The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-11
supplementary Reconstruction Acts.

reconstruction acts The latest news is
that the House has passed its bill, slightly
modified. @
z We have read both bills carefully, and
think the Senate bill the best.
If we may take the liberty of making
suggestion we wouldsay that the best course
would be to have a military Governor for
each State-a military man, to be appointed
by the Secretary of War. Five commanders,
as provided in the present acts, with general
colored suffrage, have already produced good
effects in the Southern States. Let Congress
now give us ten commanders, and place all
power in their hands, and the Southern
States will certainly be promptly restored,
while Republican party will be built up in
them that will withstand all the assaults and
Vaccinations of the rebel element. We
want thorough work, and in no other way is
it certain we will have it.
SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION.
Mr. Trumbull. from the Senate judiciary
Committee, to-day reported
A BILL to give effect to an act entitled "an
ernment of the rebel States, passed March
2, 1867.
Be it enacted, &C., That the true intent
and meaning of the TACT to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel
States,'' passed March I'd, A. D. 1867, was,
is, and shall be construed to be that the mil
itary authority of the United States in said
rebel States, as provided in said act, was
and is paramount to any civil government
existing therein; makes all such civil gov
ernments subordinate to such military au-
thority, prohibits them from interfering in
any way with the exercise OF such military
authority.
SEC. 2. Ind be it further enacted, That the
commander of any district named in said act
shall have power, subject to the approval OF
the General Of the armies of the United
States, whenever in the opinion of such
commander the proper administration of
said act shall require 1t, to suspend or re-
move from o}Sce, or from the performance
of official duties and the exercise Of official
powers, any officer Or person holding OF ex-
ercising, or protesting to hold or exercise
any civil or military Office, or duty in such
district under any power, election, appoint
ment or authority derived from or granted
by, or claimed under any so-called State or
the government thereof, or any municipal or
other division thereof, and upon snch sus-
pension or removal such commander, subject
to the approval of the General aforesaid
shall have power to provide from time to
time fol- the performance of the said duties
of such officer or person, so suspended Or re-
moved, by the detail of some competent Of
ficer or soldier of the army to pert form the
same.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the General of the armies OF the United
States shall be invested with all the power of
removal, and detail granted in
the preceding section to district comman-
ders.
SEC. A. And be 1T further enacted, That
the acts of the officers of the army already
done in removing in said districts persons
exercising the functions of civil officers and
appointing others in their stead, are hereby
confirmed.
SEC 5. and be at FURTHER enacted, That
the boards OF registration provided for in
the act entitled IAN act supplementary to
an act entitled An act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel
States passed March 2, 1867, and to facili-
tate restoYation' passed Mar@h IS, 1857,
shall have power, and it shall be their duty
before the allowing the registration OF any
person, to ascertain, upon such facts or IN
formation as they can obtain, whether such
person is entitled to be, registered under
said act, and the oath required by said act
shah not be conclusive on such question,
and no person shall be registered unless such
board shall decide that he is entitled there
to; and such board shall also have power to
examine under oath Ito be administered by
any member of such board) any one touch
ing the qualification of any person claiming
SEC. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That
the true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
scribed in said supplementary act is, (among
other things) that no person who has been
a member of the Legislature of any State,
or who has held any executive or judicial
Office in any State, whether he has taken an
oath to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States or not,and WHO has afterwards en-
gagged in instruction or rebellion against
the United States, or given aid or comfort to
the enemy thereof, is entitled to be register
ed to vote; and the words " executive or jul
dicial office in any State" in said oath men
toned shall be construed to include all civil
offices created by law for the administration
of the civil laws of the State.
Sec. Z. And be at further enacted, That
the time for completing the original regis
tration provided for in said act may, in the
d1SCferlOn OF the commander OF any QlSCr1cC,
be extended to the Isl day of October, 1867
and the boards of registration shall have
power, and it shall be their duty, commenc-
ing twenty days prior to any election under
said act, and upon reasonable public notice
of the time and place thereof to revise, for
period of three days, the registration lists
and upon being satisfied that aay person
not entitled thereto has been registered, to
strike the name of such person from the
list, and such person shall not he allowed to
vote. And such board shall also. during the
same period, add to such registry the names
of all persons who at that time possess the
qualifications required by said act who have
not been already registered, and no person
shall at any time be entitled to be registered
or to vote by reason of any executive pardon
or amnesty for any act or thing which, with
out such pardon or amnesty, would disqual-
fly him from registration or voting.
Sec. 8. And be 1T further enacted, That
section four of the said last named act shall
be con strued to authorize the commanding
general named therein, whenever he shall
deem it needful, to remove any member of a
board of registration, and to appoint anoth-
er person in his stead, and to fill any any va
eancy in such board.