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nor shall it hereafter charter private corpora- | several States and Territories and the District tions to carry on business within the States. of Columbia according to the valuation of 1871, December 5-Mr. POTTER proposed a new article:

SECTION 1. The President and Vice President hereafter elected shall hold office during the term of six years; but no person shall be reëligible to be President who has been once elected to that office.

1871, December 11-Mr. COGHLAN proposed a new article:

SECTION 1. The public land of the United States, except mineral lands, shall not be disposed of except to actual settlers thereon, for homestead purposes only, and in quantities limited by general laws. Which wasyeas 85, nays 87:

March 8, 1872-disagreed to

property within the same, respectively, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to his, her, or its property, such valuation to be ascertained in such manner as Congress may prescribe: Provided, That the property of the United States, of the several States, Territories, the District of Columbia, counties, and other municipal corporations, and such other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, for school, religious, cemetery, and charitable purposes, shall be exempt from such taxation.

SEC. 3. That any State or Territory and the District of Columbia may assume, assess, collect, and pay into the Treasury of the United States the direct tax, or its quota thereof, imYEAS-Messrs. Acker, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, posed by Congress under this article, in its Banks, Beatty, Beveridge, J. Brooks, Buffinton, own way and manner, by and through its own Burchard, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, Coghlan, Cox, Crebs, Crossland, De Large, Ely. Fink officers, assessors, and collectors; but if any elnburg, Forker, C. Foster, H. D. Foster, W. D. Fos- State or Territory or the District of Columbia ter, Garfield, Garrett, Golladay, Griffith. Haldeman, shall fail to pay into the Treasury of the Hancock, Handley, Harmer, Havens, Hawley, J. W. United States its quota or proportion of such Hazleton, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, Houghton, Kerr, King, Lamport, Lewis, Lowe, Manson, McClelland, direct tax within months after the same McCrary, McIntyre. McNeely, Merriam, B. F. Meyers, shall have been laid and apportioned, such Monroe, Morgan, Negley, Orr, Packard, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Peck, E. Perry, Potter, Randall, tax, together with the cost of assessing and Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Sargent, collecting the same, shall be assessed and colShanks, H. B. Smith, Snapp, Sprague, Stevens, lected within such State or Territory or the Stevenson, Storm, Strong. Swann, Tyner, Upson, District of Columbia so failing to pay the Van Trump, Vaughan, Whitthorne, Willard, Williams of Indiana, Winchester, Wood-85. same in such manner as Congress may direct.

1871, December 11-Mr. MORGAN proposed a new article:

NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Ames, Averill, Barber,
Barry, Bell, Bigby, Bingham, Bird, Braxton, G. M.
Brooks, Buckley, Caldwell, Cobb, Coburn, Comingo,
Conger, Conner, Darrall, Davis, Dawes, Donnan,
Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Dunnell, Eldredge, Frye, Hanks, SEC. 1. Naturalized citizens of the United
Harper, G. E. Harris, J. T. Harris, Hays. G. W. States shall be eligible to the offices of Presi-
Hazelton, Herndon, Hoar, Hooper, Kelley, Kendall,
Lamison, Lansing, Leach, McCormick, McGrew, Me- dent and Vice President. Any provision in
Henry, McJunkin, Mercur, Merrick, Mitchell, Morey, the Constitution inconsistent herewith is here-
Morphis, Packer, Palmer, Pendleton, Poland, Porter,

Rainey, E. H. Roberts, J. Rogers, Rusk, Sawyer,

Sessions, Sheldon, Sherwood, Shober, Shoemaker,
Slater, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snyder, T. J. Speer,
Stark weather, Stoughton, Stowell, Sutherland, Taffe,
Terry, Thomas, Turner, Tuthill, Wakeman, Walden,
Waldron, Wallace, Warren, Wheeler, Young-87.

1871, December 11-Mr. KING proposed a new article, (preamble omitted :)

SEC. 1. It shall not be lawful for the white inhabitants of the United States, either male or female, to contract bonds of matrimony, or enter into the marriage relation, with the African or other colored inhabitants of the United States; and all such marriages are hereby forever prohibited.

