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in all respects with the reconstruction acti, 148; were 

 the member* of the Legislature required to take tha 

 test oath T 149; amendment moved, 140; remand* tha 

 Stale to ita prevlooa condition on a certain contin- 

 gency, 149; manifestly improper, 149; no authority 

 under the Constitution for unequal States, 149; we 

 havo a rl^lit to protect ourselves against a recission 

 of the fifteenth amendment by Virginia, 150; thus to 

 remand her would nullify her ratification, 150; wo 

 have a right to protect a State government after hav- 

 ing reconstructed It, 150; the power claimed by some 

 States to retract tholr ratification, 150; the amend- 

 ment confesses the power of a State to retract, 151 ; 

 the proposed amendment of the Constitution utterly 

 void, 151; when an amendment is proposed every 

 M:ito in the Union must bo represented in the two 

 nouses of Congress, 151; two-thirds of both Houses 

 are required to propose amendments, 151; Congress 

 will have for evermore the power to protect recon- 

 struction, 152; amendment rejected, 152; another 

 amendment moved, 152; amendment to the amend- 

 ment offered, 152; modified and agreed to, 153; an- 

 v other amendment moved, 153; rejected, 153; another 



amendment moved, 153; rejected, 153; another amend- 

 ment offered, 158; a fow questions asked, 154; what 

 theory is entertained by these Senators, 154; Is a State 

 constitution void because it conflicts with an act of 

 Congress ? 155; if that act is a compact between Con- 

 gress and a State ? 155 ; there can be no compact be- 

 tween Congress and a State, 155; resolution laid aside 

 and House bill considered, 155. 



In the llouse, a bill for the admission of Virginia 

 reported, 155; the bill, 155; a compromise measure, 

 156; is the State entitled to be represented in Con- 

 gress? 166; some think we should be in no hurry to 

 admit her, 156; amendment moved and agreed to, 157; 

 a substitute offered aud adopted, 157; bill passed, 157. 



In tha Senate, the House bill considered, 158; 

 amendment offered, 158; other amendments offered 

 and agreed to, 158; Senators decline to vote, on the 

 passage of the bill, in its favor, 159; bill passed, 160. 



In the House, the amendments of the Senate to the 

 bill for the admission of Virginia concurred in, 160. 



In the House, a bill reported for the admission of 

 Mississippi, 100; the bill, 160; similar to the Virginia 

 bill, 161; amendment offered and lost, 161; bill passed, 

 161. 



In the Senate, the House bill for the admission of 

 Mississippi to representation in Congress considered, 

 1G2; condition of Mississippi, 162; voles on the 

 clauses submitted to the Constitution, 102; committee 

 recommend all conditions to be stricken out of the 

 bill, 163; we have power to put in conditions, 163; 

 these States arc in a peculiar condition, 163; the pro- 

 visions of the Constitution, 164; Mississippi entitled 

 to representation by virtue of the provisions of the 

 Constitution, 164; the argument for State rights pro- 

 ceeds on a misapprehension, 165; nothing clearer 

 than that the equal rights of all must be placed under 

 the safeguard of one uniform law, 165; two great title- 

 deeds of the republic, 165; all these powers essential- 

 ly national, 165; it is for Congress to determine in its 

 discretion how republican government shall be main- 

 tained, 165; human rights, In this land, do not depend 

 on the Congress of the United States, 166; the Federal 

 Government is one of limited powers, 166; amend- 

 ments rejected and bill passed, 166. 



In the House, a bill considered to admit the State of 

 Texas to representation in Congress, 167; amend- 

 ment offered, 167; rejected, 167; bill passed, 167. 



In the Senate, the House bill amended and passed, 

 168; House concur*, 168. 



Message of the President relative to the ratification 

 of the fifteenth Amendment, 106; communication of 

 the Secretary of State declaring the vote, 109. 



In the House, a bill reported to enforce the fifteenth 

 amendment, 100; the bill, 109, 170; bill passed, 170. 



In the Senate, the bill from the Honse considered, 

 171; explanation of the bill, 171; a bill reported by 

 the Judiciary Committee, 171 ; its features, 171; moved 

 to strike out all of House bill after enacting clause 

 and insert Senate bill, 173; the bill, 173, 174; the dis- 

 tinction in doctrine and philosophy between the two 

 bills, 175; the Idea of the bill, that the enforcement of 

 the rights of persons to be in the United States 

 courts, 175; how are troops to act to enforce the pro- 

 visions of the bill? 176; the President may surround 

 the polls with troops, 176; what a-c the troops then 

 to do ? 176; if this can be done In a free country, let 

 us talk no more about the one-man power, 176; the 

 speech better suited for twenty years ago, 177; times 

 have changed if the fugitive-slave law of 1850 Is made 

 the model of legislation, 177; what is the language of 

 the constitutional amendment? 177; what is Its ef- 

 fect? 177; why not enforce by laws other prohibitions 

 of the Constitution ? 178; what is proposed to be 

 done? 178; has not Congress the power to prescribe 

 the mode and manner of electing members of Con- 

 gress ? 178; is this bill limited to members of Con- 

 gress ? 170; 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 yon 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, 183, 183; bill passed, 183. 



In the House, a disagreement with the amendments 

 of the Senate, and committees of conference appoint- 

 ed, 183; report, 183; agreed to, 183. 



In the Honse, a bill introduced to establish a uni- 

 form system of naturalization, 184; features of the 

 bill, 184; motion to reject the bill lost, 185; bill 

 passed, 185. 



In the Senate, a substitute to the naturalization bill 

 reported, 186; amendments offered, 186; this amend- 

 ment involves the whole Chinese problem, 186; other 

 amendments offered and rejected, 186; substitute re- 

 Jected, 187; amendments offered to Honse bill, 187; 

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

 to, 188; amendment relative to Chinese offered, 188; 

 what is their condition, 188; the Senate do not com- 

 prehend this question, 183; yon have no means of ad- 

 ministering oaths to Chinamen, 188; the proposition 

 to strike out the word white Is nothing more nor less 

 than to admit Chinese, 183; it embraces 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 interpre- 

 tation 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 princi- 

 ple that should guide us here? 193; shall Chinamen 

 be citizens ? 198; by the American maxim the 

 Chinaman is entitled to a vote, 193; may Indians 

 be naturalized? 198; moved to reconsider the vote 



