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C. B. Boynton, Chaplain-elect of the House, opened with prayer, as follows: \nAlmighty God! God of our fathers and of us, we give Thee thanks that the Congress of the United States is permitted", "url": "/m2/session/5084#129934", "type": "NO_OBJECTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-implied-adopt.svg", "session_id": 5084}, {"id": 664491, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Is that designed to cutoff amendments? \n\nThe SPEAKER. It will have that effect. \n\nMr. BINGHAM. Then I object. \n\nThe SPEAKER. The gentleman from Iowa has the right to enter the motion.", "url": "/m2/session/5583#664491", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5583}, {"id": 666615, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. If the gentleman will insert the words \u201cthe loyal people\u201d I think he will state the position some democratic gentlemen take. \n\nMr. BOUTWELL. That is the difference", "url": "/m2/session/5609#666615", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 680778, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. There are questions that I think this bill will give rise to, on which it is very desirable that the deliberation of the Senate should be very calmly advised. The bill may have been very", "url": "/m2/session/6880#680778", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6880}, {"id": 680790, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I come, then, to the precise question.\n\nAll must admit that the bill of my colleague is excellent in purpose. It proposes nothing less than to establish Equality before the Law, at least", "url": "/m2/session/6881#680790", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6881}, {"id": 680803, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the reference of the honorable Senator from Massachusetts to a remark which I made yesterday constitutes my apology for trespassing for a moment, and only for a moment,", "url": "/m2/session/6882#680803", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6882}, {"id": 736533, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. If there be no objection the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Bingham,] together with the original bill, will be published in the Globe. \n\nThere was no objection. \n\nThe bill as", "url": "/m2/session/8742#736533", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8742}, {"id": 739007, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LE BLOND obtained the floor.\n\nMr. TRIMBLE. I ask the gentleman to yield me the floor for a little while.\n\nMr. LE BLOND. I will.\n\nMr. TRIMBLE. 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I will act in my own official capacity here upon the credentials that are placed", "url": "/m2/session/5513#739088", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5513}, {"id": 739091, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The Chair will give the floor this evening to the gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. Kasson,] and then to the gentleman from New Jersey, [Mr. Wright,] who desires to make some remarks on the", "url": "/m2/session/5513#739091", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5513}, {"id": 739093, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "BASIS OF REPRESENTATION \u2013 AGAIN. \n\nMr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, this joint resolution now under consideration, as I understand it, comes to us for our action from the joint committee appointed, at the", "url": "/m2/session/5525#739093", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5525}, {"id": 739096, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Dana says on this subject:\n\n\"In closing, I offer the following synopsis of what I understand the court did and did not decide.\"\n\n\"What the court did not decide:\"\n\"1. The court did", "url": "/m2/session/5525#739096", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5525}, {"id": 739126, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. I am rather glad the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Smith] called for the reading of that paper, because it shows that the President and I agree exactly, on one point at least; for he", "url": "/m2/session/5529#739126", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5529}, {"id": 739137, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, in opening this great question, I begin by expressing a heartfelt aspiration that the day may soon come, when the States lately in rebellion may be received again into the", "url": "/m2/session/5679#739137", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5679}, {"id": 739152, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LANE, of Indiana. Mr. President, I need not assure you that I approach the investigation of the grave subjects now before the Senate with constraint and embarrassment. No graver subjects have", "url": "/m2/session/5681#739152", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5681}, {"id": 739157, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, in the remarks which I am about to make I shall address myself, first, to the consideration of the resolution immediately before the Senate in order to ascertain its exact", "url": "/m2/session/5682#739157", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5682}, {"id": 739234, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Mr. President, it has been the boast of the people of the United States that they are in the enjoyment of consti\u00adtutional liberty, not liberty depending upon the will and pleasure of", "url": "/m2/session/5686#739234", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5686}, {"id": 739248, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. 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I do it with unfeigned reluctance,", "url": "/m2/session/5690#739255", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5690}, {"id": 839976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. Mr. Speaker, the question before the House strikes me as one eminently practical in its nature\u2014not one of theory, not one to be decided according to any hypothesis as to general rights or", "url": "/m2/session/5478#839976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5478}, {"id": 839996, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, I had not intended to participate in the discussion of the propositions embraced in this bill. It had not occurred to me there was such a diversity of opinion on the", "url": "/m2/session/13017#839996", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13017}, {"id": 843547, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I am asked, with quite an air of certainty on the part of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, whether the children of persons of barbarian races, born in this country,", "url": "/m2/session/5674#843547", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5674}, {"id": 843576, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I will state the various points which I made yesterday in the course of the desultory and running conversation between various Senators and myself, and shall then proceed to", "url": "/m2/session/5676#843576", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5676}, {"id": 843669, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, in some remarks which I had the honor to offer in the House a few weeks ago I said that \"the Government of the United States above all other duties owes it to itself and to", "url": "/m2/session/5587#843669", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5587}, {"id": 843670, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. Probably, since the last election in New Jersey, I ought to treat the gentleman's constituents with a little more consideration; but whether I ought to apologize to them or not will", "url": "/m2/session/5587#843670", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5587}, {"id": 843671, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I have no intention of following the gentleman who has just taken his seat [Mr. Broomall] in his discursive remarks upon the general question of reconstruction, nor have I", "url": "/m2/session/5587#843671", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5587}, {"id": 843687, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I had hoped, Mr. Speaker, to be able on this occasion to answer some of the positions taken by the gentleman from Ohio. [Mr. Delano,] who addressed the House yesterday, but I", "url": "/m2/session/5588#843687", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5588}, {"id": 847586, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, in listening to the very eloquent remarks of the gentleman from New Jersey, [Mr. Rogers,] I have been astonished to find that in his apprehension this bill is designed to", "url": "/m2/session/5583#847586", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5583}, {"id": 847835, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. I thank the honorable gentleman [Mr. Higby] for yielding me the floor, and I hope It will be the pleasure of the House to extend the time, as I shall not be able in the fifteen minutes", "url": "/m2/session/5498#847835", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5498}, {"id": 847870, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's S. 61 Veto Message", "url": "/m2/session/13290#847870", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13290}, {"id": 848974, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. [...] Mr. President, since last evening I have been looking into the bill that is now under consideration, and the more I study it and the better I understand it, according to my feeble", "url": "/m2/session/5677#848974", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5677}, {"id": 848978, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, the hour fixed for taking the vote has arrived, but I desire to occupy the time of the Senate for a few moments to notice a remark that fell from the Senator from Kentucky,", "url": "/m2/session/5677#848978", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5677}, {"id": 860404, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, the bill of the Senate (No. 61) in which that body ask the concurrence of this House involves propositions and principles of the gravest importance. It attempts the attainment", "url": "/m2/session/5587#860404", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5587}, {"id": 862778, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Secretary read it, as follows:\n\nTRENTON, NEW JERSEY, March 20, 1865.\n\nTo the Senate of the United States:\n\nThe subscribers, members of the Senate and House of Assembly of the State of New Jersey,", "url": "/m2/session/7010#862778", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 7010}, {"id": 863282, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The subject is before the Senate, and the message will be read. \n\nThe Secretary read the message, as follows: \n\nTo the Senate of the United States: \nI regret that the bill", "url": "/m2/session/5512#863282", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5512}, {"id": 866703, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. [...] I now propose, I tell the honorable Senator from Illinois, to debate the proposition that Congress has no constitutional power to take cognizance of this bill or of the amendments", "url": "/m2/session/5507#866703", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5507}, {"id": 867160, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, I fully share with the President of the United States the regret expressed that he was unable to sign the bill \u201cto protect all persons in the United States in their civil", "url": "/m2/session/5523#867160", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5523}, {"id": 867164, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, in the discussion which I propose to give to the measure before the Senate, I need hardly say that I shall not be influenced by any party motive. The questions which are", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867164", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867170, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, if no arrangement can be arrived at, I propose to say a very few words upon the subject now under consideration by the Senate. I think that the question here is purely one", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867170", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867173, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WADE. Mr. President, if this was a question in the ordinary course of legislation, I certainly would not object to the proposition which the gentlemen on the other side makes; but I view it as", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867173", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867181, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. I was nearly through the remarks I proposed to make on this sudden outbreak. As the President, without any cause on earth, has censured Congress and accused them of having erected a", "url": "/m2/session/5536#867181", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5536}, {"id": 867191, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, the late amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives rise to the same struggle which has marked our whole history \u2014 a struggle between two tendencies or", "url": "/m2/session/5536#867191", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5536}, {"id": 867215, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Clerk read the message of the President, as follows:\n\nTo the Senate of the United States:\n\nI regret that the bill which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled \"An act to protect all persons", "url": "/m2/session/5600#867215", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 5600}, {"id": 869245, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, the bill just read is properly and in its order before the Senate. On yesterday morning it and all the other orders were set aside by the request of the honorable Senator", "url": "/m2/session/13103#869245", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13103}, {"id": 869324, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, to extend the right of suffrage to the negroes in this country I think is necessary for their protection; but to extend the right of suffrage to women, in my judgment, is", "url": "/m2/session/13110#869324", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13110}, {"id": 869334, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I do not believe that the pending amendment to the bill extending the franchise to women in the District of Columbia, offered by the Senator from Pennsylvania, was designed", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869334", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869336, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I expressed my opinions in relation to the pending measure at considerable length during the last session of Congress. It is my purpose now to repeat my protest against the", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869336", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869481, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's S. 1 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14108#869481", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14108}, {"id": 870134, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, sentiments having been announced on the motion to refer this bill which I cannot indorse, I am compelled by a sense of duty to make a few observations. I ask the", "url": "/m2/session/6882#870134", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6882}, {"id": 870357, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The morning hour having expired, it becomes the duty of the Chair to call up the unfinished business of Friday; but prior to that, with the permission of the Senate, the", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870357", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870360, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. I do not propose to occupy the attention of the Senate in submitting remarks at large upon the message, but to advert to the points as I have gathered them as the document has been", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870360", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870361, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I had not intended to say a word on this subject in defense of the message of the Executive, and I should not do so now had it not been attacked. If it was the design of the", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870361", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870363, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. This is the only opportunity which I have had of giving, as I shall do in a very few words, my reason for not being enabled to vote for the bill. My friend, the chairman of the committee", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870363", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870381, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The message was read, as follows:\n\nTo the Senate of the United States.\n\nI have received and considered a bill entitled \u201cAn act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia,\u201d passed", "url": "/m2/session/8642#870381", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 889042, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, when this discussion commenced, it was not my purpose to take any part in it at all, and I do not now desire to be heard at length upon the main question now before the House;", "url": "/m2/session/5513#889042", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5513}, {"id": 896862, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, I promise to trespass upon the attention of the House but a very few minutes in what I have to say on this question.\n\nAn amendment to the Constitution is at all times a matter", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896862", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCHENCK. I believe I must resume the floor. The gentleman asked me for one minute and I have given him two.