The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-05
CONVERSATIONAL PRoOEEDINas.
WASHINGTON, June A.
GTrNATI,

SENATE.
The Postmaster General sent in a re-
Spouse to the inquiry as to the cost
practicability, &c, of connecting ma
tional telegraphing system with the
| Postoff1Ce Department.
| AT l o'clock the reconstruction res
olutiOn was taken up.
| Mr.. Hendricks, from the Committee
on Naval Affairs, reported resolution
! to restore Lieutenant Commanding
| Richard NJ. Law, of the United States
Navy, to the active list, which was
| passed.
AT one O'Clock the reconstruction res
Olution was taken up, and the question
was upon the adoption of the following
amendment to section 4: The obliga-
| lions of the United States incurred in
suppreSsing instruction or in defense
of the Union, or for the payment OF
bounties or pensions incident thereto,
shall remain inviolate.
Mr.. Hendricks took::the floor and de
livered IA speech against the pending
proposition. He Commenced with a
review of the proceedings by which
the measure was agreed upon in the
Senate and characterized them as most
extraordinary and unusual. He did
not believe that the people would en-
dorse any such caucus proceedings.
They would demand to know why such
| proposition was adopted and present
ed to them for ratification. de did not
believe that the present was the proper
time for amending the Constitution as
eleven States were being denied repre-
sentation in Congress. He character
! lied the whole measure not as neces-
siiy of the government, but merely as
| a part of a political programme.
AT the close of MIR. Hendricks re-
marks, the pending amendment was
adopted. Certain verbal amendments
fC 9Th than aDrnnH In
Mr.. Van Wrinkle submitted an amend-
ment, as new section, that every per-
son mentioned or described in section
three of this article, who shall have en-
gagged in insurrection or rebellion
| against the United States, and against
whom no prosecution for treason has
been instituted within = years, shall,
with the exception of that time, upon
taking an oath to support the constitu-
ton of the United States, be exempted
from all pains, penalties and liabilities
for such participation in the rebellion.
Mr.. Davis demanded the yeas and
nays upon this amendment, with the
following result;
GEAs-Messrs. Cowan, Davis, Doc
little. Guthrie, Hendricks, Riddle, Van
Wrinkle and Willey-S.
NAYs-Messrs. Chandler, Clark,
CONFESS, Cragen, Edwards, Fessenden,
Foster, Grimes, Harris, Henderson,
Ind, Morgan, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy,
Ramsey, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner,
Wade, Williams, Wilson and Yates
26. So the amendment was disagreed to
Mr.. Henderson offered the:following:
Strike out of section ., of the proposed
amendment, the following: But when
ever in any State the elective franchise
shall be denied to any portion of its
male inhabitants, being citizens of the
United States, not less than 81 years of
age, or in any way abridged, except
for participation in the rebellion, or
other crime, the basis of representation
in such State shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such
male citizens shall bear to the whole
number of male citizens not less than
81 years of age, in such State, and in
sert in lieu thereof the following: EX-
Guiding also two-tifths of such persons
as have been discharged from inVOlun-
tary servitude by any proclamation of
the President OF the United States, or
by an amendment of the Constitution
OF the United States, since the year
1861, and to whom the elective fran
chise may be denied. This was disa-
greed to,
Mr., Doolittle offered the following as
substitute for the second section: after
the census to be taken in the year
1870, and each succeeding census rep
resentntion shall be appOrtioned among
the several States, which may De lncIu
ded within this Union, according to
the number in each State of male cleo
tors over twenty-one years of age,
qualified by laws thereof to choose
members of the most numerous branch
of its Legislature; and direct taxes
shall be apportioned among the
several States, according TO the value
of the real and personal taxable pro-
perty situate in each State not belong
ing to the State or the United States.
Mr., Doolittle explained the effect of
such an amendment he proposed,
upon the representation of the differ
ent States by reading table recently
published in the newspapers on this
Mr.. Poland took the floor to address
the Senate at length on the pending
proposition, but gave way to Mr.. Doc
| little, who, at o'clock, moved an ex-
ecutive session, which was held, and
the Senate soon after adjourned.