a vote of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or a majority of voters at an election to be held for the purpose; and as soon as such assent shall be given, and duly made known by a majority of the commissioners herein appointed, to the President of the United States, he shall announce the same by proclamation; and thereafter, and without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of said State of Kansas into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever, shall be complete and absolute. At the said election, the voting shall be by ballot, and by indorsing on his ballot as each voter may please, "For the Constitution" or "Against the Constitution." Should the said Constitution be rejected at the said election by a majority of votes being cast against it, then and in that event, the inhabitants of said Territory are hereby authorized and empowered to form for themselves a Constitution and State governmeat by the name of the State of Kansas, according to the Federal Constitution, and to that end may elect delegates to a convention as hereinafter provided, &c., &c.
The "Montgomery amendment' was adopted, and the bill passed by a vote of 120 to 112, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Abbott, Adrian, Andrews, Bennett, Billinghurst, Bingham, Blair, Bliss, Brayton, Buffington, Burlingame, Burroughs, Campbell, Case, Chaffee, Chapman, Ezra Clark, H. F. Clark, Clawson, Clark B. Cochrane, Cockerill, Colfax, Comins, Covode, Cox, Cragin, Curtis, Damrell, Davis of Maryland, Davis of Indiana, Davis of Massachusetts, Davis of Iowa, Dawes, Dean, Dick, Dodd, Durfee, Edie, English, Farnsworth, Fenton, Foley, Foster, Giddings, Gilman, Gilmer, Gooch, Goodwin, Granger, Groesbeek, Grow, L. W. Hall, Robert B. Hall, Harlan, J. Morrison Harris, Thomas L. Harris, Haskin, Hickman, Hoard, Horton, Howard, Owen Jones, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kilgore, Knapp, John C. Kunkle, Lawrence, Leach, Leiter, Lovejoy, McKibben, Humphrey Marshall, Sam'l S. Marshall, Matteson, Montgomery, Morgan, Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, Isaac N. Morris, Freeman H. Morse, Oliver A. Morse, Mott, Murray, Nichols, Olin, Palmer, Parker, Pendleton, Pettit, Pike, Potter, Pottle, Purviance, Ricaud, Ritchie, Robbins, Roberts, Royce, Aaron Shaw, John Sherman, Judson W. Sherman, Robert Smith, Spinner, Stanton, Wm. Stewart, Tappan, Thayer, Thompson, Tompkins, Underwood, Wade, Walbridge, Waldron, Walton, Cadwallader C. Washburn, Ellihu B. Washburn, Israel Washburn, Wilson and Wood—120.
Nays—Ahl, Anderson, Arnold, Atkins, Avery, Barksdale, Bishop, Bocock, Bonham, Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Burnett, Burns, Caskie, John B. Clark, Clay, Clemmens, Clingman, Cobb, John Cochrane, Corning, James Craig, Burton Craige, Crawford, Currie, Davidson, Davis of Mississippi, Dewart, Dimmick, Dowdell, Edmundson, Elliot, Eustis, Faulkner, Florence, Garnett Gartrell, Gillis, Goode, Greenwood, Gregg, Hatch, Hawkins, Hill, Hopkins, Houston, Hughes, Huyler, Jackson, Jenkins, Jewett, George W. Jones, J. Glancey Jones, Keitt, Kelley, Jacob M. Kunkle, Lamar, Landy, Leidy, Letcher,
