{"129": {"top_level_match": "false", "sessions": [], "committees": [], "delegations": [], "people": [], "events": [{"id": 84650, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Resolutions on Emancipation and", "url": "/m2/session/3547#84650", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 3547}, {"id": 743557, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "OBJECTS OF THE WAR.\n\nThe House then proceeded, as the regular order of business, to the consideration of a resolution offered on the 16th of December, 1863, by Mr. Rollins, of Missouri, declaring", "url": "/m2/session/8397#743557", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8397}, {"id": 819652, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, \"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.\" Thus simply and truthfully has spoken our worthy Chief Magistrate.\n\nThe proposition before us is, whether this universally", "url": "/m2/session/3534#819652", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3534}, {"id": 819653, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ORTH. Mr. Speaker, we are still grappling with treason and rebellion. Four years of war, desolating, destructive war, with all its attendant sacrifice of life, health, and treasure, have not yet", "url": "/m2/session/3534#819653", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3534}, {"id": 819654, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SCOFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to make some observations in reply to the very remarkable criticism pronounced by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Brooks] on the anti-slavery portion of the", "url": "/m2/session/3534#819654", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3534}, {"id": 819657, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. BLISS. Mr. Speaker, I deem it my duty to the people whom I represent as a member of this body, to utter in their name some words of protestation against the immolation of the Constitution of the", "url": "/m2/session/3535#819657", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3535}, {"id": 819659, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, it is the first time in the history of this country, until the present party came into power, when any body of men claimed that in the Constitution of the United States, and", "url": "/m2/session/3535#819659", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3535}, {"id": 819662, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "LOYALTY. \n\nMr. YEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, our Government being based upon the idea of the right and the capacity of the people to govern themselves, and the whole scheme being but a mean to ascertain and", "url": "/m2/session/3536#819662", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3536}, {"id": 819664, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ODELL. Mr. Speaker, the interest I feel in the important measure now under consideration is my apology for occupying the attention of the House at this time. My belief is that no question of", "url": "/m2/session/3536#819664", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3536}, {"id": 819665, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY\u2014AGAIN.\nMr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to discuss at this time and place the causes which have inaugurated the terrible rebellion which has already cost the", "url": "/m2/session/3536#819665", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3536}, {"id": 819669, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. MALLORY. Mr. Speaker, I have suggested why, financially, we cannot agree to the deportation of this class. But that is not the only one. Humanity comes in and forbids this thing. Will you take", "url": "/m2/session/3536#819669", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3536}, {"id": 819671, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, when this subject was first brought before the House for its action I thought I would take no part in the discussion, but would content myself with giving a silent vote. But", "url": "/m2/session/3536#819671", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3536}, {"id": 819675, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. KASSON. I was about to say, Mr. Speaker, that one of the effects\u2014and I avoid all allusion to the exercise of private authority, I only speak of the philosophy of the institution as traced in its", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819675", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819676, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. FERNANDO WOOD. This question, Mr. Speaker, has been very thoroughly discussed, and I doubt whether it is possible for either side of the House to advance any new or original proposition with", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819676", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819677, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ELDRIDGE. I have not designed to make a speech upon this resolution, and I do not expect to do so now. All I shall say will be little more, perhaps, than a statement of some of the reasons why I", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819677", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819678, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker, in contemplating the rise, the progress, and rapid development of the grandest system of government ever yet devised, I am led to reflect upon its present condition, and, if", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819678", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819679, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL. I will detain the House but a few moments, intending to divide my time with the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. Farnsworth.]\n\nI regard this as a marked day in American politics and", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819679", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819680, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. McBRIDE. Mr. Speaker, by the vote on the motion of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Ashley] this House will decide whether the proposed amendment to the Constitution, by which slavery shall be", "url": "/m2/session/3537#819680", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3537}, {"id": 819684, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY\u2014AGAIN.\nMr. SMITHERS. Mr. Speaker, after the elaborate discussion which this question has received, it ought perhaps to be deemed superfluous to add anything to the matter which", "url": "/m2/session/3538#819684", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3538}, {"id": 819687, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I will not discuss the question of political power involved in this amendment. I will consider only the question of expediency.\n\nIt is not, sir, the hour of peace and", "url": "/m2/session/3538#819687", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3538}, {"id": 819690, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, after the length to which this argument has gone, and the able manner in which the subject has been presented on both sides of the House, it would seem to require some", "url": "/m2/session/3538#819690", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3538}, {"id": 819691, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. PENDLETON. Mr. Speaker, I shall not detain the House long to-day. When this subject was under discussion at the last session of Congress I endeavored to maintain by argument that three fourths of", "url": "/m2/session/3538#819691", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3538}, {"id": 819696, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. FERNANDO WOOD. I desire to call the attention of the gentleman from Ohio to the language of James Madison in the Federalist: \n\"That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not", "url": "/m2/session/3539#819696", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3539}, {"id": 819698, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. COX. True; like stormy petrels, tossing upon the angry waves of sectional agitation, we are at last overwhelmed in the flood of fanaticism. We are the last roses of the Democratic summer.", "url": "/m2/session/3539#819698", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3539}, {"id": 819700, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, the discussion of the measure now before the House has been of a very extended and exhaustive character, and the arguments which have been made against it are very numerous", "url": "/m2/session/3539#819700", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3539}, {"id": 819704, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROLLINS, of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I desire to submit a few observations to the House upon the important proposition now pending before the final vote is taken upon it. The remarks which I shall", "url": "/m2/session/3540#819704", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3540}, {"id": 819705, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROLLINS, of Missouri. As I have said, my experience in relation to this question of slavery has been singular and somewhat diversified. Why, sir, I remember that seventeen years ago, when I was a", "url": "/m2/session/3540#819705", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3540}, {"id": 819708, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. GARFIELD. Mr. Speaker, we shall never know why slavery dies so hard in this Republic and in this Hall till we know why sin outlives disaster, and Satan is immortal. Its marvelous tenacity of", "url": "/m2/session/3540#819708", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3540}, {"id": 819709, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. BALDWIN, of Massachusetts, obtained the floor.\n\nMr. STEVENS. I do not know who has the floor, but I should be glad if I could have, now that I am up, ten minutes of", "url": "/m2/session/3540#819709", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3540}, {"id": 819713, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I do not propose, Mr. Speaker, to make any speech upon the subject before the House. I have no occasion to define my position on that question or questions kindred to it.", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819713", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819714, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON. 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": 819715, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. MORRIS, of New York. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to make a political speech on this occasion, but only to discuss the question of the power of \"the Congress\" over amendments to the Constitution", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819715", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819716, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. PIKE. Mr. Speaker, I did not expect to take part in this discussion. A question so thoroughly argued before the country for a generation, and one on which political parties have pivoted so long,", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819716", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819720, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. HERRICK. Mr. Speaker, the joint resolution now before the House submitting to the Legislatures of the several States an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, comes before us under", "url": "/m2/session/3543#819720", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3543}, {"id": 819723, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. KALBFLEISCH. Mr. Speaker, the argument upon the question now before the House has been so ably conducted and so long continued that it is with more or less reluctance I venture to delay the", "url": "/m2/session/3543#819723", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3543}, {"id": 845543, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Report of the Committee on Territories on S.", "url": "/m2/session/8440#845543", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 8440}, {"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": 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": 859858, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDUCT OF THE WAR.\n\nMr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. It has been asserted upon this floor and elsewhere that thousands of lives have been sacrificed, millions of treasure expended, and an immense amount of", "url": "/m2/session/8573#859858", "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": 859877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDUCT OF THE WAR.\n\nMr. DUMONT. Mr. Chairman, I desire to participate a little in this discussion; and as I would be listened to, and, when it is delivered, have my speech read by my constituents at", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859877", "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": 859896, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RESTORATION OF THE UNION.\n\nMr. ARNOLD. On the 22d of February, 1832, the one hundredth anniversary of the birthday of Washington, Daniel Webster, speaking of the fearful consequences of disunion,", "url": "/m2/session/8578#859896", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8578}, {"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": 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": 859937, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GARFIELD. Mr. Chairman, I should be obliged to you if you would direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring a white flag and plant it in the aisle between myself and my colleague who has just addressed", "url": "/m2/session/8583#859937", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8583}, {"id": 866623, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LANE, of Kansas. Mr. President, the present war of slavery against freedom first opened upon the plains of a State which I have the honor in part to represent; there the black flag of piracy was", "url": "/m2/session/8455#866623", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8455}, {"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": 866697, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the joint resolution now before the Senate, reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide that ''neither slavery nor", "url": "/m2/session/8445#866697", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8445}, {"id": 866698, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, I do not propose to discuss at large the power of Congress to propose this amendment to the States. I find in the Constitution as it now stands this provision:\n\n\"The", "url": "/m2/session/8445#866698", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8445}, {"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": 866733, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, it is not my intention to enter into any elaborate discussion of this subject. I have already spoken upon it. My purpose in rising is simply to respond to an", "url": "/m2/session/8449#866733", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8449}, {"id": 866734, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. Mr. President, I had not supposed until within a very short period that there were any possible circumstances that could induce me to make a speech, even a short one, upon the question now", "url": "/m2/session/8449#866734", "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": 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": 867188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLOGG, of New York. Mr. Speaker, of all the various measures this Congress has in hand and upon which it must act, the most important in my judgment are those which most directly bear upon the", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867188", "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": 867195, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HIGBY. Before speaking to the resolution embracing the proposition to amend, I refer to the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States, which makes ample provision and explains the", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867195", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867196, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KALBFLEISCH. Mr. Speaker, I shall not attempt to wander over the road traveled by the gentleman who preceded me, [Mr. Higby,] but will endeavor to take a common-sense view of the subject, and in", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867196", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867217, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHANNON. Mr. Speaker, I am not addicted to boring this House with set speeches, and nothing save the deep conviction I feel of the importance of the question now pending would induce me on this", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867217", "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": 867220, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLOGG, of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I have had no time to prepare remarks for this occasion that would be worthy of a subject of such importance to the people of this country as that which we have", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867220", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867222, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, occupying the position of a new member, without congressional experience, I have refrained from participating in the discussion of public affairs; but in view of the", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867222", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867224, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am reluctant to occupy the attention of the House at this late moment, but I desire to present briefly my views on the ponding question. This bill, having passed the Senate", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867224", "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": 867229, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to detain the House at this late period of the present discussion with any protracted expression of my views in regard to the measure now before the", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867229", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867230, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MALLORY. I not only take issue with the gentleman from Pennsylvania who just addressed the House, on his assertion that this is pre\u00ebminently the time to amend the Constitution, but, sir, I", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867230", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867231, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, madness and despair rave, and I shall consume none of the brief time allotted me by following the gentleman from Kentucky, [Mr. Mallory,] who has just taken his seat. Nor do", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867231", "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": 867234, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. INGERSOLL. Mr. Speaker, having very recently taken a seat in this body, it was my intention to have contented myself with voting for all such measures as I believed to be just and expedient, and", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867234", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 868564, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Will the honorable member permit me to ask whether what he is reading is a copy of the amendment contemplated by the Senator from Maine?