For the several bills and debates see H. Rep., 66, 39 Cong., 1 Sess (1272); Cong. Globe, 39 Cong., 1 Sess., 1844, 2965; H. Rep., 105, 39 Cong., 1 Sess. (1240); Cong. Globe, 39 Cong., 1 Sess., 3225-3237, 3451-3454, 3951-3952, 4054. A full account of the history of the passage of the bill was given by a correspondent in Washington, published in the Alta on May 17, 1867. A different view of the same subject is given by Julian in his Political Recollections, 286-292. "The clumsy and next to incomprehensible bill," he says, "thus became a law, and by legislative methods as indefensible as the measure itself."
