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regular session of the legislative assembly convened at Salem on Monday, September 10, 1866, and adjourned on Saturday, October 20, 1866. The senate consisted of twenty-two members and the house of forty-seven. Joseph N. Dolph was then a state senator from Multnomah County, and Gen. Joel Palmer, afterwards republican candidate for governor, was state senator from Yamhill County. In the house Binger Hermann, now commissioner of the general land office and for several years member of congress from this state, was representative from the County of Douglas. W. W. Upton, afterwards elected justice of the supreme court, was a member of the house from Multnomah County. John Whiteaker, the first governor of the state and a member of congress at one time, was a representative from the County of Lane. George R. Helm, who acquired considerable prominence as a leading democratic politician and a public speaker of some force, was one of the five representatives from the County of Linn; and T. R. Cornelius, of Washington County, was elected president of the senate. F. A. Chenowith, of Corvallis, was elected speaker of the house. The vote for governor was canvassed upon September 12, 1866, and it was ascertained that George L. Woods had received ten thousand three hundred and sixteen votes and James K. Kelly ten thousand and thirty -nine votes. The returns showed that Woods carried Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Grant, Marion, Multnomah, Tillamook, Washington, and Yamhill, and Kelly the remainder. Woods carried Multnomah by one hundred and eighty majority. On September 12, 1866, Senator Dolph offered Senate Joint Resolution No. 3 to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The resolution was referred to the committee on federal relations, and reported favorably September 13. A mo-