\n\nMr. SUMNER. Yes; with one or two verbal", "url": "/m2/session/8479#868564", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8479}, {"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": 868926, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nMr. SCOFIELD. The continuity of constitutional government in the seceded States has been broken, the regular transmission of political power interrupted. How shall the severed", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868926", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"id": 868927, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWSON. Mr. Speaker, this is the earliest moment that I have been able to get the floor, to say that the gentleman who represents the district of Pittsburg [Mr. Moorhead] has seen proper to make", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868927", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"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": 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": 868964, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, the voice of the people of the United States cannot be mistaken. They demand of us, their Representatives, that the institution of human slavery which has from the beginning", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868964", "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": 868975, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The House resumes the consideration of the bill in regard to the rebellious States, upon which the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Donnelly] is entitled to the", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868975", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"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": 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": 898933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOKS. I intend to discuss the President's message of this year, and the topics therein set forth. Permit me, first, to call the attention of the House to the numerous amendments which are", "url": "/m2/session/14245#898933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14245}, {"id": 898935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PRICE. Mr. Chairman, I have heard it said that genius is the crowning diadem on the brow of manhood; but if I had ever been induced to believe that declaration, I should have changed my opinion", "url": "/m2/session/14245#898935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14245}, {"id": 899102, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPALDING. [...] \n\nThe President adverts in his message to the recent quadrennial election as evidence of the will of the people in favor of the constitutional amendment for the prohibition of", "url": "/m2/session/14253#899102", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14253}, {"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": 899929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, if Senators will take the trouble to examine this bill and compare it with the law as it already exists, they will find that the principal effect and the evident intent of", "url": "/m2/session/14297#899929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14297}, {"id": 900091, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. Mr. President, I hope that the Senate will adhere to the position it assumed upon the question of suffrage when the bill for the organization of the Territory of Montana was before it,", "url": "/m2/session/14303#900091", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14303}, {"id": 900096, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWE. I would have contented myself with a silent vote against the amendment of the Senator from Pennsylvania now pending, but for the position taken by the Senator from Iowa, [Mr. Harlan.] I", "url": "/m2/session/14303#900096", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14303}, {"id": 900111, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr President, when this proposition to amend this bill was under discussion the other day, I was stopped in the course of my remarks by the arrival of the hour for the order of the day,", "url": "/m2/session/14303#900111", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14303}, {"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": 901199, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRESWELL. Mr. Chairman, the result of the recent election expresses the deliberate purpose of the American people that slavery shall be abolished. Slowly and painfully, but yet surely, has the", "url": "/m2/session/14340#901199", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14340}, {"id": 901200, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Mr. Chairman, I beg leave to detain the House but ten minutes. If I had a speech to make I should have too much prudence to deliver it until the eloquence of the gentleman from Maryland", "url": "/m2/session/14340#901200", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14340}, {"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": 902306, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELIOT. I regret that I have not been able to support the bill, with the amendment, as reported from the select committee. If I had been able to give it my support I should not have felt called", "url": "/m2/session/14393#902306", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14393}, {"id": 902516, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONG. England, in her tremendous wars with Napoleon and the greater part of continental Europe, which for long years was arrayed on his side, and when her expenses went up to seven hundred", "url": "/m2/session/14406#902516", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14406}, {"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": 903373, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TEN EYCK. 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ALFRED WELLS, OF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 6, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836243", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 836280, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EVENING SESSION. \n\nThe House resumed its session al seven o \u2019clock, p. in., (Mr. Niblack in the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and continued the consideration of the special order, being the report", "url": "/m2/session/12630#836280", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12630}, {"id": 836323, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. WM. KELLOGG, OF ILLINOIS, \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#836323", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836374, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CAREY. I desire to ask the gentleman a question. I desire to know if, by the decision of the court, you have all you can expect by the compromise, what is the necessity of that compromise? \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836374", "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": 837001, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Virginia will proceed. \n\nMr. DEJARNETTE. There are times, Mr. Speaker, when I am contemplating the history of my country\u2014its rise, progress, and rapid development\u2014when", "url": "/m2/session/12633#837001", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12633}, {"id": 837032, "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/12634#837032", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837036, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURNHAM. Mr. Speaker, I had not intended, until within a few days, to mingle in this debate; but to content myself with giving a silent vote on the various propositions which have been, or may", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837036", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"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": 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": 837096, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "PEACE\u2014COMPROMISE\u2014UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. H. WEBSTER, OF MARYLAND, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837096", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"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": 837105, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDWIN R. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, having had but little experience in legislative assemblies, I have hesitated long before asking the attention of the House to my views on the present unhappy and", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837105", "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": 837112, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "UNION AND DISUNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAS. B. McKEAN, \n\nOF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837112", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837126, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. WM. STEWART, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837126", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837129, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART, of Pennsylvania. I am willing to agree that any fair proposition shall be submitted to the people; but I am not willing to touch the present Constitution. It is a Constitution that", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837129", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837130, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Motion to", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837130", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"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": 837267, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, the questions to be solved in the present exciting crisis are the most delicate which have ever been submitted to northern statesmen. They feel that their section has done", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837267", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. EDWARD WADE, \n\nOF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837268", "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": 837300, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON J. R. BARRET, \n\nOF MISSOURI, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 21, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12638#837300", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12638}, {"id": 837304, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BARRET. I decline yielding. the floor. I say most prominent among this Abolition class, are preachers of the Gospel, men making pretense of much true piety and Christian charity. \n\n\u201cWhen devils", "url": "/m2/session/12638#837304", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12638}, {"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": 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": 837319, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. F. W. KELLOGG, OF MICHIGAN, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837319", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837875, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALBERT RUST, Of Arkansas, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nJanuary 24, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12620#837875", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12620}, {"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": 839451, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SPEECH OF HON. S. CLEMENS, Of Virginia, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nJanuary 22, 1861. \n \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of thirty-three\u2014 \n \nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12618#839451", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 846296, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. ALEX H. RICE, \nOf Massachusetts, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 26th, 1861. \n\n \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12642#846296", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12642}, {"id": 850054, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPINNER. Has that paper been re-ceived, Mr. Speaker? and does it go on the Jour-nal? \n\n \n\nThe SPEAKER. It does not. It is read as part of the remarks of the gentleman from Lou-isiana. \n\n \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850054", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 850079, "title": "LEAVE", "description": "Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the House of Representatives, the act which it is my purpose to perform, of withdrawing from this assemblage of the Representatives of the American people,", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850079", "type": "LEAVE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-people-leave.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 858927, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. BAYARD. It is a question of some importance as to this correction of the Journal, and I think that the Senator from Massachusetts passes by a very material point in his mode of stating it. The", "url": "/m2/session/12020#858927", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12020}, {"id": 861430, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITTENDEN. Mr. President, it is an admitted fact that our Union, to some extent, has already been dismembered; and that further dismemberment is impending and threatened. It is a fact that the", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861430", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"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": 861778, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDING OFFICER. Then, the question is on the amendment proposed by the Senator from Ohio. \n\nMr. WILSON. Have the yeas and nays been ordered? \n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. They have been ordered.", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861778", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 861799, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITTENDEN. All who have presented propositions\u2014the propositions of the peace conference, and all others\u2014have thought this provision important enough to form a part of their bill. \n\nMr. DOUGLAS.", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861799", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 861829, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MASON. What I did say was, according to my recollection, certainly the facts are, that Virginia, twelve months ago. appropriated $500,000 to arm her people against anti-slavery aggression; and at", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861829", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 862695, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. We are about to take the question on the resolution as it came from the House. The Senator from Illinois referred in the debate to-night to the fact that some of us had voted, on the", "url": "/m2/session/13855#862695", "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": 870908, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. Mr. President, I fear, from the long time that I have been entitled to the floor upon this subject, the expectation may have been indulged by some that I proposed to make some extended", "url": "/m2/session/11945#870908", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11945}, {"id": 870920, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts. It was my purpose to say a few words upon that bill to-day, but I am not in a condition to do it with any comfort to myself. I ought not, in reality, to be here to-day.", "url": "/m2/session/11949#870920", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11949}, {"id": 870939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, I listened yesterday with a great deal of pleasure to many of the remarks and arguments of the Senator from Wisconsin, [Mr. Doolittle.] I concur entirely in one of the", "url": "/m2/session/11950#870939", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11950}, {"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": 871110, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts. Mr. President, the first Congress under the Constitution of the United States was summoned to the consideration of questions of transcendant importance, which excited", "url": "/m2/session/11964#871110", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11964}, {"id": 871118, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LATHAM. I move that the Secretary call the roll now of absentees, to see whether there is a quorum present.