{"186": {"top_level_match": "false", "events": [{"id": 796686, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Security Situation in", "url": "/m2/session/11536#796686", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11536}, {"id": 796713, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Adjournment of", "url": "/m2/session/11536#796713", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11536}, {"id": 796753, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Consideration of Motion to Adjourn Forum in Light of Security Situation in", "url": "/m2/session/11542#796753", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11542}, {"id": 797062, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hunter: Was it not Lord Alderdice's party that, a few weeks ago, managed to hold up the progress of the talks for several days by making ludicrous charges against the Ulster Unionist Party in", "url": "/m2/session/11562#797062", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11562}, {"id": 797305, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr John White: I have a slight problem: this speech, which I wrote out last night and this morning, lasts somewhat over 10 minutes. However, I will try to speed it up.\n\nThe speed at which we have", "url": "/m2/session/11562#797305", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11562}, {"id": 797533, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Resolution on the Bombing of Thiepval Army", "url": "/m2/session/11567#797533", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11567}, {"id": 797544, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Close: I join those who have already expressed sympathy to the relatives of the soldier about whose death we learnt this morning, but also to the many people who were injured by the bombs at", "url": "/m2/session/11567#797544", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11567}, {"id": 797549, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McCartney: On behalf of myself and my party I join in the expressions of sympathy to the relatives of Warrant Officer Bradwell and to those who were injured in these diabolical explosions.\n\nWe", "url": "/m2/session/11567#797549", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11567}, {"id": 797550, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Donaldson: On behalf of my Colleagues, and especially Mr Davis and Mr David Campbell, who represent the constituency of Lagan Valley, which includes Lisburn, I want to express sympathy to those", "url": "/m2/session/11567#797550", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11567}, {"id": 797551, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Dodds: I would like to join Colleagues in extending deepest sympathy to the family of Warrant Officer Bradwell, who died tragically this morning, and in expressing appreciation of the sacrifice", "url": "/m2/session/11567#797551", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11567}, {"id": 797610, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Peter Robinson: The Rules of Procedure are not the rules of the Business Committee; they are the Rules of the Forum, agreed by the Forum. 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Instead, I want to reject the accusations by those involved", "url": "/m2/session/11562#797940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11562}, {"id": 797946, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hunter: In supporting my party's motion, I would like to concentrate on the part which condemns the continuing IRA terrorist outrages and calls upon all Members to ensure that there can be no", "url": "/m2/session/11562#797946", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11562}, {"id": 798565, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Motion on Jobseeker's", "url": "/m2/session/11575#798565", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11575}, {"id": 798571, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "Motion on Jobseekers' Allowance: UUP", "url": "/m2/session/11575#798571", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 11575}, {"id": 798574, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Jim Rodgers:] The jobseeker's allowance had to be introduced because of widespread abuse of the system. Over the years too many people have had absolutely no intention of looking for a job or", "url": "/m2/session/11575#798574", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11575}, {"id": 798577, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Parkes: For the past 17 years the Conservative Government have systematically eroded the welfare state as we know it. Not content with dismantling the health service, they intend to use the same", "url": "/m2/session/11575#798577", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11575}, {"id": 798578, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Bell: We support the Ulster Unionist amendment. While we certainly agree with the motion, we support the point about the Social Security Secretary's monitoring of the impact. 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I do not want anyone to take on", "url": "/m2/session/11575#798798", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11575}, {"id": 798929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ken Maginnis: The debate on the Queen's Speech should, I suppose, include other matters mentioned in the Speech. There are a number of questions, including international aid, that I would like an", "url": "/m2/session/11593#798929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11593}, {"id": 798934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: May I say at the outset, Sir, what an exceptional job you are doing as Deputy Chairperson. I realize, of course, that flattery will get me absolutely nowhere with you.\n\nIt is a", "url": "/m2/session/11593#798934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11593}, {"id": 798937, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.45 am\n\nMr Dodds: I should like to begin, Sir, by wishing you well for your stint in the Chair today.\n\nIt is very fortunate that we have this opportunity to debate the Queen's Speech. One of the", "url": "/m2/session/11593#798937", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11593}, {"id": 798939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McKee: Like other Members, I wish you well in your post today, Mr Chairman. You have done a very good job in seeing the business off to a good start. This could have been a very contentious issue,", "url": "/m2/session/11593#798939", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11593}, {"id": 798944, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Cedric Wilson: It has saddened me \u2014 indeed, it saddens all within the Unionist family today \u2014 that in debating a United Kingdom Unionist motion we have actually to attribute these comments to Her", "url": "/m2/session/11593#798944", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11593}, {"id": 800001, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "1.45 pm\n\nMr Hussey: In 1985 we were assured of security. Mrs Thatcher promised us peace, stability and reconciliation, and in Parliament on 26 November of the same year Mr King made the following", "url": "/m2/session/11614#800001", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11614}, {"id": 800021, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Jim Rodgers: I support the motion. We should be reading the Anglo-Irish Agreement repeatedly, just to see to what extent it is working. I have heard some politicians saying over a number of years", "url": "/m2/session/11614#800021", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11614}, {"id": 800025, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Tom Robinson: I rise to support the motion.\n\nIt is 11 years since the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed. In order to look forward, it is necessary at times to look back. We have a generation of", "url": "/m2/session/11614#800025", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11614}, {"id": 800034, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Sammy Wilson: I wish to support the motion.\n\nIt is significant that 11 years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed we are still, as Unionists, expressing clear-cut opposition to what was done", "url": "/m2/session/11614#800034", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11614}, {"id": 800449, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "12.30 pm\n\nMr Stoker: It is a privilege to speak on this motion. While I welcome it, I do not believe that it goes far enough. I shall not be suggesting any amendment, as I accept the intentions", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800449", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 800451, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Neeson: First of all, I should like to thank Mr McMichael and the UDP for bringing forward this important motion.\n\nWinter is one of the most difficult times of the year, particularly for the", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800451", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 800462, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "2.30 pm\n\nMr Jim Rodgers: In supporting the motion, I speak from personal experience of what my 89-year-old mother has had to put up with for a number of years. The cut-backs have certainly hit senior", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800462", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 800492, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: There are still four Members who want to speak on this motion. All are from the DUP \u2014 Mr Shannon, Mr Stewart, Mr McCrea and Mr Calvert. I am in your hands as to the time available for", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800492", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 800509, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Motion on Paedophile Activities", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800509", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 800530, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Robert John White: This is unlike other debates. It is no pleasure to speak on this subject. Mr McAlister and others have left very little to say, so I will be brief.