Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
Conclusion Yesterdays Proceedfnxs.
SENATE-After our report closed

CONGRESSIONAL.
Conelusioa Yesterday Proceedings.
SENATE-After our report closed
The joint resolution for the admission Of vir-
ginia was taken mp.
Mr.. Wiley offered an amendment. that the
members and officers of the Legislature shall
take the oath prescribed in the third section of
| the fourteenth amendment, but also allowing
| the immediate admission Of the State.
Mr.. Edmunds briefly argued in favor of pre-
| scribing form Of oath to be taken by the mem
| bers of the Legislature.
| Edmunds. He insisted that to adopt the propo-
sition Of Mr.. Edmunds would be to place it in
the power of such members Of the Legislature as
| chose to delay the admission Of the State and
| imperil the fifteenth amendment.
| Mr.. Ferry believed that the people of Vir-
ginia had acted in good faith, and he had GER
tainly, in voting for the reconstruction acts,
| pledged his faith to the admittance Of Virginia
when she complied with the conditions. The
amendment Of the Senator from Vermont was
susceptible Of two different constructions, and
adopted. We passed the other day bin about
| Georgia, susceptible of q dozen constructions,
and we find the Governor Of that State exercis-
ing the power Of the imperial sovereign of Eng
land, and proroging the Legislature, and the
! military commander instituting a commission to
| determine upon the eligibility Of members. No
one new believed that the test-0ath was required
by existing laws.
| Mr.. iSumner, Gnterrupting)-I do. think
the position of General Candy impregnable.
Mr. Ferry-Wel, except the Senator from
| Mr.. Howard would not discuss the poin
| whether the reconstruction acts required the
test-oath, but he considered that at least a de
batable point. But he did insist that the oath
| prescribed by the fourteenth amendment should
be administered, even If it broke up the whole
The amendment of Mr.. Wiley was then
adopted by yeas As, nays 13-Messrs. Fowler,
nhnI vnf iny in, tia
| with the Democrats.
Mr.. Wilson moved, as An additional provision,
the fundamental conditions imposed by the bill
reported to the House by the Reconstruction
Committee; which was rejected-yeas %, nays
| IS.
Mr.. Drake moved an additional provision that
the ratification of any amendment to the Con-
stitutOn of the United States; which. after de-
bate, was rejected-yeas IL, nays Al.
Inc Senate at 43O p. m, took a recess and
reassembled at Z p. m.
message was received from the House an
nouncing the passage by that body of the bill
Tor the admission OF Virginia. which was read.
Mr.. Trumbull said that if the Senate was full
he would move that the Senate bill be laid aside
and the House bill be taken up.
Mr. Edmunds.-Is shall object to that.
MIR. Pomeroy.-That bill cannot be read but
once tonight.
Mr.. Trumbull.-Very well, Mr.. President, /
did not suppose that there were any member of
the Senate who would interpose obstacles to the
admission of Virginia just for the sake of DELAY
Mr. Ccnkling.-The House bill can be offered
as substitute.
The Senate then proceeded with the consider
alton Of its own bill, which was discussed by
Messrs. Drake, Stewart, Carpenter, Sumner,
Morton, Howe, Schurz, Warner, and Cameron
, The senate' at 1870 p m: adjourned until
shall be taken at O'Clock of that day.
HOUSE.-After our report closed, the discus
sion ION the Virginia bilD was continued by
Messrs. Dyer, (Mo.,) Stevenson, (Ohio) and
Cobb, IN. g., in favor of the bill.
Mr. Hoar (Mass.) said he should oppose the
bill, and vote against it.
Messrs. Stone. (Md.,) Beck, (Ky.,) Smith.
!Oregon,) Rice, (Ky,l and other gentlemen, oh,
tanned leave to print their speeches.
Messrs. Winchester, (ky.,) Potter, On. Y.,)
and Stiles, CPa.,) opposed the BILL and declared
III favor OF MIR. Blngham's substitute.
Mr. Logan (fll.) announced that he should
vote for the resolution of Mr.. Bingham to admit
Virginia pure ana simple and without cOndi-
lions. III that should not pass, he would take the
mittee.
