The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-05-11
Report cfthe Reconstruction Commit
wAsnrSeros, April 20, go.
rup RrcoNarRrCTIo REPORT.

| THE RECONSTRUCTION hkfukT.
The Report of the reconstruction
Committee, which was given out yes.
terday evening to the Associated
Press agent, has been the theme OF
universal comment to day.
The Committee were in session
four hours on Saturday, all the mem
bers being present, and agreed to re-
lport on Monday the following propo-
sition:
JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN
AMENDMESr TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES.
BE 1t resolved by the Senate and
House OF Representatives of the Uni.
ted States of America in Congress
assembled two. thirds of both Houses
concurring. That the following ar
ticle be proposed to the Legislature
of the several States as an amend.
ment to the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States, which, when ratified by
three fourths of said Legislatures,
shall be valid as part Of the Consttu.
tion, namely:
ARTICLE, SECTION l. No State
shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immu.
mites OF citizens of the United States.
nor shall any State deprive any per.
son OF life, liberty and property with
out due process of law, nor deny to
any person WITHIN it's jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
SEC. 2 Representatives shall be
apportioned among the several States
which may be included within the
Union according to their respective
numbers, counting b whole number
of persons in each State, excluding
indians not taxed. But whenever
in any State the elective franchise
shall he denied to any portion of its
male citizens not less than 2l years
of age, or in any way abridged, ex.
cept for participation in the Rebel
lion, or other crime, the basis of rep
resentation in such State shall be re-
duced in the proportion, which the
number Of such male citizens shall
bear the whole number of male citi.
zens not less than II years of age.
SEC. 3. Until the 4th day of July,
1870, all perons who voluntarily ad
hered to the late insurrection, giving
ii aid and comfort, shall be exclud-
ed from the right to vote for mem.
bers of Congress, and for electors for
President and Vice President of the
United States.
SEC. 4. Neither the United States
nor any State shall assume or pay
any debt or obligation already in.
Cured, IN aid of the insurrcction.
or war against the United States, or
any claim for compensation for loss
of involuntary service or labor.
SEC. 5. That Congress shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate leg
islation, the provisions of this arti.
Gle.
A ELL TO PROVIDE FOR THE REsToRA-
TION OF THE STATES LATELY IN RE-
BELLIoN 70 THEIR FULL POLITICAL
RIGHTS.
WHEREAS, 1t is cxpodient that the
States lately in insurrection should,
at the earliest day, consistent with
the future peace and safety of the
Union, be restored TO iull participa.
tion in all political rights and where.
as, the Congress did, by joint resolu-
ton, propose for ratification to the
OF the several States, as
an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, an article in the |
following words, to wit: 1.-THE constl.
tutional article here inserted), now,
1
BE it enacted, &C., That whenever
the above rccited amendment shall
have become part Of the Constitution,
and any State lately in insurrection
shall have modified its Constitution
and laws in conformity Herewith,
the Senators and Representatives
from such State, if found duly elected
and qualified, may, after having ia
ken the required oath of office, be all
mitted into Congress.
SECOND: And he itfurther enacted,
That when any State lately in insur
rection shall have ratified the forego'
ing proposed amendment to the Con
stitution, any part of the direct tax,
under the act of August 5, 1861, |
which NAV remain due and unpaid in |
such State, may be assumed and paid
by such State, and. the payment
thereof, upon proper assurance from
such State, to he given to the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury of the United