The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-24
The Vote ON Negro Suffrage in The Dis
trict of Columbia.

trlct OF COlumDlas
The following bill passed the House on
Friday last. 1t now goes to the Senate, and
should it pass that body also, then goes
to the President The Northern journals
are divided in opinion whether he will or
will not veto the bill The following is the
bill and final vote:
The House then voted on the bill as originally
int -oduced by Mr.. Kelley, OF Pennsylvania, and
reported back by Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, from the
Committee on the Judiciary, without amend
me at, and which is as follows:
E;e it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
res .ntatives OF the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That from all laws and parts
Of laws prescribing the qualifications of electors
for any office in the District of Columbia the word
"w bite " be, and the same is hereby, stricken
out, and that from and after the passage of this
act no person shall be disqualified from voting at
an,y election held in the said District on account
Of color.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts
of Congress and all laws of the State of Mary
land in force in said District and all ordinances of
the cities of Washington and Georgetown incOn-
sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby
repealed and annulled.
The bill was passed-yeas, l16; nays, 54-as
follows:
YEAs-Alley, Allison, Ames, Ashley, of Ohio,
Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barker, Baxter, Beaman,
Kalwell, Bingham, Blaine, Blow, Boutwell,, Bran
aegee, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Bundy,
Clarke, of Ohio, Clarke, of Kansas, Cobb, Conk-
hng, Cook, Collum, Darling, Davis, Dawes, De-
6s,es, Delano, Deming, Dixon, Donnelly, briggs,
Eckley, Eggleston, Elliot, Farnsworth, Ferry,
Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold, Hale, Harding, Of
Illinois, Hart, Hayes, Highly, Holmes, Hooper,
Hubbard, of Iowa, Hubbard, of New York, Hub
hard, Of Connecticut, Hulburd, Humphrey, Jas.
Itgersoll, Jenckes, Julian, KassOn, Melley, KEEL
So, Ketcham, Latin, Lawrence, of Pennsylvania,
Lawrence, of Ohio, Loan, Longyear, Lynch,
\ Marston, Marvin, McClurg, Mercur, Miller,
| Boorehead, Morrill,, Morris, Moulton, Myers,
\ o. Neill Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham, Pike,
| hants, Pomeroy, Price, Raymond, Rice, of Mas
| xschusetts, Rice, of Maine, Rollins, Sawyer,
sSehenck, Schofeld, Shelabarger, Sloan Spalding,
\ Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Thomas, F. TrOwbridge,
| Z psOn, Van Aernam, Van Horn, of New York,
Ward, Warner, Washburne Of Illinois, Washburne,
| Wilson, of Iowa, Wilson, of Pennsylvania, Win
| dom, Woodbridge-116.
/ NAYs-A,cona, Anderson, Ashley, of Nevada,
Benjamin, Bergen, Boyer Brooks Chandler,
\ Dawson, Denison, Eldridge, Fauquhar, Finck,
&lossbrenner, Goodyear, Grider, Harding, ofKen-
tucky, Henderson, Hill, Hogan, Hubbard of West
Virginia, Hubbell, of..New York, Humphrey, ]. NJ.
johnson, Jones, Kerr, Kuykendall, Latham, LIE
Blond Marshall, Mccullough MCGEE, Niblack,
Nicholson, NOEL, Phelps, Bradford, Randall, of
Pennsylvania, Randall, Of Kentucky, Ritter, Rog-
ers, Ross, Shanklin, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stiilwell
Strouse, Taber, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble, Van
Horn, ofMissOuri, Voorhees,, Winfield-H.
When the result of the vote was announced
applause followed from the floor and the galle-
Tfes.
The House then ailiourned.n