The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-12

referred the following memorials in relation to o. s.
Senator j. r. Doolittle, to wit
Memorial No. III, Senate. Petition of citizens of
Burlington, Racine counry, praying for the passage
of resolution, by the Legislature, 1nstructing Sen
ator Doo1ttle to resign:
| Memorial No. 112, Senate. Memorial of w w.
johnson and Others citizens of the town of Green
field, Milwaukee county asking for the passage of
resolution instructng James r. Doolittle to resign
his Office as United States Senator and
| Memorial No. $40, Senate. Petition of joseph
Gates and many other citizens Of Walworth county.
praying the legislature to adopt resolutions instruct
| ing Senator Doolittle to resign, and also
| A Geographic communication stating the vote in
the Senate of the United States, passing the Civil
Rights Bill in that body. Notwithstanding the Presi-
dents veto by vote of more than twothirds of the
whole Senate, by which communication it appears
that Senator Doottle votd to sustain the Presidents
veto; have considered the subject of said memorials
and communication and majority of said committee
submit the following report:
Memorials No. Ill and 112 were introduced and re-
ferred to your committee soon after the President We
toed the Freedman's Bureau Bill, and have special
reference to the action OF Senator Doolite sustaining
that veto after having voted for the bill its passage
So far the undersigned have ascertaned the action
OF Senator Doolittle in sustaining the Presidents
Veto in this instance was deprecated by great ma
jority of the members of the Union party by which
he had been raised to the position of United States
Senator, as an ineXcusable betrayal of principles
which the whole country was bound in honor and
justice to maintain.
The committee RETAINED from acting upon these
two memorials at the time ofther reference because
it believed that action at that time would be nre
mature and because most fervently hoped that
when the expressions of indignation of the people
reached Washington, both President johnson and
Senator Dooittle would the great error of princ
pie into which they h3 fallen and thereafter be found
true to the cause of Liberty and Republican Govern
ment and more especially this confidence felt in
relation to Senator Doolite after the passage by
Legislature of joint resolution No 14Senate endors
ing 1.-THE action ofsuch Of our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress as firmly and consistently
supported the Freedmens Bureau bill and who have
pres1stently asserted the right of Congress to de-
ternline for itself when and in what manner it viii
admit representation from States where the State
governments have been disorganized by rebellion
and earnestly requesting them to firmly resist the
admission Of Representatives to Congress from such
disorganized States until peace is fully secured and
until the people of such States shall have positively
guaranteed equal and exact justice to all men within
their borders, expressing, as it did the voice of
majority of the people of the State. The subsequent
action of Senator DOolttle has completely and ina
ly dispeed our confidence in him. His most strange
ly inconsistent action upon the Civil Rights Bill re-
sultng in his voting against its wise and benefcent
provisions in support Of the Presidents ustifable
yeto-after stating he did from his place in the
Senate his approval of the bill after its passage and
before the veto in the following words:
Mr. President, deem it proper to say, in conse-
quence of my not being present when the final vote
taken Friday, on the bill Is No. 81 to pro-
tect all persons in the United States in their civic