Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-06-18
Passage Of the Omnibus Bin.


to and the House to which it was
returned amended, for concurrence,
by Ill to %. Its passage by each
house being accomplished by = full
Radical vote, renders veto Of it by
the President, powerless. Ha/
The bill provides for the admission
| Of the six States Of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
| and Alabama,-the latter State hav
| ing been included in the bill after
its introduction in the Senate.
Among other amendments made to
it by that body is one providing for
a speedy Inauguration Of State Off
GERS and declaring ineligible those
persons elected who are excluded by
Congressional laws or by the pro-
visions of the 18th Amendment of
the Federal Constitution.
In it's effects on affairs in this
State, says the New Orleans Ores
cent, the omnibus bill has a direct
interest for US, because it is the cul-
mination of the series of measures by
which we have been worried during
the last twelve months and because
it promises to put and end to the
| conflict which was threatened be-
tween the military power and the
hasty expectants Of Office under the
new Constitution. kilograms re-
ceived yesterday from Washington
by Gen. Buchanan show that the
District Commander is sustained in
his ruling as to the installation of
the State officers and the assembling
of the Legislature; and, hence, Mr..
Packard's proclamation may be con-
sidered entirely null. The bill will
not probably become a law for the
next ten days, and the meeting of
the Legislature will, therefore, be
be postponed beyond the time fixed
BY the Conventional Committee. 1t
is certain, however, that the priv.
lege granted by the act will be used
as soon as possible, and we may an
ticipate another proclamation, notify
ing to the members the permission
accorded to them by Congress to as
semble for the purpose of ratifying
, the fourteenth amendment. After
that the radicals anticipate plain
sailing, but, in spite Of all their pre-
cautions they may find themselves
: drifted upon an unknown coast.
The text of the "Omnibus AID
mission Bill" as it is called, and as
it originally passed the House, is a
follows: M-}
WHEREAS, The people Of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia
| do hay Oft a
|, visions of an act entitled "An act for the
] more efficient government of the rebel
/ States," passed March I'd, 1867, and the
acts supplementary thereto, framed Con-
stitntioDs and State governments which
are Repu blican in form, and have adopted
said Constitutions by large majoritIes OF
| votes cast at the elections held for the
| ratification or rejection of the same; there
fore,
, Be it enacted By the Senate and HOUSE
| Of REPRESENTATIVES. Of Ike United Suites OF
Anaerqca in Congress assembled, That each
of the States Of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida
shall be entitled and admitted to repre-
sentation in Congress as State Of the
Union when the Legislature of such State
! shall have duly ratified the amendment to
, | the Constitution of the United States pro-
posed by the Thirty ninth Congress and
, known as Article fourteen, upon the
/. following fundamental conditions !: Tha,
there shall never be in such State any
denial or abridgment of the elective fran
chise to any person on account Of race OF
, color, excepting Indians not taxed; and
the State Of Georgia shall only be entitled
: and admitted to representation upon this
{ further fundamental condition: That the
! first and third subdivisions of Section
: seventeen of the fifth Article of the Con-
stitution OF said State, except the proyisc
to the first subdivision, shall be null and
void, and that the General Assembly Of
said State, by solemn public act, shall de
. clare the assent of the State to the forego-
ing fundamental condition.
SEC. 2. and be at further enacted, That i
. q day fixed for meeting of the Legisla-
. ture Of either Of said States by the Consti
tuition thereof, shall have passed or have
SO nearly arrived before the passage of this
act, that in the opinion OF the Governor
I | elect, there shall not be time enough fol
the Legislature to assemble at the time
fixed by the Constitution OF such State
. such Legislature may be convened within
, thirty days after the passage of this act fol