The case of Georgia still remained, however, unsettled, and the President suggested that Congress should enact a law authorizing the Governor of Georgia, Mr. Bullock, "to convene the members originally elected to the legislature, requiring each member to take the oath prescribed by the Reconstruction Acts, and none to be admitted who were ineligible under the third clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." The situation was briefly as follows: The Senators and Representatives from Georgia had been refused admission to seats in Congress at the first session of the Forty-first Congress which convened the 4th of March, 1869, because the legislature of Georgia had expelled the colored men elected to that body as ineligible, and had rejected the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It is true that the Senators from Georgia had been elected by the legislature before the colored members were expelled, and that the Representatives had been admitted to seats in the House during the last session of the Fortieth Congress, and that the ostensible reason for not admitting the members to the lower House of the Forty-first Congress was that they had not been elected to the Forty-first Congress. However, Georgia had no representation in either House of Congress at the date of President Grant's first annual Message in December of 1869. {236} Her "State" government seems, therefore, to have been considered by Congress as being still only provisional, despite the fact that by the Act of June 25th, 1868, she had been declared entitled to admission to representation in Congress upon conditions which she had subsequently fulfilled.