\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. It is necessary to call the roll again on the amendment of the", "url": "/m2/session/11964#871118", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11964}, {"id": 871126, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. Mr. President, I am prepared upon this, as upon all other questions, to conform my action to the plain dictates of justice and of right. I believe that no one questions the", "url": "/m2/session/11977#871126", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11977}, {"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": 871188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT, pro tempore. The amendment offered by the Senator from New Hampshire to the original bill, by way of perfecting that bill will be read.\n\nThe Secretary read the amendment of Mr. Clark,", "url": "/m2/session/11984#871188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11984}, {"id": 871190, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. Mr. President, I am too anxious to have a vote on this bill to detain the Senate by any remarks; and yet the Senator has appealed so directly to me on two or three questions, that I", "url": "/m2/session/11984#871190", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11984}, {"id": 871226, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROWNING. I do not intend to detain the Senate with any additional remarks upon the subject. I explained very briefly when I offered this proposition a few days ago as an amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/11985#871226", "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": 888950, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, some weeks since I introduced certain resolutions respecting maritime rights. They were referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. That committee have directed me to report", "url": "/m2/session/12161#888950", "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. The gradual emancipation of the slave would have been more in harmony with the past", "url": "/m2/session/12189#889054", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12189}, {"id": 889056, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The committee resumed its session, and proceeded again to the consideration of the bill of the Senate relating to\n\nEMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT.\n\nMr. CRITTENDEN. Mr. Chairman, there is no affectation", "url": "/m2/session/12189#889056", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12189}, {"id": 889059, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Chairman, I had hoped, in view of the many days which have elapsed since this bill was first presented in the other branch of the national Legislature, in view of its full discussion", "url": "/m2/session/12189#889059", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12189}, {"id": 889060, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RIDDLE. Mr. Chairman, a great truth is weakened by what men call elucidation. Illustration obscures it; logic and argument compromise it; and demonstration brings it to doubt. 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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": 739176, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, we are now considering (for that is the real question) whether we shall recommend to the States of the Union an amendment of the Constitution granting to all the people of", "url": "/m2/session/5684#739176", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5684}, {"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. With the indulgence of the Senator from Pennsylvania, I should like to say that there is important public business in executive session which ought to be acted on to-day. I shall not make", "url": "/m2/session/5688#739248", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5688}, {"id": 739251, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POMEROY. Mr. President, in speaking on this resolution I must speak of the conflict and the triumph.\n\nGreat events come and go with the slow, measured tread of centuries. But all events, great", "url": "/m2/session/5689#739251", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5689}, {"id": 739255, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, I hesitate to intrude again into this debate, which now, after the interjection of another debate on another question, is again renewed. 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": 739261, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, there are indications not to be mistaken that this amendment is doomed to defeat. To me this result will be a subject of sincere and profound regret. My heart, my", "url": "/m2/session/5691#739261", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5691}, {"id": 739265, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FESSENDEN. Mr. President, I regret sincerely, as the honorable Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Sumner] did, that I find it necessary in my judgment to say something more upon the question under", "url": "/m2/session/5708#739265", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5708}, {"id": 739267, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. There is a familiar story of a shield with inscriptions on it which was suspended in a highway. Two travelers approached it from opposite quarters, and standing face to face, each read", "url": "/m2/session/5708#739267", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5708}, {"id": 739268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. I do not propose, Mr. President, to continue this debate, but as the authority of Mr. Gerritt Smith has been quoted to-day, I propose to state a fact to show how much the opinions of that", "url": "/m2/session/5708#739268", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5708}, {"id": 839515, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. [...] The jurisdiction of Congress over the subject-matter of this bill is unquestionable. It is the right of Congress\u2014 \n\n\"To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases", "url": "/m2/session/5467#839515", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5467}, {"id": 839516, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOYER. Mr. Speaker, however atrocious some gentlemen in this House may pronounce the sentiment that this is a white man's Government, and although I have lately heard in this Hall even the spirit", "url": "/m2/session/5467#839516", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5467}, {"id": 839521, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The question then being upon the amendment offered by Mr. Hale, \n\nMr. SCOFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the colored population of the United States is now about five millions. That is nearly double the", "url": "/m2/session/5467#839521", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5467}, {"id": 839522, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY obtained the floor. \n\nMr. STEVENS. If my colleague will yield to me, I will move an adjournment. \n\nMr. KELLEY. I would be obliged if the gentleman would permit me to go on this afternoon.", "url": "/m2/session/5467#839522", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5467}, {"id": 839684, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, in the remarks which I intend to submit to the House upon the consideration of this most important question, I shall endeavor to confine myself strictly to the subject under", "url": "/m2/session/5468#839684", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5468}, {"id": 839688, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Another evidence that this is a Federal Government, or a Government of States, is that each State is entitled to two United States Senators, and as to that the Constitution prohibits an", "url": "/m2/session/5468#839688", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5468}, {"id": 839690, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. Mr. Speaker\u2014\u2014\n\nMr. BANKS. I desire the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Farnsworth] to allow me to state a fact relating to the legislation of some of the New England States upon the", "url": "/m2/session/5468#839690", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5468}, {"id": 839712, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to-day to make no remarks derogatory to the character or the rights of the black man of America. I desire to consider the subject before us in reference not only to the", "url": "/m2/session/13004#839712", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13004}, {"id": 839714, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CHANLER obtained the floor. \n\n[...]\n\nSUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. \n\nMr. CHANLER. Mr. Speaker, the following language of Alexander Hamilton, in one of his essays (No. 5) in the", "url": "/m2/session/13004#839714", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13004}, {"id": 839721, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL addressed the Chair. \n\nThe SPEAKER. Has the gentleman from New York [Mr. Chanler] surrendered the floor? \n\nMr. CHANLER. I have. \n\nThe SPEAKER. Then the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Grinnell]", "url": "/m2/session/13004#839721", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13004}, {"id": 839781, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. \n\nMr. KASSON. Mr. Speaker, when the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Kelley,] who introduced the bill regulating suffrage in the District of Columbia, spoke the", "url": "/m2/session/5469#839781", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5469}, {"id": 839919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KASSON. Mr. Jefferson declared, as follows: \n\n\u201cThe true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management. Let every man", "url": "/m2/session/5469#839919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5469}, {"id": 839932, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JULIAN. Mr. Speaker, whatever doubts may arise as to the authority of Congress to regulate the right of suffrage in the districts lately in revolt, none can exist as to such authority within the", "url": "/m2/session/5487#839932", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5487}, {"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": 839983, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, the measure before the House is of so much importance that, notwithstanding the length of the discussion to which it has given rise, I am unwilling that it should close", "url": "/m2/session/5478#839983", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5478}, {"id": 839985, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN HORN, of New York, obtained the floor. \n\nMr. KELLEY. Will the gentleman from New York allow me a moment? \n\nMr. VAN HORN, of New York. Certainly. \n\nMr. KELLEY. I beg leave to mention an", "url": "/m2/session/5478#839985", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5478}, {"id": 839995, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARKE, of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I have no apologies to offer for addressing the House on this subject. As the only Representative upon this floor of a State whose whole history has been a", "url": "/m2/session/13017#839995", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13017}, {"id": 839997, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, it is only recently that I entertained the purpose to speak at all upon this bill, and it was my expectation to avail myself of the kindness of the chairman of the", "url": "/m2/session/13017#839997", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13017}, {"id": 843540, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. [...] Mr. President, I regard the bill to which the attention of the Senate is now called as the most important measure that has been under its consideration since the adoption of the", "url": "/m2/session/5673#843540", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5673}, {"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": 843564, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Is it competent for the Senator from Illinois to make that a part of his original amendment?\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. It is competent for the Senator from Illinois to modify his own", "url": "/m2/session/5675#843564", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5675}, {"id": 843566, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. DOOLITTLE in the chair.) The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from Illinois, upon which the yeas and nays have been ordered.\n\nMr. TRUMBULL. I ask", "url": "/m2/session/5676#843566", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5676}, {"id": 843652, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. It would have afforded me, Mr. Speaker, much more satisfaction if my public duties had allowed me time to present what I have to say to the House in reference to this bill in a somewhat", "url": "/m2/session/5584#843652", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5584}, {"id": 843657, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINDOM. Mr. Speaker, it is not my habit to occupy much of the time of the House in speech-making, but as this is one of the most important bills upon which we shall be called to act, I wish", "url": "/m2/session/5584#843657", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5584}, {"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": 843684, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I yield thirty minutes of my time to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Bingham.]\n\nMr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, it may be said that the objections which I deem it to be my duty to urge", "url": "/m2/session/5588#843684", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5588}, {"id": 847259, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. J. L. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, before the vote is taken on the proposition now before the House, I desire to state the reasons that will influence me in my action.\n\nAlthough the bill only goes to the", "url": "/m2/session/5487#847259", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5487}, {"id": 847585, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I, as one of the committee from which this bill was reported, deem it my duty, as I have had probably more opportunity to investigate the character of it than some other", "url": "/m2/session/5583#847585", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5583}, {"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": 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": 849070, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "\nMr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, I regard this bill as one of the most dangerous that was ever introduced into the Senate of the United States, or to which the attention of the American people was ever", "url": "/m2/session/5673#849070", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5673}, {"id": 849209, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania that there is a growing apprehension in the country that there is something wrong in the present state of affairs; but I do not", "url": "/m2/session/5674#849209", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5674}, {"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": 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": 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": 868534, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I am not disposed to allow the speech of the honorable Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Sumner] to go to the country without a very brief reply. If that speech be true, and", "url": "/m2/session/6881#868534", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 6881}, {"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": 869253, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROWN. I desire to say one word on the amendment that is offered by the Senator from Maine. I do not object to the temporary disfranchisement of those who have been in arms as a matter of", "url": "/m2/session/13105#869253", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13105}, {"id": 869277, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, the discussions which the bill now under consideration has excited, both in Congress and in the country, have embraced a wider range of thought and argument than was", "url": "/m2/session/13105#869277", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13105}, {"id": 869278, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. Mr. President, the bill has been so long before the Senate that perhaps I shall be justified in stating to the Senate briefly what is proposed by the bill, its scope, and its provisions", "url": "/m2/session/13109#869278", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13109}, {"id": 869325, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I have only to add that the honorable Senator from Oregon might have concluded his speech by saying \"and to all women,\" because he has not been using the word \"man\" as a", "url": "/m2/session/13110#869325", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13110}, {"id": 869327, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. Mr. President, I did not intend to say a word upon this subject, because on the first day of the last session of Congress I introduced the original bill now before the Senate, to which the", "url": "/m2/session/13110#869327", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13110}, {"id": 869329, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YATES. Mr. President, I propose to occupy the time of the Senate for but a few moments by way of explanation of my position on this subject. Honorable Senators seem to think there is some little", "url": "/m2/session/13110#869329", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13110}, {"id": 869331, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. The immediate question before the Senate, I understand, is upon the amendment offered by the honorable member from Pennsylvania, which, if I am correctly informed, is to strike out the", "url": "/m2/session/13110#869331", "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": 869337, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPRAGUE. Mr. President, the advocates of the interests of the South are aristocratic; those of the North are democratic; and these ideas represent respectively the education of the two people.", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869337", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869338, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. I desire to say before the vote is taken on this amendment that I shall vote in favor of it because of the particular position which it occupies. A vote given for this amendment is not", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869338", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869339, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, this amendment, in my judgment, opens a very grave question; a question graver than it appears at the blush; a question upon which the ablest minds are divided here and", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869339", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869354, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FOSTER, (Mr. Anthony in the chair.) Mr. President, I differ very widely from the honorable Senator from Pennsylvania in my estimate of reading and writing. The Senator from Pennsylvania agrees", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869354", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869356, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, having a day or two ago made a few remarks on this bill, and having so recently taken my place in the Senate, my sense of propriety and my inclination both suggest", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869356", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869358, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. I did not intend to say a word on this bill, and shall not now occupy the attention of the Senate more than a moment or two.