\n\nThere is a time to laugh \u2014", "url": "/m2/session/11624#800530", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11624}, {"id": 801325, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ALL-IRELAND HARMONIZATION\nDebate resumed on motion:\n\n\nThis Forum, while approving of co-operation with the Irish Republic on matters of mutual interest and benefit, deprecates the attempt to bring", "url": "/m2/session/11634#801325", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11634}, {"id": 801827, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Human Rights", "url": "/m2/session/11659#801827", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11659}, {"id": 801828, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: The proposer of the motion has established what is right in international law, but I do not take much comfort from that. Indeed, internationalization of the Ulster problem does", "url": "/m2/session/11659#801828", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11659}, {"id": 801829, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Sagar: We too are very pleased to speak in support of this motion. It is our view that respect for and defence of human rights must be a part of any lasting political settlement. We believe that a", "url": "/m2/session/11659#801829", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11659}, {"id": 801867, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.15 am\n\nMr Stoker: Human rights can be a very emotive issues. If you were to go out to the street and ask someone if he believed in human rights he would say without hesitation \"Yes, I do.\" But if", "url": "/m2/session/11659#801867", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11659}, {"id": 801910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Sagar: The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition welcomes the opportunity to debate transport policy. We are pleased that there is recognition of the need for change. There are many reasons for", "url": "/m2/session/11659#801910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11659}, {"id": 801997, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Nesbitt: Much could be said, but as I have only five minutes I will concentrate on two statements made by the Secretary of State this week. He said, first, that long-term and youth unemployment is", "url": "/m2/session/11667#801997", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11667}, {"id": 801999, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Lord Alderdice: The decision by the Government to redirect Northern Ireland block-grant money from social and economic matters to security and compensation will undoubtedly result in very serious", "url": "/m2/session/11667#801999", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11667}, {"id": 802003, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: We too support the motion, as some Members may be delighted to hear. We are very concerned about these public expenditure cuts. 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We have all got used to the fact that the Tory", "url": "/m2/session/11667#802007", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11667}, {"id": 802041, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Security", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802041", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802045, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Rev Dr Paisley: With regard to security in Northern Ireland, we have the worst situation ever, and it has come about simply because of the actions of successive British Governments and many", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802045", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802052, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Bolton: I should like to express my thanks to you, Mr Chairman, and to the other Members and the staff for their words of sympathy on our tragic bereavement. My family are deeply humbled at the", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802052", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802067, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: I want to draw attention immediately to this chilling headline:\n\n\"Cold Grave the Choice for the Old\".\n\nWe want such headlines to disappear from local newspapers. While critical of the", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802067", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802076, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "Address Invitations Motion: DUP Amendment", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802076", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802151, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McAlister: I rise in the knowledge that I know exactly what the DUP amendment is about. I am sorry Mr Hugh Smyth is never here whenever I wish to make a comment. I do not know whether this a", "url": "/m2/session/11669#802151", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11669}, {"id": 802323, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Terrorist Crime Legislation", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802323", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802324, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr King: It is with a rather heavy heart that I have to propose this motion. As I am a practising lawyer, nothing would give me more satisfaction than proposing a motion consigning anti-terror", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802324", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802327, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "Terrorist Crime Legislation Motion: NIWC", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802327", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802328, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: In proposing this amendment, we feel that it is important to draw attention to the report of the inquiry into legislation against terrorism that the Right Honorable the Lord Lloyd of", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802328", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802330, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: I welcome this debate. While supporting the motion, we are concerned about its rather anaemic form and muddled approach. At this time there is no point in calling on the", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802330", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802331, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.00 am\n\nMr McCartney: There are elements in the motion that I would be happy to support, but aspects of both amendments too raise interesting and worthwhile points. I think that one should attempt", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802331", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802334, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: The debate so far has been marked by a very important and, indeed, necessary academic element, but I wish to speak to the motion from the perspective of the ordinary, decent, law-abiding", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802334", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802336, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Gregory Campbell: I wish to congratulate those Members who have drawn attention to and analysed the political will of the present Government and their lack of determination.\n\nThat was very clearly", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802336", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802340, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Eric Smyth: When I think of Sir Winston Churchill I am reminded of a programme I watched not very long ago about his life, and I see that history is being repeated. Churchill warned the nation", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802340", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802359, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "Main Question put.\n\nThe Forum divided: Ayes 42; Noes 6.\n\nAyes: Anthony Alcock, May Beattie, Thomas Benson, Robert Bolton, David Brewster, David Browne, Cecil Calvert, Gregory Campbell, Mervyn", "url": "/m2/session/11673#802359", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 11673}, {"id": 802757, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "12.00\n\nMr Foster: There is no doubt whatsoever that this is a very important issue. We are indeed aware that drugs of various sorts are now part of everyday living. Many people cherish the belief", "url": "/m2/session/11677#802757", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11677}, {"id": 802801, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McMichael: The introduction of the Action for Community Employment scheme \u2014 more commonly known as ACE \u2014 in 1982 was a major innovation. It proved to have enormous potential for growth in the", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802801", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802806, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Nesbitt: This debate is very timely. Yesterday the Economy Committee of the Forum met representatives of the Northern Ireland Federation of ACE \u2014 the composite body representing all the ACE", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802806", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802816, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Benson: Thank you very much for the opportunity to support this motion. This Government prides itself in getting value for money. Well, I can think of nothing that gives better value for money", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802816", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802818, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: I too support the motion and would like to make a few points about what is proposed.