The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-21

h., ,vb;cb the House on Tuesday reJec'eu 'he
~ na..,,o,;op hill The vote was di-
49,. 49,, ooreeine to the Senate substitute,
10Y 20 % aa An analysis of it shows
anu - NJ, England members who voted aye
were:
r,o.srs Blaine and Rice of Maine: Rollins
~ Patterson of New Hampshire; Woodbridge
a. Vermont; Ames, Rice, Hooper, Alley, Bald
win, Washburn and Dawes of Massachusetts;
Deming of Connecticut.
Those who voted nay were:
Messrs. Lynch, Perham and Pike of Maine;
Baxter Of Vermont; Eliot, Banks and Bout
well of Massachusetts,; Warner Brandagee
and Hubbard of Connecticut.
The names of Marston of New Hampsbire.
Morrill, of Vermont, Jenckes and Dixon of
Rhode Island do not appear in the list of yeas
and nays. So large majority against the bill
seems to have caused surprise in all quarters.
The Boston Advertiser dispatch says that
Senator had expressed the opinion that if the
House asked for a conference, it could obtain
better bill, and members voted against occur
ences on this account. Eight democrats with
held their votes to see if the bill could pass,
and in case it could, would have given such
negative support; but as it began to appear
that the bill would fail, at the close of the vote
they rose and recorded theirs. Noexplanation
is given of their conduct The. House next
voted to non-concur, and asked for a commit-
tee of conference. The debate in the Senate
upon motion to grant the request of the House
was very animated. 1t soon became apparent
that the Senate would insist, and send the bill
back to the House; and as the Senate could
no, ,Ian IL
pressed by many senators that the House would
either recede from its objections or propose
amendments that could be carried in both
branches. The Senate engaged in the closest
debate for nearly five hours. The speeches Of
Messrs. Wade, Sherman and Lane attracted
general attention, and as the debate went on
the feeling against the conference increased.
When the vote was taken the desire for a con-
ference had lost all strength, and when the
House assembled in the evening, the refusal OF
the Senate to confer was on the Speakers table.
MrStevens desiring to prevent any action
on the Senate bill, moved at once to 60 into
Committee of the Whole on the army bill. The
floor was at once given to Mr.. LIE Blond of Ohio
who shared his hour with his .Copperhead
friends At the conclusion of the hour both
Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Blaine sprang for the
floor, but the Chairman (Mr. RaymondD rec
ognized Mr.. Blaine, who moved that the COM
mittee rise with the view to proceed to the
business on the Speakers table. This was car
ried by 81 to AZ. 49,
The committee rose and Mr.. Blaine moved
to proceed to business ON the Speakers table,
and the Senate bill came up at once, and Mr..
Blaine moved to recede from the former vote
of the House, but yielded to Mr.. Wilson of To-
wa, who moved to concur with the Senate, and
to amend by adding at the end of the 9TH sec
ton the following: i af8 2G8Hf
Provided, That no person excluded from the
privilege OF holding office by said proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States shall be eligible to election as o MEM
Der of Convention to frame a constitution for
any rebel State, nor shall any such person vote
at any election for members of such Conven-
ton. '+' i' 80
Mr.. Blaine then demanded the previous
question, both on Mr.. Wilson's amendment
and the motion to concur with the Senate,
whereupon the Democrats began to fillibuster
with all sorts of dilatory motions, which were
kept up till eleven o'clock, when the motion to
adjourn was agreed to. .s I,..- .....