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tutional amendment? 177; what is its effect? 

 177; why not enforce by laws other prohibi- 

 tions of the Constitution ? 178; what is pro- 

 posed to be done? 178; has not Congress the 

 power to prescribe the mode and manner of 

 electing members of Congress? 178; is this 

 bill limited to members of Congress ? 179 ; it 

 reaches all officers from the highest to the 

 lowest, 179 ; we should endeavor to guard 

 against the wholesale frauds in the election of 

 President, 179 ; amendment offered, 179 ; the 

 amendment, 180; never such a proposition 

 made before in Congress, 180 ; at midnight 

 you are asked to adopt it, 180 ; as important 

 as any thing in the -bill, 181 ; amendment to 

 the amendment rejected, 181 ; reoffered in 

 part, 181 ; agreed to, 181 ; other amendments 

 offered and agreed to, 182, 183 ; bill passed, 183. 



In the House, a disagreement with the 

 amendments of the Senate, and committees of 

 conference appointed, 183 ; report, 183 ; agreed 

 to, 183. 



In the House, a bill introduced to establish 

 a uniform system of naturalization, 184 ; feat- 

 ures of the bill, 184 ; motion to reject the bill 

 lost, 185 ; bill passed, 185. 



In the Senate, a substitute to the naturaliza- 

 tion bill reported, 186 ; amendments offered, 

 186 ; this amendment involves the whole Chi- 

 nese problem, 186 ; other amendments offered 

 and rejected, 186; substitute rejected, 187; 

 amendments offered to the House bill, 187 ; 

 moved to strike out the word " white," 187 ; 

 agreed to, 188; amendment relative to Chi- 

 nese offered, 188; what is their condition? 

 188 ; the Senate do not comprehend this ques- 

 tion, 188 ; you have no means of administering 

 oaths to Chinamen, 188; the proposition to 

 strike out the word " white " is nothing more 

 nor less than to admit Chinese, 188 ; it em- 

 braces the whole pagan races of the world, 

 189 ; if the Chinese come here at all, I do not 

 want them here as slaves, 189 ; the fate of the 

 proposition to strike out the word " white," 

 189 ; its history, 189, 190 ; foolish interpreta- 

 tion of the Declaration of Independence, 190 ; 

 it has nothing to do with the question, 191 ; 

 Congress has plenary power over this subject, 

 191 ; exaggeration of immigration, 191 ; what 

 is the American principle that should guide us 

 here? 192; shall Chinamen be citizens? 192; 

 by the American maxim the Chinaman is enti- 

 tled to a vote, 193 ; may Indians be naturalized ? 



193 ; moved to reconsider the vote on the 

 word l( white," 193 ; what is the objection to 

 Chinese ? 194 ; the simple question is a practi- 

 cal one, how shall we serve our country ? 195 ; 

 motion to reconsider agreed to, 195 ; has a 

 Chinaman a natural and moral right to become 

 a citizen of the United States? 195; he has 

 not, 195 ; we may refuse it without violating 

 any right, 195 ; amendment rejected, 196 ; 

 other amendments, 196; bill passed, 197; 

 amendments concurred in by the House, 197. 



In the House, a joint resolution on Cuba re- 

 ported, 197; the resolution, 197; a substitute, 

 197; amendment, 198; object of the resolu- 

 tion, 198; what is the duty of the United 

 States? 198, 199; declarations of Great Britain 

 and Spain, 200 ; state of the question, 201 ; 

 views of the minority, 202 ; is the acquisition 

 desired ? 203 ; amendments offered, 204 ; sub- 

 stitute adopted, 204 ; act appointing legal holi- 

 days in the District of Columbia, 204 ; other 

 proceedings, 205. 



XI. Session of 1870-'71 : Third session of 

 the Forty-first convenes, 132 ; resolution rela- 

 tive to the Monroe doctrine, 132 ; do. relative 

 to the annexation of Dominica, 133 ; do. rela- 

 tive to treaty with Dominica, 133 ; do. rela- 

 tive to a system of revenue and expenditure, 

 133; do. relative to revenue reform, 134; do. 

 relative to political disabilities, 134. 



In the House, a bill relative to reconstruc- 

 tion reported, 134 ; no more important subject 

 will be presented to Congress, 136 ; power of 

 the Executive to grant reprieves and pardons, 

 136; intention of the bill, 137; excepted cases, 

 137; other exceptions, 137; substitute pro- 

 posed, 137; amendment moved, 137; another 

 substitute proposed, 137 ; a general removal 

 of all disabilities from all classes of men, 138 ; 

 what the effect and extent of these sweeping 

 provisions, 138 ; take the case of General Pil- 

 low, 138 ; this is a bill making odious discrimi- 

 nations, 138; holds out the promise to the ear, 

 but breaks it to the heart, 139 ; extraordinary 

 provisions of this bill, 139 ; shook every man's 

 sense of justice, 139 ; little in this bill to com- 

 mend it to the House, 139 ; pledge given to go 

 for amnesty, 140 ; I want no half-way work, 

 140; this bill a very singular and incongruous 

 mixture, 140 ; comes from the Committee on 

 Reconstruction, which is a political committee, 

 140 ; it is in no sense an amnesty bill, 141 ; 

 it is a property- grabbing bill, 141 ; if the spirit 



