The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
PASSAGES or THE AMNESTY

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The Senate then resumed the olssiaeraIioli
III The amnesty bill. The question: was On
substituting . citizen for :. person s 4. the
Fifth section. S.
Cole advocated it because i would exclude
Cinnamon. sss.ssszs.ssssssas
Nye took the same ground, and argued
that the recent treaty with CIlna forbade na-
tura!ization of Cinnamon.
sumner saiti il merely provided that nc one
could clam 10 Be naturaIzcd nnds Or BY the
treaty. IS
Carpenter said the meaning of the treaty
provision was very plain. He knew it Was
wrong 10 Intimate that any senator was ;lctu-
atea liz personal motives, but every one IA
,niiar with recent poetry knew there Was
Il bitter alinosiiy between the Nye family
and Chiliamen. IL ughter.l
The amendment was lost by 10 to 81.
Cole offered another amendment, proyid-
ing that this ct shall not be construed 70 al
Ter the naturalization laws. Lost BY Ito y.
Corbett moved to insert y proyisa. utat t'.e
bill should not be construed 10 authorize the
naturalization OF Chinese.
Stevenson WAS astonisiicd at Sherman vOt-
ing TO place peaceful Cinnamon OH the "a
eide coast Ill the mercy Of their enemies II
tie iury box, when he had declared ~ lls
previous votes that The negroes at the South,
ignorant. super>titious, and utterly ilicon-
clot,s that there is 4 God above them, were III
To act Il, jurors.
Upton protested against Summers civil
rights Till, AS uncalled Tor and clearly sub.ei'
s,ve of the rights OF State governments. tit
read extracts from protests " Goveriiufs
Ieary.suf Penllsy ltsnia, and Palmer. OF lii
,,ois. against Federal military interference y
the affairs OF Tile States. and said their lan
glrage applied with equal force to Inc u-ur'
patio.,s proposed In this bill. Under the *
element oil il war period these usilrpatlon'
had besn tolerated. but he warmed the SENATE
that whel, The States should all have been ~
storea To their places III the UlIon. the peu
tple would demand that all filis nsarping leg
islatioll be swept away. and II ntcrs>ar.
| would enforce it at tile point Of the ba.otet
Corbptts amendment was tileil rejected Y.
II to 3d.
yickers noss.ed to strike out tile first sec
ton of Summers bill. which was Ia st.
Robertson appealed to the Senate to pas
the amnesty bill without amendment.
The question was then taken on sumner
anne d,lent to the supplementary civil right
bill, ard it was adopted by tile iollowin
vote:
Ayes-Ames. Anthony. BrnwnloS. Came
ron. Chandler. Cragin. layton. ConkiHe
Fenton. Ferry. Of Michigan: Freliilghny>ri
| Gilbert, iIamin. Harlili, Morrill,, Of Vel
mont; Morton. Osborne. Patterson. Ponit
/ roy. Ramsey. Rice, Sherman. Spencer. sun
/ ner. West. Wilson. Window and Wrigli-2s
Naus-Biair. FOREMAN. Carpenter. Gol'
1 corbett. Ut West Virginia Ferry. OF Col
neciicut: lolsthwaite, Hamilton. Of Texas
i Hill. Hitchcock johnston. Ike ". Logai
Morrill,, OF Mali Norwood. Root. Roher
/ son. saul. bury. sawyer. Schnrz. scott. Ste
ens,,ll. Stockton. Thurman, 1ipton, Trun
bull and Vickeis-2S.
4 Caldwell. Edmunds. Nye and Flanagai
no would have voted iii the af1irma'iy
were paired with Casserly. Hamilton o. Md
Bayard and Davis, of Kentucky, who woul
have voted iii the negative.
/ The Vice President announced that II V;
4 tir. and said that While he did not approx
of all the provisions in the amendment !
would vote in the affirmative.