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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



officer, soldier, sailor, or marine from exercising the 

 right of suffrage in any election district to which he 

 may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the 

 laws of the State in which he shall offer his vote. 



SEC. . That no officer or person in the civil, mili- 

 tary, or naval service of the United States shall, di- 

 rectly or indirectly, order or advise, or directly or 

 indirectly, by force, intimidation, coercion, prom- 

 ises, rewards, or any undue or improper influence or 

 inducement, or in any other manner, wrongfully in- 

 terfere with, hinder, influence, or control any quali- 

 fied voter of any State of the United States in or 

 about the free exercise of his right of suffrage accord- 

 ing to law at any general or special election in any 

 State, or attempt so to do, or to that end contrive, 

 make, distribute, or circulate for the use of voters at 

 such election any ballot or paper ticket for voting 

 different from that required by law, or having upon 

 it anywhere any mark, number, device, design, 

 color, or other peculiarity or thing intended or cal- 

 culated to ascertain how the voter using it voted, or 

 otherwise in any manner to interfere with or embar- 

 rass him in the free exercise of his -right of suffrage, 

 or to destroy or impair the secrecy of the ballot, or 

 being of such unusual size, shape, or color as might 

 be intended or calculated to have the same result ; 

 nor shall any such officer or person employ any one 

 in or upon any work, labor, or service ot the United 

 States for the purpose or with the view of having 

 him vote at any such election, whether at the place 

 of such employment or elsewhere, nor with or upon 

 any such understanding express or implied. Any 

 officer or person violating any of the provisions of 

 this section shall be liable in all respects as provided 



in section of the said act of May 31, 1870, to 



which act this act is amendatory, and upon judg- 

 ment civil or criminal against him, shall also be dis- 

 gualified from holding any office or employment of 

 onor, trust, or profit under the United States. 



The Presiding Officer : " The question then 

 will be on the first section of the amendment." 



The result was then announced, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Alcorn, Blair, Casserly, Cooper. 

 Davis of West Virginia, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of 

 Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Kelly, Norwood.Ean- 

 som, Schurz, Sprague, Stevenson, Stockton, Thur- 

 man, Tipton, and Trumbull 18. 



NAYS Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Boreman, Buck- 

 ingham, Caldwell, Clayton, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, 

 Ferry of Michigan, Flanagan, Frelinghuysen, Gil- 

 bert, Hamlin, Kellogg, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, 

 Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Eamsey, Eob- 

 ertson, Sawyer. Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Wilson, 

 Windom, and Wright 31. 



ABSENT Messrs. Bayard, Brownlow, Cameron, 

 Carpenter, Chandler .Conkling, Davis of Kentucky, 

 Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry of Connecticut, Harlan, 

 Hill, Hitchcock, Howe, Johnston, Lewis, Logan, 

 Morrill of Maine, Patterson, Rice, Saulsbury, Sher- 

 man, Sumner, Vickers, and West 25. 



So the amendment was rejected. 



The Vice-President : " The question now is 

 on the second section of the amendment of 

 the Senator from California." 



The question heing taken by yeas and nays, 

 resulted yeas 19, nays 26. 



So the amendment was rejected. 



Mr. Trumbull : " I move to amend the bill 

 by inserting the following as a new section : " 



SEO. . That all disabilities imposed by the third 

 section of the fourteenth article of amendments to 

 the Constitution of the United States on persons 

 therein mentioned be, and the same are hereby re- 

 moved : Provided, That this act shall not apply to 

 or in any way affect or remove, the disability of any 

 person included in either of the following classes 



namely : first, members of the Congress of the United 

 States who withdrew therefrom and aided the rebel- 

 lion ; second, officers of the Army or Navy of the 

 United States who, being above the age of twenty- 

 one years, left said Army or Navy and aided the re- 

 bellion. 



" Mr. President, that is the first section of 

 the amnesty bill as it passed the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, except that I have changed the 

 phraseology a little by striking out the words 

 * all legal and political ' and simply saying ' all 

 disabilities imposed,' which I think is better 

 phraseology ; and I have left out the second 

 section of the bill as it passed the House. This 

 is the bill precisely as it passed the House for 

 the removal of political disabilities, removing 

 the disabilities of those and only those that 

 the bill as it passed the House removed; it 

 contains the same exceptions." 



Mr. Frelinghuysen : " What was the second 

 section?" 



Mr. Trumbull : " The second section re- 

 quired the parties whose disabilities were re- 

 moved to go before a court and make oath. 

 I have left that out; but this removes the dis- 

 abilities of precisely those persons that the 

 House voted to remove them from, and none 

 others." 



Mr. Nye : "I move to add the second sec- 

 tion of the House amnesty bill." 



The Vice-President : " The question is on 

 the amendment of the Senator from Nevada to 

 the amendment of the Senator from Illinois." 



The question being taken by yeas and nays, 

 resulted yeas 36, nays 24; as follows: 



YEAS Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Anthony, Boreman, 



cock, Kellogg, Logan, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, 

 Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Eamsey, Eob- 

 ertson, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Sumner, Windom, 

 and Wright 36. 



Johnson, Kelly, Norwood, Eansom, Eice, Sawyer, 

 Schurz, Sprague, Stevenson, Stewart, Stockton, 

 Thurman, Tipton, Trumbull, and Wilson 24. 



ABSENT Messrs. Bayard, Brownlow, Cameron, 

 Conkling, Davis of Kentucky, Edmunds, Fenton, 

 Howe, Lewis, Morrill of Maine, Patterson, Sauls- 

 bury, Vickers, and West 21. 



So the amendment to the amendment was 

 agreed to. 



Mr. Sumner said: "Mr. President, I give 

 notice that should the motion of the Senator 

 from Illinois prevail, and the amnesty bill be 

 fastened upon the pending measure, I shall try 

 to attach a much superior and more important 

 measure, which, notwithstanding what he 

 savs, I shall insist upon calling the civil rights 

 bill." 



Mr. Morton : "I hope this amendment will 

 be voted down. If it is adopted, the effect 

 will probably be to defeat this bill, upon 

 which we have been engaged some two or 

 three days, and which I think it is very im- 

 portant to pass. AVe have had enough votes 



