Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-10

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Mr.. Sumner said he would let the color
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Mr.. Alcorn said that
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would refute Mr.. Douglass. pc
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when be was ia his seat here.
Mr.. Logan said that Summers bill was at
least untimely. The measure which it
WIS necessary for the Republican party 20
pass now in order to counteract the Gin
cinnati movement was amnesty. and the
action of the Senator from Massachusetts
tended TO defeat it.
Mr.. Edmunds said that the amnesty plank
Of the Cincinnati platform = 60.
{. t4 Was stolen - III
from the President of the United States.
and he thought the people were not likely
to desert their President because the Gin
cinnati people had stolen one Of his recon-
mendations.
Bayard and Casserly denied that Com
gress had any constitutional right to pass
the bill.
Blair's amendment was rejected, yeas %,
nays 80.
Terry offered as an additional section the
first section of the House general amnesty
bill. Agreed to-yeas SO, nays IA.
Mr.. Fenton, who voted in the NEGATIVE,
explained that he did so because he was ia
favor Of amnesty, and feared that coupling
it with the Sumner bib would tend to de-
feat it.
Mr.. Foreman offered as an amendment
the second section of the House amnesty
bill, which was agreed to-yeas 81, nays IL.
Mr.. Carpenter moved TO strike out of the
civil rights bill the provision to enforce the
right of colord men to sit as Jurors.
The amnesty bill having been, preceding
these votes, added to the civil rights bill,
Mr.. TTumbull moved to strike out the
civil rights bill, his object being, he said, to
get direct vote on amnesty.
A vote was taken on the motion to strike
out the civil rights bill, resulting in yeas 20,
nays 20. The Vice-President voted in the
negative. So the motion was rejected.
{ applause in the galleries which the Vice
President promptly repressed).
Mr.. Vickers moved an amendment ex-
Guiding from the operation of the bill church
cemetery associations and
institutions incorporated by
State authority. There were yeas q, nays
u. The Vice President voted in the afir-
native, so the amendment was agreed to.
Mr.. Boreman offered an amendment pro-
Viding that the bill shall apply only to be-
institutions Of a public character,
which was agreed to.
The question was then taken on the adop-
-iou of Mr.. Summers civil rights bill amend
ed, as a substitute for the amnesty bin,
which was lost; yeas %, nays %.
This vote brought the House Amnesty
Bill again before tbs Senate.
Mr.. Sumner then moved his civil rights
Dill as an amendment merely. The vote
vas yeas %, nays %. The Vice President
voted in the affirmative. So the amendment
vas agreed to. applause in gallerles.)
Mr.. Morton then renewed his amendment
offered yesterday requiring persons who
eek the benefit Of the amnesty act to
Iwear that they are not and have not been
within five years member of the Ku-Klux
IT any other such organization. Agreed to.
Yeas %, nays II. -.--
MI EuIhuluS moved 10 amend so as 10
exclude from amnesty all members of the
Thirty-siXth Congress who aided the re-
1ellion whether by joining 1t or by retain
ng their seats for a time. Lost-yeas %,
nays "a.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to amend so as TO
exclude all members of the Thirty-sixth
md Thirty-seventh Congress who aided the |
ebellion. Agreed to, yeas %, nays q.
The question was taken and the bill re- |
ected by vote of 80 to %, two-thirds not |
citing in the affirmative. The nays were |
Acorn, Bayard, Blair, Foreman, Casserly, |
cooper, Davis of West Virginia, Terry of |
Goldthwaite, Hamilton of |
Maryland, Hamilton of Texas, Hill, john |
on, Kelly, Logan, Norwood, Salisbury, |
stevenson, Upton, Trumbun, Vickers, |
Senate adjourned.