nts of independent legislation had prevented an
agreement upon the appropriation bills for these imperative needs of
the Government. President Hayes therefore called the Forty-sixth
Congress to meet in extra session on the 18th of March (1879). His
Administration had an exceptional experience in assembling Congress
in extra session. In time of profound peace, with no exigency in the
public service except that created by the disagreement of Senate and
House, he had twice been compelled to assemble Congress in advance of
its regular day for meeting.

The House was organized by the re-election of Mr. Randall as Speaker.
He received 143 votes to 125 for James A. Garfield, while 13 members
elected as Greenbackers cast their votes for Hendrick B. Wright of
Pennsylvania. Among the most prominent of the new members were George
M. Robeson from the Camden district of New Jersey, who proved to be
as strong in parliamentary debate as he was known to be in argument at
the bar; Levi P. Morton from one of the New-York City districts, who
had all his life been devoted to business affairs and who had achieved
a high reputation in banking and financial circles; Warner Miller from
the Herkimer district, who was extensively engaged as a manufacturer
and had already acquired consideration by his service in the New-York
Legislature; Richard Crowley from the Niagara district, a well-known
lawyer in Western New York.

--Henry H. Bingham came from one of the Philadelphia districts with an
unusually good record in the war, which he entered as a lieutenant
in a Pennsylvania regiment and left with the rank of _brevet_
Brigadier-General. He served on the staff of General Hancock and was
wounded in three great battles.--John S. Newberry was a successful
admiralty lawyer from the Detroit district.--Roswell G. Horr, from one
of the Northern districts of Michigan, became widely known as a ready
and efficient speaker with a quaint and humorous mode of argument.

Thomas L. Young came from one of the Cincinnati districts. He was a
native of Ireland, a private soldier in the Regular Army of the United
States before the war, Colonel of an Ohio regiment during the war,
and was afterwards elected Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio on the ticket
with Rutherford B. Hayes.--Frank H. Hurd, an earnest and consistent
advocate of free trade, entered again from the Toledo district.--A. J.
Warner, distinguished for his advocacy of silver, came from the
Marietta dist