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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Federal Congress. (search)
In the House one hundred and ten members answered to their names. Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, was admitted to a seat. The question of admitting Mr. Segar, from the Fortress Monroe District of Virginia; Mr. Beach, from the same State, and Mr. Foster, from North Carolina, were referred to Committee on Elections. A memorial from Mr. Lowe, to be admitted as an additional member from California, was referred to the same committee. A joint resolution, tendering the thanks of Congress to Capt. Wilkes for his arrest of the rebel emissaries, Mason and Slidell, was adopted. A resolution expelling John W. Reed, the member from the 5th District of Missouri, and now serving in the rebel army, was adopted. Resolutions requesting the President to order Messrs. Mason and Slidell to be treated in the same manner as Col. Corcoran and Col. Wood, prisoners in the hands of the rebels, are treated, were unanimously adopted, amid cheers from the spectators. The Secretary of War was req