CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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At the end of the resolution insert the following : 



Second amendment : 



ARTICLE . The second clause, first section, second 

 article of the Constitution of the United States shall 

 be amended to read as follows : 



Each State shall appoint, by a vote of the people 

 thereof qualified to vote for Eepresentatives in Con- 

 gress, a number of electors equal to the whole num- 

 ber of Senators and Eepresentatives to which the 

 State may be entitled in the Congress ; but no Sen- 

 ator or Representative or person holding an office of 

 trust or profit under the United States shall be ap- 

 pointed an elector; and the Congress shall have 

 power to prescribe the manner in which such electors 

 shall be chosen by the people. 



Amend the title of the resolution by striking out 

 "an" and adding u s" to " amendment." 



Mr. Boutwell said : Here is a proposition in 

 regard to electors which has not been con- 

 sidered in this House. The proposition con- 

 cerning suffrage has been materially changed. 

 I have considered whether it is practicable to 

 concur in the amendments of the Senate with 

 an amendment, but I have come to the con- 

 clusion that that, as a matter of business, is 

 impracticable. I see no way in the present 

 condition of things except to non-concur in the 

 action of the Senate, and to ask for a commit- 

 tee of conference, and I make that motion." 



Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, moved that the 

 House concur, which motion had the pre- 

 cedence. 



The question was taken, and decided in the 

 negative, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Axtell, Baker, Beatty, Bingham, 

 Buekland, Sidney Clarke, Coburn, Cullom, Deweese, 

 Dickey, Dockery, Donnelly, Eggleston, Haughey, 

 Heaton, Asahel W. Hubbard, Ingersoll, Kitchen, 

 George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, Nunn, Orth, 

 Pile, Plants, Poland, Scofield, Shanks, Spalding, 

 Stover, Thomas, John Trimble, Robert T. Van Horn, 

 Ward, Welker* James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, 

 and Stephen F. Wilson 37. 



NATS Messrs. Anderson, Delos R. Ashley, James 

 M. Ashley, Banks, Barnum, Beaman, Beck, Benja- 

 min, Benton, Blaine, Blair, Boutwell, Bowen, Boy- 

 den, Boyer, Bromwell, Brooks, Buckley, Burr, Ben- 

 jamin F. Butler. Roderick R. Butler, Callis, Gary, 

 Chanler, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Clift, Cobb, 

 Corley, Cornell, Covode, Dawes, Driggs, Edwards, 

 Eldridge, Thomas D. Eliot, James T. Elliott, Farns- 

 worth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, Fox : Glossbrenner, 

 Gpve, Gravely, Grover, Haight, Hamilton, Hawkins, 

 Higby, Holman, Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Chester D. 

 Hubbard, Hulburd, Humphrey. Hunter, Jenckes, 

 Johnson, Alexander H. Jones,Tnomas L. Jones, Ju- 

 lian Kelley, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kerr, Ketcham, Knott, 

 Koontz, Laflin, Lash, Loan, Loughridge, Lynch, 

 Mallory, Marshall, Marvin, McCarthy, McCormick, 

 McKee, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Morrell, Mungen, 

 Myers, Newcpmb, Newsham, Niblack, Nicholson, 

 Norris, O'Neill, Plaine, Perham, Peters, Phelps, 

 Pierce, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Prince, Pruyn, 

 Randall, Raum, Robertson, Robinson, Roots, Ross, 

 Sawyer, Shellabarger, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stark- 

 weather, Stewart, Stokes, Stone, Taber, Taffe, Trow- 

 bridge, Twichell, Upson, Burt Van Horn, Van 

 Trump, Van Wyck, Cadwalader C. Washburn, 

 Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Whit- 

 temore, William Williams, Windom, Wood, Wood- 

 ward, and Younof 133. 



NOT VOTING -Messrs. Adams, Allison, Ames, Ar- 

 cher, Arnell, Bailey, Baldwin, Barnes, Blackburn, 

 Boles, Broomall, Cake, Cook, Delano, Dixon, Dodge, 

 Eckley, Ela, French, Garfield, Gets, Golladay, Goss, 

 Griswold, Halsey, Harding, Hill, Hooper, Richard D. 



Hubbard, Judd, Lincoln, Logan, Maynard, McCul- 

 lough, Mercur, Morrissey, Mullins, Pettis. Pike, 

 Schenck, Selye, Stevens, Sypher, Taylor, Tift, Law- 

 rence S. Trimble, Van Aernam, Van Auken, Vidal, 

 Elihu B. Washburne, Thomas Williams, and Wood- 

 bridge 52. 



In the Senate, on February 17th, Mr. Stewart, 

 of Nevada, moved to take up the message of 

 the House, asking for a committee of confer- 

 ence on the constitutional amendment. The 

 motion was agreed to, and Mr. Stewart further 

 moved that the Senate insist on its amend- 

 ments and agree to the conference. Subse- 

 quently Mr. Stewart withdrew this motion, 

 and moved that the Senate recede from its 

 amendment and concur in the House proposi- 

 tion. On a division of the question, the mo- 

 tion to recede was adopted as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chan- 

 dler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Ed- 

 munds, Ferry, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harris, 

 Howard, Kellogg, McDonald, Morgan, Morrill of 

 Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson 

 of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Robertson, Stewart, 

 Thayer, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Welch, Willey, 

 Williams, and Yates 33. 



NAYS Messrs. Abbott, Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, 

 Dixon, Doolittle, Fowler, Harlan, Hendricks, Mc- 

 Creery, Norton, Osborn, Patterson of Tennessee, 

 Pool, Rice, Ross, Saulsbury, Sherman, Spencer, 

 Vickers, Wade, Warner, Whyte, and Wilson 24. 



ABSENT Messrs. Conness, Grimes, Henderson, 

 Howe, Ramsey, Sawyer, Sprague, Sumner, and Tip- 

 ton 9. 



The question was then taken on concurring 

 in the resolution of the House, and rejected by 

 the following vote: 



YEAS Messrs. Anthony ? Cameron, Cattell, Chan- 

 dler, Cole, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Ferry, Fessen- 

 den, Frelinghuy'sen, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Kel- 

 logg, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, 

 Patterson of New' Hampshire, Pool, Ramsey, Rice, 

 Robertson, Sherman, Stewart, Trumbull, Van Win- 

 kle, Wade, Williams, and Yates 31. 



NAYS Messrs. Abbott, Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, 

 Dixon, Doolittle, Edmunds, Fowler, Grimes, Hen- 

 dricks, McCreery, McDonald, Norton, Osborn, Pat- 

 terson of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Ross, Saulsbury, 

 Sawyer, Spencer, Sumner, Thayer, Vickers, Warner, 

 Welch, Whyte, and Wilson 27. 



This closed the proceedings on the proposi- 

 tion of the House. 



The motion was then made that the Senate, 

 as in Committee of the Whole, resume the con- 

 sideration of a joint resolution reported Janu- 

 ary 15th, and amended January 28th, propos- 

 ing an amendment to the Constitution, which 

 was agreed to. 



The Chief Clerk : " The resolution when last 

 up was amended to read as follows : 



Resolved by tTie Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 

 (two-thirds of both Houses concurring), That the 

 following article be proposed to the Legislatures of 

 the several States as an amendment to the Constitu- 

 tien of the United States^, which, when ratified by 

 three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as 

 part of the Constitution, namely : 



ABTICLE XV. The right of citizens of the United 

 States to vote and hold office shall not be denied or 

 abridged by the United States or any State on ac- 

 count of race, color, or previous condition of servi- 

 tude. 