\n\nMr. Speaker, I have no prepared speech upon this very grave subject which we have now", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, it was to be expected that the measure now before the House would meet the opposition and denunciation of the unrepentant thirty-three of this body. The gentlemen who have", "url": "/m2/session/5609#896882", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 896895, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPALDING. Mr. Speaker, the report of the committee has elicited in this House a most searching criticism. It is approved and disapproved, either wholly or in part, according to the views", "url": "/m2/session/5609#896895", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 896909, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ECKLEY. Mr. Speaker, any question affecting the fundamental law of the land demands careful and mature deliberation; and it is only when the necessity is great that such changes can be justified.", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896909", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 896910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONGYEAR. Mr. Speaker, the questions before the House are not so much whether the rebellious States are in or out of the Union; or whether the Government has or has not the right to impose", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 897109, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, I am satisfied that it is impossible for this Congress to fully agree as to what is expedient to be done to harmonize factions and restore peace to our distracted country.", "url": "/m2/session/5693#897109", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5693}, {"id": 898290, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Wisconsin to the amendment of the Senator from Michigan to the resolution before the Senate.\n\nMr. DOOLITTLE. I", "url": "/m2/session/5695#898290", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5695}, {"id": 898366, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, I thank the Senate for its kindness in postponing the consideration of this resolution last evening until the present moment. The hour was late and I was somewhat weary;", "url": "/m2/session/5696#898366", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5696}, {"id": 898370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I do not propose to debate at this time the subject of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States; but I will make a single remark in support of the", "url": "/m2/session/5696#898370", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5696}, {"id": 898485, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POLAND. Mr. President, the few observations which I propose to make are addressed to the general merits of the proposition which is before the Senate, but some of them are addressed to the very", "url": "/m2/session/5698#898485", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5698}, {"id": 898595, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The CHAIRMAN. In the absence of the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. Wentworth,] who is entitled to the floor, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Ward.] \n\nMr. WARD, of New York. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/14220#898595", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14220}, {"id": 898605, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MERCUR. Mr. Chairman, motion is said to be a natural condition of all matter. Progress appears to be a law of the world\u2019s nature. Much of its past civil progress has been through bloody", "url": "/m2/session/14222#898605", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14222}, {"id": 898607, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. DUMONT, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 16, 1867. \n\nThe House having under consideration the President's annual message. \n\nMr. DUMONT said:", "url": "/m2/session/14222#898607", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14222}, {"id": 898608, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. N. G. TAYLOR, \n\nOF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 16, 1867. \n\nThe House being in Committee of the Whole on the President\u2019s annual message\u2014", "url": "/m2/session/14222#898608", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14222}, {"id": 898703, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. That removes some of the objections to which I supposed the original proposition was subject; and that shows how exceedingly cautious we should be in these constitutional amendments; how", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898703", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5701}, {"id": 898709, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. I propose to discuss the first section only so far as citizenship is involved in it. I desire to show that this section will leave citizenship where it is now. It makes plain only what", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898709", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5701}, {"id": 898845, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\n\u2028Mr. FINCK. Mr. Chairman, when the Thirty-Eighth Congress adjourned, large armies were in thE field resisting the authority and jurisdiction of the United States. We were then in the", "url": "/m2/session/14234#898845", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14234}, {"id": 898867, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. BAKER. Mr. Chairman, I rise to the question of reconstruction. In the very opening of my remarks I will say that on the present occasion I must firmly decline to yield the floor", "url": "/m2/session/14237#898867", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14237}, {"id": 898868, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. Mr. Chairman, the great political problem of the day, the problem on the right solution of which will depend the wellbeing of our country for ages is, what shall we do with the people", "url": "/m2/session/14237#898868", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14237}, {"id": 898876, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. HUBBELL, of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, history is said to be philosophy teaching by example. In the annals of the human race the past five years of our own country will contain greater", "url": "/m2/session/14240#898876", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14240}, {"id": 898877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ADMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, ETC.\n\nMr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, the subject now agitating the public mind is the reconstruction of the late rebel States governments. In", "url": "/m2/session/14240#898877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14240}, {"id": 898878, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "LAW OF TREASON.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. I would not consume the time of the House upon a subject to which our attention has been invited by the President in his message but for the fact that as yet", "url": "/m2/session/14240#898878", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14240}, {"id": 898882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. WELKER. Mr. Chairman, nearly ninety years, with their great events, their grand progressions in science, the arts, and in society and Governments, have passed away since our", "url": "/m2/session/14241#898882", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14241}, {"id": 898886, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. KELSO. In the consideration of this subject, our first duty is to ascertain the present status of the rebel States, to determine which seems to be a difficult matter even with", "url": "/m2/session/14241#898886", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14241}, {"id": 898916, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ECKLEY. I will yield the floor to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Ward.]\n\nRECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I should not thrust myself upon the attention of the House at this time, could", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898916", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 898918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. DELANO, OF OHIO,\n\nln the House of Representatives, February 10, 1866,\n\nOn the political condition of the States lately in rebellion.\n\nMr. DELANO said:\n\nMr. Speaker:", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898918", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 898923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DELANO. I tender my sincere thanks to the House for this extension of my time, and for its courtesy to me.\n\nWHAT HAS CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE DONE DURING THE PROGRESS OR THE REBELLION TOWARD", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 898929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, nearly two years ago, and while the war was flagrant, I felt it my duty as a member of this body to look into the question of the relations that had been produced by it,", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 899070, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DEFREES. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend taking any part in this discussion, and only do so now to comply with what seems to be a general feeling of the members of this House, to have as full an", "url": "/m2/session/14247#899070", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14247}, {"id": 899080, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. COOK. Every individual citizen of each State in the Union has rights in every other State\u2014the right to acquire, possess, and dispose of property: the right to fix his domicile in", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899080", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899086, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. The overthrow of the military power of the great rebellion devolved upon the President and Congress and the country duties of unparalleled magnitude.\n\nWith all lawful civil", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899086", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899094, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CULLOM. Mr. Speaker, in the commercial arena, the man of business who does not often post his books is not regarded by his fellow-men as very sure of success.\n\nIn accordance with that rule, as", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899094", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899117, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PLANTS. I will yield to my colleague [Mr. Clarke] for the present, with the hope that I may obtain the floor after he shall have concluded his remarks.\n\nRECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. CLARKE, of Ohio. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899117", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899166, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, in the adoption of ordinances of secession, and in the formation of a pretended confederacy with pretensions to sovereignty\u2014steps preliminary to the war\u2014the seceding States", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899166", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, as there seems to be an opportunity at this time, I beg leave to submit a few remarks upon some of the matters which at present are pressing upon the attention of this", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899181, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. I am truly thankful to the House for this courtesy, and I will try and not trespass upon their patience long.\n\nAs I was saying, I would like to know what State government this is which", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899181", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899196, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SPEECH OF HON. B.F. LOAN\n\nOf Missouri\n\nIn the House of Representatives\n\nMarch 3, 1866,\n\nMr. LOAN said:\n\nMr. Speaker: The absorbing question that demands the attention of national authority at this", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899196", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899212, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, this resolution, as the House is aware, has received its first and second readings. It comes back from the committee in the precise form in which it was originally reported.", "url": "/m2/session/5579#899212", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5579}, {"id": 899214, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. If the gentleman will allow me I will show we are not either oppressed or in any of the dangers that the French people were from Bonaparte or any other revolutionary character.\n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/5579#899214", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5579}, {"id": 899244, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THORNTON. Mr. Speaker, the absorbing question since our assemblage here is, in one view of it, a question of union or disunion, and in another view it is a question of absolute power in the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899244", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899253, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KUYKENDALL. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure you that I approach the investigation of the many grave and important subjects treated in the message of the President of the United States, at the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899253", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899259, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, having some weeks since introduced into this House a bill which has for its purpose to prescribe the oath of office, so as to make it conform to the requirements of the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899259", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899343, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HIGBY. Mr. Speaker, I differ from a great many members of this House, and I presume that I shall differ from a great many in authority as to the question of amending the Constitution of the", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899343", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899347, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I shall support this proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States, not because I believe it to be absolutely needed, but because there are those, and some of", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899347", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899349, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. Mr. Speaker, it is with great hesitation I rise to address the House to-day, for the reason especially that in the brief time allotted for the purpose, I feel that I have been entirely", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899349", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899352, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RIGHTS OF CITIZENS.\n\nThe House then resumed the consideration of the following joint resolution (H. R. No. 63) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States:\n\nResolved by the Senate", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899352", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5582}, {"id": 899358, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I approach the discussion of this subject, aware that it will be utterly impossible for me, within the time allotted me by the rules of the House, to do justice to the", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899358", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5582}, {"id": 899385, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "TRUE BASIS OF RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. ORTH. Mr. Speaker, the rebellion, which so recently convulsed our beloved country like an earthquake, has ceased, so far as it manifested itself in armed hostility,", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899385", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899393, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\nMr. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I must apologize to this House for the tameness of the remarks which I am about to make, and especially for their untimeliness. It will be remembered that at", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899393", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899400, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GOODYEAR. Mr. Speaker. I have sought for several weeks past an opportunity to offer a resolution in the regular order of business, but without success. Not that the regular order is at all times", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899400", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899423, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMES. Mr. Speaker, the policy to be pursued by Congress with the States and people lately in rebellion is brought to our notice by the annual message of the President, now under consideration,", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899423", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899448, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I thank God, sir, that the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States of America has been permitted to assemble in this magnificent temple of liberty, and", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899448", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899531, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DUMONT. Mr. Speaker, as many suppose that the powers of Congress to deal with the rebel States according to their demerits, and the deeds done in the body depend upon the question whether a State", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899531", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899549, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I have frequently of late asked myself the question, is reconstruction an insoluble problem? I have noticed so many different propositions for its", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899549", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899574, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ANDERSON. I thank the House for the extension accorded to me.