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Georgia when it shall in addition give the assent of said State to the fundamental condition herein before imposed upon the same; 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 XIV, shall be deemed eligible to any office in either of said States unless relieved from disability as provided in said amendment; and it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ten days after receiving official information of the ratification of said amendment by the Legislature of either of said States, to issue a proclamation announcing

1868, January 21-The House passed a bill declaring that in the ten rebel States there are no civil State governments republican in form, and that the so-called civil governments in said States shall not be recognized as valid or legal State governments either by the executive or judicial power or authority of the United States. The General of the army was authorized and required to enjoin, by special orders, upon all officers in command within those States the performance of all acts authorized by the reconstruction acts, and authorized to remove from command any or all of said commanders, and detail other officers of the United States army, not below the rank of colonel, to the end that the people of said several States may speedily reorganize civil governments and be restored to political power in the Union. The General of the army was authorized to remove any or all civil officers now acting under the several provisional governments within said several disorganized States, and appoint others, and to do any and all acts which are authorized to be done by the several commanders of the military departments within said States; and the law which authorizes IMPORTANT VOTES DURING THE CONSIDER to said military departments, or to remove any the President to detail the military commanders

that fact.

[This bill passed the House, May 14, yeas 110, nays 35; the Senate, June 9, yeas 31, nays 5-Republicans for, Democrats against it. June 25, it was vetoed by President Johnson, and passed over the veto, same day, in the House, yeas 107, nays 31; and in the Senate, yeas 35, nays 8.]

ATION OF THE ABOVE BILLS.

Votes prior to Passage of Act of March 11, 1868. During the pendency in the Senate of the act of March 11, 1868

February 25-Mr. Doolittle moved to amend by adding to the second section this proviso:

Provided, nevertheless, That upon an election for the ratification of any constitution, or of officers under the same, previous to its adoption in any such State, no person not having the qualifications of an elector under the constitution and laws of such State, previous to the late rebellion, shall be allowed to vote, unless he shall possess one of the following qualifications, viz.:

"1st. He shall have served as a soldier in the Federal army for one year or more; or, 2d He shall have sufficient education to read the Constitution of the United States, and to subscribe his name to an oath to support the same; or, 3d. He shall be seized in his own right, or in the right of his wife, of a freehold of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars."

Which was not agreed to¬yeas 3, nays 33, as

follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Dixon, Doolittle, Hendricks-3. NAYS-Buckalew, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Davis, Drake, Ferry, Fowler, Harlan, Henderson, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-33.

1867, December 18-The House passed a bill modifying the fifth section of the act of March 23, 1867, so that a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be sufficient to ratify the constitution, and authorizing an election for members of Congress at the same time with the vote on the constitution, according to the districts as they existed in 1858 and 1859. On this the yeas were 104. nays 37, Republicans and Messrs. Cary and Stewart in the affirmative, and Democrats in the negative.

officers who may be detailed as herein provided,
be unlawful for the President of the United
is hereby repealed. It was provided that it shall
States to order any part of the army or navy of
the United States to assist, by force of arms, the
authority of either of said provisional govern-
ments in said disorganized States to oppose or
obstruct the authority of the United States, as
provided in this act and the acts to which this
is supplementary. Fine and imprisonment were
provided for violation of this act.

The vote was-yeas 124, nays 45, as follow:
YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnell, Delos

R. Ashley, James M. Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin,
Banks, Beaman, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blaine,
Blair, Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Cake,
burn, Cook, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Donnelly,
Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Co-
Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, Eliot, Farnsworth, Fer-
riss, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Gravely, Griswold, Halsey,
Chester D. Hubbard, Hulburd, Hunter, Ingersoll,
Harding, Higby, Hooper, Hopkins, Asahel W. Hubbard,
Jenckes, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kit-
chen, Koontz, William Lawrence, Lincoln, Logan,
Loughridge, Marvin, Maynard, McCarthy, McClurg,
Mercur, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Mullins, Myers, New-
comb, Nunn, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Peters, Pike,
Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Selye, Shanks,
Smith, Spalding, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Thad-
deus Stevens, Taylor, Thomas, Trowbridge, Twichell,
Upson, Van Aernam, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van
Horn, Van Wyck, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, El-
lihu B. Washburne, Henry D. Washburn, William B.
Washburn, Welker, Thomas Williams, William Wil-
liams, James F. Wilson, John T. Wilson, Stephen F.
Wilson, Windom, Woodbridge-124.

