The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-11
The Joint resolution as it passed the
Senate is as follows:

Senate is as follows:
RESOLVED By the Senate and House of Rep.
resentati5es Of the United States Of amer
tea i,ss Congress Assembled, (t'co-thirds Of
both Houses concasring,) That the follow
ing article be proposed to the Legislaa,
lures of the several States as an amend.
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by. three
lfourths Of said Legislatures, shalI Dc
valid as part of the Constitution name
ly: horn
mr. .naturalized in the United States, ana
| sub;eet to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and OF
the State wherein they reside. No State
| sball make or enforce any law winch
shall abridge the privileges OF lmmuni-
Ties 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 jurisdiction the equal protec-
ton of the laws. esV ere a.I,.
Section 2. Representatives shall be
apportioned among the several States
according to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number OF persons,
excluding Indians not taxed. o., BUT
whenever the right to vote at any cleo
tion for the choice of electors Tor Presl'
dent and Vice President, representatives
in Congress, decutive and judicial OIL
GERS, or members of the Legislature
thereof, is denied to any of the male in
habitants, of such State, being twenty
one years of age and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged,
except for participation in rebellion or
other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proper
tion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number
of male citizens twenty.one years OF
age in such State.
Section 3. That no person shall be q
Senator or Representative in Congress,
or elector of President and Vice Presi-
dent, OF hold auy Office, civil or military,
under the United States, or under any
State who having previously taken an
oath as member of Congress-, or as an
officer of the United States, or as MEM
Der of any State Legislature, or as an
executive OF judicial officer of any State
| to support the Constitution of the United
| States, shall have engaged i'll Insured.
tion or rebellion against the same, or
given aid and comfort to the enemies
| thereof Butt Congress may, by vote
Of two thirds of each House, remove
such disability.
Section A. Tbs validity of the public
debt of the United States authorized by
law, including debts incurred tor pay
ment of pensions and bounties, for SER
vices in suppressing insurrection or
rebellion shall not be questioned. But
neither the United States, nor any State
shall assume, or pay any debt or obliga-
tion incurred in aid of insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or
any claim for the loss or emancipation
of any slave, but all snch debts, obliga-
tions and claims shall be held illegal and
void
Section 5. The Congress shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate legis
lation, the provisions of this article,
The followipgi is tho vote by which it
was passed:
AYEs-Messrs. Anthony, chandler,
Clark, CONFESS, Cragin, Creswell, Ed
munds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes, Har-
! KS, IICLuGlopu, IlONdIuJ IipNCi Min
wood, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas,
Morgan, Morrill,, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy
Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart
Sumner, I:unbuli, Wade, Wiley, vii
liams, WiisOu and Yates-33.
NAYs-Messrs. Cowan, Davis, Doolit-
lie, Guthrie, EGndIicks, Johnson
McDougall, Norton, Riddle, Salisbury
and Van Winkle-l1.
Absent or not voting-Messrs. Brown,
Buckalew. Dixon. Nesmith and Wright
5.
We are glad to find Mr. VAN WINKLE' s
naue recorded III the negative and are
oufident that his action in this regard
will be approved by a large majority of
The citizens of the State NJ WILEY
seems to I've completely identified with
the radical disunionists and advocates
st negro suffrage.