[94] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 915-917; McPherson, _History of Reconstruction_, pp. 68-72. [95] See Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 497-99; Wilson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 184-195; Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 171-2. [96] The votes were: House, 104 to 33; Senate, 33 to 12. For the text of the bill, see _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 39th Congress; McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 149-50. Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 172, states that the bill was far less popular than the measure vetoed on February 19. "It required potent persuasion, re-enforced by the severest exercise of party discipline, to prevent a serious break in both Houses against the bill." [97] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 52-56. [98] _House journal_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 300, 315. The resolution was carried particularly to silence the Tennessee claimants for recognition. The somewhat anomalous position of that State gave grounds for the argument that it should be classed in the same category with the other Southern States. Thus Mr. Stevens was able to get the power for the joint committee which he had originally claimed. [99] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 58-63. [100] See Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 684-692; _History of Reconstruction_, 117-149; Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 172-79. [101] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 39th Congress, pp. 39, 40. [102] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session; McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 75-8. [103] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 1679-81; McPherson, _History of Reconstruction_, pp. 75-8. [104] _Senate Journal_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 431-2; McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 82-3; Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 275-80. [105] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 81-2; _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 2609. [106] McPherson, 160-164. [107] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 164-6; _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session. [108] Hurd, in his _Theory of our National Existence_, p. 42, says that this report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction "as being the most authoritative declaration of principles supposed to have been afterwards carried out in political action, is a document which, either for good or evil, will probably be regarded as one of the most important in the history of this country." [109] For an extended discussion of the constitutional views of the members of the committee, see Hurd's _Theory_, etc., pp. 224 ff. [110] _House Reports_, No. 30, 39th Congress, 1st Session. McPherson, _History of Reconstruction_, pp. 84-93. [111] Gillet, _Democracy in the United States_, pp. 318-20. [112] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 39th Congress, pp. 9, 10, 351.