\n\nAs I was saying, the President of the United States addressed a letter to the provisional governor of Mississippi, which I will", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899574", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899594, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. MOULTON. Mr. Speaker, a great variety of opinions upon the great questions growing out of the rebellion, and which have arisen since the surrender of the rebel armies, have been", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899594", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899603, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MYERS. Mr. Speaker, we are passing through the most interesting periods of American history. No higher duties, no graver responsibilities, no prouder privileges ever devolved upon men than those", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899603", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899624, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE.\n\nMr. BUCKLAND. Mr. Speaker, thus far I have been a silent listener to the able and interesting discussions in this House upon the important and intricate", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899624", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899630, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\nMr. HART. Mr. Speaker, the pestilent heresy of Calhoun found its culmination in States discordant and belligerent, which with force of arms sought to establish a new dominion where", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899630", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899771, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOGAN. I am very much obliged to the House for this consideration. I have not troubled the House much, and I do not want to trouble them much now. This is probably the only speech I shall make on", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899771", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899774, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONGRESS AND RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. BALDWIN. Mr. Speaker, in what, I have to say there will be some reference to the joint resolution concerning Tennessee. At the proper time the gentlemen of the", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899774", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899783, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. LE BLOND. Mr. Speaker, the history of the country for the past four years is too well known to even justify a recapitulation as preliminary to the remarks I propose to submit. It", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899783", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899787, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CIVIL RIGHTS.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the President in his annual message said to us\u2014\n\n\u201cThat good faith requires the security of the freedmen in their liberty, their light to labor, and", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899787", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899798, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARKE, of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, [approach the discussion of the question of reconstruction with anxious solicitude. Results momentous to the interests of civil liberty, and affecting the weal or", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899798", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899829, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PHELPS. Mr. Speaker, on the 1st of May, 1865, the Union Army numbered one million five hundred and sixteen men. After a struggle, unprecedented in ancient or in modern history, the purpose for", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899829", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899830, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LATHAM obtained the floor. \n\nMr. WRIGHT. I ask now to have the question answered which I put to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Ashley,] namely, what does he mean by a loyal man? I doubt very much", "url": "/m2/session/8667#899830", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8667}, {"id": 899843, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. INGERSOLL. I had fondly hoped, Mr. Speaker, when Lee surrendered to General Grant, and Johnston surrendered to General Sherman, the last armies of the rebellion, that we had heard the last of", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899843", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899860, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. INGERSOLL. I am obliged to my friends from Pennsylvania for their consideration.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Pennsylvania. I desire to state that the subject upon which I shall speak is a dry one\u2014the", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899860", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899864, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "H. R. 543: Mr. Kelley's Substitute ", "url": "/m2/session/5831#899864", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 5831}, {"id": 899896, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Loyal Men Must Rule\u2014 \u201cTraitors Must Take Back Seats.\u201d\n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. S. BUNDY,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, May 5, 1866,\n\nOn the President\u2019s annual message, as in Committee of the", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899896", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899900, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINDOM. Mr. Speaker, after the thorough discussion this question has received I can hardly expect to add anything new. But at a time like this silence is akin to cowardice; indifference is", "url": "/m2/session/5617#899900", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5617}, {"id": 899901, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. RAYMOND. I do not desire to proceed with the discussion of this subject this evening; the hour is too late. But I would be glad, if it shall suit the convenience of the", "url": "/m2/session/5617#899901", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5617}, {"id": 899916, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. I am not prepared to go on to-day, and therefore I will yield the floor to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Morris.]\n\nMr. MORRIS. Mr. Speaker, if ambition begat", "url": "/m2/session/14300#899916", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14300}, {"id": 899923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ORTH. Mr. Speaker, we are approaching the solution of the important and difficult problems consequent upon the suppression of armed hostilities. Such approach has not been rapid because rapidity", "url": "/m2/session/8670#899923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8670}, {"id": 899924, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, the able and protracted debate on this floor and in the Senate upon the subject of reconstruction has been of an extraordinary character. It has involved largely first", "url": "/m2/session/14300#899924", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14300}, {"id": 899928, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, it is known, at least by my constituents, that I was not a supporter of the last Administration, and did not cast my vote for the election of the present incumbent of the", "url": "/m2/session/14300#899928", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14300}, {"id": 899933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I regard the action which this House may take upon the bill now before it as of very great importance. The bill embodies principles which touch very nearly the fundamental", "url": "/m2/session/5618#899933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5618}, {"id": 899935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. I have no objection to a colloquy of that kind. I think it perhaps the best way to get at the truth. I am indebted to the House for its courtesy, though I am very much afraid I shall", "url": "/m2/session/5618#899935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5618}, {"id": 899954, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Yes, sir; I am confining myself to the bill; and finishing my sentence, as I should have finished it if I had not been called to order, I say that the statement referred to is wholly", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899954", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899955, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURLEIGH. Why, sir, how can the country expect pure waters to flow from a corrupt fountain? How can you expect an honest administration of your public affairs by an officer of the Government who", "url": "/m2/session/14301#899955", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 899956, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. Speaker. I shall give my support to the bill now before the House, reported by the select Committee on Reconstruction, with all my heart.\n\nOf all the various plans which have been", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899956", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899957, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LE BLOND. Mr. Speaker, Ohio has no nominating convention to come off on next Wednesday, as the gentleman [Mr. Brandegee] has who has just taken his seat. Therefore, even though otherwise I might", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899957", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899967, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. In the present position of the bill under consideration an amendment I am aware is not in order. But I desire to submit for consideration some amendments, and if they shall be", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899967", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899971, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker\u2014\u2014\n\nMr. GARFIELD. Will the gentleman allow me to make a motion that speeches be limited to twenty minutes for the remaining discussion of this bill?\n\nMr. THAYER. I must decline", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899971", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899972, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HARDING, of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I cordially accord with those gentlemen who have expressed their approval of the purposes and objects of the bill now before the House. I represent a", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899972", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899973, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. I now yield the residue of my time to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Shellabarger.]\n\nMr. SHELLABARGER. Mr. Speaker, I am glad of the opportunity to explain the reasons for the vote I shall", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899973", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to discuss this general subject in any formal manner, but merely to make a few remarks, which I fear will prove rather desultory, upon the necessity which", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899986, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, only a few days since a bill of a different sort from that now pending was before this House, and a majority of the House\u2014I believe the gentleman from New York [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/8727#899986", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8727}, {"id": 899988, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express the hope that the House will adopt the bill under consideration as reported by the committee without amendment. Considerable dissent has been manifested,", "url": "/m2/session/8742#899988", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8742}, {"id": 899990, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ALLISON. Mr. Speaker, when the question of the reorganization of these States, known as House bill No. 543, was under consideration a few days ago in this House, I voted with the distinguished", "url": "/m2/session/8742#899990", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8742}, {"id": 899995, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN HORN, of New York. Mr. Speaker, theories are all very well. We may have plans in relation to reconstruction as with reference to other matters of public interest, but if not put into", "url": "/m2/session/8743#899995", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 900003, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, I am aware that no measure can be more unpalatable to the American people than one which provides for a military government, and there is no position in which I can myself", "url": "/m2/session/8743#900003", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 900074, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. VAN AERNAM. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure this House that I approach the investigation of the subject under consideration with hesitation and embarrassment. With hesitation,", "url": "/m2/session/14301#900074", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 900084, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. JULIAN. Mr. Speaker, the conflict going on to-day between Conservatism and Radicalism is not a new one. It only presents new phases, and more decided characteristics in its", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900084", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900087, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "INDIANA POLICY.\n\nMr. NIBLACK. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution and laws of Indiana relating to negroes and mulattoes have been so often referred to in the debates during the present session of Congress,", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900087", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900097, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POWERS OF CONGRESS.\n\nMr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, under the parliamentary discipline which prevails in this House, it is impossible very often for members to get permission to discuss measures of the", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900097", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900103, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I am very anxious that this bill should be proceeded with until finally acted upon. I desire that as early as possible, without curtailing debate, this House shall come to", "url": "/m2/session/8640#900103", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8640}, {"id": 900107, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PIKE. Mr. Speaker, in the remarks which I propose to make at the present time I shall not speak particularly upon the substitute presented this morning by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/8640#900107", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8640}, {"id": 900137, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, the amendment, as the Senate are aware, was not proposed by me in the first instance. It came from the Senator from Oregon, and I supposed had received the assent of the", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900137", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900139, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. Mr. President, my vote has been solicited for the present amendment by gentlemen in whose judgments I have very much confidence; and in one respect the adoption of the amendment would", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900139", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900211, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, I rise to plead for what I believe to be the life of the Republic, and for that spirit which gives it life. I stand here also to answer for myself; because, foreseeing", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900211", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900214, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the formation of one Confederacy or Federal Union did not prevent the manifestation of a disposition on the part of the northern people which was predicted by Mr. Jay in", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900214", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900262, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. Mr. President, the Senator from Ohio made a few remarks, which, in my opinion, ought not to go upon the record of the debates without a word in reply. He said that at the end of the war", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900262", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900263, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORTON. Mr. President, I had desired and intended to express my views to the Senate upon the subjects that are embraced in this bill; but I did not suppose that business would be pushed forward", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900263", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN WINKLE. As this preamble has been brought into discussion, I wish to say a few words upon it. I have waited till it should come up regularly. I have no motion to make in reference to it; but", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900387, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PAINE. The gentleman from Ohio has consented to yield for fifteen minutes to me.