Wade and Davis who had no power in their hands.
When Congress convened in December (1864), Mr.Lincoln, who had meanwhile been re-elected to the Presidency, studiously refrained from any reference in his annual message to the controversy over his proclamation.

With the intuitive sagacity and caution which never failed him, he did not touch upon the question of reconstruction.

He had foreseen that the unhappy differences with which the close of the previous session of Congress had been marked might be renewed, and thence lead the party into warring factions if he should again attempt to urge his own views.

This was undoubtedly a disappointment to those who had regarded the controversy with the President as only postponed till the assembling of Congress, and who were impatiently awaiting its renewal.

The assumed views of the President were antagonized later in the session by the passage of a joint resolution "declaring certain States not entitled to representation in the electoral college." This was done to cut off the electoral votes (should any such votes be returned) of Louisiana and Arkansas, satirically referred to by the opponents of the Administration policy as Mr.Lincoln's "ten per cent States"-- in allusion to the permission given to one-tenth of the population to organize a State government.
The passage of this joint resolution, to which great importance was attached by the critics of the President, was met by Mr.Lincoln in a spirit and with a tact which deprived its authors of all sense of triumph.