Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-06
EASTERN DISPATC HE'S.
BY Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL.
WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings.
senator Edrnunds' Revolution
Proposition for n National
Constitutional Con.
vcntiGu.
WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings.
SPEAKER RAxDALL-s Address.
WAsHINaroN. Dec. 4.

W~AsHISGTOS, Dec. I.
Senator Edmunds' resolution to day
recites that the second section of the
Fourteenth amendment Of the ConSti-
tuition provides that representation
shall be appnrtioned among the States
according to the number Of inhabit-
ants, but when tho right OF suffrage In
denied any male citizen twenty II
years of age in any Stale or National
election, or when such right is abridged
excep. for rebellion or other crime, the
basis Of representation therein shall be
reduced in the proportion in which the
number Of such male citizens bears to
the whole number OF male citizens in
such State. and that it Is alleged that
In some States-particularly South Car
DINA, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana and Misssissippi-the right
OF citizens of the United States to vote
at the late presidential and State cleo
ton has been denied or greatly abridg-
ed, and declaring, therefore, that the
Election Committee, when appointed,
be instructed to Immediately inquire
and report:
First--Whether in the years 1875 and
1876 such rights have been denied and
abridged in these States.
Second-To what extent such abridg-
ment has been carried.
Third-What means have accom-
plished it..
Fourth-Who has effected it.
Fith-With what motives or pur-
poses.
Sixth-By what pretended authority,
and declaring further that this COM
mittee send for papers, employ clerks,
ETC., and may sit during the session of
the Senate and empower a sub-com-
mittee to report; and also may provide
Tor taking affidavits on the question
before any authorized officer, and may
consider the same, and that the com
mittee may examine the eligibility UNI
der the Constitution of the present
presidential Electors alleged to have
been ineligible, and whether the APP
pointment Of Electors, or those claim
ing to be such in any State, has been
by force or otherwise than conforIna-
bly, to the constitutional or State laws,
and whether unconstitutional or an
lawful interference has been made with
the appointment of any Elector. The
committee may also report whether
Congress has any constitutional power,
and, II so, what is the extent thereof
concerning the appointment Of presi
Dental Electors, or owe the returns or
certificates of the votes of such Elec-
tors.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.
Senator Ingalls, resolution for a con-
s%titutional convention in Columbus,
Ohio, relates to constitutional provis
ions for such convention. 1t asserts
that there are important defects in the
system OF the Federal Government
which render the situation delicate and
critical, calling for the combined wis
dam and virtue of the whole people,
and that, Therefore,
First-In the opinion of Congress
a convention of delegates from the
several States should meet for the ex
press purpose of revising the Federal
Constitution and reporting such altera.
tions and amendments in the nature oil
the entire instrument as shall, when
ratified, properly render the Federal
Constitution adequate to the emergen
cies of the Cover nieDt and the pre-
servation Of the Unioa.
Second--That each State may send as
many delegates as 1t has Senators and
Representatives in Congress, two being
chosen by tho State Legislature and
one elected from each congressional dis
trict, as previously arranged at the
time and place, and that nc official
State or Federal, a be q delegate.
Third-That the constitutional con