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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 importance, and the office of Secretary, and
Sergeant-at-Arms, and Door-keeper, and all the important offices
of the Senate would continue in Democratic hands. So, very
reluctantly, we yielded to the desire of our associates.
Whereupon a resolution was adopted continuing the standing
Committees for the session as they had come over from the last
session, and indeed from the session before, Mr. Davis voting
with the Republicans. This vote was passed by a majority
of two votes. General Logan then introduced the following
resolution: That David Davis, a Senator from Illinois, is
hereby chosen President pro tempore of the Senate. This was
also passed by a majority of two votes, Mr. Davis and Mr.


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