Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-15
dEMPuES APPEAL.
CONGRESSIONAL.


tive Committee of the National Ameri.
can ShaTpshOoters, to attend a public
demonstration and festival which is to
take place at Jones' Woods, New York,
from June 18th to July 9th.
Judd moved that the invitation would
be accepted, and moved that the House
be represented at the opening ceremo-
MES by a committee OF five members.
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, said he
hoped il was not a very bad practice to
teach people to shoot sharp.
! The motion was then agreed to.
The Speaker appointed the following
members to represent the House: Messrs.
Judd, Garfield, Paine, Chandler and
Orth.
Price introduced bill to relieve T.
Mackey, of South Carolina. from his pO-
liticsI disabilities. Referred to the Com
mittee on Reconstruction.
Bingham, from the Reconstruction
Committee, reported back the Senate
amendments to the act to admit certain
States to representation in Congress, with
a recommendation that the amendments
be eOncurred in.
| Bingham said he desired q speedy de-
eision of the House on the bill, and he
would therefore move the previous ques
tiOa. but he would first ask mis- colleague.
Mr.. Spalding, whether he desired to offer
his amendment now
SpAlding-" Yes, move to strike out
Alabama from the bill"
The following is the bill in full:
An act to admit the States Of North
Carolins, South Carolina, Louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida to repre-
sentation in Congress.
WHEREAS, The people of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida have, in pursuance
of the provisions of an act entitled ian
act for the more efficient government of
the rebel States" passed March
% 1867, and the acts supple
mental thereto, framed Constitutions
of a State government, which are Re-
publican in form, and have adopted said
Constitutions by large msjOrities OF the
votes cast at the elections held for the
ratification Of the same; therefore
Be IL enacted, That each of the States
| Of North Carolina, South Carolina, Lou
| isiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida
shall be entitled and admitted to repre-
sentation ia Congress as State of the
| Union when the Legislatures OF such
| States shall have duly ratified the
amendment to the Constitution Of the
| United States, proposed by the seth
! Congress, and known as "ATtiCle H.
upon the following fundamental condi-
| tiOns:
/. That the Constitutions of neither of
| said States shall ever be so amended or
changed as to deprive any citizen or class
of citizens of the United States Of the
right to vote in said States, who are en-
titled to vote by the Constitutions
| thereof, hereby recognized, except as q
punishment for such crimes as are now
| felonies at law, whereof they shall be
I 10 llxya
cable to ali the inhabitants OF said States,
provided any alteration of said COnstitu-
| lions, prospective in effect, may be made,
with regard to the time and place of res
| idenee Of voters and the State Of GeOr-
| gia shall only be entitled and admitted
! to representation upon these further fun
damental conditions, that the first aud
| third subdivisions of section seventeen
/ of the fifth article Of the Constitution of
said State, except the proviso to the first
subdivision, shall be null and void and
| that the General Assembly of said State,
| by a solemn public act, shall declare the
assent Of the State to the foregoing fun
! damental conditions.
2. That if the day fixed for the first
meeting of the Legislatures of either of
said States by the Constitution, or an or
dihRnce thereof shall have passed, or so
nearly arrived before the passage Of this
act that there shall not be time for the
Legislature to assemble at the period
fixed, such Legisa ure shall convene at
the end of twenty days from the time
this act shall take effect, unless the Gov
ernOr elect shall sooner convene the
same
8. That the first section Of this act
shall take effect as to each State, except
Georgia, when such State shall, by its
Legislature, duly ratify srtiele ii Of the
amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States, proposed by the Thirty
ninth Congress, AID as to the State OF
Georgia, when it shall, In addition, give
the assent Of said Safe to the fuuda-
mental conditions herein before imposed
upon the same, and thereupOn the
officers of each State, duly elected and
qualified under the Constitutions thereof
shall be inaugurated without delay, but
no person prohibited from holding office
under the United States, or any State, by
the section Of the proposed amendment
to the Constitution OF the United States, /
known IS article IA, shall be deemed |
eligible to Office in either OF said |
States, unless relieved from his disabili- |
ties as provided in said amendment |
and 1t is hereby made the duty of the |
President, within ten days after Teceiv- |
ton OF said amendments by the Lsgiss- |
ture OF either of said States, to issue /
proclamation announcing that fact.
SpaldiDg said in view Of the fact that /
both branches Of Congress had voted in /
favor of admitting Alabama, he with |
drew his amendment.
After some debate the motion to ex-
clude Florida from the "Omnibus bill -
was defeated, yeas 45, nays SO and the 1
Senate's amendments cOncurred in.
The bill now goes to the President for
hissignature.
The vote on its passage was yeas, Ill
nays, q.
BY the unanimous consent OF the
House, and at the suggestion OF the
Speaker, the National SharpsboOting
Committee was increased from five to
sever, and Messrs. Robertson and Knott
added to 1t.
Schenck, at the suggestion of Robert
son, reported from the Ways and Means
Committee joint resolution remitting
the duties on certain articles contributed
to the National Association OF Sharp
shooters to an amount not exceeding
$4,000, which was passed.
SENATE.
Morton, from the Committee on For
eign Affairs, reported joint resolution
requesting the President to intercede
with the Queen of Great Britain to Sc
cure the speedy discharge of Rev. John
Mcmahon, convicted of treason and
felony, and now confined at Kinostov !