6,277 76.016 June 22, 1868. North Carolina... 106,721 72,932 179,653 11,688 493 31,284 61,722 93,006 32,961 32,961 125,067 93,084 74,015 167,099 April 21, 1868. South Carolina... 46,882 80,550 Texas 59,633 Virginia. 120,101 49,497 105,832 127,432 109.130 8,244 625 2,350 66,418 68,768 2,278 2,278 71,046 70,758 27,288 98,0-16 April 14, 1868. 7.757 36.932 44,689 10,622 818 225,933 +16,343 14,835 92,507 107,342 61,249 638 11,440 61,887 * No distinction between white and colored. ¶ No election held. "Failed to register from any cause."-Report of Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, December 13, 1867. NOTE-The revised registration made before voting on the constitution was, in North Carolina 196,873, in Arkansas 73,784, in Florida 31,498. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, on the 1st of June, 1868. Statement of the annual revenue collected by the Government from each source since 1860. Statement of the annual expenditures of the Government from 1860. Total expend itures. $77,055,125 65 85,387,313 08 570,841,700 25 $60,010,112 58 $3,144,620 94 $13,900,392 13 $17,045,013 07 NOTE.-The revenues and expenditures of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, are not yet officially ascertained, but the following is an accurate statement of them: Expenditures. $163,500,000 193,000,000 2,800,000 47,000,000 War Department.................. $406,300,000 Total of ordinary expenses Includes Indians. Of the War Department payments, $38,000,000 were for bounties. * Gold. + Includes foreign, and miscellaneous. Statement of the expenditures of the United States during the fiscal years ending appropriations for the fiscal year ending June June 30, 1858, June 30, 1866, 1867, and till January 1, 1868, together with the 30, 1869, and the estimates for the same year. June 30, 1867. 1868, to Jan. 1. Appropriated for year end-Estimates for year ending $15,585,489 55 $27,191,353 54 1,548,589 26 ing June 30, 1869. $18,357,549 69 June 30, 1869. $23,891,292 03 Expenditures for year ending June 30, 1858. $7,052,196 75 1,391,407 91 ADDENDA. A Bill relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and July 20-The PRESIDENT sent a veto, of which these are the most important paragraphs: 46 become entitled to representation in Congress pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf: Be it enacted, &c., That the duties and powers Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be of commissioner of the bureau for the relief of construed to apply to any State which was repre freedmen and refugees shall continue to be dis-sented in Congress on the 4th day of March, 1867. charged by the present commissioner of the bureau, and in case of a vacancy in said office occurring by reason of his death or resignation, the same shall be filled by appointment of the President on the nomination of the Secretary of War, and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no officer of the army shall be detailed for service as commissioner, or shall enter upon the duties of commissioner, unless appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and all assistant commissioners, agents, clerks, and assistants shall be appointed by the Secretary of War, on the nomination of the commissioner of the bureau. In case of vacancy in the office of commissioner happening during the recess of the Senate, the duties of the commis. sioner shall be discharged by the acting assistant adjutant general of the bureau until such vacancy can be filled. SEC. 2. That the commissioner of the bureau shall, on the 1st day of January next, cause the said bureau to be withdrawn from the several States within which said bureau has acted, and its operations shall be discontinued. But the educational department of the said bureau, and the collection and payment of moneys due to soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs, shall be continued, as now provided by law, until otherwise ordered by act of Congress: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to any State which shall not, on the 1st of January next, be restored to its former political relations with the Government of the United States, and be entitled to representation in Congress. Passed both Houses. 'The mode and manner of receiving and counting the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States are in plain and simple terms prescribed by the Constitution. That instrument imperatively requires that the President of the Senate "shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted." Congress has, therefore, no power, under the Constitution, to receive the electoral votes or reject them. The whole power is exhausted when, in the presence of the two Houses, the votes are counted and the result declared In this respect the power and duty of the President of the Senate are, under the Constitution purely ministerial. When, therefore, the joint resolution declares that no electoral votes shall be received or counted from States that, since the 4th of March, 1867, have not "adopted constitution or State government under which a State government shall have been organized," a power is assumed which is nowhere delegated to Congress, unless upon the assumption that the State governments organized prior to the 4th of March, 1867, were illegal and void. "The joint resolution, by implication at least, concedes that these States were States by virtue of their organization, prior to the 4th of March, 1867, but denies to them the right to vote in the election of President and Vice President of the United States. It follows either that this assumption of power is wholly unauthorized by the Constitution, or that the States so excluded from voting were out of the Union by reason of the rebellion, and have never been legitimately restored. Being fully satisfied that they were never out of the Union, and that their relations thereto have been legally and constitutionaliy restored, I am forced to the conclusion that the joint resolution which deprives them of the right to have their vote for President and Vice Precol-sident received and counted is in conflict with the Constitution, and that Congress has no more power to reject their votes than those of the States which have been uniformly loyal to the Federal Union. Joint Resolution excluding from the Electoral "It is worthy of remark that if the States whose inhabitants were recently in rebellion were legally and constitutionally organized and restored to their rights prior to the 4th of March, 1867, as I am satisfied they were, the only legiti mate authority under which the election for President and Vice President can be held therein must be derived from the governments insti |