blicans. On a resolution that Thomas F. Bayard,
a Senator from Delaware, be chosen President pro tempore,
Mr. Edmunds moved an amendment by striking it all out and
inserting a resolution that the oath of office be administered
to Mr. Miller and Mr. Lapham of New York, and Mr. Aldrich
of Rhode Island, by Mr. Henry B. Anthony the senior Senator
of the Senate. That resolution was lost by a vote of thirty-
four to thirty-three, Mr. Davis voting with the Republicans.
Mr. Edmunds then moved to add to the resolution declaring
Mr. Bayard President pro tempore, the words "for this day."
That was lost by one vote, Mr. Davis voting with the Republicans.
After several other unsuccessful attempts, Mr. Bayard was
chosen President pro tempore, the resolution being carried
by a majority of two votes, Mr. Davis not voting. Thereupon
Mr. Bayard accepted the office in a speech, brief, but which
clearly implied an expectation on his part to continue in
it for a considerable period of time.

The next day, being Tuesday, October 11, Mr. Aldrich of Rhode
Island, Mr. Lapham and Mr. Miller of New York, were admitted
to their seats. This left a majority of two for the Republicans,
if Mr. Davis acted with them, and the two parties tied, if
Mr. Davis acted with the Democrats.

The Democrats had succeeded in electing their President pro
tempore, whom the Republicans could not displace, and there
was left before the body a struggle for the organization
of the Senate, including the executive officers and the Committees,
in which no progress could be made without Mr. Davis's help.

That being the condition of things, the Republicans called
a caucus, in which Senator Logan, Mr. Davis's colleague,
appeared with a message from Mr. Davis. This substance of
the message was that Mr. Davis thought that the Republicans
ought to leave the organization, so far as the executive
offices were concerned, in the hands of the Democrats, who
had elected the existing officers during the previous Congress,
and that the Committees should be appointed with Republican
majorities. Mr. Logan further announced that if the Republicans
should see fit to elect Mr. Davis President pro tempore, he
would vote in accordance with that understanding. Mr. Ingalls
of Kansas and I were quite unwilling to accede to this arrangement.
But at that time the Committees lasted only for the session
for which they were appointed. So the Senate could transact
no business of importan