It was soon ascertained however, that the apprehension of danger was unfounded and that Messrs.

Morgan and Van Winkle did not design any change of political relations, but were only more cautious and perhaps wiser than the other Republican senators.
A few weeks later, the disaster of the veto--for such it was esteemed by Republicans--was repaired by the passage of another bill, originating in the House.

This was simply a bill to continue in force the original Freedmen's Bureau Act, with some enlarging provisions to make it more effective.

The Act was so framed as to escape the objections which had controlled some of the Republican votes that sustained the President's veto.

Among the most important of the changes were the limitation of the statute to the term of two years and a serious modification of the judicial powers accorded to the officers of the Bureau in the preceding bill.