\n\nACE is one of the most important Government schemes \u2014 if not the most important \u2014 to provide jobs for", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802818", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802837, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Curran: May I begin by expressing my personal thanks to you, Mr Chairman, for the great kindness that you showed in contacting my wife and family during my recent illness. I would also like to", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802837", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802842, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Trimble: I am glad of the opportunity to debate this issue today and, I suspect, next week. It is appropriate that the Labour Party has brought it before us in this way. The terms of the motion", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802842", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802847, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Close: The Forum was elected to promote dialogue and to promote understanding throughout the community. This afternoon we have a really glorious opportunity of demonstrating just how we can", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802847", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802848, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McCartney: When we talk about the world of reality, as seen through the eyes of the Alliance Party, we talk as if the appointment of this commission, independent or otherwise, will be the answer", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802848", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 802849, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: It is sobering to follow such a candid speech. MrMcCartney hit the nail on the head with regards to the importance of this issue.\n\nThe Labour Party's motion says that we should", "url": "/m2/session/11683#802849", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11683}, {"id": 803171, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Ken Maginnis: I apologize for my lateness, which is due to traffic difficulties.\n\nI understand that you, Mr Chairman, paid a fitting tribute to the young soldier who was so tragically killed a", "url": "/m2/session/11688#803171", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11688}, {"id": 803722, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "3.15 pm\n\nMr Gibson: I support the motion without reservation.\n\nThis is a debate which should never have had to take place. All of us in Northern Ireland regard education as our most valued asset. We", "url": "/m2/session/11693#803722", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11693}, {"id": 803723, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: Thank you, Mr McCartney. Since you referred to Ms McWilliams, perhaps she would like to speak next?\n\nMs McWilliams: This is an extremely important motion. We have heard about the", "url": "/m2/session/11693#803723", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11693}, {"id": 803777, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: Mr Benson, did I understand you to say that certain education bodies are not allowed to take out insurance against damage?\n\nMr Benson: That is correct. The education boards \u2014 the", "url": "/m2/session/11703#803777", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11703}, {"id": 803781, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: This debate is integrally related to the security situation. The Government have made it clear that these cuts are being made because money has to be transferred from education to", "url": "/m2/session/11703#803781", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11703}, {"id": 803782, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hussey: As I rise to speak in this debate on education cut-backs I wonder if I am perhaps one of the 550 under threat.\n\nI certainly agree with the words of Mr Neeson as a former member of a", "url": "/m2/session/11703#803782", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11703}, {"id": 803795, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ervine: I do not propose to enter into statistics or lists of facts and figures about the Child Support Agency or its work \u2014 I am more inclined to look upon this as a human issue. From a cold and", "url": "/m2/session/11703#803795", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11703}, {"id": 803797, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hunter: This legislation is typical of how we have been seduced by the current Government over a number of years. It was a good enough idea, but, unfortunately, when they got it down on paper as", "url": "/m2/session/11703#803797", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11703}, {"id": 804039, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: Mr Robinson, I understand that you would like to wind up on behalf of the United Kingdom Unionist Party, whose Members are not here.\n\nMr Peter Robinson: As agreed at the Business", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804039", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804284, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Empey Speech: European Community's Peace and Reconciliation Fund", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804284", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804342, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Robinson Speech: Attacks on minority communities", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804342", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804355, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Coulter Speech: Insecurity in the community", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804355", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804359, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Gibson: Earlier today another Committee Chairman gave a report on the activities of his Committee, so I will report on the activity of Standing Committee B.\n\nCommittee B, which deals with", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804359", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804361, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Peter Robinson: It would be inappropriate for us to adjourn without some reference to the motion we have on the Order Paper which asks that the Forum adjourn to a specific date, that date being 30", "url": "/m2/session/11708#804361", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11708}, {"id": 804387, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McCartney: The Prime Minister by making a seminal speech on his policy for Northern Ireland within two weeks of his party's entry into government underlines the importance that he attributes to", "url": "/m2/session/11711#804387", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11711}, {"id": 804388, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Trimble: Mr Chairman, may I say how nice it is to see you back in your place and the Forum resuming its function.\n\nThe analogy with which Mr McCartney closed his speech was a most appropriate one,", "url": "/m2/session/11711#804388", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11711}, {"id": 804389, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.00 am\n\nMr Casey: Mr Blair, at the beginning of his speech, stressed that this was his first official visit outside London. That stresses how important he felt it was to come here and spell out to", "url": "/m2/session/11711#804389", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11711}, {"id": 804395, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev William McCrea: We have had a serious debate because the very important issues raised by the speech go right to the very heart of the problem that many of us as democrats face. It was good that", "url": "/m2/session/11711#804395", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11711}, {"id": 804847, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: I also wish to support the motion. When the concept of universal suffrage was first mooted, the political parties North and South held the view that not only the living should have a vote,", "url": "/m2/session/11713#804847", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11713}, {"id": 804848, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Peter Robinson: I rise to support the amendment in the name of the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nI accept the thrust of the Ulster Unionist Party's proposal \u2014 indeed, the intention of everyone who", "url": "/m2/session/11713#804848", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11713}, {"id": 804870, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "2.45 pm\n\nMr McKee: I will be very brief. I would just like to support what Mr Neeson said about Whiteabbey Hospital, but before I do that, Mr Chairman, may I belatedly congratulate you on being", "url": "/m2/session/11713#804870", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11713}, {"id": 804881, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Donaldson: On behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party, I wish to add my voice to those of the people who have, quite rightly, condemned this terrible outrage against these two young men, Const John", "url": "/m2/session/11749#804881", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11749}, {"id": 808805, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Cedric Wilson: \"Ask any activist in the North 'Did Drumcree happen by accident?' and he will tell you 'No. Three years of work on the lower Ormeau Road, Portadown, in parts of Fermanagh and Newry,", "url": "/m2/session/11749#808805", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11749}, {"id": 808808, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McBride: The Alliance Party will be opposing the adoption of this report.