merry-go-rounds.)" [78] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1476. [79] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1616. [80] _Ibid._, p. 1617. [81] _Ibid._, p. 1828. [82] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 155. [83] _Ibid._, p. 150. [84] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1169. [85] _Ibid._, p. 2256. [86] Gillet's _Democracy in the United States_, pp. 309-13, discusses the Freedmen's Bureau from the Northern Democratic standpoint. [87] The first bill creating a Freedmen's Bureau was introduced in the House during the 37th Congress by Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, who during the 39th Congress was chairman of the Select Committee on Freedmen. It was not reported, but the same bill was presented in the first session of the 38th Congress, and passed the House by a vote of 69 to 67. It was returned from the Senate on June 30, 1864, amended so as to attach the Bureau to the Treasury Department. A committee of conference agreed upon a new bill creating a department of freedmen's affairs, reporting to the President. This passed the House, but failed in the Senate. The next attempt succeeded. _Congressional Globe_, 2d Session, 38th Congress, p. 1307. See Cox's _Three Decades of Federal Legislation_ for an account of the Freedmen's Bureau; also Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 472-485; Wilson (Woodrow), _Division and Reunion_, 263. [88] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1299. Mr. Doolittle on the 19th of December, 1865, had introduced a bill relative to the Bureau of Freedmen, but when reported from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which it had been referred, it was indefinitely postponed. [89] This committee had been established by a resolution introduced by Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, on December 6, 1865. So much of the President's message as related to freedmen, and all papers relating to the same subject, were to be referred to it. The following were appointed members of the committee: T. D. Eliot of Massachusetts, W. D. Kelley of Pennsylvania, G. S. Orth of Indiana, J. A. Bingham of Ohio, Nelson Taylor of New York, B. F. Loan of Missouri, J. B. Grinnell of Iowa, H. E. Paine of Wisconsin, and S. S. Marshall of Illinois. [90] Cox confuses this act with the act passed over the veto on July 16, declaring that it was passed over the veto on February 21. _Three Decades of Federal Legislation_, p. 444. [91] See Wilson (Henry), _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 490-97; Wilson, _History of Reconstruction_, 148-184; Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 164-170; Wilson (Woodrow), _Division and Reunion_, 264. [92] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 39th Congress. McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 73-4. [93] The veto messages of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Cleveland, inclusive, have been compiled by Ben: Perley Poore by order of the Senate.