Pile, Plants, Poland, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum,

NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Barnum,
Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Cary, Chanler, Eldridge, Fox,
Getz, Glossbrenner, Golladay, Grover, Haight, Holman,
Hotchkiss, Richard D. Hubbard, Humphrey, Johnson,
Jones, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, McCormick, Morrissey,
Mungen, Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps, Pruyn, Robinson,
Ross, Sitgreaves, Stewart, Stone, Taber, L. S. Trimble,
Van Auken, Van Trump, Wood, Woodward-45.
Pending this bill,

1868, January 21-Mr. Butler offered a substitute that, in order to supply the place of these illegal governments, the constitutional conventions of each of said States, as soon as such conventions, respectively, shall have submitted to

the people a constitution or frame of government for their ratification, shall have power to appoint all civil officers. It shall be the duty of the several district commanders to confirm the appointment of such officers by the convention; to install each officer in his office; to cause to be put into the possession and control of each officer the records and archives and other property of the State pertaining to his office, and to do all other acts which may be necessary to enable such State officers, respectively, to perform the functions of their offices. These governments to continue until each State shall be represented in Congress and other State officers shall have been elected and qualified under the constitution thereof.

Which was disagreed to-yeas 53, nays 112. The yeas were:

Messrg Allison, Anderson, Arnell, Delos R. Ashley, James M. Ashley, Banks, Broomall, Butler, Cake, Cary, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Ela, Ferry, Fields, Gravely, Harding, Higby, Hunter, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Kelsey, Kitchen, William Lawrence, Logan, Loughridge, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Mullins, Newcomb, Nunn, Perham, Raum, Schenck, Shanks, Thaddeus Stevens, Taylor, Thomas, John Trimble, Robert T. Van Horn, Van Wyck, Ward, William Williams, Stephen F. Wilson, Windom.

This bill was not taken up in the Senate.

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The Alabama Bill.

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Loan, Loughridge, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Moore,
Orth, Poland, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Sawyer,
Moorhead, Morrell, Mullins, Myers, Nunn, O'Neill,
Scofield, Shanks, Smith, Spalding, Thaddeus Stevens,
Taffe, Twichell, Upson, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van
burn, Welker, Thomas Williams, James F. Wilson,
Horn, Ward, Ellihu B. Washburne, William B. Wash-
John T. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, Woodbridge-77.
NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Arnell, Bailey, Beaman, Beck,
Cary, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Fields, Fox, Glossbrenner,
Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell, Brooks, Buckland, Burr,
Golladay, Gravely, Grover, Haight, Holman, Richard D.
Hubbard, Hulburd, Humphrey, Johnson, Jones, Kerr,
Knott, Lincoln, Mallory, Marshall, Miller, Mungen, New-
comb, Niblack, Nicholson, Paine, Perham, Peters, Pile,
Plants, Pruyn, Ross, Sitgreaves, Taber, Taylor, Thomas,
John Trimble, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Van
Trump, Van Wyck, Windom, Woodward-55.

The bill then passed-yeas 102, nays 29; the
nays all Democrats, including Mr. Cary.
The bill was not taken up in the Senate.

The Arkansas Bill.

During the pendency of the bill admitting the State of Arkansas to representation, in the Senate as in Committee of the Whole

1868, June 1-Mr. Henderson moved this as a substitute for Mr. Drake's "fundamental condition," previously noticed (page 337:)

That said State, in fixing the qualifications of electors therein, shall not be authorized to discriminate against any person on account of race, color, or previous condition; and also, on the further condition, that no person on account of race or color shall be excluded from the benefits of education, or be deprived of an equal share of the moneys or other funds created or used by public authority to promote education in said State.

Which was disagreed to-yeas 5, nays 30, as follow :

YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew, Doolittle, Henderson, Hen

dricks, Ross-5.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler,

Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Drake, Ferry, Frelinghuysen,
Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Patterson of Tennessee, Pom-
Harlan, Howe, Johnson, McCreery, Morrill of Maine,
eroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Van
Winkle, Vickers, Wade, Willey, Williams, Yates-30.

The amendment of Mr. Drake was then agreed

YEAS-Messrs. Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Harlan, Henderson, Howe, Johnson, Morrill of Maine, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Wade, Wilson, Yates-26.

