The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-06-20

In the Senate on the 18th inst, the follow
ing act was passed by a vote of III to %.
WHEREAS The people of North Carolina,
South Carolina Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida, IN pursuance Of the provisions
of an act entitled " an act for theH6aoTe eff
cient government of the rebel States passed
March %, 1867, and the acts supplemental
thereto, framed constitutions of a State Gov
ernment, which are Republican in form, and
have adopted said constitutions by large ma
iorities Of the votes cast at the eleeti9us held
for the ratification or rejection Of the same,
therefore
Be 1t enacted, That each OF the States Of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, shall be en-
titled and admitted to representation in
Congress as a 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 Thirty
ninth Congress, and known as Article IA,
upon the following fundamental conditions:
l. That the Constitutions of neither of
said States shall ever be so amended, or
changed, so as to deprive any citizen or class
Of citizens of the United States of the right
to vote in said States, who are entitled to
vote by the Constitutions thereof hereby
recognized, except as a punishment for such
crimes as are now felQnies at law, whereof
they shall be duly convicted under laws
equally applicable to all the inhabitants Of
said States provided, any alterations of said
Constitutions, prospective, in effect may be
made, with regard to the time and place of
residence Of voters; and the State Of Geor-
gia shall only be entitled and admitted to
representation upon this further fundamen-
tai condition, so that the first and third sub
i 1u5s ,F oFA II
article Of the Constitution of said State, ex-
cept 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 Stat to
the foregoing fundamental conditions.
?. That if the day fixed for the first meet
ing of either of the Legislatures Of said
States by the Constitution or an ordinance
thereof shall have passed, or so nearly ar
rived, before the passage of this act, that
there shall not be time for the Legislature
to assemble at the period fixed, such Legis-
lature should convene at the end of twenty
days from the time this act shall take effect,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner con-
vene the same.
g. 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 Article IA of the amendment to
posed by the 39th Congress, and as to the
State of Georgia, when it shall in addition,
give the assent of said State to the funda-
mental conditions herein before imposed
upon the same, and thereupon the officers of
each State, duly elected and qualified under
the Constitution thereof, shall be inaugu
rated without delay; but no person prohib-
tied 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 as article ii. shall
be deemed eligible to Office in either Of said
States, unless relieved from disabilities, as
provided in said amendment and it is hereby
made the duty of the President within ten
days after obtaining official information of
the notification Of said amendment by the
Legislature of either of said States, to issue
a proclamation announcing that fact
Mr.. Spalding said, in view of the fact that
both branches of Cor gress had voted in
favor of admitting Alabama, he withdrew
his amendment. After some debate the mo
ton to exclude Florida from the Omnibus
bill" was defeated, yeas 45 nays SO, and the
Senate amendments concuredin. The bill
now goes to the President for his signature
The vote on its passage was yeas III,
nays 2S.