\n\nI always listen to the Senator from Pennsylvania with", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869358", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 889095, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I had intended to have remained a silent spectator of the stirring scenes which we are witnessing in this Hall upon the important subject under consideration. But silence has", "url": "/m2/session/5513#889095", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5513}, {"id": 896860, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION AGAIN.\n\nMr. STEVENS. The short time allowed by our resolution will suffice to introduce this debate. If unexpectedly there should be any objection to the proposed amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896860", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896872, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOYER. Many great questions of public policy depend upon the decision of this Congress, but the greatest of them all is that which involves the restoration of the States to their practical", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896872", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896878, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SMITH obtained the floor.\n\n[...]\n\nRECONSTRUCTION AGAIN.\n\nMr. SMITH. I have always felt that when a crime has been committed, an absolute violation of law, upon a proper arraignment and trial and", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896878", "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": 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": 896912, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I have listened to the arguments made by the honorable gentlemen upon the other side; and out of five or six to whom I have attentively listened, only one has treated the", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896912", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 897069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I regret that the state of the health of the honorable Senator from Maine [Mr. Fessenden] who is chairman, on the part of the Senate, of the joint committee of fifteen, is", "url": "/m2/session/5692#897069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5692}, {"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": 898283, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. I hope that amendment to the amendment will not be adopted. Indians born within the limits of the United States, and who maintain their tribal relations, are not, in the sense of this", "url": "/m2/session/5695#898283", "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": 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": 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": 898717, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YATES. At the beginning of the session I took the ground that already by the Constitution of the United States, as amended, every man in the United States, without regard to color or caste of any", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898717", "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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 899067, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\nMr. NEWELL. Mr. Speaker, I propose to submit some remarks upon the annual message of the President of the United States.\n \nI may premise that my acquaintance with the President", "url": "/m2/session/14247#899067", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14247}, {"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": 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": 899128, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PLANTS. Mr. Speaker, this day having been set apart for general discussion upon the state of the Union, I shall not confine my remarks to any single proposition before Congress, no one of which", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899128", "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": 899345, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NIBLACK. I understand that gentlemen on the other side have taken the position that intelligence is not at all necessary to the exercise of the right of voting; that a man, from the fact of", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899345", "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": 899372, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I have already called the attention of the House to the condition of South Carolina, in which I will be sustained by the facts already before the House and before the", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899372", "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": 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": 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": 899599, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FESSENDEN. I wish to make a single remark upon the proposition of the honorable Senator from Connecticut. He thinks that the remarks which he read from the New York Evening Post are so very wise,", "url": "/m2/session/14274#899599", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14274}, {"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": 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": 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": 899799, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. Unless the members of this Congress who represent the loyal people of this country approach the proposition before us, providing for the restoration of the late rebel States, in", "url": "/m2/session/8667#899799", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8667}, {"id": 899825, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. [...] Let us look, Mr. Speaker, at the condition in which we find the country. I hold in my hand the propositions reported by the committee of fifteen. I need not read them. They", "url": "/m2/session/8667#899825", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8667}, {"id": 899828, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I want my friend from Ohio, or any one on that side of the House, to tell me, if after having fought to save the nation under the promise of freedom and the", "url": "/m2/session/8667#899828", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8667}, {"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": 899838, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, I deem myself fortunate in being permitted to take any part in the work of pacification and restoration of the Government upon which we have entered. I would even deem", "url": "/m2/session/8668#899838", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8668}, {"id": 899852, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HART. I yield to the gentleman from Iowa, [Mr. Wilson.]\n\nMr. WILSON, of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, it is apparent that this House is not prepared to seize upon the full measure of the opportunity now", "url": "/m2/session/8669#899852", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8669}, {"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": 899902, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend when I came here to-day to participate in this debate, nor did I expect when I came here to be entertained with debate of the character of that indulged in", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899902", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"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": 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": 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": 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": 899975, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. I now yield to my colleague [Mr. Griswold] ten minutes of my time.\n\nMr. GRISWOLD. Mr. Speaker, if I should feel constrained to vote against this bill, I feel it my duty to state the", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899975", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"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": 899993, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GARFIELD. I would not ask the further attention of the House upon this subject were it not that I find myself very seriously misrepresented here and elsewhere in reference to the remarks I made", "url": "/m2/session/8742#899993", "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": 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. 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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": 900122, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. [...] I am disposed, sir, to vote for this bill as it came from the House of Representatives without amendment; but if it is to be amended at all I desire that the amendment I have", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900122", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900148, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. I am very reluctant, Mr. President, to address the Senate this evening, because of the condition of my health; but understanding it to be the purpose of the friends of this bill to sit", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900148", "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": 900311, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McDOUGALL. Mr. President, I observe that gentlemen are disposed to laugh when I rise at this hour to address the Senate upon this question. Sir, I am in no humor for jesting. On a question of", "url": "/m2/session/8763#900311", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8763}, {"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": 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": 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": 900574, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. McDOUGALL. I should have preferred the opportunity of more deliberation before addressing this body on a question as grave as this, and about which I pretend to be somewhat informed. It has been", "url": "/m2/session/8773#900574", "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": 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": 900910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to express myself in favor of the main purposes of the bill now under consideration.\n\nThrough the clouds of a great war and the confusion of a vast mass of", "url": "/m2/session/8675#900910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8675}, {"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. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to examine in detail the bill now under discussion, but will occupy a portion of the time allotted me in discussing the general principles involved therein.", "url": "/m2/session/8676#900915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8676}, {"id": 900918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LE BLOND. Mr. Speaker, I have changed my purpose, and now conclude not to make any remarks on this subject, but will defer what I have to say till the bill in reference to the Electoral Colleges,", "url": "/m2/session/8676#900918", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8676}, {"id": 900942, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. Very well, sir, that may be the opinion of the gentleman; but so far as the House is concerned its action, before the Reconstruction Committee was reconstituted for this session,", "url": "/m2/session/8678#900942", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8678}, {"id": 900950, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. I desire to say that I wish to call the previous question before four o'clock this afternoon.\n\nMr. ELIOT. Before that is done I hope I may be allowed an opportunity to offer some slight", "url": "/m2/session/8679#900950", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8679}, {"id": 901111, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Chairman, in the discussion of the important issues now under consideration, it may be well for us to recur briefly to first principles; and I feel gratified that the honorable and", "url": "/m2/session/14337#901111", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14337}, {"id": 901160, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\n\nMr. SHELLABARGER. Mr. Chairman, I shall inquire whether the Constitution deals with States. I shall discuss the question whether an organized rebellion against a Government is an", "url": "/m2/session/14337#901160", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14337}, {"id": 901246, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VORHEES. Mr. Speaker, I arise to-day to discuss the annual message of the President. In doing so, I am aware that to the majority on this floor I may appear as a meddler in a family concern. It", "url": "/m2/session/5436#901246", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5436}, {"id": 901304, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT\u2014AGAIN\n\nMr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, it was to me an agreeable surprise to hear the words of the honorable gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Voorhees] in general commendation of the", "url": "/m2/session/5436#901304", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5436}, {"id": 901354, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FESSENDEN. [...] Now, sir, as I do not agree with this petition, I shall venture to do what becomes my duty as a member of the committee on reconstruction so-called, and that is to endeavor to", "url": "/m2/session/5680#901354", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5680}, {"id": 901448, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION \n\nMr. DEMING. Mr. Chairman, I propose to submit some remarks to the committee pertinent to that paragraph of the President's message wherein he wisely refers to the House the question", "url": "/m2/session/14366#901448", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14366}, {"id": 901492, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction.\nSPEECH OF HON. G. CLAY SMITH\nOf Kentucky,\nIn the House of Representatives,\nJanuary 19, 1866.\n\nThe House being in the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union\u2014\n\nMr. SMITH", "url": "/m2/session/14366#901492", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14366}, {"id": 901890, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. [...] Now, the gentleman says the bill makes no provision for taking the votes of the people. It makes just this provision: that the military authority under this bill may permit the", "url": "/m2/session/8743#901890", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 902060, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. The Senator from Maine, [Mr. Morrill,] although he approves of this amendment, has seen fit to read me a severe lecture because I do not desire military rule as an end, but as a means,", "url": "/m2/session/8755#902060", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 902507, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. STEVENS.] [...] Notwithstanding surrounding discouragements, the exhortation, \"Be not weary in well-doing,\" encourages me to make one more\u2014perhaps an expiring\u2014effort to do something which shall", "url": "/m2/session/8631#902507", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8631}, {"id": 902531, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TAYLOR, of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I deem it proper upon this important question to offer some remarks by way of explanation of the vote which I expect to give, or which I may fail to give.