\n\nThis is a very serious issue. None of us can have any doubt about that given the circumstances we are living in today and", "url": "/m2/session/11749#808808", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11749}, {"id": 808811, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: The Business Committee \u2014 not I, but the Business Committee \u2014 decided that we should try to limit this discussion to two hours. That time is fast approaching, and there are five more", "url": "/m2/session/11749#808811", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11749}, {"id": 808815, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: I would like a break of five minutes because I really want to think about this.\n\nThe meeting was suspended at 1.03 pm and resumed at 1.08 pm.\n\nThe Chairman: Before I address the Rule", "url": "/m2/session/11749#808815", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 11749}, {"id": 809198, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Trimble: I think it appropriate that we have this opportunity to take note of the Prime Minister's statement. There is no doubt that what he said this week will turn out to be one of the key", "url": "/m2/session/11840#809198", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11840}, {"id": 809207, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: We look forward to Mr McCartney's summing-up. As it is now 2.56 and we have another debate to complete within the hour, perhaps he will be quick.\n\nMr McCartney: I am certainly not", "url": "/m2/session/11840#809207", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11840}, {"id": 811462, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Extension of Debate on Current Situation in Northern Ireland by 15", "url": "/m2/session/11948#811462", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 11948}, {"id": 811476, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: Some weeks ago, after the Manchester bombing, I stood here and condemned it. I asked what \u00a3100 million could have done for Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Iris Robinson: The figure is \u00a3500", "url": "/m2/session/11948#811476", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11948}, {"id": 811485, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Nesbitt: I did not intend to speak in this debate, but I shall say a few words.\n\nWe have heard much these past two weeks about the annoyance and the concern of the Nationalist community. I speak", "url": "/m2/session/11948#811485", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11948}, {"id": 828374, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "DUP Amendment: Standing Advisory Commission", "url": "/m2/session/12590#828374", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 12590}, {"id": 828376, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: We welcome the report by SACHR. It is extremely wide-ranging and very thorough in terms of the research that was carried out on both employment and unemployment in Northern Ireland. It", "url": "/m2/session/12590#828376", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12590}, {"id": 828380, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: In the recent Queen's Speech the Government outlined three areas in which they want to see swift action in Northern Ireland: their so-called confidence-building measures \u2014 namely, parades,", "url": "/m2/session/12590#828380", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12590}, {"id": 828385, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Poots: Mr Neeson said that the SACHR report had respect but we disagree with that.\n\nThe membership of the Commission dealing with this subject was not balanced and did not reflect the composition", "url": "/m2/session/12590#828385", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12590}, {"id": 828386, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Empey: I think that everyone in the Chamber supports the concept of equal opportunity for every citizen. That is a goal that we all can share and all strive to achieve. There are many people who", "url": "/m2/session/12590#828386", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12590}, {"id": 828436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Rev Dr Ian Paisley:] There seems to be tremendous pressure on people not to state their convictions honestly. If a person has the courage to state his convictions, the other side immediately accuses", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828445, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: I will be brief. We could have done without this motion and perhaps got on with some other business. Anyway, I will speak on it as usual.\n\nI deplore last week's violence, just as I", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828445", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828478, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Jim Rodgers: Northern Ireland, and Belfast, is a rather sad place today. Like most Members, I am most certainly relieved at the decision taken last night by the Orange Institution. I speak today", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828478", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828485, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: This is a time of great anxiety, a time for courage and a time for exercising responsibility. The 11th of July is a date that everyone here has for years regarded as a lovely time, a time", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828485", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828487, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: A number of Members prefaced their remarks with references to historical events. Several mentioned the situation in pre-Nazi Germany \u2014 the rise of National Socialism and the", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828487", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828488, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Gibson: I have listened to all the speeches this morning with some interest. First of all, I want to support the party motion and the amendment, because the amendment does highlight the relevant", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828488", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828495, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mrs I Robinson: I regret that Ms McWilliams did not stay for the rest of the debate, as it is to her that I want to address my comments. It is interesting that she selected only the Parades Committee", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828495", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828496, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: This has been a very sobering debate. It has had its light moments, and it is a good thing that a sense of humour is deeply embedded in the Ulster character. I do not know what", "url": "/m2/session/12593#828496", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12593}, {"id": 828530, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Dodds: We support the motion that has been proposed by Prof Alcock. We too welcome the special peace and reconciliation programme which was set up, largely at the instigation of the Northern", "url": "/m2/session/12595#828530", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12595}, {"id": 828573, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Agenda Item: Explosive Device", "url": "/m2/session/12598#828573", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 828574, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "10.06 am\n\nMr Peter Robinson: It is important for us, Mr Chairman, to give very strong support to your remarks about the very evil attempt potentially to assassinate the Leader of the United Kingdom", "url": "/m2/session/12598#828574", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 828683, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: The Vice-Chairman of Committee E, my Colleague Mr McAlister, is on holiday following his recent illness. We trust that this rest will contribute significantly to his full recovery to", "url": "/m2/session/12595#828683", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12595}, {"id": 829239, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Foster: Peace is very satisfying but it only seems to be on offer on Sinn Fein's terms. Because of such disappointment Unionist unity is vitally important. It is a sad reflection on Her Majesty's", "url": "/m2/session/12598#829239", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 829249, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Dodds: May I thank my Friend, Mr Hugh Smyth, for having the courtesy to stay for a few minutes. I know he is always anxious to get away to other things at this time of the day, and not to have to", "url": "/m2/session/12598#829249", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 829252, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Ms Bell: I take this opportunity to make a few very basic, but personal, comments.\n\nThe Forum rises today after a very serious and significant period in our history. Violence and sectarian activity", "url": "/m2/session/12598#829252", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 829255, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "2.30 pm\n\nMr Gardiner: To use a phrase coined by Mr Hugh Smyth, I shall be brief.