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acts of Congress than any State among the 

 Southern States." 



The motion of Mr. Wilson was agreed to 

 yeas 22, nays 21. 



YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Conness, Cor- 

 bett, Ferry, Fowler, Harlan, Morrill of Maine, Mor- 

 ton, Nye, Pomeroy, Eamsey, Sherman, Stewart, 

 Sumner, Thayer. Tipton, Van' Winkle, Wade, Willey, 

 Williams, and Wilson 22. 



NAYS Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Cole, Conkling, 

 Davis, Doolittle, Edmunds, Fessenden, Frelinghuy- 

 sen, Hendricks, Howard, Howe, Johnson, McCreery, 

 Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Patterson of Tennessee, 



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New Hampshire, Eoss, and Sprague 11. 



On June 10th, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, moved 

 to amend the amendment reported by the com- 

 mittee, hy striking out the following words : 



And the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and 

 admitted to representation upon this further funda- 

 mental condition ; that the first and third subdivisions 

 of section seventeen of the fifth article of the constitu- 

 tion of said State, except the proviso to the first sub- 

 division, shall be null and void, and that the Gen- 

 eral Assembly of said State, by solemn public act, 

 shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing 

 fundamental condition. 



The amendment was rejected by the follow- 

 ing vote : 



TEAS Messrs. Cameron, Ferry, Howe, Eamsey, 

 Sherman, Thayer, "Williams, and Wilson 8. 



NAYS Messrs. Anthony, Buckalew, Chandler, 

 Cole, Conkling, Conness, Corbett. Cragin, Davis, 

 Drake, Edmunds, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Har- 

 lan, Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, McCreery, Mor- 

 gan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, 

 Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Patterson of 

 Tennessee,Eoss, Saulsbury. Sumner, Tipton, Trum- 

 bull, Van Winkle, Vickers, Wade, Willey, and Yates 

 85. 



ABSENT rMessrs. Bayard, Cattell, Dixon, Doolit- 

 tle, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Norton, Pomeroy, 

 Sprague, and Stewart 11. 



Mr. Williams, of Oregon, moved to amend 

 the first section of the bill, by inserting the 

 following : 



That so much of the seventeenth section of the fifth 

 article of the constitution of the State of Georgia as 

 suspends the collection of debts contracted prior to 

 the 1st day of June, 1865, shall be void as against all 

 persons who were loyal during the late rebellion, and 

 who, during that time, supported the Union. 



This amendment was rejected. 



Mr. Williams also* moved to amend, by in- 

 serting the following in the third section : 



And thereupon the officers of each State, duly 

 elected and qualified under the constitution thereof, 

 shall be inaugurated without delay ; but no person 

 prohibited from holding office under the United 

 States, or under any State, by section three of the 

 proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 

 United States, known as article fourteen, shall be 

 deemed eligible to any office in either of said States. 



The first clause of the amendment, extend- 

 ing to the word "delay," was agreed to, as 

 follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Conness, Cor- 

 bett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Howard, Morrill of 

 Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patter- 

 son ot New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Kamsey, Stewart, 



Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Williams, Wilson, 

 and Yates 23. 



NAYS Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Cole, Conkling, 

 Davis, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Hendricks, 

 McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of Tennessee, Eoss, 

 Saulsbury, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers, ancl 

 Willey 18. 



ABSENT Messrs. Anthony, Cattell, Dixon, Doo- 

 little, Ferry, Fessenden, Grimes, Henderson, Howe, 

 Johnson, Norton, Sherman, and Sprague 13. 



The remainder was agreed to by the follow- 

 ing vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Cole, Conness. 

 Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Harlan, Howard, Morrill of 

 Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson 

 of New Hampshire, Pomeroy. Eamsey, Stewart, 

 Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, 

 Williams, Wilson, and iates 26. 



NAYS Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Conkling, Da- 

 vis, Edmunds, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, 

 McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of Tennessee, Eoss, 

 Saulsbury, Trumbull, and Vickers 15. 

 ^ ABSENT Messrs. Anthony, Cattell, Dixon, Doo- 

 little, Ferry, Fessenden, Grimes, Henderson, Howe, 

 Johnson, Norton, Sherman, and Sprague 13. 



Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, moved to amend, 

 by striking out "Alabama," which was dis- 

 agreed to by the following vote : 



YEAS Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Conkling, Da- 

 vis, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Howe, 

 McCreery, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Patterson 

 of Tennessee, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Vickers, and 

 Yates 16. 



NAYS Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Conness, Cor- 

 bett, Cragin, Drake, Ferry .Harlan, Morrill of Maine, 

 Morton, Nye, Pomeroy, Eamsey, Eoss, Sherman, 

 Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, 

 Willey, Williams, and Wilson 24. 



ABSENT Messrs. Anthony, Cattell, Cole, Dixon, 

 Doolittle, Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, 

 Howard, Johnson, Norton, Patterson or New Hamp- 

 shire, and Sprague 14. 



The amendment of the Committee of the 

 Whole was now concurred in. This was, to 

 strike out the whole of the House bill after the 

 enacting clause, and insert the following : 



That each of the States of North Carolina, South" 

 Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 

 shall be entitled and admitted to representation in 

 Congress as a State of the Union when the Legisla- 

 tures of such States shall have duly ratified the amend- 

 ment to the Constitution of the United States pro- 

 posed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as 

 article fourteen, upon the following fundamental con- 

 dition : that the constitution of neither of said States 

 shall ever be so amended or changed as to deprive 

 any citizen, or class of citizens, of the United States 

 of the right to vote in said State, who are entitled to 

 vote by the constitution thereof, herein recognized, 

 except as a punishment for such crimes as are now 

 felonies at common law, whereof they shall have 

 been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to 

 all the inhabitants of said State : Provided. That any 

 alteration of said constitution may be made with re- 

 gard to the time and place of residence of voters. 

 And the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and 

 admitted to representation upon this further funda- 

 mental condition: that the first and third sub divi- 

 sions _of section seventeen of the fifth article of the 

 constitution of said State, except the proviso to the 

 first subdivision, shall be null and void, and that the 

 General Assembly of said State, by solemn public act, 

 shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing 

 fundamental condition. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the day 

 fixed for the first meeting of the Legislature of either 