\n\nIt", "url": "/m2/session/8765#902531", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 902534, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ARNELL. Mr. Speaker, at this late hour, midnight, the remarks I make shall have the merit of brevity. For speech-making generally I have but poor respect. I belong to that class of men who", "url": "/m2/session/8765#902534", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 902859, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NEWELL. Mr. Speaker, I propose to submit a few remarks for the consideration of the House upon the annual message of the President of the United States. \n\nIn doing so allow me to call attention", "url": "/m2/session/14425#902859", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14425}, {"id": 902896, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL. Mr. Chairman, the President of the United States did not in his late message commend the proposed constitutional amendments to the rebel States, nor did he promise that on their", "url": "/m2/session/14425#902896", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14425}, {"id": 903851, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KASSON. [...] I desire, if possible, to get a unanimous expression from this House, whether or not they are in favor of this construction of the Constitution. Why, sir, every single step that any", "url": "/m2/session/8642#903851", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 903856, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, the proposition which is embraced in the pending measure is, in my judgment, peremptorily demanded by the circumstances of the country. It was to be apprehended, sir, I", "url": "/m2/session/8642#903856", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 903888, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PHELPS. Mr. Speaker, I do not rise for the purpose of discussing the proposition submitted by the gentleman from Iowa, in all its length and breadth, for on that question my opinion is very clear", "url": "/m2/session/8642#903888", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 904072, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. During these six years we in these Halls have passed upon measures of transcendent magnitude. By our legislation we have created and governed mighty armies and navies, founded systems of", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904072", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904075, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I have been uniformly against all these projects. In 1861 I was a Union man, in favor of preserving the Union at all hazards. What was it? It was the Government of the", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904075", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904076, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWE. 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": 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. When it was here as a purely military measure,", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904099", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904134, "title": "OTHER", "description": "GOVERNMENT OF REBEL STATES.\n\nThe SPEAKER also laid before the House the following veto message of the President of the United States:\n\nTo the House of Representatives:\n\nI have examined the bill \u201cto", "url": "/m2/session/8849#904134", "type": "OTHER", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-forward.svg", "session_id": 8849}, {"id": 904153, "title": "OTHER", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The message of the President of the United States will be read.\n\nThe Secretary read the message, as follows: To the House of Representatives:\n\nI have examined the bill \u201cto", "url": "/m2/session/8854#904153", "type": "OTHER", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-forward.svg", "session_id": 8854}], "session_ids_for_event_results": [5451, 5583, 5609, 6880, 6881, 6882, 5480, 5495, 5496, 5513, 5525, 5529, 5679, 5681, 5682, 5684, 5686, 5688, 5689, 5690, 5691, 5708, 5467, 5468, 13004, 5469, 5487, 5478, 13017, 5673, 5674, 5675, 5676, 5584, 5587, 5588, 5677, 5523, 5536, 13103, 13105, 13109, 13110, 13116, 13118, 5608, 5610, 5692, 5693, 5695, 5696, 5698, 14220, 14222, 5701, 14234, 14237, 14240, 14241, 14243, 14247, 14251, 14254, 14257, 5580, 5582, 14262, 14268, 14274, 14276, 14287, 8667, 14293, 8668, 8669, 5617, 14300, 5618, 14301, 8719, 8742, 8743, 14308, 8640, 8755, 8762, 8763, 8673, 8765, 8773, 14317, 8674, 8675, 8676, 8678, 8679, 14337, 5436, 5680, 14366, 8631, 14425, 8642, 8842, 8849, 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BUCKALEW,\n\nOF", "url": "/m2/session/8152#849732", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8152}, {"id": 849955, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROBINSON addressed the House. [His remarks will be published in the Appendix.]\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. E. ROBINSON,\n\nOF NEW YORK,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nJuly 12,", "url": "/m2/session/8204#849955", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8204}, {"id": 850429, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The objections of the President will be entered at large on the Journal, in accordance with the requirement of the Constitution.\n\nMr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I suppose", "url": "/m2/session/8226#850429", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8226}, {"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": 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": 851054, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PAINE. Mr. Speaker, the President will, of course, veto this bill. He will probably give us the same reasons which he has so often given us for vetoing and opposing our reconstruction acts. He", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851054", "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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 851278, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DRAKE. Mr. President, it may be questioned whether the Senate has ever witnessed a debate involving more deeply great American principles, reaching down nearer to the very foundations of American", "url": "/m2/session/8502#851278", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8502}, {"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": 851284, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, the question presented in the instructions proposed by me is whether Congress is still resolved to subject the white people of the southern States to the domination of", "url": "/m2/session/8492#851284", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8492}, {"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": 851294, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. I am arguing with my friend from Kansas.\n\nNeither has the education of my colleague in this respect been altogether neglected. Side by side with me and with the majority he stood", "url": "/m2/session/8515#851294", "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": 865692, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, the distinguished Senator who has just addressed the Senate tells us that States are about to be born of the bayonet. I protest against that declaration. We have", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865692", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"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": 865731, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. Mr. President, this bill appears to me to be very remarkable as a law of elections on account of the entire absence of any provisions against fraud, either in the holding of the", "url": "/m2/session/8390#865731", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8390}, {"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": 865772, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. Mr. President, I have sent for the case to which I referred; and before making a remark about it I wish to say to the Senator from Missouri that I understood him to consent, upon my", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865772", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"id": 865775, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. It seems to me there is a practical difficulty in the way of the adoption of this amendment. It says that if a majority of the whole number of voters registered vote for a convention", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865775", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"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": 866784, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BOUTWELL.] I come now to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States bearing upon the question of suffrage. I read first that provision on which I suppose much reliance is placed to", "url": "/m2/session/7967#866784", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7967}, {"id": 866820, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHELLABARGBR next addressed the House. [See Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 40, Part 1, Pg. 722)\n\nSuffrage.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. SHELLABARGER, OF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 29, 1869.\n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866820", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866821, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Leave was granted to Mr. Bowen and Mr. Loughridge to print speeches. [See Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 40, Part 1, Pg. 722)\n\nSuffrage.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. C. BOWEN,\n\nOF SOUTH CAROLINA,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866821", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866822, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Leave was granted to Mr. Bowen and Mr. Loughridge to print speeches. [See Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 40, Part 1, Pg. 722)\n\nSuffrage Constitutional Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. LOUGHRIDGE,\n\nOf Iowa,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866822", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866829, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. Van Horn, of Missouri, and Mr. Hamilton, by unanimous consent, were granted leave to print their remarks as part of the debate. [See Appendix.]\n\n(Vol. 40, Part 1, Pg. 725)\n\nSuffrage.\n\nSPEECH OF", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866829", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866849, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Constitutional Amendment.\n\nREMARKS OF HON. J. M. BROOMALL, OF PENNSYLVANIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 30, 1869,\n\nOn the joint resolution (H. B. No. 402) proposing an amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/6514#866849", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6514}, {"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": 866922, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I have proposed an amendment to the joint resolution now before the Senate, in the following words:\n\nThat the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the", "url": "/m2/session/6610#866922", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6610}, {"id": 866933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUFFRAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.\n\nThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The unfinished business of yesterday is before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole, being the joint resolution (H. R. No. 402)", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUFFRAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.\n\nThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The unfinished business of yesterday is before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole, being the joint resolution (H. R. No. 402)", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. In the construction of a machine the good mechanic seeks the simplest process, producing the desired result with the greatest economy of time and force. I know no better rule for Congress", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866937, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SUFFRAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.\n\nThe PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution (H. R. No. 402) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is before the Senate as in", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866937", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866938, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, I will at once relieve the apprehensions of the Senate by stating that it is not ray purpose to detain them more than a very few minutes. I do not intend to protract this", "url": "/m2/session/6611#866938", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6611}, {"id": 866953, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I feel too much indisposed to discuss the subject under consideration, and I therefore decline to make any speech upon it. \n\nMr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, I do not intend to", "url": "/m2/session/6612#866953", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6612}, {"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": 866959, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Cole in the chair.) The pending question is on the amendment of the Senator from Oregon, [Mr. Williams,] to insert the word \u201cnatural-born\u201d before the word \u201ccitizens\u201d in", "url": "/m2/session/6612#866959", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6612}, {"id": 866975, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, I have a suggestion or two to make in reference to the pending constitutional amendment, and I shall compress what I have to say into a few words. It is not my", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866975", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"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": 866983, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. Mr. President, conscious of my inability to handle instructively a subject of such magnitude as the one under consideration, I had determined to remain a listener, and to cast a silent vote", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866983", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866984, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FOWLER proceeded to address the Senate at length. [See Appendix.] \n\n(Vol. 40, Part 2, Pg. 985)\n\nSuffrage Constitutional Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. S. FOWLER,\n\nOF TENNESSEE,\n\nIn the Senate of", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866984", "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": 866989, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON addressed the Senate in a speech which will be published in the Appendix. \n\n(Vol. 40, Part 2, Pg. 999)\n\nSuffrage Constitutional Amendment.\n\nREMARKS OF HON. H. 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Men have several great objects in the establishment of governments, and among these are to be found a desire to form a combination which shall have power sufficient", "url": "/m2/session/14328#901034", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14328}, {"id": 901045, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2013RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. \n\nMr. JOHNSON. Mr. Chairman, the condition of the country, the legislation recently perpetrated by Congress, and the acts threatened, altogether furnish my excuse", "url": "/m2/session/14330#901045", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14330}, {"id": 901046, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction. \nSPEECH OF HON. AARON F. 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If it shall be carried as amended it will read in this wise. \u201cThe right of trial by jury shall remain", "url": "/m2/session/7641#698342", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7641}, {"id": 698355, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PIERCE. Mr. Chairman, I rise to say a few words in support of the amendment of Mr. Varian. The only remarks I want to make are upon the question, as to whether a jury in civil actions in courts", "url": "/m2/session/7642#698355", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7642}, {"id": 698362, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN HORNE. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention, it seems to me that we have strayed somewhat from the purpose of our amendments here in the arguments that have been made. And I take it", "url": "/m2/session/7642#698362", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7642}, {"id": 698770, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CHIDESTER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I do not deem it necessary to enter into a full discussion of this question now, for the reason that I believe that the question has been", "url": "/m2/session/7651#698770", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7651}, {"id": 698786, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN. Will the gentleman yield to me for a question_I am very sorry for this interruption, but I want to ask if the plank put in the democratic platform raised any issue between the parties? I", "url": "/m2/session/7652#698786", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7652}, {"id": 698794, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. Chairman, I arise to a question of personal privilege. Some remarks which I made in the heat of discussion this morning were perhaps stronger than I would wish in referring to one of", "url": "/m2/session/7652#698794", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7652}, {"id": 698799, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the committee, when we adjourned yesterday, I believe we had under consideration, the article on elections and right of suffrage.\nMr. ELDREDGE. Mr. Chairman, at first I did", "url": "/m2/session/7653#698799", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7653}, {"id": 698823, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BARNES. Matters have assumed a shape in this Convention which I think calls forth some remarks from me as a delegate from Davis County. It may be somewhat presumptuous on my part to take up the", "url": "/m2/session/7653#698823", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7653}, {"id": 698837, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOLLEY. Mr. Chairman, I seconded the motion on Saturday. Mr. Roberts had all the time that he wished in the closing of this debate. This is my first speech, gentlemen, upon this floor since the", "url": "/m2/session/7654#698837", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7654}, {"id": 698855, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SMITH. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I had fully designed myself not to speak upon this question which has detained us so long, but in order that I may not be misunderstood as to", "url": "/m2/session/7654#698855", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7654}, {"id": 698889, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WHITNEY. Mr. Chairman, I do not deem it an unreasonable request that I have made.