Mr.. Bingham (Oho) appealed to his party
friends upon the floor of the House to do an act
OF justice by passing his substitute instead OF
the bill imposing the conditions precedent
Mr.. Cox On. " said that all the leading Re-
publican papers OF the count V lad with singular
unanimlty united in demanding the admission
Of the State of Virginia, and yet a small party
here was trying to go counter to the manifest
wishes OF the Republican sentiment of the coun-
try. If he could control the matter he would
rather send the State back to the ruIe of the
sword and satrap than to pass this 1.-THE commit
tee'sl bill with all its machinery OF oatls. The
mountains may come and go; the heavens may
melt with fervent heat, and yet, according to
this bill, the business of the Wells Chandler
and Underwood convention must remain forever
and forever. tI.aughter.l
MIR. Schofield (Pa.) opposed the bill.
Mr.. FarnsvOrth (Ill.) was to close debate.
lie stated that the opposition to the fundamen-
tai conditions did not come from the people OF
the State of Virginia, but from members of This
House who saw clearly that they were of no use
and could not be productive of the least good.
lie replied to the arguments of Messrs. Paine
and Whittcmore. and especially to the intro
ductiOn by the latter last night of the document.
signed by certain men styling themselves ''loyal
Nirginans," and said he was surprised that any
gentleman should Introduce it, as it was false
MI. Whittemore said he was prepared to prove
all the document said about Governor Walker
and would do so if the opportunity was pre-
scented.
Mr.. Farnsworth said he had no doubt the man
he would prove it By, and who was mainly in
strumental in getting up the document, was
named Porter. He was arrested some years
ago for dislOyalty, and sentenced by General
Butler to wear ball and chain, and actually
DID wear 1T for period OF four months. But
for the Vaccinations Of Porter, and other men
like him, the State would have been admitted
on the first day of the session. He had been
informed quite differently from Porter's state
ment 10y the colored people of the State, who
had right to be heard, and he preferred to be-
lieye loyal colored men rather than man who
wore a ball and chain for dslOyalty.
The previous question was then demanded
and seconded, the question recurring first upon
MIR. Nhittemore's amendment, imposing a PEN
atty for false swearing; which was adopted, by q
vote of iZ2 to- II.
The question then REQUIRED upon Mr.. Bng-
hams substitute for the bill; which was adopted
by a vote of 81 yeas to % nays.
The vote in detail was as follows:
fedS-Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Bailey
Banks. Barnum, Beck, Biggs, Bingham, Bird,
Blair. Brooks of Mass, Brooks of n. ", Buck
ley, Burchard, Burr, Calkin, Cleveland, Cox,
Crebs, CullOm, Dawes, Deweese, Dickinson,
DOckery, DOx, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Ferry,
Finkelnburg, Fitch, Fox, Garfield, Getz, Col
laday, Greene, GriswOld, Haight, Haldeman,
Hall, Hambleton, Hamill, Hawkins, Hay, Hea-
ton, Holman, Hooper, IngersOll, Jenckes John
son, Kellogg, Kerr, Ketcham. Knott, Latin,
Logan. Marshall, Mayham, Mccarthy, NcCor-
mick, McNeely, Moore OF ILL.,, Morgan, Mungen,
Niblaek, Orth, Peters, Potter, Randall, Read
ing. Reeves, Rice, Rogers, Sanford. Schumacher,
SlOcum. Smith OF Oregon, Smith Of Vt, Stiles,
Stone, Strader, Strong, Swami, Sweeney, Tan
ner, Tillman, Trimble, Van Auken, Van Trump,
Voorhees,, Wells, Wilson of Mimi. Wilson of
Ohio, Winans, Winchester, Witcher, Wood, and
Woodward-9s.
Noys-NIessrs. Amber, Ames, Armstrong,
Arneli, Asper, Beaman, Beatty, Benjamin,
BENNETT. Benton, BOles, Bowen, BOYD, Buck,
Huntington, Burdett, Butler of Tenn Cake