New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-09
The Exclusion of the Southern Represen-
tatives.
The following is a special dispatch to the Chi

The following IS special dispatch TO the Chi
cage Times
N WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Senate was to-day
the scene of protracted debate on the House CON
current resolution relative to the Southern Repre-
sentatves, which ended by the passage of the res
olution, by yeas 20 to nays Is. The Republican
Senators who voted against it Withtthe Democrats
were Messrs. Cowan, Dixon and DooIittle, Lane of
Kansas, Morgan, Norton and Van Wrinkle. The
resolution, as it passed both Houses, is as follows.
Being q concurrent resolution, it does not require
the signature OF the President:
/" Be 1t resolued By the House of Representa-
tioes the Senate conc,rig, That in order to close
agitation upon question which seems likely to
disturb the action Of tine government, as well to
quiet the uncertainty which is agitating the minds
Of the people of the eleven States which have been
declared to be in insurrection, no Senator Or Rep
resentative shall be admitted into either branch of
Congress from any Of said States until Congress
shall have declared such State entitled to such
representation
resolution, in strong conservative strain, fully
sindorsing the President and his policy of recon.
struction, and urging upon Congress the immediate
admission Of loyal Southern representatives.
As8 Senator Wilson spoke for an hour against con-
seryatisln, declaring that it was the cause Of the
rebellion, and that radicalism was progressive as
the experience of the last thirty years had
clearly proven.
senator Fessenden spoke an hour in support Of
Mr.. Van Wrinkle, of West Virginia, said he had
learned that negro suffrage was to be a precedent
condition before any Southern State was to be
allowed representation in Congress. and he should
therefore vote against the resolution.
Mr.. Fessenden replied that he knew of no such
condition. s,a
Senator Sherman, rising to a personal explana-
ton relative to Reverdy Johnson's speech of yes
terday, said that Chief Justice Chase never saw
the resolutions affirming the right of a State to
decide on the constitutionality Of United States
law, which were passed at Cleveland, In 1853,
during the 0berlin rescue excitement.
Mr.. Sherman added that Chief Justice Chase
spoke at. the meeting referred to, but was not
aware that any such resolutions were passed, and
that his speech, as executive of Ohio, in favor of
law and order, was such as to cause dissent from
those who composed the Cleveland meeting.
senator Wilson will, during next week, introduce
Joint resolnfionfor the admission of the Southern
| representatives., on the following grounds:
l. That the States shall give suffrage to such col
ored persons as can readthe Constitution and have
served in the army.
2 That the States shall repudiate the rebeld debt.
rights t&s sis IL = - - :
r Our Washington correspondent whose letter is
published elsewhere in to-day's paper, expresses
the opinion that the passage of the .concurrept
resolution mentioned above, will serve to ex.
1 clude the Southern representatives during the
whole existence Of the present Congress.