1868, March 26-The House Committee on Reconstruction reported a bill to admit the State of Alabama to representation in Congress, as as the Legislature, then recently elected, shall have duly ratified the XIVth Amendment, for which a substitute was offered by Mr. Spalding, making the constitution recently framed the fundamental law for a provisional government, also providing that the officers elected at the recent election should qualify on the 1st of May, 1868, and enter on their duties; and the Gov-to-yeas 26, nays 14, as follow: ernor was authorized to convene the Legislature recently elected, who were given authority to submit said constitution for ratification, with such amendments as a majority of the Legislature may adopt. It was further provided that, whenever the people, by a majority vote of the electors of Alabama, qualified under the act of Congress of March 23, 1867, to vote for dele--14. gates to frame a constitution, and actually Mr. Hendricks moved to strike out all of the voting upon said ratification, shall have ratified preamble and bill after the enacting clause, and a constitution submitted as aforesaid, and the insert: "That the State of Arkansas is hereby Legislature of the proposed State organization declared restored to her former proper practical shall have adopted the amendment to the Con-relations to the Union, and is again entitled stitution of the United States proposed by the to be represented by Senators and RepresentaThirty-Ninth Congress, and known as Article tives in Congress." XIV, the constitution of Alabama may be presented to Congress for its approval.

This substitute was agreed to-yeas 77, nays 55, as follow:

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Corbett, Doolittle, Ferry, Fowler, Hendricks, McCreery, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Van Winkle, Vickers, Willey, Williams

Which was disagreed to-yeas 15, nays 26, as follow:

Ferry, Fowler, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Patterson
YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Corbett, Doolittle,

of New Hampshire, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Van
Winkle, Vickers, Willey-15.

YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Anderson, Delos R.Ashley, James
M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beatty, Benjamin, NAYS-Messrs. Cameron. Cattell, Chandler, Cole,
Bromwell, Broomall, Churchill, Sidney Clarke, Coburn, Conkling, Cragin, Drake, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen,
Cook, Covode, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Driggs, Henderson, Howe, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Ver
Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot, Ferriss, Ferry, Halsey, Haw-mont, Nye, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Stewart, Sum-
kins, Hill, Hopkins, Hunter, Ingersoll, Judd, Julian, ner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Wade, Williams, Wilson,
Kelsey, Ketcham, Koontz, Laflin, William Lawrence, Yates-26.

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ridge, Ferry, Garfield, Getz, Glossbrenner, Golladay, Gr ver, Hawkins, Higby, Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Humphre Ingersoll, Jenckes, Johnson, Julian, Kerr, Ketchar Knott, George V. Lawrence, Loan, Marshall, Marvi McCormick, Morgan, Mungen, Myers, Niblack, Nicholso inson, Ross, Sawyer, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stewart, Stor Orth, Phelps, Poland, Pruyn, Randall, Robertson, Ro Taylor, Van Auken, Van Trump, Ward, Ellihu B. Was burne, William B. Washburn, Woodbridge, Wod ward-60.

NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnell, Jam M. Ashley, Bailey, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin, Bento Bingham, Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomal!, Bucklan Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Covone, Cu Harding, Chester D. Hubbard, Hunter, Judd, Kelle lom, Eckley, Ela, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Fiends, Gravel Kelsey, Kitchen, Koontz, William Lawrence, Lincol Loughridge, Mallory, McCarthy, McClurg, Mille Moore, Morrell, Newcomb, Nunn, O'Neill, Paine, P ham, Peters, Pike, Pile, Plants, Polsley, Price, Rau Schenck, Scofield, Shanks, Aaron F. Stevens, Thadde Stevens, Stokes, Taffe, Thomas, John Trimble, Tro bridge, Twichell, Upson, Burt Van Horn, Van Wyc Henry D. Washburn, Welker, William Williams, S phen F. Wilson, Windom-74.

June 2-The bill was reported with amen As reported it excluded Alabama, a

June 9-Mr. Wilson moved to insert Alabam which was agreed to-yeas 22, nays 21, as fo low:

YEAS-Nessrs. Anthony, Chandler, Conness, Corbe Ferry, Fowler, Harlan, Morrill of Maine, Morton, N Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thay Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wils

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Cole, Conkling, 1 vis, Doolittle, Edmunds, Fessenden, Frelinghuys Hendricks, Howard, Howe, Johnson, McCreery, Morg Morrill of Vermont, Patterson of Tennessee, Saulsbu Trumbull, Vickers, Yates-21.

June 10-Mr. Sherman moved to strike fr

the first section the words:

And the State of Georgia shall only be en tled and admitted to representation upon t further fundamental condition: that the fi and third subdivisions of section seventeen the fifth article of the constitution of said Sta except the proviso to the first subdivision, sh be null and void, and that the general asse bly of said State, by solemn public act, sh declare the assent of the State to the foregoi fundamental condition.