\n\nMr. BINGHAM. I hope the House will not take it out of my time; but I yield to the gentleman whether it does or", "url": "/m2/session/8673#900387", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8673}, {"id": 900392, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWSON again resumed the floor, and addressed the House as follows:\n\nMr. Speaker, I have watched the proceedings of this body with deep interest. No one has been a more attentive listener or more", "url": "/m2/session/8673#900392", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8673}, {"id": 900401, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. I yield to my friend from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Broomall.] \n\nMr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, in the spring of 1865 the military forces of the late confederate States of America surrendered", "url": "/m2/session/8642#900401", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 900511, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. Let me read from the decision of the Supreme Court in the case to which I have referred:\n\n\"It rested with Congress, too, to determine upon the means proper to be adopted to", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900511", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900512, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I shall vote very cheerfully for the bill as it comes from the Senate; and I shall neither ask pardon of nor offer apology to any man in this House or out of it for the vote", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900512", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900522, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens] is still entitled to the floor.\n\nMr. STEVENS. I yield ten minutes to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Le Blond.]\n\nMr. LE BLOND. I accept, sir,", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900522", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900528, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HISE. Mr. Speaker, I beg the attention of the House, nay I entreat the attention of the House to the few remarks I shall have an opportunity of submitting on this occasion. I have hitherto, when", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900528", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900532, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HILL. If anything were necessary to show gentlemen that it is imposible to obtain by legislation all that we may desire, the history of this bill will certainly demonstrate that fact. Almost on", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900532", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900534, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. I regret, Mr. Speaker, in time so limited we have to discuss a measure of so much importance as the one now pending. Instead of calm and dispassionate consideration we have to compress", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900534", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900540, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I shall vote against this amendment: first, because it involves an entire departure from the object of the bill passed by this House, which it destroys while it professes", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900540", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900572, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. With the consent of my friend, I will state that I have no doubt that with moderation on the part of both Houses this measure can be passed with the assent of both Houses without any", "url": "/m2/session/8773#900572", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 900573, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, bearing upon this precise point which my honorable friend is discussing I have had placed in my hands some very important statements, and upon authority, which I wish to", "url": "/m2/session/8773#900573", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 900677, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's H. R. 1143 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14317#900677", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14317}, {"id": 900692, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, while doing, as I sincerely do, full justice to the motives of the President in refusing to sign the bill now before us, I cannot but regret that be felt himself compelled", "url": "/m2/session/8854#900692", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8854}, {"id": 900694, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DIXON. Mr. President, it is not my purpose at this time to go into this discussion at any length. I desire merely to state in the briefest possible terms some of the reasons that compel me to", "url": "/m2/session/8854#900694", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8854}, {"id": 900882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. McKEE. I ask the Clerk to read the joint resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk.\n\nThe Clerk read, as follows:\n\nMr. McKEE. Mr. Speaker, it is my purpose at present to submit", "url": "/m2/session/14257#900882", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 900908, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL. Mr. Speaker, I had meditated no remarks and shall yield a portion of my time to the gentleman from Minnesota, [Mr. Donnelly,] and therefore I will not long occupy the attention of the", "url": "/m2/session/8674#900908", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8674}, {"id": 900911, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, it is of little avail, idle perhaps, to attempt any resistance of a caucus measure of the majority of this House. But it is hard, sad to stand Silently by and see the", "url": "/m2/session/8675#900911", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8675}, {"id": 900915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KOONTZ. 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Mr. President, I have listened to the congratulations sent by the Senator from Massachusetts to the Senator from Ohio, and to those returned by the Senator from Ohio to the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904076", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904090, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, for the good faith of this Government I hope that I can get the ear of the Senate and the ear of every Senator; for I believe that if this amendment be considered in the", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904090", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904099, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. I do not desire to take the time of the Senate at this hour of the night, and yet I confess I am not pleased with the measure before us. 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The details and the precise manner in which it is to be carried out, I leave for the committee on", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822100", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822126, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GREEN. Mr. President, I am a little surprised, and not only a little but greatly sur-prised, that the Senator from Mississippi should deem it his duty to make use of language which I think so", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822126", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822136, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MASON. Mr. President, I wish to say but a very few words. \n\nMr. DAVIS. If the Senator from Virginia will allow me, I will answer the question of the Sen-ator from New Hampshire, before he", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822136", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822152, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. If there be no further business now to be presented to the Senate, the Chair will take up the resolution of the Senator from Kentucky, [Mr. Powell.] ", "url": "/m2/session/12454#822152", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12454}, {"id": 822158, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, one word in explanation. My friend from Missouri who now sits behind me, [General Clark, of the House of Representatives,] resides in that part of his State nearest to", "url": "/m2/session/12454#822158", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12454}, {"id": 822576, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION \n\nThe Senate resumed the consideration of the following resolution, as modified by Mr. Powell, on the 10th instant: \n\nResolved, That so much of the President's message as relates", "url": "/m2/session/12455#822576", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12455}, {"id": 822607, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nThe Senate resumed the consideration of the following resolution, as modified by Mr. Powell on the l0th instant: \n\nResolved, That so much of the President\u2019s message as", "url": "/m2/session/12011#822607", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12011}, {"id": 824054, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TOOMBS. Mr. President and Senators, I obtained the floor last Thursday with a view of addressing this body upon the various proposi-tions which were submitted to the committee of thirteen, of", "url": "/m2/session/12395#824054", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12395}, {"id": 826315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SIMMONS. I have seen it somewhere in the printed proceedings. That would certainly be the way. There is no other way to do it un-der the Constitution. Every suggestion, every argument made use of", "url": "/m2/session/12511#826315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12511}, {"id": 826521, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CRITTENDEN.\n\n[...]\n\nWhile I am up, sir, I desire to say another word. On a former day in the Senate, while we were in secret or executive session, I made some remarks on subjects then before the", "url": "/m2/session/12518#826521", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12518}, {"id": 826548, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, Bancroft, in the last volume of his History of the United States, has drawn, with graphic pen, the character of George Mason, one of the noblest of that illustrious band of", "url": "/m2/session/12519#826548", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12519}, {"id": 829185, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. THOS. CORWIN, of Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nJanuary 21, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report of the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11969#829185", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11969}, {"id": 834150, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. I do not wish to say any-thing further about the Governor of Ohio. Gov-ernor Dennison is able to take care of himself. We are now discussing a matter between States; between the State of", "url": "/m2/session/12621#834150", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12621}, {"id": 834181, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE CRISIS. \n\nThe SPEAKER. The hour has arrived for resuming the consideration of the special order, which is the report of the select committee of thirty-three on the disturbed condition of the", "url": "/m2/session/12622#834181", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12622}, {"id": 835069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, we have arrived at a period in the history of our country which was never even dreamed of by the gallant and far-seeing men who signed the Declaration of", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835081, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. JOY MORRIS, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 30, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835081", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835422, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KILLINGER obtained the floor. \n\nThe SPEAKER stated that, the hour of four o\u2019clock having arrived, under the order of the House there would be a recess taken until seven o\u2019clock, p. m. \n\nEVENING", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835422", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835428, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. M. QUARLES, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835428", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAMES WILSON, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835470, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. G. W. HUGES, Of Maryland, \nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 5, 1861. \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835470", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835487, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TAPPAN, Mr. Speaker, as one of members of the committee of thirty-three, I joined with the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. WASH-BURN] in submitting a minority report, and in recommending the", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835487", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835502, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AN UNDIVIDED COUNTRY. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. L. T. MOORE, Of Kentucky, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 5, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835502", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835504, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. A. TRIMBLE, Of Ohio, \nIn the House of Representatives, \n \nFebruary 5, 1861. \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835504", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 836232, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SPEECH OF HON. H. MAYNARD, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 6, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of thirty-three\u2014 \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836232", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 836367, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. N. H. SMITH, OF NORTH CAROLINA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836367", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836381, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. CHARLES CASE, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836381", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836682, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. \nMr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it was officially announced yesterday in this Hall that Abraham Lincoln, a worthy, patriotic, and intelligent citizen of the State of Illinois,", "url": "/m2/session/12632#836682", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12632}, {"id": 837047, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEALE. Mr. Speaker, the great question which has for the last twelve years agitated the country is that of human freedom and slavery. Increasing year by year, and election after election, in", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837047", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837053, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DUELL. Mr. Speaker, the secession of six States from the Federal Union brings us face to face with grave issues, fraught with results of the most momentous importance. The unavoidable duty now", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837053", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837055, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WALTON. Mr. Speaker, the events of the last ninety days show that the Federal Government is still an experiment, and perhaps as doubtful now as it was when Washington declared, in his first", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837055", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837101, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EVENING SESSION \n\nThe House reassembled at seven o\u2019clock, p. m., (Mr. Aldrich occupying the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and immediately resumed the consideration of the special order, being the", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837101", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837108, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALFRED ELY, OF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837108", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837266, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FIRST, KEEP OLD COMPROMISES. \n\nSPEECH OF HON JOHN U. PETTIT, \n\nOF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837266", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FREEDOM TAKES \u201cNO STEP BACKWARDS.\u201d \n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. G. BLAKE, \n\nOF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837278, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE GREAT AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF 1861. \nSPEECH OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM, \nOf Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 20, 1861. \n \nThe special order\u2014namely, the report of the committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12637#837278", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12637}, {"id": 837279, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE RIGHTS AND STATE EQUALITY. \n \n\nSPEECH OF HON. THOMAS RUFFIN, \nOf North Carolina, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 20, 1861. \n \nThe House having under consideration the report from", "url": "/m2/session/12637#837279", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12637}, {"id": 837313, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Any Compromise A Surrender. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. D. W. GOOCH, \n\nOf Massachusetts, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 23, 1861 \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837313", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837314, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FENTON. Mr. Speaker, I blush to see the record of our proceedings on this question which now agitates the country. They resemble the advertisements of patent medicines\u2014each man adjuring you to", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837314", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE CRISIS. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JNO. B. HASKIN, \n\nOF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861, \n\nIn favor of the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws. \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837317, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. S. BLAIR, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837317", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837920, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERRY. Mr. Speaker, I recognize; to-day, but two parties in this country: the party of law and order, and the party of revolution; the party which would preserve the Federal Govern-ment and the", "url": "/m2/session/12620#837920", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12620}, {"id": 838887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A. BINGHAM, of Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nJanuary 22, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12618#838887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 839465, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WASHBURN. After the eloquent speech of the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. CLEMENS] who has just taken his seat, and the equally eloquent remarks of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BING-HAM] who", "url": "/m2/session/12618#839465", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 850838, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": " \nFUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE. \n\nThe next proposition reported from the select committee of thirty-three was read by the Clerk, as follows: \n\nAmendment of the act for the rendition of fugitives from", "url": "/m2/session/13326#850838", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13326}, {"id": 850846, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WHITELEY. I would ask him how he can reconcile the demand for a fugitive being made upon the United States district judge with the idea of State sovereignty? When our Constitu-tion was made,", "url": "/m2/session/13326#850846", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13326}, {"id": 850865, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MILLSON. I will hear it presently. I prefer to go on now without interruption. Let us turn to the phraseology of the act of 1793, which is the act proposed to be amended. I ask the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/13326#850865", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13326}, {"id": 850871, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MILLSON. As soon as I have expanded this idea, I will give way to the gentlemen who desire to interrogate me. \n\nSir, the whole legislation of the northern States prohibiting the State agency from", "url": "/m2/session/13326#850871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13326}, {"id": 861682, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. I am aware of the devotion to the Union of the Senator from Oregon; but I cannot agree with him in the sentiment he has expressed in regard to this amendment of the Constitution. He", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861682", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 869493, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLIDELL. Mr. President, the document which the Secretary has just read, and which places on the files of the Senate official information that Louisiana has ceased to be a component part of these", "url": "/m2/session/14011#869493", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14011}, {"id": 870976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. Will the honorable Senator pardon me for interrupting him a moment?\n\nMr. DAVIS. Certainly.\n\nMr. MORRILL. I will ask the honorable Senator whether he will carry this prohibition of the", "url": "/m2/session/11963#870976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11963}, {"id": 871127, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARLILE. I do not wish to interrupt the Senator, unless it is agreeable to him; but the Senator has referred particularly to the speech of my colleague, and has thought proper to include both the", "url": "/m2/session/11977#871127", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11977}, {"id": 871139, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. DAVIS. Will the honorable Senator allow me just a minute to suggest a matter to him before he proceeds?\n\nMr. SUMNER. Certainly.\n\nMr. DAVIS. It may be that the speech", "url": "/m2/session/11980#871139", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11980}, {"id": 871148, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. President, I can assure the gentleman who introduced this bill that I will not embarrass the action of the Senate by a lengthy speech upon it. I feel somewhat embarrassed, however,", "url": "/m2/session/11981#871148", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11981}, {"id": 871201, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McDOUGALL addressed the Senate. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\nSLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A. McDOUGALL,\n\nOF CALIFORNIA,\n\nIn the Senate, April 3, 1862.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/11985#871201", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11985}, {"id": 887722, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BAYARD. Mr. President, I had hoped that I should be enabled to obtain the floor on the passage of this bill at rather an earlier hour than the present; and although it is not my intention to", "url": "/m2/session/11986#887722", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11986}, {"id": 888949, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THOMAS, of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I avail myself of the indulgence of the committee to make some suggestions upon subjects now attracting the attention of Congress and of the country\u2014the", "url": "/m2/session/12161#888949", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12161}, {"id": 889054, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NIXON. Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of the general principles of the bill now pending before the committee. 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I trust that in that time I shall be able to state the", "url": "/m2/session/8140#849694", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8140}, {"id": 849696, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction.\n\nREMARKS OF HON. J. L. GETZ,\n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nJuly 9, 1867,\n\nOn the bill supplementary to an act entitled \u201cAn act to provide for the more efficient", "url": "/m2/session/8140#849696", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8140}, {"id": 849732, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. [His remarks will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 38, Pg. 586)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. R. 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I think", "url": "/m2/session/8480#851029", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8480}, {"id": 851030, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. Will my friend allow me to suggest that there have been acts passed again and again within the last few years, some of which have been signed by Andrew Johnson as President, wherein", "url": "/m2/session/8480#851030", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8480}, {"id": 851032, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. That, sir, is the first proposition involved in this contest, that this limitation shall be placed by irrepealable amendment in the Constitution. There is not an intelligent man in", "url": "/m2/session/8480#851032", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8480}, {"id": 851041, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. LOAN. Mr. Speaker, the first section of the bill declares that the so-called civil governments in the ten unreconstructed States shall not be recognized as valid or legal State governments either", "url": "/m2/session/8480#851041", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8480}, {"id": 851046, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2013AGAIN.\n\nMr. ROSS. I rise to a question of order. The gentleman from New York having paid the penalty, is he not entitled to the balance of his hour? [Laughter.]\n\nThe SPEAKER. The House", "url": "/m2/session/8483#851046", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8483}, {"id": 851047, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. Mr. Speaker, if I know anything about this matter, and about what the majority of the Committee on Reconstruction desire, and about what the majority of the House wishes, they wish to", "url": "/m2/session/8483#851047", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8483}, {"id": 851049, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. FARNSWORTH.] Mr. Speaker, I have had the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Rhode Island case read for the purpose of bringing before the House freshly\u2014the doctrine is not new at all\u2014that", "url": "/m2/session/8483#851049", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8483}, {"id": 851052, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PAINE. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Eliot] ten minutes more of my time.\n\nMr. BUTLER. Before the gentleman from Massachusetts resumes I desire to ask him a question. He has", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851052", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851053, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. LOUGHRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, from the manner in which some of the gentlemen upon this side of the House speak of the acting President, I am led to think that they are upon the", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851053", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851055, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill reported by the Committee on Reconstruction.\n\nMr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, the depth and earnestness of the conviction on my mind that", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851055", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851057, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NIBLACK next addressed the House. His speech will appear in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 589)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. E. NIBLACK,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851057", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851059, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. This bill has been so long under discussion that I have hardly the amount of assurance necessary to enable me to address the House at this time. I have observed that many persons in the", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851059", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851060, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, whenever I hear the earnest, the energetic, and the eloquent voice of the honorable gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Boutwell] lam reminded of the public men who in olden", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851060", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851061, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. There are twenty-three minutes of the gentleman\u2019s time unexpired.\n\nMr. HUBBARD, of Connecticut, then addressed the House. His speech will appear in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg.", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851061", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851063, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill reported by the Committee on Reconstruction.\n\nMr. JENCKES. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Dawes] was kind enough last", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851063", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851064, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. ROSS obtained the floor.\n\nMr. KERR. I ask the gentleman from Illinois to yield to me to move to adjourn.\n\nThe SPEAKER. That will not give the gentleman the floor on Monday,", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851064", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851066, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PRUYN. Mr. Speaker, as my time is limited, I will say that I do not wish to be interrupted during the course of my remarks.\n\nWhen it is proposed in this House to subvert the fundamental", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851066", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6468}, {"id": 851069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KOONTZ addressed the House for half an hour. [See Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 641)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. H. KOONTZ, OF PENNSYLVANIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, January", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6468}, {"id": 851070, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. PHELPS resumed the floor upon House bill No. 439, additional and supplementary to an act entitled \u201cAn act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,\u201d", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851070", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6468}, {"id": 851241, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, it is my purpose in the remarks that I make to confine myself to the discussion of the bill that is before the House. Having discharged my duty in this behalf, it will", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851241", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6468}, {"id": 851247, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "H. R. 439: Mr. Butler's", "url": "/m2/session/6469#851247", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 6469}, {"id": 851256, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION BILL.\n\nThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill (H. R. No. 439) additional and supplementary to an act entitled \"An act to provide for the more efficient government or the", "url": "/m2/session/8492#851256", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8492}, {"id": 851257, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NYE obtained the floor.\n\nMr. NORTON. Before the Senator from Wisconsin takes his seat I should like, with his permission, to ask him the question that I asked him while he was speaking. The", "url": "/m2/session/8492#851257", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8492}, {"id": 851258, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. Mr. President, if I had not been referred to by my honorable friend from Wisconsin [Mr. DOOLITTLE] in the debate yesterday I should not desire to speak on this question, especially at", "url": "/m2/session/8323#851258", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8323}, {"id": 851261, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELlNGHUYSEN obtained the floor.\n\nMr. JOHNSON. If my honorable friend from New Jersey will permit me to address the Senate in advance of himself he will oblige me. My professional engagements", "url": "/m2/session/8493#851261", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8493}, {"id": 851262, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, I rose yesterday to submit a few observations on the interesting question before the Senate, and with great pleasure gave way to the distinguished Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8494#851262", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8494}, {"id": 851263, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POMEROY. Mr. President, I should like to have the Secretary read the resolution of the Senator from Wisconsin, which he has moved in the form of instructions to the Committee on the", "url": "/m2/session/8496#851263", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8496}, {"id": 851264, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. Mr. President, one aspect of the general subject of reconstruction has not been made prominent in this debate so far as it has progressed. I think we should take up this great subject", "url": "/m2/session/8496#851264", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8496}, {"id": 851265, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. The Senator reads what I said on the passage of the bill of the 2d of March. I desire now to state to him, what probably he is aware of, that when the reconstruction act was first", "url": "/m2/session/8496#851265", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8496}, {"id": 851267, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRAGIN. Mr. President, when the question of the life or death of the Republic was presented to the loyal people of this land they bravely and patriotically resolved to accept war and all its", "url": "/m2/session/8497#851267", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8497}, {"id": 851268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Mr. President, the policy and measures of Congress in relation to the South are maintained in this debate upon two propositions: first, that at the end of the war there were no", "url": "/m2/session/8497#851268", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8497}, {"id": 851269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FESSENDEN. I do not know what the honorable member of the House referred to may have said, but if he used these words and referred to the Committee on Reconstruction, I can only say that he spoke", "url": "/m2/session/8497#851269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8497}, {"id": 851270, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION BILL.