SEC. 2. And said fourteenth amendment shall not be understood or construed as prohibiting the States from making and enforcing such laws as may be necessary to provide for the education of the children of the colored inhabitants of the United States in schools and colleges separate and apart from the schools and colleges for the education of the children of the white inhabitants.

1871, December 11—Mr. McNEELY proposed

a new article:

SEC. 1. Congress shall have no power to lay and collect duties on imports or excises.

SEC. 2. That Congress shall raise such revenue as may be required under the Constitution by a direct tax laid annually upon the United States, which shall be apportioned among the

by declared void and of no effect.

1872, January 8-Mr. MORGAN moved to suspend the rules and pass the resolution; which was disagreed to-yeas 81, nays 65:

YEAS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Archer, Arthur, Beatty, Beck, Bird, J. G. Blair, Braxton, Bright, Buckley, Burchard, B. F. Butler, Caldwell, Coghian, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Crossland, Dox, DuBose, Duke, Dunnell, Eldredge, Ely, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, Frye, Garrett, Getz, Goodrich, Hancock, Handley, Harper, J, T. Harris, Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, Holman, Kerr, King, Leach, Lynch, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McHenry, B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Niblack, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Porter, Potter, Randall, Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, W. R. Roberts, J. Rogers, Roosevelt, Sheldon, Sherwood, Slater, Sloss, T. J. Speer, Starkweather, Stevens, Stevenson, Swann, Terry, Van Trump, Waddell, Walden, Wells, Whiteley, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, Winchester, Wood-81.

NAYS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks, Barber, Barry, Beveridge, A. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buffinton, Burdett, R. R. Butler, Coburn, Dawes, Donnan, W.D. Foster, Garfield, Hale, G. E. Harris, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Hoar, Hooper, Houghton, KelMerriam, Monroe, Moore, L. Myers, Negley. Orr, ley, Lewis, Lowe, Maynard, McCrary, McKee, Mercur, Packard, Packer, Palmer, Peck, Peters, Platt, Poland. Ritchie, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sessions, Shanks, Sprague, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, Upson. WakeShellabarger, H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, Snapp,

man, Waldron, Walls, Wheeler, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, J. T. Wilson-65.

1872, January 22-Mr. MORGAN moved to suspend the rules and pass the resolution; which was disagreed to-yeas 91, nays 75, (not voting 74:)

YEAS-Messrs. Acker, Archer, Arthur, Beatty,

Beck, Bell, Bird, J. G. Blair, Braxton, Bright, Burch- any part thereof, shall be adjudged constitu-
ard, Coghlan, Comingo, Conger, Conner, Cotton,
Cox, Crebs, Crosstand, Dox, Du Bose, Duell, Duke, tional, such law, or part thereof, so adjudged
Dunnell, Eldredge, Farnsworth, Farwell, Finkeln to be constitutional, shall be operative and
burg. C. Foster, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Goodrich, shall be enforced. If the law, or any part
Griffith, Haldeman, Hancock, Handley, Hanks, Har-
per, J. T. Harris, Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, thereof, shall be adjudged unconstitutional,
Kerr, King, Lamison, Leach, Manson, Marshall, Me- then such law, or part thereof, so adjudged to
Clelland, McCormick, McCrary, McHenry, McIntyre, be unconstitutional, shall be inoperative, and
McNeely, B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Morphis, Niblack, shall not be enforced.
H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, E. Perry, Porter, Pot-
ter, Price, Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, J. Rogers,
Sherwood, Shober, Shoemaker, Slater, Sloss. T. J.
Speer, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Sutherland, Swann,
Terry, Vaughan, Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Wells,
Whiteley, Whitthorne, Wood, Young-91.

NAYS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks, Barber. Barry, Beveridge, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buffinton, Burdett, R. R. Butler, W. T. Clark, Cobb, Darrall, Dawes, Donnan, Eames, W. D. Foster, Garfield, Hale, Hawley, J. W. Hazelton, Hoar, Houghton, Kelley, Lowe, Maynard, McGrew, McJunkin, Mercur, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, L. Myers, Orr, Packard, Palmer, Peck, Pendleton, Perce, A. F. Perry, Platt, Poland, Rainey, Ritchie, E. H. Roberts, Sargent, Sawyer, Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Shellabarger, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snapp, Snyder, Sprague. Stoughton, Stowell, Taffe, W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Wheeler, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. T. Wilson-75.

