CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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bo bound or governed in their actinn hy any opinion 

 of an\ otlieer i T the I'niti d States <!i>v< rnment. 



it f<irtli<r enacted, That n civil 



I'niii'il Mali's or of tiny Slate shall have 



juri-ulieiinii ol' any action or proeeeMini.', eivil or 



rriminal, against an\ Mieh distriet commander, or 



i IMTHOII acting by his authority, I'm- or 



nut ot the discharge of the duties imposed 



niton him hy this aft or the acts to which it is sup- 



pirinr,' 



, i't be if furtfur enacted, That no district 



;:nliT .-h.ill be relieved from the command 



il to him under the aforesaid acts unless the 



shall hare first advised and consented thereto, 



or mili"-s hy sentence of court-martial ho shall be 



cashiered or dismissed from the Army ; or unless he 



shall o>i; .mi ID be so- relieved. 



SBC. C. And be it further enacted, That the time 



for the completion of the registration of persons 



I v qualified to vote may be extended by orders 



of tin- said several district commanders to any day 



prior to the 1st day of October, A. D. 1867. 



Subsequently section five was amended by 

 striking out the sixth line and inserting the 

 following: 



" or in arrest for an offence punishable by dismissal 

 from the Army and disqualified by sickness from the 

 performance of his duties." 



31 r. Wilson, of Iowa, moved the following 

 amendment, which was agreed to: 



Insert as an additional section the following : 



lie it further enacted, That any person or per- 

 sons who shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, the 

 execution of this act, or either of the acts to which 

 this act is supplementary, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in 

 a sum, not exceeding $5,000, or imprisoned one 

 year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 



Mr. Benjamin, of Missouri, offered the fol- 

 lowing, which was agreed to : 



Add to section three the following : 



Provided, That the right of any person to be re- 

 gistered as a legal voter shall in no respect be changed 

 or affected by virtue of any pardon granted to such 

 person by the President of the United States for 

 participation in the rebellion. 



The bill was then pulsed by the following vote: 



- Messrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, James 

 M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Benja- 

 min, Benton, Bingham, Blair, Boutwell, Bromwell, 

 Buckland, Butler, 'Cake, Churchill, Reader W, Clarke, 

 Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cullom, Dawcs, 

 Dixou, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, 

 Eliot, Farnsworth, Ferris,* Ferry, Fields, Finney, 

 Garfield, Gravely, Griswold, Halsey, Hamilton, Hani- 

 ing, Hayes, Hill, Hooper, Hopkins, Chester D. Hub- 

 bard, Hulburd, Hunter, Ingcrsoll, Jenckcs, Judd, 

 Julian, Kelley, Kclsey, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, 

 George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, Loan, Lo- 

 gan, Loughridge, Lynch, Marvin, McCarthy, 

 MqClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Myers, 

 Newcomb, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters, 

 Pike, Pile, Plants, Poland, Polslev, Price, Raum, 

 Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Scoficld, Selye, 

 Shanks, Shellabargcr, Smith, Spalding, Stark- 

 weather, Aaron F. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens, 

 Tatle, Taylor, Thomas, Trowbridge, Twichcll, Up- 

 son, Von Aernam, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van 

 Horn, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Henry D. 

 Washburn, William U. Washburn, Welkcr, Thomas 

 Williams, William Williams, James F. Wilson, John 

 T. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, Windom, and Wood- 

 l.ridiro 119. 



Nfn- HMO*, Adams, Archer, Barnes, Boyer, 

 Brooks, Burr, Chauler, Eldridge, Getz, Glossbrenner, 

 Uolnian, Hotchkiss, Marshall, McCuIlough, Morgan, 



Morii.sscy, Mungen, Nibluck, Nicholson, 

 I'h.-ljM, Randall, Robinson, Roas, Sitgreavet, Ktew- 

 tone, Taber, Van Auken, Van Trutnp, and 

 Wood 81. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Dclos R. Ashley, Blaine, 

 Broomull, Cornell, Covode, Dodge, Fox", I! 

 A-ah.-l \V. Hubhard, Humphrey, Kerr, Laflin 

 ei'l'i, Mallory, Morrell, Pomeroy, Pruyn, and Van 

 Wyck is. 



the Senate had proceeded to the 

 consideration of a distinct bill introduced by 

 Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, and completed it. 



Mr. Howard, of Michigan, said : u Mr. I 

 dent, I am very glad that the Senate consents 

 to proceed at this early moment to the con- 

 hideration of this bill and the amendments that 

 are pending thereto. The peculiar views taken 

 by the Attorney-General of the United States 

 of the reconstruction acts of Congress, and the 

 apprehension of the members of this body, at 

 least of the majority, that the President of tho 

 United States in the execution of those acts 

 may or will be governed by the conclusions to 

 which his legal ' advisers have arrived, have 

 doubtless been the great causes for the reas- 

 sembling of Congress on the 3d of July instant." 



(For the opinion of the Attorney-General, see 

 PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.) 



The bill was then laid aside and the Honse 

 bill above mentioned taken up for considera- 

 tion, when Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, moved to 

 strike out all of the House bill after the enact- 

 ing clause, and insert the Senate bill. This was 

 agreed to. The bill was then passed by tho 

 following vote : 



TEAS Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chand- 

 ler, Conklin, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Fessenden, 

 Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Harlan, Henderson, 

 Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Nye, Pat- 

 terson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Ross, 

 Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, 

 Wade, Willey, Wilson, and Yates 32. 



NATS Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Hen- 

 dricks, Johnson, and Patterson of Tennessee 6. 



ABSENT Messrs. Cole, Conness, Corbett, Dixon, 

 Doolittle, Ferry, Guthrie, Morrill of Vermont, Mor- 

 ton, Norton, Saulsbury, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, 

 and Williams 15. 



The following is the bill as it passed the Senate : 



That the true intent and meaning of the "Act to 

 provide for the more efficient government of the rebel 

 States," passed March 2, A. D. 1867, was, is, dnd 

 shall be construed to be that the military authority 

 of the United States in said rebel States, as provided 

 in said act, was and is paramount to any civil govern- 

 ment existing therein, makes all such civil govern- 

 ments subordinate to such military authority, and 

 prohibits them from interfering in any way with the 

 exercise of such military authority, i 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the com- 

 mander of any district named in said act shall have 

 power, subject to the approval of the General of the 

 Army of the United States, whenever in the opinion 

 of such commander the proper administration of said 

 act shall require it, to suspend or remove from office, 

 or from the performance of official duties and the 

 exercise of official powers, any officer or person hold- 

 ing or exercising, or professing to bold or ex< 

 any civil or military office or duty in such district 

 un'der any power, election, appointment, or authority 

 derived from, or granted by, or claimed under any 

 so-called State or the government thereof, or any 

 municipal or other division thereof; and upon such 





