The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-02-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
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| csD) introduced bill fixing the time foi
choosing the electors Of the President and
| Vice President.
| Mr.. Edmunds, (Republican) called up the
bill to regulate the tenure Of office, the pend
/ ing question being on the House amendment
| to include the Cabinet Ministers among those
officers who may not be removed without the
consent of the Senate. After debate, the
amendment was rejected by ii against %.
| So the Senate refused 10 concur in the House
amendment and the subject must 60 to a
committee of conference.
Mr. Dixon, (Johnsonite) offered the follow
ing, which he intended to offer as amendment
to the pending Constitutional Amendment:
| WHEREAS, At the last session Of The 39th
Congress an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States was proposed to the Leg
islatures Of the several States, which said
amendment has not been ratified by the
States in which the rebellion against the Uni
ted States recently prevailed; and
WHEREAS, There is reason 10 be ieve that
the following amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States would, il passed by Com
gress ts ratified by the Legislatures of said
States; and
WHEREAS, There is also reason TO believe
that the Constitutions of said Stateswill soon
be amended by the voluntary act of the Leg
islatures aud people thereof by the adoption
Of an article as follows:
"Article-Every male citizen who has re-
sided in the State one year and in the county
in which he offers TO vote six months imme
diately preceding the day of election and can
read the Constitution of the United States in
the English language and write his name, or
who may be the owner of $3.50 worth of tax
able property, shall be entitled TO vote at any
election for Governor of the State, members
of the Legislatures and all other officers
elected by the people, provided no person,
by reason OF this article, shall be excluded
from voting who has heretofore received the
elective franchise under the Constitution, aud
the laws OF the State, or who q the time of
the adoption Of this amendment may be enti-
tied to vote under said Constitution and
laws"
Now, therefore, in view of the above con-
siderations and in confident hope of an early
and fraternal restoration of the Union.
Resolved, That the following article be pro-
posed to the Legislatures ofthe several States
as an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States which, when ratified by three
fourths of the said Legisls tures shall be val
id as part of said Constitution:
ARTJcLE-Section 1.-The Union under
the Constitution shall be perpetual.
Sec. The public debt of the United
States, authorized by law, shall ever he held
sacred and inviolate, but neither the United
States nor any State shall assume or pay any
debt or obligation incurred in aid of the in
surrcction or rebellion against the United
States.
&c., 3-All persons born in or naturalized
in TIE United States and subject 10 the juris-
diction thereof are citizens of the State in
which they reside, and the citizens of each
State shall be entitled 10 all the priv liges
and immunities of the citizens of the several
States. No State shall deprive any citizen
Of life, liberty, orany property, without due
process Of law, nor deny to any person with
in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws. .
Sec. .4.-Representstives shall be apportioE-
ed among the several States according 10
their respective numbers, counting the whole
number of peasons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed; but when any State shall,
ou account of race or color, or previous con-
dition of servitude, deny the exercise of the
elective franchise at any ell ction for the
choice of electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, Representa-
tives in Congress, members OF the Legsla-
ture, or other officers elected by the people,
to any male inhabitants of such State being
twenty lone years of age and ci izsi Of the
United States, then the entire class of persons
80 excluded from the exercise of the elective
franchise shall not be counted in the basis of
representation. No State shall require prop
erty qualifications for votes more than the
value of $3.50 in taxable properly, nor as 40
educational qualification more than enough
TO read the Constitution of the United States
in the English language and write his own
name. -s
The Senate went into executive session and
soon afterward adjourned.
HOUSE,, FEE. 6.-The House joint resolu-
ton donating to the State of Ohio the build
ings, sheds, furniture, lumber and other
property of Camp Chase Ohio, to be used
in the erection of State Asylum for idiots,
was passed.
Mr. Ancona reported bill amendatory of
the bounty act Of July 25th, 1866, so as to
allow soldiers who had loss their discharges
10 make an oath of service, DC, to the Sec
ond Auditors Bureau. Passed. "a
Mr.. Stevens reported the following from
the Reconstruction Committee:
/ A bill to provide for the more efficient
government Of InsurrectioDary States.
WHEREAS, the pretended State govern
ments- of the late ao-called Confederate
States Of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Arkansas,
were set up without authority of Congress,
and without the sanction of the pepole, and
WHEhEAs, The so pretended governments
afford no protection for life or property, and
encourages lswlessness and crime, and
WHEREAs, 1t is necessary that peace and
good order should be enforced in the socalled
States, until loyal State governments can be
legally established, therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representative, dc. That the so-called
States shall be divided into military dis
tricts, and made subject TO the military au-
thority of the United States, as hereinafter
prescribed, and for that purpose Virginia
shall constitute the lst district North Car
olina and South Carolina the Sd district
Georgia, Alabama and Florida the Sd dis
| trict, Mississippi and Arkansas the 4th dis
| trict, and Louisisna and Texas the 5th dis
| trict.
Sec 3 That it shall be the duty of the
| General of the army to assign to the COM
mand Of each of said districts an officer of
the regular army not below the rank of
Brigadier General, and to detail sufficient
military force to enable such officers to per-
| form his duties and enforce his authority in
the district to which he is assigned.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of each
officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect ali
persons in their rights of persons and prop
! erty; to suppress insurreetion and violence,
and to punish or cause TO be punished all
disturbers Of the public peace and criminals,
and TO this end be may allow civil tribunals
TO take jurisdiction and try the offenders
| and when, in his Judgment, it may be nec-
| essary for the trial of the offenders, he shall
have power to organize military commissions
| or tribunals for that purpose, anything in
| the courts and laws of the SO called States to
| the contrary Notwithstanding; and all legis-
| lative or judicial proceedings or processes 10
prevent or control the proceedings of said
military tribunale, and all interference by
said pretended State governments with the
exercise of military authority under this act,
shall be void and of no effect.
Sec. 4. That the Courts and judicial Off
| GERS of the United States shall not issue writs
! Of habeas corpus in behalf of persons in mill
| tary custody unless GONG Commissioner or
officer on duty in the district wherein the
person is detained, shall endorse upon said
! petition statement, certifying upon bis
honor that he has knowledge or information
| as to the case and circumstances of the al
legged detention sad that be believes the
same to be wrongful; aud farther, that he be.
lieves the endorsed petition is preferred in
good faith in the furtherance of Justice and
not to hinder or delay the punishment Of
crime. All parsnns put under military ar
/ rest by virtue of this act, shall be tried with
out unnecessary delay, and no cruel or un-
usual punishment be inflicted.
Sec. 5. No sentence of any military com
mission or tribunal hereby auti orized, af-