\n\nThe Government, as they consider which projects to fund for the millennium celebrations, should concentrate solely on", "url": "/m2/session/12598#829255", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12598}, {"id": 829303, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: I have been given the task of summing up. This is not easy to do, and I am not going to attempt to recapitulate the most eloquent, most moving things which have been said by all who", "url": "/m2/session/12644#829303", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12644}, {"id": 829478, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: I would like to associate myself with what you have said, Mr Chairman.\n\nThe most alarming thing about Markethill is the fact that the Army's chief security officer in the area", "url": "/m2/session/12648#829478", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-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": 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": 831852, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Ms McWilliams:] Strictly speaking, the claim, in article 2, that the national territory consists of the whole island of Ireland is not contrary to international law, as Prof Alcock has just pointed", "url": "/m2/session/12720#831852", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12720}, {"id": 831871, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REPUBLIC OF IRELAND CONSTITUTION:\nTERRITORIAL CLAIM TO NORTHERN IRELAND\n\n\n\nDebate resumed on amendments to motion:\n\nThis Forum condemns the illegal and immoral territorial claim contained in the", "url": "/m2/session/12720#831871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12720}, {"id": 831876, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: The matters we have been discussing today go to the very heart of the problem. I am surprised that so many spokesmen for Unionism have been trying to say that articles 2 and 3,", "url": "/m2/session/12720#831876", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12720}, {"id": 833045, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Casey:] The Labour Party condemns these cuts which were recently announced by the Training and Employment Agency. At the start of the 1997/98 financial year, occupancy of the ACE programme stood", "url": "/m2/session/12754#833045", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12754}, {"id": 833089, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Ian Paisley:]\n\nI should like to draw the Members' attention to the fact that the wording in the second line of the first paragraph of the motion differs slightly from that which was originally", "url": "/m2/session/12758#833089", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12758}, {"id": 833091, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Sagar: The Women's Coalition will be abstaining in the vote on this debate. Iwould like to take the opportunity to put our views on record.\n\nThe Women's Coalition welcomes the DUP's interest in", "url": "/m2/session/12758#833091", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12758}, {"id": 833092, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: I rise to support the motion proposed by Mr Ian Paisley.\n\nI have always believed in the establishment of a Northern Ireland Parliament. Many would say that it should be similar to the", "url": "/m2/session/12758#833092", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12758}, {"id": 833163, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Coulter:] May I say before dealing with the motion that it was right and proper for you, Mr Chairman, to mention the sacrifice of so many Ulstermen at Gallipoli. It is also heartening to hear the", "url": "/m2/session/12761#833163", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12761}, {"id": 833212, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "12.15 pm\n\nMrs I Robinson: I would like to use my five minutes to make a sincere and honest plea to the Prime Minister regarding his Government's plans for the future of Northern Ireland:\n\n\"Mr Blair,", "url": "/m2/session/12761#833212", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12761}, {"id": 833213, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The Chairman: I am going to call Ms Bell next, and I hope that we can avoid disparaging remarks across the Floor. I am quite ready to accept reasonable barracking, but please let us listen to what", "url": "/m2/session/12761#833213", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12761}, {"id": 833222, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: This morning, in your opening comments, Mr Chairman, you made some very timely remarks about the situation that affected the Forum last week when some Members were absent because", "url": "/m2/session/12761#833222", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12761}, {"id": 833242, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "[Mr Calvert:] I would also like to congratulate the three companies from Lisburn \u2014 Barbour Campbell Threads, Bemac Engineering and Unitrunk \u2014 on their investment of \u00a316\u00b73 million which should give", "url": "/m2/session/12761#833242", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12761}, {"id": 833788, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: On behalf of the Labour Party I want to say that we welcome the report and wish to congratulate the Chairman, the members and the secretariat on its depth.\n\nThe report contains submissions", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833788", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833789, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Chairman: There are five more Members to speak, and I would like to finish by 11.15 am if possible.\n\nMr Hugh Smyth: Are you trying to tell me something, Mr Chairman?\n\nThe Chairman: Not in", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833789", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833805, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: Labour welcomes the report, and we congratulate the Chairman, and Vice-Chairman and the Committee. I think a special word of thanks is due to the administrative staff for what was a fairly", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833805", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833807, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev William McCrea: When the Forum originally discussed the electoral irregularities on 13 June 1997, it was agreed by all that many such irregularities did take place at the recent Parliamentary and", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833807", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833827, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Robert John White: When it gets to this stage a lot has been said, and one could say \"Thank goodness for that\". I will not go over it again. Mr Donaldson went into a lot of detail in explaining", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833827", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833828, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: Many of the points have been very well addressed by Mr Donaldson and other Members. I am also very concerned about this draft Bill, its implications and how it will actually work. I do", "url": "/m2/session/12802#833828", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12802}, {"id": 833865, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: Of course, I will be brief.\n\nThe Chairman: We always have 10 or 15 seconds spent on that claim.\n\nMr Hugh Smyth: In 1994, when the cease-fire was announced, the then Prime Minister,", "url": "/m2/session/12805#833865", "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": 834534, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Peter Robinson: The starting point of this debate must be the incident at Dunblane \u2014 that was the cause of the Government's moving in this direction. Everybody in the House would accept that it", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834534", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834536, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hussey: I rise to support the amendment and, indeed, to urge the Women's Coalition to drop their proposal and support the amendment.\n\nThe point has been well made that one of the major problems \u2014", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834536", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834542, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: On 30 September 1997 we saw the end of what many would describe as the long-established and honourable sport of pistol shooting on the mainland. It was the victim of a weak Conservative", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834542", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834544, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: Before addressing the motion, there are two things Iwant to say.\n\nThe Chairman: Will they be relevant to the motion?\n\nRev Trevor Kirkland: They are relevant to points that have", "url": "/m2/session/12805#834544", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12805}, {"id": 834640, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Sagar: A year ago we debated almost exactly the same motion we are debating today. Now, thankfully, we have much less violence on our streets, and the climate should be conducive to a more", "url": "/m2/session/12822#834640", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12822}, {"id": 834641, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: I rise to support the motion as moved by the Ulster Unionists.