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Mr. Speaker, in discussing the important question of the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion, a subject, which not only agitates Congress but the whole people of our", "url": "/m2/session/14247#899069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14247}, {"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": 899218, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. I trust that the gentleman will confine himself to the bill before the House.\n\nMr. SCHENCK. Will the gentleman from New Jersey allow me to make a single inquiry?\n\nMr. ROGERS. 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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": 899594, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. MOULTON. Mr. Speaker, a great variety of opinions upon the great questions growing out of the rebellion, and which have arisen since the surrender of the rebel armies, have been", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899594", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899603, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MYERS. Mr. Speaker, we are passing through the most interesting periods of American history. No higher duties, no graver responsibilities, no prouder privileges ever devolved upon men than those", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899603", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899624, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE.\n\nMr. BUCKLAND. Mr. Speaker, thus far I have been a silent listener to the able and interesting discussions in this House upon the important and intricate", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899624", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 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": 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": 899843, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. INGERSOLL. I had fondly hoped, Mr. Speaker, when Lee surrendered to General Grant, and Johnston surrendered to General Sherman, the last armies of the rebellion, that we had heard the last of", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899843", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 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": 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": 899955, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURLEIGH. Why, sir, how can the country expect pure waters to flow from a corrupt fountain? 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It only presents new phases, and more decided characteristics in its", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900084", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 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": 900387, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PAINE. The gentleman from Ohio has consented to yield for fifteen minutes to me.\n\nMr. BINGHAM. I hope the House will not take it out of my time; but I yield to the gentleman whether it does or", "url": "/m2/session/8673#900387", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8673}, {"id": 900392, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWSON again resumed the floor, and addressed the House as follows:\n\nMr. Speaker, I have watched the proceedings of this body with deep interest. No one has been a more attentive listener or more", "url": "/m2/session/8673#900392", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8673}, {"id": 900401, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. I yield to my friend from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Broomall.] \n\nMr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, in the spring of 1865 the military forces of the late confederate States of America surrendered", "url": "/m2/session/8642#900401", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 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": 900929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION-\u2014AGAIN.\n\nThe Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union resumed its session.\n\nMr. RAYMOND. Mr. Chairman, I should be glad, if it meet the sense of those members who are present,", "url": "/m2/session/14234#900929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14234}, {"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": 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": 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": 904090, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, for the good faith of this Government I hope that I can get the ear of the Senate and the ear of every Senator; for I believe that if this amendment be considered in the", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904090", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904099, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. I do not desire to take the time of the Senate at this hour of the night, and yet I confess I am not pleased with the measure before us. 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