\nIt was I who seconded the motion giving to the gentleman from Davis County the privilege of closing the debate", "url": "/m2/session/7655#698889", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7655}, {"id": 698953, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ALLEN. As a rule I believe that the men who are educated are more apt to be men that are not living by the sweat of their brow; as a rule they are not men that linger around saloons or around", "url": "/m2/session/7655#698953", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7655}, {"id": 699014, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KEARNS. Mr. President, I hope that the motion will not prevail. It is unnecessary to create any extra offices. We find thirteen states in the Union that are all of more consequence and with more", "url": "/m2/session/7656#699014", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7656}, {"id": 699232, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOLLEY. Mr. Chairman, I am one that favors the three dollars in the place of either two and a half or three and a half, and I want to say, gentlemen_you were saying it is worth four dollars to", "url": "/m2/session/7659#699232", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7659}, {"id": 699384, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The committee of the whole then proceeded to the consideration of the article on executive.\nThe CHAIRMAN. The chair is informed that we had progressed to the twelfth section of the article on", "url": "/m2/session/7660#699384", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7660}, {"id": 699390, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, the committee of the whole is now considering section 12 of the article on executive. There are two amendments pending to section 12.\nMr. EICHNOR. Mr. Chairman, the", "url": "/m2/session/7661#699390", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7661}, {"id": 700142, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VARIAN. Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that while the object of this matter is very good, still perhaps it might work (disastrously in many cases, and in any event, it is rather an undignified", "url": "/m2/session/7666#700142", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7666}, {"id": 700247, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The CHAIRMAN. The question is upon the substitute offered by Mr. Howard.\nMr. EVANS (Utah). Mr. Chairman, I think that this matter was thoroughly discussed when we had it under consideration in the", "url": "/m2/session/7668#700247", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7668}, {"id": 700261, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Motion to Adopt: Article No.", "url": "/m2/session/7668#700261", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 7668}, {"id": 700262, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROBERTS. I would ask the gentleman if he knows how many signers to these petitions asking for the submission of this article have been flied in this house?\nMr. IVINS. I understand that these", "url": "/m2/session/7668#700262", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 7668}, {"id": 700273, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROBERTS. I ask the gentleman if he does not recollect a petition that I myself introduced, signed by more than two thousand people from this city, asking that prohibition be neither put in the", "url": "/m2/session/7668#700273", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 7668}, {"id": 700435, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CANNON. Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of striking out. I trust the motion will prevail.\nMr. FARR. 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Mr. Speaker, I am suffering so much from hoarseness that I do not know whether it will be in my power to", "url": "/m2/session/11751#860042", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11751}, {"id": 860043, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CESSNA. I now yield five minutes to the gentleman from Alabama, [Mr. Rapier.]\n\nMr. RAPIER. I have sought the floor to-day for one purpose only. I had hoped that there would be no further", "url": "/m2/session/11751#860043", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11751}, {"id": 860047, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Massachusetts is entitled to one hour to close debate.\n\nMr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. 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I had hoped when this bill was first brought before the House that in all", "url": "/m2/session/11751#860057", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11751}, {"id": 860129, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. THURMAN.] Mr. President, the pending question is on the motion submitted by me to strike out of the fourth section of the bill the words \u201cor of any State.\u201d Of course no vote is to be taken on", "url": "/m2/session/10684#860129", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10684}, {"id": 860132, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN. Mr. President, the Senator from Indiana has very truly said that his argument cannot be answered by sophistry. But it can be answered by reason, and answered so conclusively that even be", "url": "/m2/session/10684#860132", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10684}, {"id": 860133, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MERRIMON. Mr. President, the question involved in the present discussion is not one that can be settled by declamation or patriotic generalities. It is a dry question of constitutional law. It is", "url": "/m2/session/10684#860133", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10684}, {"id": 860151, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARPENTER. I understand the Senator from Maryland is willing to yield for a few minutes that I may speak on this bill.\n\nMr. HAMILTON, of Maryland. Very well.\n\nMr. CARPENTER. Mr. President, at the", "url": "/m2/session/10685#860151", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10685}, {"id": 860464, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, the interest of the country demands the passage of this bill. Go where you may in the South, and every Republican of any prominence who you meet will advocate the", "url": "/m2/session/10656#860464", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10656}, {"id": 860472, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAWYER. I wish to ask the Chair whether it is in order at this point to move to strike out all of the bill after the word \u201cremoved,\u201d in the ninth line?\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Ramsey in the", "url": "/m2/session/10656#860472", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10656}, {"id": 860488, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. Now, sir, the Senate having refused to go into executive session, and we having had a discussion, as I understand, on a subject not before the Senate, I hope we shall proceed and", "url": "/m2/session/10656#860488", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10656}, {"id": 860497, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, I shall vote for this bill; not as a measure of justice to the South or of equality among citizens. I vote for it as a safe and sound measure of public policy, as a thing", "url": "/m2/session/10656#860497", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10656}, {"id": 860509, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Now, Mr. President, I hope there will be no question about adopting this amendment.\n\nSeveral Senators. It is after four o\u2019clock.\n\nMr. SUMNER. I believe I have the right to occupy five", "url": "/m2/session/10657#860509", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10657}, {"id": 860657, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, in opening this great question, one of the vastest ever presented to the Senate, I have had but one hesitation, and that is, merely with regard to the order of treatment.", "url": "/m2/session/10485#860657", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10485}, {"id": 860659, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VICKERS. It is not my purpose, Mr. President, to follow the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Sumner] in the remarks which he has made, because his amendment is not only not germane to the", "url": "/m2/session/10485#860659", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10485}, {"id": 860661, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMMER. Mr. President, I am very reluctant to intrude again upon the attention of the Senate. Nothing but my sense of the magnitude of the question could induce me to venture upon it. I feel that", "url": "/m2/session/10659#860661", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10659}, {"id": 860662, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, I have but very few words to say in reference to this measure.\n\nMr. MORTON. Will the Senator allow me to suggest to him that if he would prefer to sneak to-morrow", "url": "/m2/session/10659#860662", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10659}, {"id": 860683, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I desire to suggest an amendment to the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, for the purpose of perfecting his proposition and getting it as near right as possible. I desire to", "url": "/m2/session/10645#860683", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10645}, {"id": 860689, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. Mr. President, I believe there is some misapprehension in the country in regard to the extent of the disabilities now imposed on those who have been engaged in the rebellion. So far as", "url": "/m2/session/10646#860689", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10646}, {"id": 860690, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN. Will the Senator allow me to interrupt him for a moment?\n\nMr. MORTON. Yes, sir.\n\nMr. THURMAN. He may have been misled by the want of some care in my language, speaking as I did very", "url": "/m2/session/10646#860690", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10646}, {"id": 860696, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, the arguments which have been advanced to-day by the Senator from Indiana and the Senator from Ohio affecting general political topics will doubtless be duly weighed by the", "url": "/m2/session/10646#860696", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10646}, {"id": 860711, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FLANAGAN. Mr. President, it is with great diffidence that I undertake briefly to discuss this subject. I have listened to this debate attentively for, lo! these many days, and I have not the", "url": "/m2/session/10662#860711", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10662}, {"id": 860722, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY addressed the Senate. [His speech, withheld for revision, will be published in the Appendix.]\n\nRemoval of Political Disabilities.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. ELI SAULSBURY,\n\nOF DELAWARE,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/10664#860722", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10664}, {"id": 860723, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCHURZ. Mr. President, when this debate commenced before the holidays, I refrained from taking part in it, and from expressing my opinions on some of the provisions of the bill now before us,", "url": "/m2/session/10664#860723", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10664}, {"id": 861099, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CHANDLER addressed the Senate. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nSPEECH OF HON. Z. CHANDLER,\n\nOF MICHIGAN,\n\nIn the Senate of the United States, January 31, 1872.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/10665#861099", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10665}, {"id": 861100, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, before this debate closes it seems to me I shall be justified in a brief reply to the most extraordinary, almost eccentric, argument by my excellent friend, the Senator", "url": "/m2/session/10665#861100", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10665}, {"id": 861110, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky. Mr. President, I listened with much pleasure to the able Senator from Wisconsin, and I concur in most of what he has said; but in some essential features of his argument 1", "url": "/m2/session/10666#861110", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10666}, {"id": 861120, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I have but a word to say. It does not occur to me that the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Sumner] is subject to the criticism which has been made upon it by the", "url": "/m2/session/10486#861120", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10486}, {"id": 861128, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I should like to vote for the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin, and will do so if it is in order to amend it afterward. In some respects I like it better than the original", "url": "/m2/session/10486#861128", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10486}, {"id": 861129, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARPENTER. Allow me to say that I did not say any such thing; but that is probably immaterial.\n\nMr. SUMNER. Has the Senator a right to say so to me?\n\nMr. CARPENTER. I certainly have a right to", "url": "/m2/session/10486#861129", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10486}, {"id": 861130, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President, I did not intend originally to participate in the debate on the amnesty bill or on the amendment submitted by the Senator from Massachusetts, but the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/10667#861130", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10667}, {"id": 861132, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARPENTER. If the Senator will allow me to interrupt him, is he not aware that that provision of the Constitution applies only to trials in the Federal courts, so decided by the Supreme Court", "url": "/m2/session/10667#861132", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10667}, {"id": 861133, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN addressed the Senate. [His remarks will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nRights of Citizens of the United States.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. G. THURMAN,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the Senate of the United", "url": "/m2/session/10667#861133", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10667}, {"id": 861135, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, I have a word to say in reference to the application of the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts to churches. In my judgment it is not wise for Congress to", "url": "/m2/session/10667#861135", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10667}, {"id": 861152, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. The Senator from Massachusetts has a right to modify his amendment.\n\nMr. HARLAN. I have a right to renew it, I suppose.\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. Certainly. The motion is to strike", "url": "/m2/session/10668#861152", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10668}, {"id": 861153, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAWYER. Mr. President, I did not intend to intrude upon the Senate again on this subject; but as the time draws near for a vote on the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, [Mr. Sumner,] I", "url": "/m2/session/10668#861153", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10668}, {"id": 861154, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORWOOD. I rise to ask whether the objections of the Senator from Kansas were withdrawn; in other words, whether the Senator from Massachusetts was allowed to accept the amendment suggested by", "url": "/m2/session/10668#861154", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10668}, {"id": 861157, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The pending question is on the amendment of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman] to strike out the fifth section of the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861157", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"id": 861170, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The yeas and nays have been ordered on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from New Jersey to the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, striking out churches.\n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861170", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"id": 861172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPRAGUE. It had not been my intention to address the Senate or to occupy its attention at all on this subject; but having received a communication from a gentleman who has had connection", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"id": 861184, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COLE. I am not disposed to detain the Senate more than a minute on this amendment. It will be observed that the only change in the section is in substituting the word \u201ccitizen\u201d for \u201cperson.\u201d This", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861184", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"id": 861186, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CORBETT. I rose last evening to call attention to a statement made by the Senator from Illinois, [Mr. Trumbull,] that this amendment, by inserting the word \"citizen,\" would make a discrimination", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861186", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861198, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TIPTON. Mr. President, I enter into a brief discussion of the question before the Senate with some degree of reluctance, inasmuch as there is a contrariety of opinion upon the subject, and so", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861198", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861216, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. I believe the amendment of the Senator from South Carolina is to make universal this amnesty, as it is called; but, as the Senator from Illinois well said, it is not an amnesty bill at", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861216", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861221, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BLAIR. 