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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



Mr. Trumbull : " I understand that, if we 

 vote down this amendment, then we have be- 

 fore us the amnesty bill as it passed the 

 House." 



Mr. Edmunds: "Yes, Mr. President, and I 

 understand that if we vote in favor of this 

 amendment we vote amnesty to the disabled 

 traitors and equal rights to the colored men ; 

 they go hand in hand together. So we all un- 

 derstand it." 



The result was announced as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Buckingham, 

 Caldwell, Cameron, Clayton, Conkling, Corbett, 

 Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Gilbert, 

 Harlan, Howe, Kellogg, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, 

 Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Ramsey, Rice, Spencer, 

 Sumner, West, Wilson, and Windom 27. 



NAYS Messrs. Alcorn, Boreman, Carpenter, Cas- 

 serly, Cooper, Cragin, Davis of West Virginia, Fen- 

 ton, Ferry of Connecticut, Goldthwaite, Hamilton 

 of Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Hitchcock, 

 Johnston, Kelly, Logan, Norwood, Pratt, Saulsbury, 

 Scott, Sprague, Stevenson, Stewart, Tipton, Trum- 

 bull, Vickers, and Wright 28. 



som, Robertson, Sawyer, Schurz, Sherman, Stockton, 

 and Thurman 19. 



The amendment, as amended, was rejected. 



Mr. Sumner: " I now move what is known 

 as the civil rights bill as amended, as an addi- 

 tion to the pending bill." 



The Vice-President : " The Senate have re- 

 fused to strike out the House amnesty bill and 

 insert the amendment of the Senator from 

 Massachusetts, as amended. The Senator 

 from Massachusetts now moves to add to the 

 amnesty bill, so that if agreed to it shall go to 

 the House as an amendment, the five sections 

 popularly known as the civil rights bill." 



The question being taken, resulted as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Buckingham, 

 Caldwell, Cameron, Clayton, Conkling, Corbett, 

 Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Gilbert, 

 Harlan, Howe, Kellogg, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, 

 Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Ramsey, Rice, Spencer, 

 Sumner, West, Wilson, Windom, and Wright 28. 



NAYS Messrs. Alcorn, Boreman, Carpenter, Cas- 

 serly. Cooper, Cragin, Davis of West Virginia, Fen- 

 ton, Ferry of Connecticut, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of 

 Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Hitchcock, 

 Johnston, Kelly, Lewis, Logan, Norwood, Pratt, 

 Saulsbury, Scott, Sprague, Stevenson, Stewart, Tip- 

 ton, Trumbull, and Vickers 28. 



ABSENT Messrs. Bayard, Blair, Brownlow, Chan- 

 dler, Cole, Davis of Kentucky, Frelinghuysen, Ham- 

 lin, Morrill of Maine, Nye, Patterson, Ransom, Rob- 

 ertson, Sawyer, Schurz, Sherman, Stockton, and 

 Thurman 18. 



The Vice-President: "Upon agreeing to 

 the amendment of the Senator from Massachu- 

 setts, to add the five sections known as the 

 civil rights bill to the House amnesty bill, the 

 yeas are 28, and the nays are 28. The Chair 

 votes in the affirmative, and the amendment 

 is agreed to." 



The, bill was reported \,o the Senate as 

 amended. 



The amendments were ordered to be en- 

 grossed, and the bill to be read a third time. 



The bill was read the third time. 



The Vice-President: "The question is, 

 Shall this bill pass ? which by the Constitution 

 requires a two-thirds vote." 



The result was announced as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Ames, Buckingham, Caldwell, 

 Clayton, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Fen- 

 ton, Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Gilbert, Harlan, 

 Hitchcock, Howe. Kellogg, Lewis, Morrill of Ver- 

 mont, Morton, Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Ram- 

 sey, Rice, Spencer. Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, 

 West, Wilson, and Windom 32. 



NAYS Messrs. Alcorn, Bayard, Blair, Boreman, 

 Casserly, Cooper, Davis of West Virginia, Ferry of 

 Connecticut, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Maryland, 

 Hamilton of Texas, Hill, Johnston, Kelly, Logan, 

 Norwood, Saulsbury, Stevenson, Tipton, Trumbull, 

 Vickers, and Wright-22. 



ABSENT Messrs. Anthony, Brownlow, Cameron, 

 Carpenter, Chandler, Cole, Davis of Kentucky, Fre- 

 linghuysen, Hamlin, Morrill of Maine, Nye, Patter- 

 son, Ransom, Robertson, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, 

 Sherman, Stockton, and Thurman 20. 



The Vice-President : " On the passage of 

 this bill the yeas are 32, and the nays are 22. 

 Two-thirds not having voted in the affirmative, 

 the biU is rejected." 



On May 10th, the Senate, as in Committee 

 of the "Whole, proceeded to consider the bill 

 to amend an act entitled "An act to amend 

 an act approved May 31, 1870, entitled 'An 

 act to enforce the rights of citizens of the 

 United States to vote in the several States of 

 the Union, and for other purposes.' " 



The bill was reported from the Committee 

 on Privileges and Elections with amendments. 



Mr. Morton, of Indiana, said : " Mr. Presi- 

 dent, there is a law on the statute-book now 

 authorizing the judges of the circuit court of 

 the United States to appoint inspectors of 

 elections in cities having twenty thousand in- 

 habitants or more ; these inspectors to be of 

 opposite politics, to be present at the registra- 

 tion, if there be a registration law in the State, 

 to be present at the election of Representatives 

 to Congress, at the reception of the votes ; not 

 to leave the ballot-box until the votes are 

 counted, and to put their statement upon the 

 certificate of the result of the election. That 

 law also authorizes the marshal of the district 

 to appoint deputy -marshals in such cities to 

 a number necessary to preserve public order 

 and to insure a fair and free election. 



" The object of this bill is to extend the first 

 provision of that law, of which I have spoken, 

 to every voting precinct in the United States, 

 to authorize the circuit judge, or to allow the 

 circuit judge, in case he cannot serve himself, 

 to direct the district judge to appoint inspec- 

 tors of election in every voting precinct, to 

 serve without pay, to be present at the regis- 

 tration, at the voting, to remain with the box 

 until the votes are counted out, and to be of 

 opposite politics, to belong each to one of the 

 great parties. In case there should be three 

 parties, I suppose the duty would be to ap- 

 point one from the two principal parties. That 



