Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-11
The Reconstruction Plan Reported
the Joint Committee OF Fifteen.

The Reconstruction Plan Reported by
the Joint Committee or Fifteen.
Ajointresolution proposing an amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United
States: 5000. -,ss ...'
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of the United States
Of america IN Congress assembled, two
thirds of both Houses concurring), That
the following article be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall
be valid as part of the Constitution,
namely:
ARTICLE.
SEC. l. No State shall make or en-
force any law which shall aSridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law,
nor deny to any person within its juris-
diction the equal protection or the laws.
SEC. 3 Representatives shall be ap-
portoned among the several States
which may be included within this
Union according to their respective
numbers, counting the whole number
of persons in each State, excluding In
dians not taxed. But whenever i'm any
State the elective franchise shall be de-
MED to any portion of its male citizens
not less than twenty-one years of age,
or in any way abridged, except for par
ticipatiOn in rebellion or other crimes,
the basis of representation in such State
shall be reduced in the proportion which
"a nf an al la nj Oh,
bear to the whole number Of male citi-
zens not less than twenty-one years of
Age. . .
SEC. 3. Until the fourth day of July,
1870, all persons who voluntarily adher-
ed to the late insurrection, giving it
aid and comfort, shall be excluded
from the right to vote for members of
Congress, aud for electors for President
and Vice President of the United States.
SEC. 4. Neither the United States
nor any State shall assume or pay any
debt or obligation already incurred, or
which may hereafter be incurred, in aid
of insurrection or of war against the
United States, or any claim for compen.
sation for loss of involuntary service or
labor.
SEC. S. Congress shall have power
to enforce, by appropriate legislation,
the provisions of this article.
A BILL to provide for the restoration
of the States in ins,rrection to their
full political rights. r.t- ..-...
| WHEREAS, 1t Is eXpedient that the
States lately in insurrection should, at
the earliest day consistent with the fu-
ture peace and safety of this Union, be
restored to full participation in all po-
litical rights; and,
WHEREAS, The Congress, did by joint
resolution, propose for ratification to
the Legislatures of the several States as
an amendment tn the Constitution of
the United States an article in the fol-
lowing words, to wit:
Here is inserted the constitutional
amendment given above.
NOp, therefore, be IL enacted, de-,
! That whenever the above stated amend
ment shall have become part of the
Constitution, and any State lately In
insurrection shall have ratified the
same, and shall have modified its con-
stitution and laws in conformity there
with, the Senators and Representatives
from such State, if found duly elected
and qualified, may, after having taken
the required oaths of office, be admitted
into Congress as such.
| SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted,
that when any State lately in insurrec-
amendment to tho Constitution, any
part of the direct tax under the act of
August 5, 1861, which may remain due
and unpaid in such State may be as
sumed and. paid by such State; and the
payment thereof, upon proper assuran-
! ces from such State, to be given to the
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, may be postponed for period
not exceeding ten years from and after
the passage of this act.
A BILL declaring certain persons inel-
gible to office under the Government
of the United States.
BE 1t enacted, de-, That no person
shall be eligible to any office under the
Government of the United States who
| Is included in any of the following
classes, namely:
First. The President and Vice. Presi-
dent of the Confederate States of Amer
lea, so-called, and the heads of Depart
ments thereof.
Second. Those who in nothercountries
acted as agents Of the Confederate
States of America, so-called
Third. Heads of Departments of the
United States, officers of tho army and
navy Of the United States, and all per-
sons educated at the Military and Naval
Academy of the United States, Judges
OF the courts of the United States, and
members of either house Of the Thirty
sixth Congress of the United States who
gave aid or comfort to the late rebellion.
Fourth. Those who acted as officers
of the Confederate States of America,
so-called, above the grade of Colonel in
the army or Master in the navy, and
any one who, as Governor of either of
the sO-called Confederate States gave
aid or comfort to the rebellion. ...
Fifth. Those who have treated Off
GERS or soldiers or sailors Of the army or
navy of the United States, captured
during the late war, otherwise than
lawfully us prisoners of war.
CURRANTs AND GoosEBERRIEs.-W
notice that the cultivation of the red
currant has much increased within n
year or two; and when is considered
the value Of this frit over many others,
for pies, when green, for wine Jelly and
drying, the surprise is that more gen.
eral importance was not long ago at
tached to 1t, not only rs a garden, but a.
field crop. 1t Is in every way whole
of the very easiest to propagate and cul-
tivate. For increasing the supply of
bushes, take last years wood, about q
foot or fourteen inches in length, where
they are desired to stand or otherwise,
press the ground around them firmly
with the foot, and there will rarely be a
failure. Ifa single stem, in tree fashion
is preferred, remove with knife all the
eyes on the part of the cutting which
goes beneath the surface of the ground.
If bush is preferred, let the eyes re-
main. So far as production is concern
ed, we think the bush is rather the most
profitable, and may be also the longest
lived.
The gooseberry can be propagated in
precisely the same way.--GernsantoWn
7elerdph.
A DYING HERO.--Thurlow w. Brown,
formerly conductor of the Cayuga Chief,
a temperance organ in New York, and
now editor of the chief, the temperance
paper at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, is
dying of consumption. His last paper
Con,a % r., ,,a with tho amman, !, nov, a,,<