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": 861227, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. President, I do not rise to make a speech, but the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Edmunds] has put me on the stand as a witness in reference to the Ku Klux organization, and I wish simply", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861227", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861247, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HILL. Before the vote is taken I will bring to the attention of the Senate the fact that in the State of Georgia, at the recent sitting of her Legislature, there was a vote taken on the subject", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861247", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861591, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, there is a very good reason, a very strong reason, why this bill should not be referred to the committee, and it is found in the history of the bill. I have in my hand a", "url": "/m2/session/11221#861591", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11221}, {"id": 861595, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. I wish to say that I have no objection to the reference of this bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. I have no trouble myself in reference to this bill and to every provision in it.", "url": "/m2/session/11221#861595", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11221}, {"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": 861626, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. What is the state of the bill, Mr. President?\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Anthony in the chair.) The Senator from Ohio moves to strike out part of the matter which has been inserted.", "url": "/m2/session/11224#861626", "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": 861641, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. FLANAGAN addressed the Senate. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. W. FLANAGAN,\n\nOF TEXAS,\n\nIn the United States Senate,\n\nMay 20, 1874.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861641", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 861642, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PRATT. Mr. President, I rise to give my reasons briefly for supporting the measure now before the Senate\u2014the supplementary civil-rights bill, so-called, as it has come to us from the hands of the", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861642", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 861644, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. That may be true.\n\nMr. THURMAN. I know there are certain gentlemen who have been in the Congress of the United States, who thought it their duty to shear the Supreme Court of its powers", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861644", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 861645, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I am entitled to the floor on this bill; but the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Johnston] desires to leave on the three o\u2019clock train, and wishes to address the Senate before he goes. I", "url": "/m2/session/10680#861645", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10680}, {"id": 861647, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. President, a few days since I submitted to the Senate an amendment to the first section of the bill reported by the Committee on the Judiciary. As I then foresaw, a difference of", "url": "/m2/session/10680#861647", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10680}, {"id": 861649, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STOCKTON. Mr. President, I attempted in the few desultory remarks that I made yesterday to show the Senate that this bill was not a bill to secure equal rights. I desire that the Senate and the", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861649", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"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": 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": 861657, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PEASE. Mr. President, I had intended while this question was before the Senate to submit some remarks, but owing to the lateness of the hour, and the further fact that every Senator has made up", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861657", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861658, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, I am fully aware of the unfavorable circumstances under which I rise to discuss this question. We have already been in session fully nine hours, and human nature cannot", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861658", "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": 861698, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. I shall have to vote against this amendment. I do not wish to discuss it; but I believe that it may embarrass many of the present generation who would otherwise be able to secure", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861698", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861746, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. That is the same old question again.\n\nMr. SARGENT. Very well, it may be the same old question; but it is a question that I have a right to raise and to raise in this form.\n\nMr. EDMUNDS.", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861746", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"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": 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": 861883, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH and Mr. BINGHAM addressed the House, in speeches which will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. F. FARNSWORTH, OF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861883", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"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": 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": 861889, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MONROE. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose in the few words which I have to offer to enter upon an examination of the condition of affairs in our southern States. Enough, I suppose, will be admitted", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861889", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861890, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, before entering upon an argument in this matter I cannot refrain from complimenting the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Sheldon] who addressed this House to-night. It did my", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861890", "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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 861926, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAUGHAN addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSpeech of Hon. W. W. Vaughan,\n\nOf Tennessee,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861926", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"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": 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": 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": 861944, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PLATT addressed the House. [His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAMES H. PLATT, OF VIRGINIA,\n\nin the House of Representatives.\n\nApril", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861944", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"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": 861953, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BIRD addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOHN T. BIRD,\n\nOF NEW JERSEY,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861953", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861958, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. W. BARRY,\n\nOF MISSISSIPPI,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 5, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320) to", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861958", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861967, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SNYDER addressed the House in remarks which will be found in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. O. P. SNYDER, \n\nOF ARKANSAS, \n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861967", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 861972, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, when the debate on this bill commenced I had a very strong inclination to speak at length upon it. Much has been said that I should have desired to say myself, but perhaps", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861972", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 861976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURCHARD addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. C. BURCHARD,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 862018, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHELLABARGER. Mr. Speaker, I desire, in closing this debate, to say to the House a few things touching the state of the Republic that I did not allude to in opening because I had not time; but it", "url": "/m2/session/11767#862018", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 862265, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. AMES. Mr. President, at this epoch full of events of the deepest interest and greatest importance, while the nation is struggling to throw off the incubus which slavery and rebellion have put", "url": "/m2/session/11776#862265", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11776}, {"id": 862266, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSTON addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. W. JOHNSTON,\n\nOF VIRGINIA,\n\nIn", "url": "/m2/session/11776#862266", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11776}, {"id": 862268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STOCKTON. Mr. President, this act provides that any person who, under color of any law of any State, shall subject or cause to be subjected any person within the jurisdiction of the United States", "url": "/m2/session/11776#862268", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11776}, {"id": 862298, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN. I wish to submit some remarks on this bill, but I prefer not to do it now. If there is any other Senator who wishes to speak I will give way to him.\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the", "url": "/m2/session/11777#862298", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11777}, {"id": 862315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOREMAN addressed the Senate in favor of the bill. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. I. BOREMAN, OF WEST VIRGINIA,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862316, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky. Mr. President, it is not my purpose to enter into a detailed examination of all the propositions of this bill. They are too extensive and too enormous in their character to", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862316", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862331, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. BLAIR rose.\n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Massachusetts yield to the Senator from Missouri?\n\nMr. BLAIR. For a moment.\n\nMr. WILSON. For a moment.\n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862331", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862335, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BLAIR addressed the Senate. Having spoken one hour, (at eleven o\u2019clock and forty minutes, p. m.) he said:\n\nMr. President, the other day in some remarks that I made I alluded to the State of", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862335", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862355, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCHURZ. Mr. President, I have followed the debate which was called forth by this bill, and by the resolution of the Senator from Ohio, [Mr. Sherman,] which preceded it, with intense solicitude,", "url": "/m2/session/11779#862355", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11779}, {"id": 862357, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. By the unanimous agreement of the Senate, the debate has now terminated, except the closing speech of the Senator who reported the bill. The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Edmunds] is", "url": "/m2/session/11779#862357", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11779}, {"id": 862358, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. Do I disturb the Senator if I ask him a question?\n\nMr. EDMUNDS. Not in the slightest degree.\n\nMr. TRUMBULL. I should like to ask the Senator from Vermont if the United States were not", "url": "/m2/session/11779#862358", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11779}, {"id": 862359, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN. Will my friend allow me to state exactly what my view is? I have already stated it, although not in this debate. In my judgment, that provision that Congress shall have power by", "url": "/m2/session/11779#862359", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11779}, {"id": 864257, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CASSERLY. Mr. President, what is the pending question?\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Harlan in the chair.) The pending question is on the adoption of the report of the committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11775#864257", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11775}, {"id": 864262, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question recurs on agreeing to the report of the committee of conference.\n\nMr. BAYARD. Mr. President, when this bill was heretofore under consideration I expressed my", "url": "/m2/session/11775#864262", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11775}, {"id": 864264, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky. Mr. President, I was amused with the short speech made by my honorable friend from Indiana, [Mr. Morton.] The staple of the speech seemed to be this: that anything which the", "url": "/m2/session/11775#864264", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11775}, {"id": 864328, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, it is not my purpose to detain the House by any very lengthy discussion of this report, but I will as briefly as I can state the reasons why I was unable to concur with the", "url": "/m2/session/11771#864328", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11771}, {"id": 864371, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS and Mr. THURMAN and dressed the Chair. The floor was awarded to Mr. Edmunds.\n\nMr. THURMAN. Mr. President\u2014\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Pomeroy in the chair.) Does the Senator from Vermont", "url": "/m2/session/11042#864371", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11042}, {"id": 864372, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CASSERLY. I had not intended to say anything at this stage of the debate, but the speeches to which we have just listened from the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman] and the Senator from Vermont", "url": "/m2/session/11042#864372", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11042}, {"id": 864725, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. M. C. KERR, \n\nOF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 28, 1871. \n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. 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We shall be told by the Government", "url": "/m2/session/12645#829324", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12645}, {"id": 829325, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: This week we heard one of the least surprising announcements in the history of Northern Ireland \u2014 that the IRA was not committed to non-violence and, indeed, intended to hand in not a single", "url": "/m2/session/12645#829325", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12645}, {"id": 829455, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev William McCrea: In winding up for the Ulster Democratic Unionist Party, Iwish to indicate our support for the motion. The future governance of Northern Ireland should be determined by the people", "url": "/m2/session/12645#829455", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12645}, {"id": 829493, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Ian Paisley Jr:] Mr Chairman, it will not have slipped your notice that one of the ironic things about Northern Ireland is that there are many fundamental matters on which, on the surface anyway,", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829493", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829494, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McBride: It is appropriate, in a debate about fundamental constitutional reform, to start by welcoming the success of the referendum in Wales yesterday. It is an important development, just as the", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829494", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829495, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: I will be very brief because I do not intend to rehash what has already been said.\n\nThis is a very happy day for my party and me, with the DUP proposing a motion on a bill of rights.", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829495", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829496, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr King: I have just had a look at the list of Members who want to speak in this very interesting and important debate. To facilitate them \u2014 certainly those on these Benches\u2014 I will endeavour to be", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829496", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829497, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: Mr William Snoddy.