The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-24
The Wilson Amendment.

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point a Committee of Conference,
and insisted on Sherman's substitute
to Stevens bill, the House passed the
same, as amended by Wilson and
Shella barger The first passed by a
vote of So to 60, and the latter by 90
to 70; and in this action the Senate
concurred. IIr. Wilson's admend-
ment is as follows:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the
United States of America, in Con-
gress assembled, That the 14th Arti-
Gle of Amendment to the Constitu-
tion having been duly ratified by the
Legislatures of the requisite number
of States, the same is hereby de-
clared duly ratified, and part of the
Constitution Of the United States,
and valid to all intents and purposes
as part of the Constitution of the
United States; and when any of the
States lately in insurrection shall
have ratified the same, and shall have
modified the constitution and laws in
conformity Herewith. and which
shall secure equal and impartial suf-
frage to all male citizens of the
United States that shall have attained
the age of twenty-one years, and
have resided in the State one year,
and in the town, Parish, city, Dis
trict or County, three months next
preceding the day of election, with
out regard to race, color or previous
condition Of servitude, except such
as may be disfranchised for partici-
patton in the late rebellion, in any
and all elections for Presidential
Electors Representatives in Con-
gress, and in any and all elections for
Governor, and for all State, County,
District, Parish, city and town Off
GERS, and has provided, by its consti-
tuition and laws that all citizens Of
the United States shall equally pos
sess the right to pursue all lawful
avocations and business; to receive
the equal benefit of the public
schools, and to have the equal pro-
lection of all citizens of the United
States in said State; and when said
constitution shall have been submit
ted to the voters of said States, as
tNt:s defined, for ratification or re-
lection; and when the constitution,
if ratified by the people of said State,
shall have been submitted to Con
gress for examination and approval,
said State shall, if its constitution be
approved by Congress, be declared
entitled to representation in Con-
gress, and Senators and Representa-
tives shall be permitted therefrom on
their taking the oath prescribed by
law.
Shellabarger's amendment declares
that, until the rebellious States are
admitted to representation, any civil
government shall be deemed provi-
sional, subject to the authority of the
United States, and to be abolished,
modified or superseded at any time;
and that elections under civil govern
ment shall be conducted by persons
described in fifth section, and that
no person shall be qualified to hold
Office under the provisional govern
ment who is ineligible under the pro-
visions of the thmd section of the
constitutional amendment Of last ses-
sion.
The bill has thus passed, incorpo-
rating the entire of the constitutions
al amendment, and, rs it would seem,
taking every possible precantion to
render politically innocuons both the
leaders and the people ''lately in re-
bellion."
Mr.. Elliott's Louisiana bill is no
longer needed, as the bill just passed
extends over the entire South.
Chmlesi9n Meas.
A correspondent writing from Ca