Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-14
The Reconstruction Resolutions Passed by the
Senate.

At late hour Munday evening the Con.
stitutional Amendment was finally disposed
of in the Senate by vote of % to II. The
nays W ere Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Guth
rie, Hendricks, Johnson, McDougall, Nor
ton, Riddle, Salisbury and Nan Winkle--
the absentees were Brown who would ha 0e
voted yea, and Buckalew, Dixon, Nesmith
and Wright, who would have voted nay,
As amended in the Senate and sent back
to the House for concurrence in amend
ment, the joint resolution is as follows
Joint resolution proposing an amendment to tie Con-
stit,,ti0n Of the United States.
Resolred, BY the Senate and House of Represen-
tatves of the United States OF America, in Con-
gress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses con-
curing, that the following article be proposed to
the Legislatures of the several States an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Leg
slatures, shall be valid part of the Constitution
namely
ARTICLE-.SECTIoN l. All persons born or natur-
allied in the United States and subject to the iurs-
diction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside No state
shall make enforce any laws which shall abridge
ted States, shall any State deprive any person
of life liberty or property without due process OF
law, deny to any person within its jurisdc-
ton the equal protection of the laws.
SEC g Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States according to their respec
tive numbers, counting the whole number of per
sons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed
But whenever the right to vote at any election for
electors of President and Vice-President or fol
United States Representatives in Congress, Execu-
tive or judicial officers, the members Of the Leg.
siature thereofis denied to any of the male inhab-
tants of such State being 2l years of age and citi
zens of the United States, or in any way abridged
except for participation III rebellion other crime
the basis of representation therein shall be reduced
in the proportion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of male
ci tizens q years of age in such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Repre-
sentative in Congress, or elector of President or
Vice-President, or hold any Office, civil or military,
under the United States, or under any State who
having previously taken an oath a member OF
Congress, or as an officer of the United States or
as member of any State Legislature, or as an e1-
ecutive or judicial officer of any State to support
the Constitution of the United States, shall have
engaged in insurrection of rebellion against the
same or given aid comfort to the enemies there
of but Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of
each House, remove such disability.
SEC. 4 The validity of the public debt of the
United States, authorized by law, including debts
incurred for the payment pensions and bo unties
for service in suppressing insurrecton rebellion,
shall not be questioned /; but neither the United
States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt
obligation incurred in aid of insurrection re-
bellion against the United States or any claim
for the loss emancipation OF any slave but all
such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held
illegal and void