\n\nMr Shannon: He had to go home. His mother has been taken into hospital.\n\nThe Chairman: There are rather more DUP Members wishing to speak, and Iwanted to give some", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829497", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829498, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Gibson: Having listened with some interest to the debate, I am amazed that, some people thought that the concept of a bill of rights was a result of the Williamite Revolution. Like Mr Carrick, I", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829498", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829503, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Bolton: I rise to support the motion, the point of which is really that we should have a bill of rights as a baseline. The events of the past 25 or 30 years have shown that everybody has rights.", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829503", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 829515, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Rev Trevor Kirkland:] There is a touch of irony in this debate. The Ulster Unionist Party, including MrBrewster, supports a bill of rights, but, as MrMaginnis said on 'Newsnight' this week, the IRA", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829515", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12648}, {"id": 831297, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Adopt and forward the operation of the health service report", "url": "/m2/session/12651#831297", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 12651}, {"id": 831807, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: I agree with much of what Mr Ian Paisley has just said. We, too, find that there are as many questions to be asked about this document as there have been answers and that creates a", "url": "/m2/session/12651#831807", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12651}, {"id": 831816, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Hussey:] One point has been made about funding, and about the funding which is being received by the Government in the South. Surely, European funding is one source that is not being properly", "url": "/m2/session/12651#831816", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12651}, {"id": 831874, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "2.45 pm\n\nThe Chairman: Mr Nesbitt.\n\nMr Nesbitt rose.\n\nMr Stoker: Will the Member give way? [Laughter]\n\nMr Nesbitt: Only if you stop the watch, Mr Chairman.\n\nThe Chairman: I am sorry; I cannot do", "url": "/m2/session/12720#831874", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12720}, {"id": 833033, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: In supporting this motion I will refer to the general lack of democracy in this province \u2014 there is, indeed, a negation of democracy in Northern Ireland which undoubtedly worries all. It", "url": "/m2/session/12754#833033", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12754}, {"id": 833038, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: Basically everything has been said. As I said at the very outset, the democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase of human history \u2014 it is human history.\nIt is obvious that the present", "url": "/m2/session/12754#833038", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12754}, {"id": 833090, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hugh Casey: I was surprised, Mr Chairman, to learn that the motion had been changed. Such a small change always leaves suspicions in your mind that what is actually being asked for may be", "url": "/m2/session/12758#833090", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12758}, {"id": 833793, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.15 am\n\nMrs Steele: May I start off by thanking the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, the secretary, MrClements, and the members for all their hard work.\n\nThe preparation of this report involved the", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833793", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833830, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Dodds: May I apologize for not being here for the beginning of the debate. However, I want to say that I agree with most of what has been said by Members since I entered the Chamber.\n\nThis", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833830", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833860, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "10.45 am\n\nRev William McCrea: Over the years, successive Governments have been secretly, and then openly, pandering to IRA murderers by seeking to hand out confidence-building measures to", "url": "/m2/session/12805#833860", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834530, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Ms McWilliams:] We welcome the opportunity to debate this subject in the Forum. We are aware that it has been debated and that, indeed, the legislation has been passed at Westminster, but people in", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834530", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834531, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "DUP Amendment: Motion on Firearms", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834531", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834532, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr King: I rise to support the amendment proposed by Mr Paisley.\n\nI do not think that the Women's Coalition have actually thought through this motion, but in light of what Ms McWilliams said this", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834532", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834548, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: I can see that we have a great deal of support for this motion.\n\nThe Chairman: I do not think that that ever seems to worry you.\n\nMs McWilliams: Historical precedent.\n\nWe believe in", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834548", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834803, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: I have nothing against the individuals who are chosen to serve on quangos. I do not cast any doubt upon their integrity, their responsibility and their willingness to serve the community", "url": "/m2/session/12825#834803", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12825}, {"id": 834809, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Davis: According to this document, people say that quangos are \"unelected and unaccountable\". That is true. What are the other criticisms? \"Quangos are secretive\" \u2014 true. \"The number and power of", "url": "/m2/session/12825#834809", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12825}, {"id": 834811, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Donaldson: I rise to endorse my Colleagues' criticism of quangos.\n\nWhile I welcome the publication of the Government's consultation document on opening up quangos, we must go, as other Members", "url": "/m2/session/12825#834811", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12825}, {"id": 836700, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Morrow: I would like to refer to the shenanigans that took place in Downing Street yesterday. One of this morning's papers says\n\n\"The door opened behind Adams. The door nearly rattled off its", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836700", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"id": 836706, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Nesbitt: Wednesday of this week was International Human Rights Day. It commemorated the signing on 10 December 1948 of the United National Declaration, which is the foundation of all human rights.", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836706", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"id": 837258, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: We are pleased to note the Police Bill and the various issues that it raises, in particular the four strands: first of all, the responsibilities of the Chief Constable, the Police", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837258", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 838144, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: May I begin by thanking the Chairman for his kind remarks.\n\nI agree with Mr Gibson that the Committee's meeting with Tony Worthington was very productive. We were able to put across the", "url": "/m2/session/12941#838144", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12941}, {"id": 838171, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "3.30 pm\n\nMr Casey: The Labour Party cannot support the motion. In January the Minister responsible for education, Mr Worthington, announced that public subsidy for preparatory schools would be", "url": "/m2/session/12941#838171", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12941}, {"id": 840245, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr McAlister: In the past I have used the words \"sham\" and \"disgrace\" to describe the peace process. Events of the last week have fully justified those descriptions and their reiteration today. I", "url": "/m2/session/12945#840245", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 840255, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: I agree with Mr Weir's comments about people taking responsibility for their actions. The problem is that this society is governed by a behaviourist ideology, which means that", "url": "/m2/session/12945#840255", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 840414, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: I support the motion on behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party.\n\nA few weeks ago I substituted for a member of the Political Affairs Committee when it heard a very impressive submission from", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840414", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840422, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: This debate has shown up those who have not left behind the very things they are complaining about. Mr Smyth tells us that he and his Colleagues have prevented a number of", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840422", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840423, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: Clause (7) of the charter says\n\n\"We demand the right for everyone who was ordered out of Northern Ireland, under paramilitary threat, to be able to return home to their families in", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840423", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840481, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Foster: This man Foster has nothing at all to do with me. We are not related in any way. All I can say is that he fostering support for his Bill.\n\nI fully agree with a number of points that the", "url": "/m2/session/13036#840481", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13036}, {"id": 840496, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr David Campbell: I would like to thank all Members for their valuable comments.\n\nWe hope that the establishment of this agency, which will probably not come into being until the end of next year,", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840496", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840610, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr McBride:] In some ways this is a contentious issue, and it will be interesting to see how it is debated. However, there ought to be broad agreement that equality of opportunity for all is vital.", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840610", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 840616, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "'PARTNERSHIP FOR EQUALITY'\n(WHITE PAPER)\n\nDebate resumed on motion:\n\nThis Forum notes the contents of the Government White Paper 'Partnership for Equality'. \u2014 [MrMcBride]\n\n\nMs McWilliams: This is a", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840616", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 840617, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: The White Paper represents the Government's understanding of the employment and unemployment situation in Northern Ireland. Sadly, it reflects the power of slander. For the last", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840617", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 841188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FAIR EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION REPORT\nMr Gregory Campbell: I beg to move the following motion:\n\nThat the Forum notes the most recent monitoring report (No 8) from the Fair Employment Commission.\n\nI want", "url": "/m2/session/13083#841188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13083}, {"id": 841190, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "10.45 am\n\nMr Gibson: This is a very revealing document.\n\nAge Concern \u2014 that revered body \u2014 employs twice as many Catholics as Protestants. If there was employment imbalance in the other direction it", "url": "/m2/session/13083#841190", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13083}, {"id": 841224, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Trimble:] Although it is referred to at the moment as the Castle Buildings Agreement, I expect that history will record this as the Stormont Agreement. That might be more appropriate.\n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841224", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841226, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "When treachery takes the stage, secrecy is always its garment. The so-called negotiations at Stormont were not a transparent discussion of the future of our beloved province but, rather, an ultimatum", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841226", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841228, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Sagar: After almost two years the Forum is nearing the end of its life. I would like to take this opportunity once again to thank the Secretariat for its support.\n\nThose of us who were at Stormont", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841228", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841604, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Presentation of Vase to the Chairman", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841604", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 844123, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: Mr Sam Foster. Please say something new if you can, Mr Foster.\n\nMr Foster: I think it possible that all has been said. However, I would like to highlight some points.\n\nThis report is an", "url": "/m2/session/11686#844123", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11686}, {"id": 844129, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Foster: The matter that I want to raise is one of concern to the people of County Fermanagh. It is a workers' problem, and I am bringing it before the Forum because of the manner in which \u2014", "url": "/m2/session/11610#844129", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11610}, {"id": 845180, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Cedric Wilson: I would like to take a few minutes to update Members of the Forum on a meeting that Standing Committee A, the one that deals with Public Order matters, had with the Minister,", "url": "/m2/session/11673#845180", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 976676, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Ms McWilliams: Obviously these are difficult times in Northern Ireland. Once again we find ourselves in a state of high conflict and tension. When the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition went to the", "url": "/m2/session/11536#976676", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11536}, {"id": 983993, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Calvert: I cannot say that I am a young farmer, being a little older!\n\nAt a time when the farming community is being hit very badly by the BSE crisis, sheep farmers too are facing difficulties.", "url": "/m2/session/11220#983993", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11220}, {"id": 984144, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "It would have been very good to be able to support the motion fully, but unfortunately it is mealy-mouthed. It does not get to the heart of the matter. Today many Members have got to the heart of the", "url": "/m2/session/11227#984144", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11227}, {"id": 984347, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: I support the motion and the amendment. We may feel at a later stage that we have to turn the screws, so to speak, on Ministers. Then, perhaps, condemnation will be more", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984347", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984377, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Gibson:] All Members who represent rural areas are very well aware that the farmer's income lubricates the financial machinery of the rest of the economy. A quick glance at the statistics will", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984377", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984391, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: I support the motion. I can safely say that the farmers' case has been well put, and many aspects of this whole crisis have been raised.\n\nLooking at the background to the crisis,", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984391", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984735, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Motion on Housing Policy", "url": "/m2/session/11249#984735", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11249}, {"id": 984748, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Coulter: On 22 July the DOE announced some reportedly tentative conclusions it had reached after consultations on its 1995 paper 'Building on Success on the Way Forward'. 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