1871, December 18-Mr. COMINGO proposed a new article:

No Territory or district of country shall hereafter be admitted into the Union as a State that does not contain a representative population that will entitle it to at least one Representative, according to the ratio of representation at the time of its admission.

1872, January 8-Mr. MCCRARY proposed a new article:

Second. The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction in all cases when the writ of habeas corpus will lie in the several Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court. The right of appeal from such inferior tribunal to the Supreme Court shall not be abridged.

1872, January 22-Mr. ISAAC C. PARKER proposed a new article:

SECTION 1. No person shall be eligible to the office of President or Vice President of the United States while such person is a member of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, nor for two years after such membership shall cease.

1872, April 8-Mr. HAWLEY proposed a new article:

The Senate of the United States shall be chosen by the people thereof for six years, composed of two Senators from each State, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

April 29-Mr. GOLLADAY submitted the following as a new article:

All civil officers of the United States, except judges of the supreme and inferior courts, the heads of Departments, and those whose duties are temporary in their character, shall The Congress shall have no power to make hold office for a term of four years, unless a any grants of the public lands of the United longer term shall be fixed by law. Congress States, except for purposes of homesteads and may by law provide for the election by the peo-common-school education of the people of the ple, of postmasters, and other officers whose duties are to be performed within the limits of any State or part of a State; but the President shall have the power of removal of any such officer, whether appointed or elected, for any cause affecting the incumbent's character, habits, or other qualifications, excepting political or religious opinions.

1872, January 8-Mr. SNAPP proposed a new article:

SEC. 1. No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States who is, or has been, a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1872, January 15-Mr. MCINTYRE proposed a new article:

First. The Supreme Court of the United States shall have original as well as appellate jurisdiction in cases involving or affecting the constitutionality of any Federal law so far as to determine the question of the constitutionality of the same; and the Supreme Court, upon the application of any State, corporation, or person suggesting the unconstitutionality of any Federal law, or any part thereof, on notice to the Executive of the United States, within six months from the date of said application, shall determine the question. If the law, or

respective States and Territories. Nor shall Congress make any law impairing the obligation of contracts, nor shall they hereafter charter private corporations to carry on business within the States.

May 6-Mr. POLAND submitted the following new article:

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be chosen President or Vice President; nor shall any judge of any court of the United States be chosen President or Vice President within two years after the termination of his judicial office.

1872, March 4-Mr. WILLIAM T. JONES, Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming, proposed a new article:

SECTION 1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States and Territories of the United States; and hereafter each of the organized Territories of the United States shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Representatives, who shall be entitled to all the privileges and powers enjoyed by members from the several States.

SEC. 2. No distinction as to the qualifica

tions of electors in the States or Territories | preamble to the Constitution, after the words shall hereafter be made on account of sex. We, the people of the United States," the following:

"Religious" Amendment.

The National Association, whose object is to secure a recognition of Almighty God and the Christian religion in the Constitution of the United States, ask for the substance of the following amendment: to insert in the

Acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, and His revealed will as of supreme authority, in order to constitute a Christian government.

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VIII.

THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, AND FIFTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND VOTES ON THE VALIDITY THEREOF.

ARTICLE XIII.*

SEC. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

ARTICLE XIV.†

SEC. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the juris: diction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the States wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Representative in Congress, or elector of SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United rebellion against the same, or given aid or States, shall have engaged in insurrection or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two thirds of each House remove such disability.

SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appor tioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors of the United States, authorized by law, includSEC. 4. The validity of the public debt for President and Vice President of the United ing debts incurred for payment of pensions States, Representatives in Congress, the exec- and bounties for services in suppressing insurutive and judicial officers of a State, or the rection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. *Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Seward, De-But neither the United States nor any State cember 18, 1865. For certificate, see McPherson's History of Reconstruction, page 6.

+ Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Seward, July 28, 1868. For certificate, see McPherson's History

of Reconstruction, page 379.

Respecting the history of this section of the amendment, it is proper to say that the clause defining citizens was not reported from the joint Committee on Reconstruction, but was offered in the Senate by Mr. JACOB M. HOWARD, of Michigan, as an amendment to the section as passed by the House. But the residue of the section was reported from the joint Committee on Reconstruction, in which it was offered in the precise form in which it stands by Mr. JOHN A. BINGHAM, of Ohio, a member of the committee, as stated by him in a speech in the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871, (Congressional Globe, volume 86, page 83,) and as appears from the unpublished journal of said committee, now in the hands of the heirs of the late Senator FESSENDEN, of Mainé, its chairman.

shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XV.*

SEC. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged

*Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Fish, March 30, 1870. For certificate, see McPherson's History of Reconstruction, page 545.

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"Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana withdrawing its assent to the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendments to the Constitution.

"Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the pretended ratifica tion of the fifteenth amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States on the part of the State of Indiana was and is null and void, and of no binding force or effect whatever, and the counting of the vote of the State in favor of the same was done without any lawful warrant or authority, and that, protesting against the same, this General Assembly does now withdraw and rescind all action, perfect or imperfect, on the part of this State, purporting to assent to and ratify said proposed fifteenth amendment.

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• Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That Congress has no lawful power derived from the Constitution of the United States, nor from any other source whatever, to require any State of the Union to ratify an amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States as a condition-precedent to representation in Congress; that all such acts of ratification are null and void; and the votes so obtained ought not to be counted to affect the rights of the people and the States of the whole Union; and that the State of Indiana protests and solemnly declares that the socalled fifteenth amendment is not this day, nor ever has been in law, a part of the Constitution of the United States.

"Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That the State of Indiana does now pro: pose and ask that the Congress of the United States may and will, as soon as practicable, call a convention of the States and the people, according to the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States, for the purpose of proposing amendments to said Constitution for the ratification by the States. •Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor of Indiana be, and is hereby, directed to transmit an authenticated copy of these resolutions, and the preamble thereto, to each of the Governors of the several States of the Union, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress."

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relation to the ratification of the fifteenth arti cle of amendments to the Constitution by the States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas; and also the validity and binding force of the ratification of said article by either of said States, is called in question by the resolutions aforesaid: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c., That the Congress of the United States had the lawful power to impose upon the said States the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendments to the Constitution as a condition-precedent to representation in Congress, and that the ratification thereof, pursuant to such act of Congress, by either of said States is valid, to all intents and purposes, and binding upon the States so ratiState having so ratified has no lawful right to fying, and upon all the States, and that the rescind the same.

And be it further resolved, That the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth articles of amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been duly ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, and that said amendments are valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of the United States, and as such binding and obligatory upon the Executive, the Congress, the several States and Territories, and all the citizens of the United States.

Which (two thirds not having voted in the affirmative) was not agreed to-yeas 109, nays 76, not voting 38:

YEAS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Barber, "Beatty, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, J. G. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, R. R. Butler, F. Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cook, Cotton, nell, Eames, Elliott, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, C. Creely, Dawes, De Large, Dickey, Donnan, DunFoster, Frye, Garfield, Goodrich. Hale, Harmer, G. Hazelton, Hoar, Hooper, Kelley, Kendall, Ketcham, E. Harris, Havens, Hawley, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Killinger, Kinsella, Lamport, Lansing, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, McGrew, McJunkin. Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Morphis, L. Myers, Orr, Packard. Packer, Palmer, Pendleton. Perce, Peters, Platt, Poland, Porter, Prindle, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield. Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Shoemaker. H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Stevenson, Stoughton, Stowell, St. John, Sutherland, Sypher, Taffe, Thomas, W. Townsend, Twichell, lace, Wheeler, Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Tyner. Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, WalIndiana, J. M. 'Wilson, J. T. Wilson-109.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Archer, Arthur, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Braxton, Bright, J. Brooks, CaldCrossland, Davis, Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Eldredge, well, Campbell, Carroll, Comingo, Cox, Critcher, Forker, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Griffith, Haldeman Handley, Hanks, Harper, J. T. Harris, Hereford, Clelland, McCormick, McHenry, McIntyre, McKinHolman, King, Lamison, Leach, Lewis, Manson, Mcney,, Merrick, B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Niblack, Parker, E. Perry, Potter Price, Randall, Read, Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Robinson, Shober, Slater, Sloss, R. M. Speer, Storm, Swann, Terry, Tuthill, Van Trump, Vaughan, Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Wells, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, Wood, Young-76.