\n\nWe can all recall, only too well, the infamous signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Equally, we can recall the assurances", "url": "/m2/session/12822#834641", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12822}, {"id": 834645, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Tom Robinson: Many Members will remember the famous words of Mrs Thatcher, repeated in the Forum on a number of occasions this afternoon, that the Anglo-Irish Agreement would bring peace,", "url": "/m2/session/12822#834645", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12822}, {"id": 834827, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Junkin: The motion expresses dismay at the recognition accorded by the Secretary of State to these so-called action groups, or concerned residents' groups, or whatever. The recognition has been", "url": "/m2/session/12825#834827", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12825}, {"id": 836166, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: This matter needs to be thoroughly investigated. Republicans spew out plenty of false propaganda and try to place the blame for what has happened here on the shoulders of the", "url": "/m2/session/12866#836166", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12866}, {"id": 836174, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McKee: I will not be able to give as full an account of the arms trial as others have given, but I must congratulate Mr Weir on the detail that he went into and the information he provided.\n\nI", "url": "/m2/session/12866#836174", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12866}, {"id": 836633, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: I do not know which of the six versions to speak on!\n\nFirst, I would like to congratulate Mr Ervine on moving the motion. I recognize that it looks very much like a Belfast motion and", "url": "/m2/session/12884#836633", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12884}, {"id": 836694, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: May I join others in wishing the Chairman, Mr Gorman, a speedy recovery.\n\nI want to look at the position of the Forum. As Chairman of the Health Committee, Ihave written to the Social", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836694", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"id": 836695, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Weir: May I start by expressing my best wishes to the Chairman.\n\nI want to speak about the disgraceful meeting at Downing Street yesterday. Here Ifind myself at one with Rev William McCrea. But we", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836695", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"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": 836707, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mrs Parkes: May I join other Members in wishing Mr Gorman a speedy recovery.\n\nI want to speak briefly about a couple of matters which come under the heading of social security. Members will be aware", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836707", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"id": 836708, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Stewart: Along with other Members, I wish Mr Gorman a speedy recovery.\n\nThe issue that I want to talk about today is more funding for sports in Northern Ireland, particularly for the North West", "url": "/m2/session/12888#836708", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12888}, {"id": 836851, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Motion on recent events (political/security", "url": "/m2/session/12894#836851", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 12894}, {"id": 836864, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Motion on recent events (political/security", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836864", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836866, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Trimble: First, may I associate myself with the earlier remarks about your recovery, Mr Chairman, and say how pleased we are to see you back.\n\nWe are appalled at the violence that has occurred", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836866", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836868, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McMichael: First, may I welcome you back, Mr Chairman. I am glad to see that you are in better health.\n\nI agree with Members who have expressed alarm at the recent turn of events and at the", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836868", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836869, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev William McCrea: It appears that during the Christmas break Mr Andrews has been looking around for a suitable venue for the talks to move to. Apparently he had discussions with the Finns and the", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836869", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836870, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Gregory Campbell: May I join with others, Mr Chairman, in welcoming you back.\n\nAll too often when we are talking about the way forward and where we would like to see the Government taking the", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836870", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Ian Paisley Jr:] The Forum meets today under the shadow of a deepening security crisis. Since we adjourned for Christmas the pious and the so-called moderate peacemakers have all failed \u2014 as was", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836930, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Weir: I do not want to pre-empt something which may be brought before the Forum in a few weeks' time, but Members should be aware of the Government's proposals for preparatory schools.\n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/12897#836930", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12897}, {"id": 837035, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[The Chairman:] Mr John Junkin will speak next. I am sure he turned up all the time.\n\nMr Junkin: I attended as my business allowed, which was most of the time.\n\nThe subject of this report is near to", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837035", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837251, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Rev Dr Ian Paisley:] The Government have cobbled together this Police Bill to try to mask political changes to the police behind the reform of the police complaints system. No one should be in any", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837251", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837252, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ken Maginnis: The Police (Northern Ireland) Bill has 77 clauses and six schedules. It is a massive document, not so much hastily cobbled together as very carefully and assiduously drafted over a", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837252", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837255, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: At the outset I have to declare an interest in that I am a member of the Police Authority. However, I would like to make it clear that, although I share some of their concerns, I am", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837255", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837256, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: Anyone who has studied the provisions in the Police (Northern Ireland) Bill will be alarmed at the devious way in which political changes are to be made to policing in Northern", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837256", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837259, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: The least appropriate reaction to the Police Bill should be one of surprise. Mr Empey has already outlined the background to this Bill which lay with the Civil Service and the last", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837259", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837260, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Coulter: This motion is very timely. It brings us to the heart of something that touches us all: law and order. However, I must question the motives behind introducing this Bill just now. Has it", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837260", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837263, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: I want to speak about the current political /security situation. It is ironic that those who complained and pontificated in the past, saying that they were not into the politics", "url": "/m2/session/12899#837263", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12899}, {"id": 837685, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Shannon: I would like to address an issue that is much in people's minds at present \u2014 the \"bloody Sunday\" inquiry. I will question the need for an inquiry and compare that event with some of the", "url": "/m2/session/12916#837685", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12916}, {"id": 837687, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "2.15 pm\n\nMr Poots: Members will have seen the recent Coopers and Lybrand report which warned that Northern Ireland could very soon enter a period of recession. The only person who does not seem to be", "url": "/m2/session/12916#837687", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12916}, {"id": 837689, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr McAlister: I would like to support all that my Colleague Mr Poots has said about the economy.\n\nThis week the Minister announced a new review of economic development strategy. We in the Economy", "url": "/m2/session/12916#837689", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12916}, {"id": 837692, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr King: I want to focus the attention of the Forum on a piece of good news about employment in South Antrim.