Which was disagreed to-yeas 8, nays 35, follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Cameron, Ferry, Howe, Ramsey, Sh man, Thayer, Williams, Wilson-8.

NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Buckalew, Chandler, Co Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Davis, Drake, 1 Howard, Johnson, McCreery, Morgan, Morrill of Mai munds, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Hendri Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of N Hampshire, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Saulsbu Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers, Wa Willey, Yates-35.

Mr. Williams moved to strike out of the fi

section all after the words "fundamental con tion," and insert as follows:

That so much of the seventeenth section the fifth article of the constitution of the St of Georgia as suspends the collection of de contracted prior to the 1st day of June, 18 shall be void as against all persons who w loyal during the late rebellion, and who, dur that time, supported the Union.

Mr. Williams moved to insert this clause af the word "same" in the third section, and fore what is now the last clause of the bill:

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, closing with "delay," was agreed to-yeas 23, nays 18, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Howard, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Williams, Wilson, Yates-23.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Cole, Conkling, Davis, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Hendricks, McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers, Willey-18.

The second clause was agreed to-yeas 26, nays 15, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Cole, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Harlan, Howard, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-26.

NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Conkling, Davis, Edmunds, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, McCreery, Morgan, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Vickers-15.

Mr. Trumbull moved to strike out " Alabama," which had been inserted in Committee of the Whole; which was disagreed to-yeas 16, nays 24, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Bayard, Buckalew, Conkling, Davis, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Howe, McCreery, Morgan, Morrill of Vermont, Patterson of Tennessee, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Vickers, Yates-16.

NAYS-Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Ferry, Harlan, Morrill of Maine, Morton, Nye, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson-24.

Mr. Conkling offered the following additional proviso:

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June 12-The Committee on Reconstruction recommended concurrence in the Senate amendments.

Mr. Farnsworth moved to strike Florida from the bill; which was disagreed to-yeas 45, nays 99, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Beck, Boyer, Bromwell, Brooks, Burr, Cobb, Eldridge, Eliot, Farnsworth, Getz, Glossbrenner, Golladay, Grover, Harding, Holman, Hopkins, Hotchkiss, Julian, Knott, Marshall, Maynard, McCormick, McCullough, Morrissey, Niblack, Nicholson, Paine, Phelps, Pike, Price, Randall, Robinson, Sawyer, Stewart, Stone, Taber, Taffe, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Van Trump, Ellihu B. Washburne, Woodward-45.

NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Delos R. Ashley, James M. Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Blair, Broomall, Buckland, Butler, Cake, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Coburn, Cook, Cornell, CoDriggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, vode, Cullom, Dawes, Delano, Dixon, Dodge, Donnelly, Garfield, Gravely, Griswold, Halsey, Hawkins, Higby, Chester D. Hubbard, Hulburd, Ingersoll, Judd, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, Laflin, Lincoln, Loan, Logan, Loughridge, Lynch, Mallory, Marvin, McClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Morrell, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, O'Neill, Pile, Plants, Polsley, Pomeroy, Raum, Robertson, Schenck, Scofield. Selye, Shellabarger, Spalding, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Stokes, Taylor, Thomas, John Trimble, Trowbridge, Twichell, Upson, Van Aernam, Robert T. Van Horn, Ward, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, William Williams, John T. Wilson, Windom-99.

The amendments were then concurred inyeas 111, nays 28; as follow:

And the State of Alabama shall be entitled YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Delos R. Ashley, James and admitted to representation only upon this M. Ashley, Bailey, Banks, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Blair, Bromwell, Broomall, further fundamental condition: that section Buckland, Butler, Churchill, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney twenty-six of the first article of the constitution Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cornell, Covode, Cullom, of said State, except so much thereof as makes Dawes, Delano, Dixon, Dodge, Donnelly, Driggs, Ecknavigable waters public highways, shall be nulley, Eggleston, Ela, Eliot, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Gravely, Griswold, Halsey, Harding, Hawkins, and void, and that the general assembly of said Higby, Hopkins, Chester D. Hubbard, Hulburd, IngerState, by a solemn public act, shall declare the soll, Judd, Julian, Kelsey, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, Laflin, Lincoln, Loan, Logan, Loughridge, Lynch, Malassent of the State to the foregoing fundamental lory, Marvin, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, condition. Morrell, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, O'Neill, Paine, Peters, Pike, Pile, Plants, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Selye, Shellabarger, Spalding, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Stewart, Stokes, Taffe, Taylor, Thomas, John Trimble, Trowbridge, Twichell, Upson, Van Aernam, Robert T. Van Horn, Ward, Ellihu B. Washburne, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, William Williams, John T. Wilson, Windom-111.