NOT VOTING-Messrs. Ames, Banks, Barry, B. F. Butler, Crebs, Darrall, Duell. Ely, Farwell, H. D. Fuster, Halsey, Hambleton, Hay, Hays, Hill, Kerr, Negley, Peck, A. F. Perry, W. R. Roberts, J. Lowe, Marshall, McKee. McNeely. Mercur, Mitchell, Rogers, Roosevelt, Sherwood, Slocum, W. C. Smith. Snyder, Stevens, D. Townsend, Turner, Walls, Wash

And whereas the validity of the act of Con-burn, Winchester-38. gress approved the 10th day of April, 1869, in

1872, February 5-Mr. PETERS offered the

following, and moved to suspend the rules and adopt it:

Resolved, That the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States having been ratified by the number of State Legislatures necessary to make their adoption valid and binding, as well as having been sanctioned by the most significant popular approval, the highest patriotism and most enlightened public policy demand of all political parties and all citizens an acquiescence in the validity of such constitutional provisions, and such reasonable legislation of Congress as may be necessary to make them in their letter and spirit most effectual. Which was agreed to-yeas 124, nays 58, not voting 57:

YEAS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks, Barber, Beatty, Bell, Beveridge, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, W. T. Clark, F. Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Coghlan, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Darrall, Dickey, Donnan, Duell, Dunnell, Eames, Farnsworth, Farwell, Finkelnburg, C. Foster, W. D. Foster, Frye, Garfield, Goodrich, Griffith, Hale, Harmer, G. E. Harris, Havens, Hawley, Hay, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Hoar, Hooper, Houghton, Kelley, Ketcham, Killinger, Lamport, Lansing, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, McClelland, McGrew, McJunkin, McKee, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Morphis, L. Myers, Negley, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, Perce, Peters, Piatt, Poland, Porter, Prindle, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sargent, Sawyer, Seeley, Sessons, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Sherwood, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snapp, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, Stevenson, Stoughton, Stowell, Strong, Sutherland, Sypher, Taffe, Thomas, W. Townsend, Turner, Tyner, Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Wells, Wheeler, Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, John T. Wilson-124.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Arthur, Barnum, Beck, Biggs, Bright, Caldwell, Campbell, Comingo, Conner, Critcher, Crossland, Davis, Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Eldredge, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Haldeman, Hambleton, Hancock, Handley, Hanks, Harper, Hereford, Herndon, Holman, King, Lamison, Lewis, Manson, Marshall, McHenry, McIntyre, McNeely, Merrick, Niblack, Price, Read, E. Y. Rice. J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Slater, Sloss, Storm, Swann, Terry, Van Trump, Vaughan, Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Whitthorne, Winchester, Young-58.

NOT VOTING-Messrs. Ames, Archer. Barry, Bird, J. G. Blair, Braxton, J. Brooks, Carroll, Crebs, Creely, Dawes, De Large, Edwards, Elliott, Ely, Forker, H. D. Foster, Halsey, J. T. Harris, Hays, Hibbard, Hill, Kellogg, Kendall, Kerr, Kinsella, Leach, McCormick, McCrary, McKinney, Mercur, B. F. Meyers, Mitchell, Morgan, A. F. Perry, E. Perry, Potter, Randall, W. R. Roberts, Robinson, J. Rogers, Roosevelt, Scofield, Shober, Shoemaker, Slocum, H. Boardman Smith, Snyder, R. M. Speer, Stevens, St. John, D. Townsend, Tuthill, Twichell, Williams of New York, Wood-57.

