Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-21
Mr. Longxear,s Resoluttons.

Very significant indeed, and very apt,
were the resolutions upon the status of the
Southern States, drafted by Mr.. Broomall,
of Pennsylvania, introduced into the
House of Representatives on Monday, by
Mr.. Longyear, of Michigan, and adopted,
seriatim, by overwhelming msjorities.
The telegraph has already given them to
our readers. They declare that the re-
bellion has deprived the people of the re-
bellious States of all civil government;
that in such circumstances it is the duty
of Congress to enable these States to or
ganize State governments, guaranteeing
that they shall be republican; and that
the President is justified in maintaining
the suspension of the writ of hGbea8 cor
pUs and the military possession and con-
troll of the South. These resolutions were
SO phrased that, while they were enthu-
siastically endorsed by the radical Repub-
licans, they could not well be opposed by
any who claimed to support the President;
for the first was copied word for word,
from sen tence of his famous proclama-
ton of May 2sth, 1866, for the reconstruc-
tion of North Carolina; the second was
a copy of the fourth section of the fourth
article of the constitution; while the last
two were but endorsements of what has
been the Presidents policy up to the pres
ent time. However, they met with con-
siderable opposition, thirty-six members
voting against the first resolution, a num-
Der which gradually dwindled down to
eight nays on the last. The following is
the vote in detail on the first resolution:
YEAs-Messrs. Alley, Anderson, Allison,
Ashley, of Nevada, Ashley, of Ohio, Baker,
Baldwin, Banks, Baxter, Beaman, BENJAMIN,
Bidwell; Bingham, Blaine, Boutwell,, Bran
dagee, Bromwell, Clarke, of Ohio, Clarke, of
Kansas, Cobb, Conkling, Cook, Defrees,
Demlng, Donnelly, briggs, Eckley, Eggles-
ton, Elliott, Farnsworth, Ferry, Garfield, |
Grinnell, Harding, cf Illinois, HAYES,
Henderson, Highly, Holmes, Hooper, |
Hubbard, of Iowa, Hubbard, of New York, |
Hubbard, of Connecticut, Hubbell, Hulburt |
Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelly, Kelso, |
Ketchum, Kuy kendall, Latin, Lawrence, of |
Ohio, Lawrence, of Penn, Longyear, Lynch, |
Marston, Marvin, McClurg, McIndoe, Nc |
hee, McRuer, Moorhead, Morrill,, Morris, |
Moulton, Myers, O'Neil, Orth, Paine, Per- |
ham, Pike, Plants, Pomeroy, Price, Ran |
dali, of Kentucky, Rice, of Massachusetts.
Rice, OF Maine, Rollins, Schenck, SchofeId, |
shellabarger, Sloan, Spaulding, Starr, Ste
vens, Thayer, Trowbridge, Upson, Van
Aernam, Ward, Warren, Washburne. of |
Illinois, Washburne, of Massachusetts.
Walker, Wentworth, Williams, Wilson. of |
Illinois, Window, Woodbridge, and Wilson |
of fPennsylvania-l02.
NAYS-Messrs. Ancona Bergen, Bower,
Brooks, Chanler, Dawson, Eldridge, Finck,
Glossbrenner, Grider, Hale, Harding, of
kentucky, Hubbard, of West Virginia,
Kerr, Latham, Mccullough, Mercer,
Phelps, Radford, Randall. Of
Raymond, Ritter, Rogers,
Ross, Rousseau. Shanklin, Smith, Tsber,
John L. Thomas, Thornton, Trimble, Good
yea and Whaley-36.
The Republicans who voted against this
were Messrs. Raymond and Hale
of New York, Hubbard, Latham and
WhGley of West Virginia, Phelps and
Thomas of Maryland, and Smith of Ken
tucky-eight in all. We do not include
the name of Mr.. Rossesu of Kentucky n
this list of recreant Republicans, as he has
formally repudiated the party which cleo
ted him. II will be seen that but two Re-
publicans from Northern States voted
against the resolution-Mr. Raymond and
his man Friday Robert S. Hale. This is
about the strength of the conservative"
party, as distinguished from the Copper
heads, in the House of Representatives
We do not have the vote in detail on
the other resolutions. The second passed
by lO4 ayes to SO nays-nearly the same
vote. On the third the nays were reduced
TO 29-which were probably the Demo-
Gratis and Rousseau. On the last only s
were found with hardihood
enough to register their votes in the mega
tive. These consisted of the entire body
Of Democrats from Southern States Tex
cent Hogan, of Missouri, probably absent)
and Rogers, (Dem.) of New Jersey.
But one man from the North, and he
New Jersey Democrat, refused to endorse
the action of the President in maintaining
military possession and eontroll" of the
rebellious States