Which was disagreed to-yeas 16, nays 23, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Buckalew, Conkling, Corbett, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Howe, McCreery, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Patterson of Tennessee, Ross, Vickers-16.

NAYS-Messrs. Chandler, Cole, Conness, Cragin,
Drake, Ferry, Harlan, Howard, Morton, Pomeroy,
Ramsey, Saulsbury, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer,
Tipton, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Williams, Wilson,
Yates-23.

Mr. Williams offered to add to his amendment
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NAYS-Messrs. Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Eldridge, Getz, Glossbrenner, Golladay, Grover, Holman, Hotchkiss, Marshall, McCormick, McCullough, Morrissey, Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps, Randall, Robinson, Stone, Taber, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Van Trump, Woodward-28.

XXX.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PROCLAMATIONS AND ORDERS.*

Enjoining Obedience to the Constitution and of the command of the President of the Unit
Laws, September 3, 1867.
States;

Whereas, by the Constitution of the United
States, the executive power is vested in a Presi-
dent of the United States of America, who is
bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute the
office of President, and to the best of his ability
to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
of the United States, and is by the same instru-
ment made Commander-in-Chief of the army
and navy of the United States, and is required
to take care that the laws be faithfully executed;
And whereas, by the same Constitution, it is
provided that the said Constitution and the
laws of the United States which shall be made
in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law
of the land, and the judges in every State shall
be bound thereby ;

And whereas in and by the same Constitution the judicial power of the United States is vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish, and the aforesaid judicial power is declared to extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and the treaties which shall be made under their authority;

And whereas reasonable and well-found apprehensions exist that such ill-advised a unlawful proceedings may be again attemp there or elsewhere:

of the United States, do hereby warn all perso Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, Presid against obstructing or hindering in any man tution and the laws; and I do solemnly enj whatsoever the faithful execution of the Cons and command all officers of the Governme civil and military, to render due mission a obedience to said laws, and to the judgme and decrees of the courts of the United Sta and to give all the aid in their power necessa to the prompt enforcement and execution such laws, decrees, judgments, and processes.

And I do hereby enjoin upon the officers the army and navy to assist and sustain courts and other civil authorities of the Uni States in the faithful administration of the 1 thereof, and in the judgments, decrees, manda and I call upon all good and well-disposed and processes of the courts of the United Sta zens of the United States to remember that u the said Constitution and laws, and upon judgments, decrees, and processes of the co made in accordance with the same, depend protection of the lives, liberty, property, happiness of the people. And I exhort t everywhere to testify their devotion to t And whereas all officers of the army and navy country, their pride in its prosperity and gr of the United States, in accepting their commis-ness, and their determation to uphold its free sions under the laws of Congress and the rules stitutions by a hearty co-operation in the ef and articles of war, incur an obligation to ob- of the Government to sustain the authorit serve, obey, and follow such directions as they the law, to maintain the supremacy of the shall from time to time receive from the Presi-eral Constitution, and to preserve unimpa dent or the General, or other superior officers set the integrity of the National Union. over them, according to the rules and discipline of the United States to be affixed to these In testimony whereof, I have caused the

And whereas all officers, civil and military, are bound by oath that they will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;

of war;

ANDREW JOHNSO

And whereas it is provided by law that when-sents, and sign the same with my hand. ever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combiDone at the city of Washington the 3d da nations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion [L. S.] September, in the year 1867. against the authority of the Government of the By the President: United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President of the United States, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within any State or Territory, the Executive in that case is authorized and required to secure their faithful execution by the employment of the land and naval forces;

And whereas impediments and obstructions, serious in their character, have recently been interposed in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, hindering and preventing for a time a proper enforcement there of the laws of the United States, and of the judgments and decrees of a lawful court thereof, in disregard

*For other proclamations and orders, see pages 7-18 of the Manual of 1866, and pages 68-74 of the Manual of 1867 or 194-200 of the .ombined Manual.

WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Extending Full Pardon to Certain Persons were Engaged in the late Rebellion, Sep ber 7, 1867.

Whereas, in the month of July, anno Do 1861, the two houses of Congress, with e ordinary unanimity, solemnly declared tha war then existing was not waged on the pa the Government in any spirit of oppression for any purpose of conquest or subjugation purpose of overthrowing or interfering wit rights or established institutions of the S but to defend and maintain the suprema the Constitution, and to preserve the Union all the dignity, equality, and rights o several States unimpaired, and that as so these objects should be accomplished th ought to cease;

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