Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-14
rmK ClvaL Ru0ssrs s,lr.S.
Hts Passage by the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
FULLREPoR T or THE PRocEEDINos,

NOT COUNCIL -rrrt~f ~ o ~ rrTF
The first business on the Speakers table.
was the following message from the Senate
of the United States;
"Ordered, That the Secretary communi-
cate the bill to protect all persons in the
nish the means for their vindication, with
the message, after the President returning
the same to the Senate, with his objections
and the proceedings Of the Senate thereon,
to the House of Representatives" 9nI'fh 4
The following is the record of the Senate's
proceedings on the bill. 3i3i19 gu" s't".
In the Senate of the United States, April
0, 1860, the President of the United states
having returned to the Senate, in which 1t
originated, the bill entitled an act to pro-
tect all persons in the United States IN their
civil rights, and furnish the means OF their
yindication, with his objections thereto, the
Senate proceeded, in pursuance OF the Con-
stitution. to reconsider the same, and re-
solved that the said bill do pass two-thirds
of the Senate agreeing to pass the same
a7tEIT .s,59 Attcst-J. w FoRSEy, IiD gi
ru d1na - 700 Secretary Of the Senate.
The bill was then read in full, and then
the objections of the President to it were
read by Mr.. Mahaffey, the reading clerk.
The reading of the message having been
concluded, Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, addressed
the Speaker. l3ai n'..i" ..'z.t'i ply l'
Mr. .Eldridgc asked him to yield for a
question, 5-a.f hIa a" .. .i .-" '7l
Mr.. Wilson declined to yield. He said
the debates on this bill prior to its passage
occupied about two weeks Of the time of
the House. During that time some, forty
speeches were made, and it was not brought
to close until all who desired to speak on
al lS,l Lo., d. h., ol of
that debate the bill was passed by more
than two.thirds majority of the House. It
has been returned with the objections of the
President to its becoming q law. / do not
propose to reopen the discussion of this
measure l'"'". t. t'.'' D. .' PIG
am DISPOSED to leave the close OF this
debate to the President by the message
which had just been read. ! ask the friends
of this great measure to answer the argu-
ments and the statements of that message
by their votes. Iappeal to them to sustain
me in the motion which am about to
make. ] now move the previous question
the passage of this bill, tire objections of the
President to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Rodgers, of New Jersey, appealed for
leave to ask one question. [Crics of no."
"no."l He said he wanted to correct a mis-
take. fCries of 'qucstion"i The members
had not had any notification Of the Vote to-
day. " '.. ."
Mr.. Niblack, of Indiana, asked the Spea.
ker whether motion to lay the bill ON the
table was in orderl .'." ~" -. A"''
The Speaker replied that this point had
not been raised during his term Of service
in the House, but his impression was that as
the House was now acting under the Con-
stitution Of the United States, which directs
that after considering the objections of the
President the House should then proceed to
vote by yeas and nays on the passage of the
bill, the motion to lay on the table would
scarcely be in order '" A-l
Mr.. Niback. "And no other motion is
in order?" , .
The Speaker thought not. :"
Mr. Eldridgc moved call of the House,
as the gentleman from Iowa Mr. Wisunl
refused to allow any debate and called for
the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered and re-
sulted-yeas 80, nays 1870.
The Speaker having intimated that on an
examination of precedents he had recon
sidered his opinion on the question submit
ted by Mr. Niblack. ~ -2'
Mr.. Lie Blond moved to lay the bill on the
table ..@. .'I -!'f r7'a.
the molten was not in order. .. '-.''
The Speaker overruled the point, and
stated the grounds of his doing SO. The
language of the Constitution seemed to inn
ply that the House should Immediately vote
on the passage or rejection of the bill, but
on examination of the precedents made by
Congress many years since, he found that
Congress had enlarged that Interpretation
very considerably. The House, in the TWEEN.
ty-first Congress, had postponed vetoed
bill for long time. In other Congresses
motions had been made and entertained to
recommend a vetoed bill to the committee
in which it had originated, but the decision
most opposite to his case was to be found
on page 100 of Barclays Digest, which had
been adopted as the parliamentary law of
of the House, binding the members and the
Speaker. There it was laid down that a
veto message or bill may lie referred, or the
message alone, and the bill may be laid on
the table ~" g.' 'T'' o7.feHl1I za'
The Speaker proceeded to quote from the
journal Ofthe second session of the Twenty
seventh Congress, where a bill, being re-
turned by the President with veto mes
sage, a motion was made to lay the bill
on the table. The motion was objected
to as not in order under the constitution.
The Speaker decided that it was taken from
the decision, ard that appeal was, on mo.
tion of Mr.. Millard Fillmore laid on the
table, by vote of 81 to 78, including amohg
the yeas two gentlemen who Had filed the
position of President of the United States,
namely, Millard Fillmore and John Quincy
Adams; also, William Pitt Fessenden,
Joshua X. Giddings and many other gentle
men of distinction. When Speaker made
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