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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



posed repugnancy between such act or joint resolu- 

 tion and the Constitution of the United States, or for 

 any supposed want of authority in said Constitution 

 for the same ; nor shall the appellate jurisdiction of 

 the Supreme Court of the United States be construed 

 to authorize that court, in any case now pending, or 

 hereafter brought, before it, to affirm any order, 

 judgment, or decree of any inferior United States 

 court, or of any State court, which shall appear to 

 have been based upon any such adjudging or hold- 

 ing ; but every such order, judgment, or decree 

 shall, for that cause, be reversed, vacated, and an- 

 nulled; nor shall any justice of said Supreme Court, 

 in furtherance of the exercise of such appellate juris- 

 diction, make any order, or authorize or issue any 

 writ or process, or take any proceeding, based upon 

 any such adjudging or holding by him, or by the 

 said Supreme Court. 



The bill was read twice, and laid on the 

 table, and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, asked leave 

 to introduce the following bill : 



Be it enacted, etc., That all appellate jurisdiction 

 of the Supreme Court of the United States, in causes 

 or proceedings commenced by the writ of habeas 

 corpus, is hereby repealed and abolished. 



SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act 

 shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Mr. Sumner said: "I give notice that, as 

 soon as the committees are constituted, I shall 

 move the reference of that bill to the Commit- 

 tee on the Judiciary, in the hope that it may 

 be reported promptly to the Senate for imme- 

 diate action. There are interests in question 

 which are well known to the Senate and the 

 country, that may be seriously affected by that 

 bill. Meanwhile, I ask that it be printed." 



Mr. Warner, of Alabama, offered the fol- 

 lowing bill, which was read, and ordered to be 

 printed : 



Be it enacted, etc.. That all political disabilities 

 imposed by the third section of the fourteenth arti- 

 cle of amendment to the Constitution of the United 

 States, or by law of Congress, for reason of partici- 

 pation in rebellion against the Government of the 

 United States, are hereby removed from all persons 

 who were citizens of the State of Alabama on the 1st 

 day of December, 1869. 



Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, offered the follow- 

 ing resolution, which was read, and ordered to 

 be printed : 



Resolved, etc., That upon the ratification, by the 

 Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, of article 

 fifteen of the Constitution of the United States, pro- 

 posed by the Fortieth Congress, all disabilities im- 

 posed by the United States, in consequence of parti- 

 cipation in the late rebellion, shall cease, and no 

 person shall, after such ratification, be deprived of 

 any civil or political right on account of participation 

 in such rebellion. 



Mr. Stewart also offered the following reso- 

 lution, which was laid on the table : 



Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be 

 requested to inquire if any States are denying to 

 any class of persons within their jurisdiction the 

 equal protection of the law, in violation of treaty 

 obligations with foreign nations, and of section one 

 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution ; 

 and, if so, what legislation is necessary to enforce 

 such treaty obligations and such amendment, and to 

 report by bill or otherwise. 



In the House, on December 13th, Mr. Cox, 



of New York, offered the following resolution, 

 which was laid on the table : 



Resolved, That among the evils growing out of the 

 late civil war is that of an irredeemable paper cur- 

 rency ; that it is one of the highest duties of the 

 Government to secure to the citizens a medium of 

 exchange of fixed, unvarying value, and that this 

 implies a return to a specie basis, and no substitute 

 for it can be devised ; that it should be commenced 

 now, and reached at the earliest possible moment. 



On December 16th Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, 

 offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the proposition, direct or indirect, 

 to repudiate any portion of the de"bt of the United 

 States is unworthy of the honor and good name of 

 the nation, and that this House, without distinction 

 of party, hereby sets its seal of condemnation upon 

 any and all such propositions. 



It was adopted by the following vote : 

 YEAS Messrs. Adams, Allison, Ambler, Ames, 

 Archer, Armstrong, Arnell, Asper, Barnum, Beatty, 

 Blair, Boles, Boyd, George M. Brooks, James 

 Brooks, Buffinton, Burchard, Cessna, Churchill, 

 Clarke, Amasa Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cox, Crebs, 

 Davis, Dawes, Dickey, Dixon, Donley, Dox, Duvall, 

 Dyer, Ela, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Finkeln- 

 burg, Fisher, Fitch, Garfield. Getz, Gilfillan, Halde- 

 man, Hambleton, Hamill, Hawkins, Hawley, Hay, 

 Heaton, Hill, Hoar, Holman, Hooper, Hotchkiss, 

 Ingersoll, Jenckes, Alexander II. Jones, Julian, 

 Kelley, Kellogg, kelsey, Kerr, Ketcham, Knapp, 

 Laflin, LawrencOj Lynch, Mayham, Maynard, Mc- 

 Carthy, McCormick, McGrew, Mercur, Jesse H. 

 Moore, "William Moore, Myers, Niblack, O'Neill, 

 Orth, Packard, Packer, Paine, Palmer. Phelps, 

 Poland, Pomeroy, Potter, Randall, Sanford, Sar- 



5ent, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shanks. Slocum, 

 ohn A. Smith, "William J. Smith, Worthington C. 

 Smith, "William Smyth, Starkweather, Stevens, Ste- 

 venson, Stiles, Strong, Swann, Tafl'e, Tanner, Till- 

 man, Twichell, Tyner, Upson, Van Horn, Ward, 

 Cadwalader C. "Washburn, William B. "Washburn, 

 "Welker, Whittemore, "Wilkinson, Willard, Williams, 

 Eugene M. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Witcher, and 

 Woodward 1 24. 

 NAYS Mr. Thomas L. Jones 1. 

 NOT VOTING Messrs. Axtell, Bailey, Banks, 

 Beaman, Beck, Benjamin, Bennett, Benfon, Biggs, 

 Bingham, Bird, Bowen, Buck, Buckley, Burdett, 

 Burr, Benjamin F. Butler, Eoderick E. Butler, 

 Cake, Calkin, Cleveland, Clinton L. Cobb, Cook, 

 Cowles, Cullom, Deweese, Dickinson, Dockery, 

 Ferry, Fox, Golladay, Greene, Griswold, Haight, 

 Hale, Hamilton, Hays, Heflin, Hoag, Hoge, Hopkins, 

 Johnson, Judd, Knott, Lash, Logan, Loughridge, 

 Marshall, McCrary, McNeely, Eliakim H. Moore, 

 Morgan, Daniel J. Morrell, Samuel P. Morrill, Mor- 

 rissey, Mungen, Neglev, Peters,' Prosser, Kedding, 

 Eeevcs, Eice, Eogers. Boots, Schumaker, Lionel A. 

 Sheldon, Porter Sneldon, Sherrod, Jossph S. Smith, 

 Stokes, Stone, Stoughton, Strader, Strickland, Swee- 

 ney, Townsend, Trimble, Van Auken, Van Trump. 

 Voorhees, Wells, Wheeler, Winaus, Winchester, and 

 Wood 86. 



In the House, on February 28th, Mr. Shanks, 

 of Indiana, offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the interests of the country require 

 such tariff for revenue up_on foreign imports as will 

 afford incidental protection to domestic manufac- 

 tures, and as will, without impairing the revenue, 

 impose the lowest burden upon and best promote 

 and encourage the great industrial interests of the 

 country. 



The resolution was adopted by the following 

 vote : 



