Mr.Bingham changed his motion accordingly; and the roll being called, the series of resolutions offered by Mr.Voorhees, with the substitute of Mr.
Bingham, were sent to the Committee on Reconstruction by 107 _ayes_ against 32 _noes_.

Mr.Raymond and his colleague, Mr.William A.
Darling, were the only Republicans who voted with the Democrats.

The act was simple in a parliamentary sense, but its significance was unmistakable.

A House, four-fifths of whose members were Republicans, had refused to pass a resolution expressing confidence in the President who, fourteen months before, had received the vote of every Republican in the Nation.

From that day, January 9th, 1866, the relation of the dominant party in Congress to the President was changed.