\n\nTesco is to open a depot in Antrim town. It is hoped that over 200 jobs will be created.", "url": "/m2/session/12916#837692", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12916}, {"id": 837695, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Sammy Wilson: I was very pleased by some of the comments of Mr Rodgers. The Forum notes the sacrifice that he made today when, rather than go onto a platform with 60 to 100 television cameras from", "url": "/m2/session/12916#837695", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12916}, {"id": 837983, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: Labour too welcomes the report and congratulates the Committee's Chairman and other members. It would be wrong to decry any injection of money into Northern Ireland, irrespective of where", "url": "/m2/session/12926#837983", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12926}, {"id": 837985, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Neeson: This has been a very useful debate.\n\nOne of the important things about the peace and reconciliation fund is that it has sharpened awareness of Europe. As a member of the Alliance Party,", "url": "/m2/session/12926#837985", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12926}, {"id": 838030, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: We too welcome this document, which is extremely important for our future. These things used to be called regional plans; 'Shaping our Future' is a much better title.\n\nThe document", "url": "/m2/session/12926#838030", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12926}, {"id": 838034, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: I take a different view on this issue. The document talks about shaping the future. Somebody asked earlier \"Who is shaping whose future?\" Ulster will not have a future, except we", "url": "/m2/session/12926#838034", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12926}, {"id": 838129, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Poots: I do not know how I can follow Mr Kirkland. However, somebody has given me a quote from Robert Burns:\n\n\"As father Adam first was fool'd,\n\nA case that's still too common,\n\nHere lies a man a", "url": "/m2/session/12941#838129", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12941}, {"id": 838212, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Ian Paisley Jr:] First, Madam, may I associate myself with what has been said about your being in the Chair today. I hope that no Member from this side of the House will give you cause for", "url": "/m2/session/12945#838212", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 838214, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Casey: I would love to support the motion, but I am not able to. We have had a lot of reminiscing, and we have been told that the Rules allow us to meet in different places. If we had stuck", "url": "/m2/session/12945#838214", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 838219, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "11.15 am\n\nLord Alderdice: May I extend to you, Madam, the good wishes of my Colleagues and myself. It would be understandable if you had some difficulty exerting discipline on MrPeter Robinson, but I", "url": "/m2/session/12945#838219", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 840233, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: I support this very timely motion. All Members should be concerned about this matter and should try to use their influence as public representatives to forestall any attempt by Her", "url": "/m2/session/12945#840233", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"id": 840236, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: This subject is close to the hearts of most people. It causes many serious problems, and we have a duty to do our best for constituents. Unfortunately, this Government does not seem to", "url": "/m2/session/12945#840236", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12945}, {"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": 840248, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Jim Rodgers: I have just learned at a function in Belfast city hall that GeorgeMackey, who has done so much for the city, is in hospital, having had a heart attack. I am sure that most Members \u2014", "url": "/m2/session/12945#840248", "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": 840394, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "[The Chairman:] May I ask Mr Canavan to begin.\n\nMr Canavan: I am grateful for the invitation to describe the Government's community relations policy, which is based on the reality that", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840394", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840402, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr David Campbell: I have been an advocate of community relations work for many years, both as a local representative (constituency work is often community relations work) and as someone who has", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840402", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840403, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Nesbitt: Mr Glendinning talked about equity and equality in Northern Ireland. Was he suggesting that Northern Ireland is in some way different and that the political problems we have to solve are", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840403", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840416, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr McCarthy: I support this motion and condemn all violence at all times and from whatever quarter.\n\nMembers may recall that I voiced concern last week that violence on the streets can be caused by", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840416", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840425, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Motion on Security", "url": "/m2/session/13035#840425", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13035}, {"id": 840427, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Motion on Security", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840427", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840428, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Rev Dr Ian Paisley:] At a meeting some time ago the former PrimeMinister, JohnMajor, told my colleagues and me that if the IRA should break their cease-fire the whole world would send them to", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840428", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840429, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: I support the motion, and I commend Dr Paisley for his final few words.\n\nThe situation is certainly deteriorating \u2014 of that there is no doubt. Sinn Fein had their backs against the wall.", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840429", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840430, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: In supporting the motion I want to concentrate on the terrible situation that we in Portadown have experienced during the past week.\n\nFirst, I want to express my revulsion at the bombs in", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840430", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840431, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: May I first express sympathy to the people of Portadown and Moira, particularly the traders, including our Forum Colleague MrCarrick, who has suffered a huge loss as a result of this", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840431", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840434, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Poots: The security situation did not start to deteriorate last Friday; it started to deteriorate two months ago with a murder in the Maze. Since then there have been two Loyalist murders in the", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840434", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840435, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Calvert: I too support the motion.\n\nAll right-thinking and responsible residents of Northern Ireland are concerned about the deteriorating security situation in the province. The DUP is concerned", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840435", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Brewster: I am very sad that some Members think it appropriate to bring party politicking into this debate. It is quite ridiculous. We in the Ulster Unionist Party believe in the Unionist family.", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840447, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "SECURITY SITUATION\nDebate resumed on motion (27 February 1998):\nThis Forum notes with concern the deteriorating security situation in Northern Ireland. \u2014 [RevDrIan Paisley]\n\nThe Chairman: It will be", "url": "/m2/session/13036#840447", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 13036}, {"id": 840452, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "[The Chairman:] We shall start with Mr Gowdy's presentation.\n\nMr Gowdy: Despite the public perception, civil servants are not used to flying alone. For the moment, however, we are without ministerial", "url": "/m2/session/13036#840452", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13036}, {"id": 840454, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "[The Chairman:] Mr Carvill will now make his presentation.\n\nMr Carvill: My remarks about the work of the Department of Education will be based on the contents of the brochure which has been", "url": "/m2/session/13036#840454", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13036}, {"id": 840478, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The Chairman: I have a short list of Members for the Adjournment debate. As MrGibson suggested, those who had questions for the Minister but were frustrated might like to say their piece now and have", "url": "/m2/session/13036#840478", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13036}, {"id": 840570, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Dodds:] I am glad that this motion is before the House. We are dealing with an issue which is very important in that it directly affects tens of thousands of ordinary people in difficult", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840570", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840571, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: On the matter of transparency, openness and honesty on the part of the Government, I am sure Mr Dodds is aware of Age Concern's initial response to the Royal Commission on long-term care.", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840571", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840574, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: Mr Dodds made many vital points with which I concur. Any suggestion that disability benefits are to be cut is very upsetting for those who are disabled, frail or elderly. I trust that this", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840574", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840575, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mrs Parkes: The speculation about the Government's plans for social security is creating a great deal of anxiety in all sections of the community, but particularly among the most vulnerable.