Abraham Lincoln actually said...

The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose.

My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last session of Congress...

Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was designed to correct ...

In case the quota or any part thereof of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct, or election district, or of any county not so subdivi...