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rebellion has gone entirely unpunished, 164; how do 

 the Southern people stand ? 164; you may say they de- 

 served it all, 164; the pending bill not laid on the table 

 as moved, 164; amendment to the amendment moved, 

 165; omits all regulation of churches, 165; the remedy 

 is inadequate, 165; meaning of the last clause of the 

 first section of the fourteenth amendment, 165; what 

 is meant by the equal protection of the laws ? 165; ap- 

 plication of the amendment to churches, 165; right of 

 churches to exclude persons, 166; amendment to the 

 amendment lost, 166; other amendments moved, 166; 

 lost, 167; other amendments moved relative to color, 

 and lost, 167, 168; every person opposed to amnesty 

 is voting for these amendments, 168; want to see the 

 peace of this country restored, 168; aiming to hit the 

 Chinese, 168; amendment rejected, 169; other amend- 

 ments offered and rejected, 169, 170; moved to except 

 members of Ku-klux Klan from amnesty, 170; adopt- 

 ed, 170; this bill, with the general amendment pro- 

 posed, is unconstitutional, 170 ; the bill is now ele- 

 vated and consecrated, 170; the effect of these tactics 

 has been to defeat both civil rights and amnesty, 170; 

 and yet we are charged with being false to human 

 rights, 171; the two subjects have a natural relation, 

 171; the bill lost, 171. 



Motion made to take up the House bill for the re- 

 moval of political disabilities, 171; the bill, 171; mo- 

 tion to insert the civil rights bill after the enacting 

 clause, 171; reasons, 172; amendment to the amend- 

 ment to remove all legal and political disabilities 

 agreed to, 172; amendment requiring an oath of alle- 

 giance moved and agreed to, 172; motion to strike 

 out all the original amendment lost, 173; moved to 

 limit the operation of the bill in relation to ceme- 

 teries and benevolent institutions, 173; adopted, 173; 

 amendment as amended rejected, 174; civil rights bill 

 moved as an addition to the amnesty bill, 174; amend- 

 ment agreed to, 174; bill reported and rejected, 174. 



In the Senate, a bill to amend the act to enforce the 

 rights of citizens to vote in the several States, etc., 

 174; object to extend the authority to appoint inspec- 

 tors of elections and deputy-marshals, 174; authorizes 

 judges to appoint these supervisors, 175; whenever 

 any two citizens request it, 175; moved to strike out 

 the word "circuit," and insert "district judge," 175; 

 too great labor for the few circuit judges, 176; exam- 

 ples, 176; this bill applies to every precinct in the 

 country, 177; the appointment of ten or twelve thou- 

 sand election officers to be made by nine circuit 

 judges, 177; they strike down the whole power of the 

 State over elections, 177; how was the first bill put 

 through the Senate? 178; amendment rejected, 178; 

 no provision for the punishment of officers for op 

 pression, 178; object of the Senate in the passage of 

 the original act, 179; amendment offered and read, 

 179; rejected, 180; amnesty amendment offered, 180; 

 notice of civil rights amendment of amnesty adopted, 

 180; civil rights bill moved as an amendment to the 

 pending amendment, 181; rejected, 182; amendment 

 rejected. 182; amendment to add the amnesty bill re- 

 jected, 182; amendment to add the civil rights bill to 

 the bill moved, 182 ; moved to strike out so much 

 as relates to schools and cemeteries, 182; what pro- 

 vision of the Constitution authorizes the passage of 

 euch a bill? 182; a case in court, 182; appeal to the 

 Senator to withdraw his amendment, 183; amend- 

 ment withdrawn, 183; other amendments, 183; bill 

 passed, 183. 



In the House, the proceedings considered, 183; bill 

 rejected, 184. 



In the Senate, the election lawn^oved as an amend- 

 ment to the Appropriation Bill, 184; not in order, 184; 

 let the amendment be passed over and printed, 184; 

 request refused, 184; chair rules the amendment in 

 order, 184 ; how does this amendment come here 

 printed? 185; has a caucus been held on this thing? 

 185 ; a most unexpected proceeding, 185 ; the chair 

 has decided the amendment in order, 186; if this is 

 in order, what amendment would not be in order? 

 186; appeal from the decision, 186; laid on the table, 

 187; motion to postpone the bill indefinitely, 187; a 

 painful vote, 187; sharp practice, 187; beware before 

 you adopt such a rule as this, 187; the bill for civil 

 rights in order under the ruling, 188; motion to add 

 the civil rights bill, 188; what is the object of an ap- 

 propriation bill ? 188 ; within two days of adjourn- 

 ment, 188; agreements that have been made do not 

 relate to amendments, 189; some misunderstanding, 

 190; let us vote on the amendments, 190; have been 

 here nearly seventeen hours, 190 ; motion to post- 

 pone lost, 190; moved to add civil rights bill, ISO; 

 ruled out of order, 191 ; decision of the chair sus- 

 tained, 191; original amendment agreed to, 191; bill 

 passed, 191; bill ordered to be printed, and confer- 

 ence committee appointed, 191. 



In the House, Senate amendments considered, 192; 

 motion to non-concur, 192; the question is, Shall 

 election by the bayonet be substituted for election by 

 ballot? 192; let the bill be killed, rather than liberty 

 should perish, 192; resolution to non-concur and ap- 

 point a conference committee adopted, 192; commit- 

 tee appointed, 192; report, 192; proceedings of the 

 committee, 193; agreements, 193; the parliamentary 

 history of this bill, 194 ; shall the majority of the 

 members of this House have the right to consider 

 and act upon a great appropriation bill in the mode 

 provided in the rules ? 194; time spent in conference, 

 194; nothing in this act which forbids the arrest of 

 any man without process of law, 195; inaugurating a 

 treason in this hall, 195 ; action of the Thirty-fifth 

 Congress, 195; when we come to act upon an impor- 

 tant appropriation bill, what do we find ? 196; report 

 of the committee recommitted to the committee of 

 conference, 196; new conference appointed, 196; re- 

 port submitted, 196; changes made, 196; it is an un- 

 constitutional bill, 197 ; it is infamous, 197 ; report 

 of the committee agreed to, 198; Senate also concur, 

 198. 



In the Senate, a bill to extend the provisions of 

 the act to enforce the fourteenth amendment con- 

 eidered, 198; inquiries suggested, 198; evidence rela- 

 tive to outrages in the Southern States, 199 ; sum- 

 mary of offences committed, 199, 200; acts of men 

 who have no countenance in society, 200; evidence 

 of its political character, 200; views of the minority 

 on this subject, 200; causes assigned for these out- 

 rages, 200; withdraw the power from the President 

 to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and no man can 

 answer for the scenes that will follow, 201 ; this bill 

 simply continues the power of the President, 201; 

 who can doubt that Congress has acted wisely in in- 

 vesting the President with this power ? 201 ; do 

 affairs at the South make it prudent to continue the 

 power? 201; does the public safety require it? 202; 

 outrages, 202; are the property-holders of the South 

 responsible for these things? 202; indicting the whole 

 class of property-holders in the South, 202; they re- 

 gard the whole policy of the Republican party as hav- 

 ing been hostile to them, 203. 

 Practically the bill proposes to give the President 