\n\nThe Senate resumed the consideration of the bill (H.R. No. 439) additional and supplementary, to an act entitled \u201cAn act to provide for the more efficient", "url": "/m2/session/8498#851270", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8498}, {"id": 851271, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERRY. Mr. President, it will perhaps be well to recur for a moment to the origin of this debate in order to obtain a clear apprehension of the issue which is now under consideration. A few days", "url": "/m2/session/8499#851271", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8499}, {"id": 851274, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, on the 4th day of last February I introduced into the Senate the so-called military reconstruction bill, and although I had charge of the bill while it was pending here I", "url": "/m2/session/8500#851274", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8500}, {"id": 851275, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. When an amendment is proposed in the Senate, it seems to me that a Senator can choose between the proposed amendment and the original bill without committing himself as to the question", "url": "/m2/session/8500#851275", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8500}, {"id": 851276, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, addressed the Senate. His speech will be published in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 984)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. LOT M. MORRILL,\n\nOF MAINE,\n\nIn the Senate of", "url": "/m2/session/8501#851276", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8501}, {"id": 851282, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HARLAN. Mr. President, it is not my purpose to confine my remarks to an examination of the instructions offered by the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. Doolittle] nor to extend them to an examination", "url": "/m2/session/8504#851282", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8504}, {"id": 851283, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON, of Tennessee. Will the Senator from Iowa allow me to interrupt him for a moment?\n\nMr. HARLAN. Certainly.\n\nMr. PATTERSON, of Tennessee. The Senator is mistaken in stating that that", "url": "/m2/session/8504#851283", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8504}, {"id": 851285, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, when the honorable Senator from Wisconsin, in the morning hour of Thursday last, submitted his motion to instruct the Committee on the Judiciary to report the", "url": "/m2/session/8493#851285", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8493}, {"id": 851286, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART obtained the floor.\n\nMr. BUCKALEW. Will the Senator permit me to say one word in explanation?\n\nMr. STEWART. Certainly.\n\nMr. BUCKALEW. I did not wish to interrupt the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8499#851286", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8499}, {"id": 851289, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS proceeded to address the Senate on the general subject of reconstruction, but, without concluding, gave way to Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, who moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration", "url": "/m2/session/8505#851289", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8505}, {"id": 851292, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, all persons must feel the gravity of the present situation, and it is in that feeling that I come to the consideration of the question before the Senate.\n\nIt will be", "url": "/m2/session/8515#851292", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8515}, {"id": 851295, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON, of New Hampshire. Mr. President, a fatal fallacy underlies and vitiates all the anti-reconstruction literature which the fertile intellect of the double-headed Opposition has produced", "url": "/m2/session/8371#851295", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8371}, {"id": 851298, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the bill under consideration and the act of which it is amendatory are, in my judgment, measures which, if administered in accordance with their intent and meaning, will", "url": "/m2/session/8377#851298", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8377}, {"id": 851299, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FESSENDEN. My friend will allow me to ask him a question on the point of law he is now stating. I have listened to his argument with a great deal of interest. His argument applies to all", "url": "/m2/session/8377#851299", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8377}, {"id": 851304, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. DAWES. Mr. Speaker, the gravity of the subject embraced within the bill before the House, as well as the serious condition of things to which it applies, forbids any member", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851304", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851305, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURR then addressed the House. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 583)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALBERT G. BURR,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851305", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851306, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I have examined with some degree of care the important bill under consideration, and have come to the conclusion it will become my duty to support it. One thing is evident,", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851306", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851307, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, I have lost very much of the desire I had at the beginning of this discussion to speak on this question, from the fact that my friends from Indiana [Mr. Kerr] and from", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851307", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 865693, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I shall vote for this bill; not because it is what I desire, but because it is all that Congress is disposed to enact at the present time. I do not like to play the part of Cassandra; but", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865693", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865757, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, in the spring of 1865 the rebel cause went down, and in a few months the President of the United States permitted the rebels to use the machinery of their old governments,", "url": "/m2/session/8388#865757", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8388}, {"id": 865789, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NIBLACK. I desire to call the attention of members of this House to what is taking place here to-day, in connection with what occurred at the last session of the last Congress upon this question", "url": "/m2/session/6438#865789", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6438}, {"id": 865794, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WOOD. I desire to ask the gentleman whether he designs to take a vote on this today?\n\nMr. WILSON, of Iowa. It is my design to ask the House to come to a vote on it within an hour.\n\nMr. WOOD. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/6438#865794", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6438}, {"id": 866340, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. Let the bill be read.\n\nThe bill was read. The preamble recites that since the organization of revolutionary State governments in the late rebel States of Alabama, Arkansas,", "url": "/m2/session/7825#866340", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7825}, {"id": 866417, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. Mr. President, the Senator having this bill in charge has ushered in its consideration by a somewhat particular narration of the positions held by the two Houses and by individual", "url": "/m2/session/8369#866417", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8369}, {"id": 866788, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BOUTWELL.] I was saying, Mr. Speaker, when my time expired, that under the Constitution the privileges of members of this House are for us all or they are for none of us. When you have", "url": "/m2/session/7967#866788", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7967}, {"id": 866919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERRY. Mr. President, it was my intention, when I sought the floor upon this resolution as reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, to address myself to a considerable degree to the merits of", "url": "/m2/session/6610#866919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6610}, {"id": 866920, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DIXON. I am sorry to interrupt my colleague, but if he will allow me, as he has appealed to me on this subject, I will say a word.\n\nMr. FERRY. Certainly.\n\nMr. DIXON. Mr. President, my Colleague", "url": "/m2/session/6610#866920", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6610}, {"id": 866936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VICKERS. Mr. President, I have listened with no small: degree of attention for arguments showing the necessity for the adoption of the joint resolution before the Senate; but I have listened in", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866936", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866958, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from Oregon, [Mr. Williams.]\n\nMr. SUMNER. What has become of the amendment of the Senator from Connecticut, [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/6612#866958", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6612}, {"id": 866976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUFFRAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.\n\nMr. RAMSEY. With the consent of the Senator from Nevada I have a small bill which I should like to pass while the Senate is collecting. Does the Senator assent to", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866977, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS addressed the Senate at length. [See Appendix.] \n\n(Vol. 40, Part 2, Pg. 981)\n\nSuffrage Constitutional Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. GARRETT DAVIS,\n\nOF KENTUCKY,\n\nIn the Senate of the United", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866977", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866985, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I do not intend at this late hour of the night to enter largely into the discussion of this question, but rise rather for the purpose of presenting, as briefly as possible,", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866985", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866987, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the Senator from Oregon to the amendment of the committee.\n\nMr. HOWARD. What is the amendment? Let it be read.\n\nThe Chief Clerk.", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866987", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866993, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. DRAKE.] Mr. President, I have endeavored very earnestly to express in the briefest possible compass the idea intended to be conveyed by this constitutional amendment. I would ask the attention", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866993", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866994, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRAGIN. Mr. President, I did not think that I could possibly be tempted to say anything in reference to the question now under consideration; but the position taken by the Senator from Vermont", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866994", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 867009, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COLE. I hope the word suggested by the Senator from Ohio will be stricken out. It seems to me it is not called for. The amendment sought to be embodied in the Constitution is intended to meet the", "url": "/m2/session/6613#867009", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 867057, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question now is on the amendment offered by the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Wilson] to the amendment reported by the committee.\n\nMr. HOWARD. I wish to call the", "url": "/m2/session/6614#867057", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6614}, {"id": 867421, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. 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Mr. Speaker, while I yield my convictions to the more experienced judgment of other gentlemen upon this floor with great deference upon most questions, I must be permitted still to", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819714", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 851127, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President's Annual Message to Congress", "url": "/m2/session/13344#851127", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13344}, {"id": 858636, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction", "url": "/m2/session/13344#858636", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13344}, {"id": 859047, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President's Annual Message to Congress: Second", "url": "/m2/session/13800#859047", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13800}, {"id": 859298, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "LIBERATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SOUTH.\n\nMr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, the hour has come in which Congress must deal with the great crime of the nineteenth century. The leading conspirators must be", "url": "/m2/session/8580#859298", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8580}, {"id": 859302, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY. The President in his late proclamation says:\n\n\"And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,", "url": "/m2/session/8580#859302", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8580}, {"id": 859574, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ARNOLD. Mr. Chairman, in June, 1858, a comparatively unknown man uttered in the Statehouse at Springfield, Illinois, a sentiment which is already historical. Its philosophy, its profound", "url": "/m2/session/8506#859574", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8506}, {"id": 859834, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RESTORATION OF THE UNION.\n\nMr. HARDING. Mr. Chairman, at an early day of the present session I submitted to the House this resolution:\n\n\"Resolved, That the Union has not been dissolved; and that", "url": "/m2/session/8569#859834", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8569}, {"id": 859835, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE RENOVATION.\n\nMr. DEMING. Mr. Chairman, I was induced to seek the floor when the House was last in committee upon the present subject, because the two speeches to which I had listened upon the", "url": "/m2/session/8569#859835", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8569}, {"id": 859837, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\n\nMr. EDEN. Mr. Chairman, I propose to state some of the reasons why I dissent from the views of the President, as expressed in his recent message, and especially some reasons why I", "url": "/m2/session/8569#859837", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8569}, {"id": 859853, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND TREASON.\n\nMr. BALDWIN, of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I have listened with profound interest to what has been uttered in these discussions touching the present state of the", "url": "/m2/session/8573#859853", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8573}, {"id": 859875, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.\n\nMr. HOLMAN. Mr. Chairman, after three years of relentless war, engrossing the attention and commanding the energies of thirty million people, we approach, at least in", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859875", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859876, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.\n\nMr. HULBURD. Mr. Chairman, I desire to submit some views on the constitutionality of the President\u2019s emancipation proclamation. I am aware the subject has already been", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859876", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859879, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL. I ask the gentleman from Ohio to yield me the floor for five minutes. \n\nMr. BLISS. The gentleman from Iowa undertook to take the floor from me by discourtesy, and I must decline to", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859879", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859897, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.\n\nMr. