After the expulsion of the negroes, the lower house asked the governor to send it the names of the candidates who at the election had received the next highest vote to the persons expelled. The governor sent the names and with them a long protest against the expulsion of the negroes.[282] The house, on hearing the message, adopted a tart resolution, reminding the governor that the members of each house were "the keepers of their own consciences, and not his Excellency."[283] A similar message to the upper house in response to a similar request provoked a similar resolution, which was defeated by two votes.[284] It will be remembered that in December, 1868, and January, 1869, the governor urged upon Congress, through his letter presented in the Senate and through his testimony before the Reconstruction Committee, the theory that Georgia had not yet been restored. On January 15, 1869, he urged the same view upon the legislature. He advised it to reorganize itself by summoning all men elected members in 1868, requiring each to take the Test Oath, excluding only those who should not take it, and thus constituted to repass the resolutions required by the Omnibus Act. If the legislature did not do this, it must submit to Congressional interference.[285] This message apparently caused the legislature some apprehension. It adopted a joint resolution to the effect that it desired the question of the eligibility of negroes to office to be determined by the supreme court of the state. The governor sent this resolution back with one of his admirably keen and powerful messages. He said that Congress had two grievances against the present legislature; that it had admitted members disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment, contrary to the Omnibus Act, and that it had expelled twenty-eight negroes. The present resolution, intended to appease Congress, ignored the first grievance and proposed no remedy for the second; therefore it was meaningless and absurd.[286] On January 21, 1869, the state treasurer, Angier, in response to an inquiry from the house of representatives regarding the affairs of his department, intimated that the governor had drawn money from the treasury under suspicious circumstances.[287] Thus began the feud between the governor and the treasurer which continued during the rest of Bullock's term. Angier's report was referred to the committee on finance. The majority of the committee reported that the governor's acts had been irregular but in good faith. The minority reported that his acts were culpable and his explanations inadequate, and concluded: "The facts herein set forth develop the necessity for further legislation for the security of the treasury."[288] This report the house adopted by a large majority.[289] Another index of the relations between the governor and the legislature is furnished by the governor's message submitting the proposed Fifteenth Amendment. It opened thus: