The Portland daily press., 1865-02-04
The Passage Of the Constitutional Amend
mauf.
The following is the joint resolution which :
passed the Senate at the last session, and was

The following is the joint resolution when
passed the Senate at the last session, ana "as
concurred in by the House on Tuesday lase'
.sBe It resolved By the Senate and House y, H Yep
reseutAtives of the United Statss OF coc.
gess assembled two.tnirds Q, D3tn nroposed To the
ny That the fol owing articles pc P.oPsoee " sne
Jeef lures Of the several scsses g an smenement
to The Constitution Of tbe us5'1r % oe
valid 10 ali atens and purposes q pant of the said
Cons ifu ion, nameyi ,r... -, no-
involnn ar servitude except a. punishment eor
or me whereoithe party shall have BEEN duly CON
MA e subject 20 their jurisdiction.
$50. T. Congress snail have power to enforce
this aricc BY appropriate leg station
There was much confusion throughout the
proceedings, amid which the Clerk proceeded,
to call the roll on the passage of the joint res
olution.
The following is the vote OF the House on
this great measure OF the session and of the
century:
YEAS democrats 10 italics Messrs. Alley
Allison. Anes, Anderson, arnold, Ashley,
Bailey, BatdWin, of Mich, Bald win OF Mass,
Bax or, Beman, Blaine, Blair, Blow, Boutwell,,
Boyd, Brandegee, Broomal, Brown OF West
Va. Ambrose w. Clark, Freeman Clark, Cobb,
Cofroth, Colfax, Cole, Creswell, Davis of Nd,
LAWS VI ~ 1ss OhWes, OomluS, OlAou, Dou
nelly, briggs, Dunont, Eckley, Eliot, English.
Farnsworth, Frank, Ganson, Garfield, Gooch,
Grinnell, Grisloold, Hale, Herrick, Highly,
Hooper, aotchkiss, q 1bbsrd of Iowa, Hub
bard of Conn, Huburd. Hutchins, Ingersnl,
Jenckes, Julian, X tsson, Kelley, Kellogg of
Mich, Kellogg OF N. Y, King, Knox, Little
john, Loan, Longyear, Marvin, NC AAtster,
Mcbride, McClurg, McIndoe, Miller OF N. 7 /,
Moorhead. Morrill,. Morris ofN.Y, "A. Myers, l..
al. nIaH Of
Pa, Orth, Patterson, Perham. Pike, Pomeroy,
Price, Radford, Randall, of KY, Rice Mass,
Rice OF Me-, Rollins Of N. H., Rollins of No,
Schenck, Schofeld, Shannon, Sloan, Smith,
Smithers, Spalding, Starr, Steele OF N. Y, Ste
vens, Thayer, Thomas, Tracy, Epson, Van
Vaiksnburbnrg, Washburne of Ill Washburn
OF Mass, Webster, Whaley, Wheeler, Williams,
Wilder, Wilson, Window. Woodbridge, Worth
ington and YeGnaGn-119.
NAYS. -[Au Democrats, except Clayl.-
Messrs. j @. Allen, w. J. Allen, Ancona,
Bliss, Brooks, Brown of Wis, Chanler, Clay,
Cox, Cravens, Dawson, Dennison. Eden, Ed
gerton, Eldrige, Finek, Order, Hall, Hard
ing, Harrington, Harris of Nd, Harris Of ILL.,,
Holman, Johnson of Pa, johnson Of o Kalb
fieisch, Herman, Knapp, Law, Long, Mallory
Miller of Pa, Morris of o., Morrison, Noble
O'Neill of o., PendletoD, Perry, Pruyn, Ran
dali of Pa, Rooinson, Ross, Scott, Steele Of
N j., Stiles, Strouse, Stuart, Sweat, Townsend
Wadsworth, Ward, G. A. White, j. w. White
Winfield, Ben. Wood, F. Wood-56.
The absentees. or those not voting, wert
Messrs. Lazsar, LIE Blond, Marcy, Mcdowell
Mckinney, Middleton, Rogers, and Vcor
hees-S. p
Tae analysis of the vote shows that six
teen Democrats voted yea, and that of thosl
who opposed the resolution in June, II hav'
now given their votes for it, viz: Messrs
Baldwin, of Michigan, English, of Connect
cut, Coffreth and McAllister, of Pennsylvania
Ganson, Herrick. Radford and Steele, of New
York, King and Rollins, of Missouri, ant
Hutchins of Ohio. or the absences on th,
former occasion, IL have now voted for thu
amendment, against it, 2 are absent still
and has resigned. And it is perhaps TO b.
accounted a sign Of the times equally will
equal division of tie absentees, that 9 Others
who voted against the measure in june alb
sented themselves on Tuesday, SO that the
absentees were in fact all from that side o.
the House.
The border State vote is interesting. o
the nine Kentucky members, two were absen
in June. One of these, Mr.. Clay, disappoint
ing the well-founded hopes of his friends, voted
in the negative, while Mr.. Yeaman has giver
his support to measure for which opinion IL
his S sate is fast and manifestly ripening. Ken
lucky finally stood against and A in favor o.
Messrs. King and Rollins have frankly chang
ed their votes under the influence of the las
two months, Mr.. Rollins especially ranging
himself on that side which his entire politics
career seemed long since to have made hi
proper place. Missouri having become b!
her own act a free State, now gives I vote
for the amendment and but two against it.
The representative rom this district, Mr.
Sweat, voted against the resolution. Wha
excuse can he offer to his outraged constitu
ents for thus mis- representing them, with the
verdict of September ringing in his ears
Mr. Sweat may think the congratulations o
friends will greet him for this vote on his re.
turn home, but he greatly misjudges. In our
opinion, three-fourths OF his intelligent party
friends deeply regret his action. as every we'll
minded Union man surely does. The latter
we're hoping he would take advantageof this
last opportunity to retrieve his political
standing in some measure, with his constitu
ents. True, the Advertiser compliments him
for shack. bone" in resisting fadaticism, but
we doubt If he will esteem this reason f0l
dissatisfaction. From this time forth, Mr.
S. will decrease, and his place inevitably is to
be "down among the dead men" of the
future.