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, on the first day of the present session of Congress I gave notice of my intention to introduce a joint resolution submitting to the Legislatures of", "url": "/m2/session/8578#859897", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8578}, {"id": 859899, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POSITION OF REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nMr. WILDER. Mr. Chairman, during the year which has just closed we have made such progress in quelling the rebellion that the minds of all naturally turn to consider", "url": "/m2/session/8578#859899", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8578}, {"id": 859904, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDUCT OF THE WAR. \n\nMr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Chairman, my colleague from the twenty-first district [Mr. Dawson] has made confessedly the ablest speech on the other side of the House, and has stated with", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859904", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859909, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION. \n\nMr. HERRICK. Mr. Chairman, in the remarks I design to make upon the President\u2019s message, I do not propose to dwell upon the manifold crimes of the present", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859909", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859913, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBELLION. \n\nMr. ECKLEY. More than three months have elapsed since we first met as members of the Thirty-Eighth Congress. During that time I have heard what has been said, and witnessed what has", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859913", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859917, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "VIOLATED PLEDGES. \n\nMr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Chairman, I address the committee to-day with feelings far from buoyant for the future of the country. At the time I took my seat in this Hall it was not my", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859917", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HARDING resumed the floor.\n\nMr. NOBLE. If the gentleman from Kentucky will yield to me I will move that the committee do now rise. I think we have been in session long enough.\n\nMr. HARDING. With", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859930, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONG. Mr. Chairman, I speak to-day for the preservation of the Government, and although for the first time within these walls, I propose to indulge in that freedom of speech and latitude of", "url": "/m2/session/8583#859930", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8583}, {"id": 866677, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, as the organ of the Committee on the Judiciary which has reported this resolution to the Senate, I desire to present briefly some of the considerations which induced me,", "url": "/m2/session/8442#866677", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8442}, {"id": 866680, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE DEATH OF SLAVERY IS THE LIFE OF THE NATION. \n\nMr. WILSON. Mr. President, \"our country,\" said that illustrious statesman, John Quincy Adams, \"began its existence by the universal emancipation of", "url": "/m2/session/8442#866680", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8442}, {"id": 866710, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I am fully conscious, in rising to address the Senate, of the great importance of the measure to which I am about to speak. Indeed, in that respect it cannot be", "url": "/m2/session/8447#866710", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8447}, {"id": 866732, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HARLAN. Mr. President, the measure now pending proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Before this joint resolution can become effective it must be passed by a two-thirds", "url": "/m2/session/8449#866732", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8449}, {"id": 866750, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. I rise merely to say that I shall vote against this proposed amendment without particular regard to its merits, for the reason already indicated by me in stating why I voted against the", "url": "/m2/session/8449#866750", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8449}, {"id": 866775, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. President, I dislike very much at present to undertake to argue the question that is now before the body, for the simple reason that Senators must be tired of its discussion. At", "url": "/m2/session/3561#866775", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3561}, {"id": 866786, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, if an angel from the skies or a stranger from another planet were permitted to visit this earth, and to examine its surface, who can doubt that his eyes would rest with", "url": "/m2/session/3562#866786", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3562}, {"id": 866790, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POWELL. Mr. President, it was not my purpose a day or two ago to make any remarks upon the main question; but I beg leave now to trespass on the Senate for a short time while I reply very briefly", "url": "/m2/session/3562#866790", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3562}, {"id": 867186, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY\n\nMr. MORRIS, of New York. Mr. Speaker, the questions which now engross so much of the public attention as to the status of the several States in rebellion, and just what", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867186", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3528}, {"id": 867187, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The House reassembled at half past seven o'clock p. m., (Mr. L. Myers occupying the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and resumed the consideration of joint resolution of the Senate No. 16, submitting", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867187", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3528}, {"id": 867194, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERNANDO WOOD. Mr. Speaker, this is a proposition to provide by an amendment to the Constitution for the abolition of slavery without compensation in all of the States in the Union. It will be,", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867194", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867218, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MARCY. Mr. Speaker, I have sought this opportunity to address the House for the purpose of expressing some general views on the state of the country. In the expression of my sentiments I shall", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867218", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867219, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COFFROTH. Mr. Speaker, when I entered this Hall at the opening of this session, I had determined not to participate in any general debate, it was my intention to be a listener and not a talker.", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867219", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867227, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. On the vote to repeal the fugitive slave law how did that side of the House vote? Does not the fugitive slave law affect the black soldier in the Army who was a slave? That side of", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867227", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867232, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDGERTON. Mr. Speaker, having on the question of its second reading voted for the rejection of the joint resolution now before the House, and intending to vote against it when put upon its", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867232", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867235, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. The joint resolutions under consideration, Mr. Speaker, propose to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to prevent the existence of slavery in any of the", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867235", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867239, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PENDLETON. I agree to no such doctrine. I repudiate it entirely. There is in three fourths of the States neither the power to establish nor to abolish slavery in all the States. The gentleman", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867239", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 868906, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, the principal features of the proposed legislation now under consideration were before the House nearly two years ago, in the form of a bill reported by Mr. Ashley, chairman", "url": "/m2/session/8364#868906", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8364}, {"id": 868914, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBEL STATES.\n\nThe morning hour having expired, the House resumed the consideration of the bill relative to the reorganization of the rebel States, on which the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. J. C.", "url": "/m2/session/8383#868914", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8383}, {"id": 868915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SMITHERS. Mr. Speaker, it was not my purpose originally to have offered any suggestions in support of the bill now before the House; but the magnitude of the interests involved, and my connection", "url": "/m2/session/8383#868915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8383}, {"id": 868923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. The bill before us provides for the government of the States in rebellion, as fast as they shall be reduced to subjection, by provisional governors; to be appointed by the President,", "url": "/m2/session/8384#868923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8384}, {"id": 868931, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I have some thoughts on the state of the Union, and the process of bringing back to our system the wandering stars which have shot so madly from their orbits, that I would", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868931", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"id": 868935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BALDWIN, of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, the bill under consideration is one of serious importance, and involves principles that controvert and overthrow all our preconceived ideas of the admission of", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"id": 868962, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The House resumes the consideration of the bill in regard to the Rebellious States, upon which the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Thayer] is entitled to the", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868962", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8392}, {"id": 868966, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, the bill before us is generally called the reconstruction bill. Viewing it simply in the light of the Constitution, I am unable to see our power to legislate away the laws", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868966", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8392}, {"id": 868976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DENISON. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to the bill under discussion, and I am gratified with this opportunity to explain my views upon the subject. The name of the bill is \u201cA bill to guaranty to", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"id": 868977, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I take this occasion to say a few words which have been long delayed, as I was unwilling to interrupt more important business. What I have to say is mainly supplemental to a", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868977", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"id": 868981, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STROUSE. Mr. Speaker, I do not clearly understand what is meant by \u201creconstruction,\u201d but I do know that some immediate healing panacea is demanded of those who have sworn to be the defenders and", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868981", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"id": 868984, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRAVENS. Mr. Speaker, I have had neither inclination nor ambition during this session of Congress for participating in general debate. On the contrary, I have preferred to remain silent and to", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868984", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"id": 868985, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The next business is the consideration of the bill in relation to the rebellious States, upon which the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Perham] is entitled to the", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868985", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868988, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REBELLIOUS STATES. \n\nMr. GOOCH. Mr. Speaker, it is a grave mistake for us to suppose that the contest in which we are now engaged has been going on only since the rebels took up arms against the", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868988", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868989, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, we are about entering, nay, we have already entered, upon the fourth year of the war. And this simple statement should invite reflection. It should induce every man to pause,", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868989", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868990, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERNANDO WOOD. Mr. Speaker, I had not designed to trouble the House with any remarks upon the bill, but, being compelled to leave Washington in the morning, and understanding that the question is", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868990", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868992, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is not my purpose to follow the gentleman who has just closed, [Mr. Fernando Wood,] or specially to reply to him; but I cannot help, before proceeding to the general", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868992", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868995, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe House then resumed, as a special order, the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 244) to guaranty to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a", "url": "/m2/session/8602#868995", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8602}, {"id": 869242, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, before any steps can be safely taken for the organization of local governments either by or for the people inhabiting the territory included within the eleven once existing", "url": "/m2/session/8602#869242", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8602}, {"id": 869461, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. I hope this amendment will not be adopted. I do not think the reasons that have been assigned are sufficient to induce us to reject a bill that has been got up with so much labor and care", "url": "/m2/session/8873#869461", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8873}, {"id": 869463, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment offered by the Senator from Missouri.\n\nMr. CARLILE. If I supposed that the amendment offered by the Senator from Missouri could be adopted,", "url": "/m2/session/8873#869463", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8873}, {"id": 869533, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. However much I might be in favor of such a proposition as this, I think it is incongruous and out of place here. I voted against the amendment of the Senator from Missouri who proposed the", "url": "/m2/session/8873#869533", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8873}, {"id": 899467, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YEAMAN.\n\n[...]\n\nDiffering as I do with the President in regard to some of the leading features of his plan, as embodied in the proclamation accompanying his message, I must say I am gratified by", "url": "/m2/session/8523#899467", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8523}, {"id": 900402, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. It is very important to have an executive session to-day.\n\nSeveral Senators. Let us vote on this bill.\n\nMr. WILSON. If the Senate is ready to vote, I shall not interpose; but we have some", "url": "/m2/session/14303#900402", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14303}, {"id": 901172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. [...] Mr. Chairman, the question of slavery was not one of those which were delegated by the States to Congress. Congress has not that power, that power having been reserved to the States", "url": "/m2/session/14339#901172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14339}, {"id": 902248, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, these are indeed terrible times for timid people. Use and wont no longer serve us. The guns traitorously fired upon Fort Sumter threw us all out of the well-beaten ruts of", "url": "/m2/session/14389#902248", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14389}, {"id": 902553, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JULIAN said: \n\nMr. Chairman: Perhaps no task could be more instructive or profitable, in these culminating days of the rebellion, than a review of the shifting phases of thought and policy which", "url": "/m2/session/14406#902553", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14406}, {"id": 902725, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWES. 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Mr. President, I simply desire to say one word as to the statement made by the Senator from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Scott,] in which he endeavored to inculpate some very distinguished gentlemen", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861221", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861624, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Will the Senate concur in the amendment made as in Committee of the Whole?\n\nMr. NORWOOD. I desire to submit some remarks on this bill, but I am not able to do so to-day in", "url": "/m2/session/11224#861624", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11224}, {"id": 861631, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. FENTON. Mr. President, I inquire of the honorable Senator from Georgia if he is desirous of going on at this time to conclude his remarks this morning? If so, I will", "url": "/m2/session/10675#861631", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10675}, {"id": 861643, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question before he passes from the fourteenth amendment?\n\nMr. THURMAN. If it is not a speech. I wish to be very brief this evening. If the Senator", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861643", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 861646, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. MORTON addressed the Senate. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. OLIVER P. MORTON,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the United States Senate,\n\nMay 21, 1874.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/10680#861646", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10680}, {"id": 861648, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STOCKTON. Mr. President. I approach the consideration of this question with a feeling of solemnity and sadness which I can hardly express to yon or the Senate. When I see a bill of this character", "url": "/m2/session/10680#861648", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10680}, {"id": 861650, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWE. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. FRELINGHUYSEN. One minute. I feel it my duty, Mr. President, to correct an error that my colleague has fallen into. If there is any obligation on the republican party to", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861650", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861651, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. ALCORN addressed the Senate in support of the bill. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAMES L. ALCORN,\n\nOF MISSISSIPPI,\n\nIn the United States Senate,\n\nMay", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861651", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861656, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BOGY addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH HON. LEWIS V. BOGY,\n\nOF MISSOURI,\n\nIn the United States Senate,\n\nMay 22,", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861656", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861683, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from North Carolina will proceed.\n\n[Mr. MERRIMON resumed and concluded his argument. His remarks in full will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861683", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861684, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. HAMILTON, of Maryland, next addressed the Senate. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. T. HAMILTON,\n\nOF MARYLAND, In the United States Senate, May 22,", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861684", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861870, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORGAN. Mr. Speaker, in a government of delegated powers, clearly defined by a written constitution, it matters little what may be the name of the party in power, provided it administers the", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861870", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861871, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOAR. Mr. Speaker, the House listened yesterday to two able, clear, lawyer-like, statesmanlike discussions on different sides of the grave questions now before us, from the gentleman from Ohio", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BECK. Mr. Speaker, the struggle between the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Butler] and those who differed with him and counseled moderation is over; and while I, living in Kentucky, am", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861878, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BLAIR, of Michigan, and Mr. WOOD addressed the House in speeches which will be found in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. AUSTIN BLAIR,\n\nOF MICHIGAN,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861878", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861879, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Alleged Ku Klux Outrages.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. FERNANDO WOOD, OF NEW YORK,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 30, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861879", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861881, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MAYNARD addressed the House. His speech will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. HORACE MAYNARD,\n\nOF TENNESSEE,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861881", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861884, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of the Constitution and Laws of the United States and the Rights of the People.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A. BINGHAM, of Ohio,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871.\n\nThe House having", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861884", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861885, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SWANN. Mr. Speaker, I feel gratified to be afforded this opportunity of addressing the House upon the important bill now under consideration. It was remarked by my honorable friend from New York", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861885", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861886, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PERRY, of Ohio, addressed the House in remarks which will be found in the Appendix.\n\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. F. PERRY,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871.\n\nThe House having", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861886", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861888, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHELDON. Mr. Speaker, in considering the bill which has been reported by the special committee of which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Shellabarger] is chairman, the question which meets us at the", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861888", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861891, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STORM addressed the House in remarks which will appear in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOHN B. STORM,\n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861891", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861892, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ARCHER. I yield now to the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr. McCormick.]\n\nMr. McCORMlCK, of Missouri, and Mr. MOORE addressed the House in speeches which will appear in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861892", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861893, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. MOORE,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the hill (H. R. No. 320) to", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861893", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861894, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LOWE. Mr. Speaker, the questions presented for consideration upon the bill before the House are of the very first importance. We are confronted with the two inquiries whether the proposed", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861894", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861896, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHOBER. Mr. Speaker, I have no argument to make as to the power of Congress to pass this bill. The simple statement of its provisions forces the conviction upon my mind, as with axiomatic truth,", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861896", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861898, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. Speaker, we have listened this morning to two speeches on the other side of the House, one in eulogy of the southern soldier, or, as the gentleman terms it, the \u201crebel soldier,\u201d and", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861898", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861900, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, I am aware that, on account of my support of the southern cause during the late civil war, what I may say is somewhat liable to the unfriendly strictures of those still", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861900", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861903, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Speaker, the argument upon the pending bill has proceeded thus far upon a question of constitutional law and a question of fact. The opponents of the bill deny that its provisions", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861903", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861905, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861905", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861907, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RICE, of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, being for the first time a member of this body I had not expected to participate actively in its discussions during the short session that we all expected we", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861907", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861908, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RICE, of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, being for the first time a member of this body I had not expected to participate actively in its discussions during the short session that we all expected we", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861908", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861912, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. P. C. SHANKS,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 3, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320; to", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861912", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861913, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 320) for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes.\n\nMr. VAN TRUMP. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861913", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861914, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKLEY addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. W. BUCKLEY,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of REPRESENTATIVES,", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861914", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. Three facts combine to show the necessity for a bill substantially like that now under consideration. First, the violence and lawlessness, for which it is proposed to provide a", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861916, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BIGGS, having obtained the floor, said: Mr. Speaker, I would be glad to know how much time I am to be allowed.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The gentleman has the floor for thirty minutes.\n\nMr. BIGGS. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861916", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, in rising to address this honorable body for the first time, I labor under the double misfortune of having to speak to an exhausted patience and to travel over a burnt", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861918", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITCHER was granted unanimous consent to have printed in the Globe some remarks he had prepared on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSpeech of Hon. John", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861921, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861921", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861922, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINCHESTER. Mr. Speaker, on the 7th of December last the President, in pursuance of his constitutional duty, sent to Congress his annual statement of our affairs, domestic and foreign. The sole", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861922", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McKEE. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend to take part in this debate, but statements have been made upon this floor that demand refutation, especially from southern Republicans. The Republicans of", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861924, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, since the time of George III our people have not been partial to either kings or emperors; in fact the Democracy of Ohio have been especially hostile to them. Just as our", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861924", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861925, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, when I left my home for this Capitol I did not contemplate that we would engage in any general legislation, and nothing was more remote from my expectations than that I", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861925", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COBB. Mr. Speaker, before I proceed to discuss the question before the House, I desire to express my regret at the absence of my colleague, Mr. Shober; for it has been my intention to confine my", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861930, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YOUNG addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment,\n\nSPEECH OF HON P. M. B. YOUNG,\n\nOF GEORGIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861930", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861932, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nMr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A.", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861932", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES.\n\nMr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. At the surrender of the rebel armies, in the spring of 1865, the officers and soldiers \u201cwere allowed to return to their homes\u201d upon their", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLATER asked and obtained unanimous consent to print in the Globe some remarks on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLATER,\n\nOF", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, we have just been listening to an extraordinary speech. It consisted of a philippic against the South, and a good deal of exaggeration about southern outrages. There was also a", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ku Klux Organization.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLOSS,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871,\n\nOn the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861936", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861937, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Coburn] will now proceed.\n\nMr. COBURN. Mr. Speaker, the difficulties now existing in the management of public affairs in the States lately in rebellion", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861937", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMAN addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. S. HOLMAN,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861939", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861940, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER pro tempore. The House will now resume the consideration of House bill No. 320, for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes; upon which the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861942, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENSON addressed the House. [His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nKu Klux Klan.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOB E. STEVENSON,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871.\n\nThe House", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861942", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861945, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWES. Mr. Speaker, I have from the beginning been an attentive listener to all this debate, unexampled in duration and exhaustive in its character, and I delay for a few minutes the close of", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861945", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861949, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LEACH. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution of the United States, when observed in all its provisions and administered in its integrity, is worth more to this great nation, infinitely more, than all the", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861949", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861950, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, if I understand the substitute which has been presented this morning by the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Shellabarger,] the constitutional question presented by the", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861950", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861952, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, having yesterday presented the amendment offered this morning by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Shellabarger] as a substitute for the second and third sections of the bill of the", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861952", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861954, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TYNER. Seven days debate on the pending bill have been sufficient to indicate all of good and to foreshadow all of evil to be accomplished by its passage. 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