Same day Mr. JAMES BROOKS offered the following, and moved to suspend the rules and adopt it:

Resolved, That we recognize the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution as valid parts thereof; which was agreed to-yeas 166, nays 22:

YEAS.-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks, Barber, Barnum, Beatty, Beck, Bell, Beveridge, Bigby, Bingham, Bird, J. G. Blair, Bright, G. M. Brooks, J.

Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett. B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, Campbell, Carroll, W. T. Clark, Cobb, Coburn, Comingo, Conger, Cotton, Cox. Crebs, Creely, Dickey, Donnan, Dox, Duell, Duke. Dunnell, Eames, Edwards, Eldredge, Ely, Faruster, Frye, Garrett. Getz, Golladay, Goodrich, Griffith, worth, Farwell, Finkelnburg, C. Foster, W. D. FosHaldeman, Hale, Hancock, Handley, Harmer, Harper, G. E. Harris, Havens, Hawley, Hay, Hays, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Herndon, Hibbard, Hoar, Holman, Hooper, Houghton, Kelley, Kerr, Ketcham, Killinger, King, Lamison, Lamport, Leach. Lowe, Lynch. Manson, Marshall, Maynard, McClelland, McCormick, McGrew, McIntyre, McJunkin. MeNeely, Mercur, Merriam, Merrick, Monroe, Moore, Morphis, L. Myers, Negley, Packard, Packer. Palmer, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker. Peck, Pendleton, Perce, E. Perry, Peters, Platt, Poland. Porter, Prindle, Rainey, Randall, E. Y. Rice, E. H. Roberts, W. R. Roberts, Robinson, Roosevelt, Sargent, Sawyer, Sherwood, Slocum, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snapp, Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, T. J. Speer, Starkweather, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Stoughton, Stowell, Strong, Sutherland, Swann, Sypher, Thomas, W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, Upson, Waddell, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Warren, Wells, Wheeler, Whiteley. Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, J. T. Wilson, Wood-166.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Arthur, Biggs, Conner, Critcher, Crossland, Davis, Du Bose, Hambleton, Hanks, Hereford, Lewis, McHenry, Niblack, Read, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Terry, Voorhees, Winchester, Young-22.

1872, February 12-The vote was taken on suspending the rules, and passing the following resolution offered on the 5th by Mr. STEVENSON:

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Resolved, That we recognize as valid and binding all existing laws passed by Congress for the enforcement of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and for the protection of citizens in their rights under the Constitution as amended.

The vote was-yeas 107, nays 65:

YEAS-Messrs. Ambler, Ames, Averill, Banks, Barber, Barry, Beatty. Beveridge. Bigby, Bingham, Boles, G. M. Brooks, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, B. F. Butler, W. T. Clark, F. Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Coghlan, Conger, Cotton, Dawes, Donnan, Duell, Dunnell, Finkelnburg, C. Foster, W. D. Foster, Frye, Garfield, Goodrich, Hale, Halsey, Harmer, Havens. Hawley, Hay, Hays, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, Hill, Hoar, Hooper, Kelley, Ketcham, Killinger, Lamport. Lansing, Lowe, Maynard, McGrew, McJunkin, McKee, Mercur, Merriam, Morphis, L. Myers, Negley, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer. I. C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, Perce, A. F. Perry, Peters, Platt, Poland, Porter, Prindle, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sargent, Seeley, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, J. A. Smith, Snapp, Snyder, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Starkweather, Stevenson, Stoughton, Stowell, Sypher, Taffe, W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Tyner, Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wilson, J. T. Wilson-107.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Arthur, Beck, Bell, Bird, Bright, J. Brooks, Caldwell, Comingo, Conner, Cox, Crossland, Davis, Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Eldredge, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Griffith, Haldeman, Handley, Hanks, J. T. Harris, Herndon, Hibbard, Holman, King, Kinsella, Lamison, Lewis, McClelland, McCormick, McHenry,, McIntyre, McNeely, Merrick, Niblack, H. W. Parker, E. Perry, Potter, Price, Randall, Read, J. M. Rice, W. R. Roberts, Sherwood, Shober, Slater, Slocum, Sloss, Stevens, Storm, Vaughan. Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Wells, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, Winchester, Wood, Young-65.

Two-thirds being required, the motion failed.

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