\n\nMembers", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840575", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840578, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "It is important to send out the message that we want clarity and reassurance to dispel the rumour, fear and speculation. Benefits should be raised to a level which will help people to meet the extra", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840578", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840584, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Carrick: I want to highlight a problem which is growing throughout Northern Ireland. It concerns social order.\n\nWe have witnessed and are witnessing an increasing tendency for residents'groupsand", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840584", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 840595, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Neeson: It is my ambition \u2014 indeed, I hope, the ambition of all Forum Members\u2014 to be debating budgets in a democratically elected Northern Ireland Assembly in the not-too-distant future. I hope", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840595", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 840618, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Weir: One becomes cautious about words as used in a political context. For example, prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain the most totalitarian regimes were always called people's republics or", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840618", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 840622, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Weir: I want to raise the matter of recent events at the Maze Prison. One of the great ills of society nowadays is that nobody seems to take responsibility for his own actions. This applies", "url": "/m2/session/13042#840622", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13042}, {"id": 841058, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "2.15 pm\n\nMr Morrow: For some time the Democratic Unionist Party has been saying that the process at Stormont is nothing but a facade and a bluff. The revelations in the information strategy paper go", "url": "/m2/session/13072#841058", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13072}, {"id": 841166, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Shannon: I want to make some comments about the Maze inquiry and the Narey Report. It is important that we put down a marker. What did the Government's Maze inquiry achieve? Not what we wanted: a", "url": "/m2/session/13078#841166", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13078}, {"id": 841167, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Jim Rodgers: Tomorrow is a big day in Irish football, with the morning clash at Windsor Park between Linfield and Glentoran in the Bass Irish Cup semi-final. Members will be aware of what happened", "url": "/m2/session/13078#841167", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13078}, {"id": 841168, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Ian Paisley Jnr: I want to reiterate the points made by my Colleague MrShannon about the Narey report. It is amazing that a person of such so-called calibre should be asked to investigate not only", "url": "/m2/session/13078#841168", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13078}, {"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": 841201, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Rev Dr Ian Paisley: This is a tragic day for our province. Although the talks document has now been released to the press, it has not yet been issued to public representatives. In fact, the Northern", "url": "/m2/session/13083#841201", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13083}, {"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": 841235, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Foster: It is sad that such a serious debate has deteriorated so much because of the Democratic Unionist Party's antics. The behaviour is atrocious. There is no humility whatsoever. The arrogance", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841235", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841239, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Morrow: I want to speak on the DUP amendment to the motion on the iniquitous Agreement signed last Friday.\n\nWhen I got the hold of the Agreement I thought to myself \"Let's see what is in it.\"", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841239", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841243, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Shannon: I want to address a particular issue in the document. The section starting on page19 is headed \"Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity\". The subheading is \"Economic, Social and", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841243", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841332, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: Two things have become evident during the course of this debate. First, the way Members have reacted to it is the way this whole campaign is going to be run. None of the people", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841332", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 841419, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr David Campbell: First of all, may I place on record my thanks to Mr Murray Barnes and his staff for their efforts in preparing these reports. I also thank the members of Standing Committee D for", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841419", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 841438, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Rev Trevor Kirkland: I would like to endorse the complimentary remarks that have already been made.\n\nHaving taken part in the compiling of this report and seen bags of taxpayers' money squandered, I", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841438", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 841560, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "12.15 pm\n\nMr Shannon: The Minister is very welcome, and he will be even more welcome after 22May when we have had a resounding \"No\" vote in the referendum.\n\nThe Chairman: That is a statement. Please", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841560", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 841587, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Hugh Smyth:] Mr Chairman, I am sure you will be glad to know that I am not going to say very much.\n\nI regret that I was unable to get involved in this study to any great extent. However, I want", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841587", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 841591, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Economy Committee", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841591", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 841598, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Empey: Mr Chairman, my first task is to thank you. As you have said you have grown with the job, a job which was thrust upon you allowing very little time for preparation \u2014 and that must have been", "url": "/m2/session/13091#841598", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13091}, {"id": 844133, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr Jim Rodgers: I would like to bring to the attention of the Forum the decision by the Training and Employment Agency to stop recruitment to the adult jobskills programme, which superseded the youth", "url": "/m2/session/11610#844133", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11610}, {"id": 978393, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mrs Beattie: My colleagues and I are concerned at the serious effects on health and social services arising from local authorities. These need to be addressed urgently. 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CARTER, \nOF NEW YORK, \n\nIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, \n\nFebruary 27th, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11970#827953", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11970}, {"id": 828017, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE PRESERVATION OF OUR UNION ON PRINCIPLES OF FRATERNITY, EQUALITY, AND JUSTICE TO ALL. \n\n \nSPEECH OF HON. THOMAS B. FLORENCE \nof Pennsylvania, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 27th,", "url": "/m2/session/11970#828017", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11970}, {"id": 828018, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION \n \nSPEECH OF HON. E. BABBITT, \n\nof Pennsylvania. \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 27th, 1861 \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/11970#828018", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11970}, {"id": 829185, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. THOS. CORWIN, of Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nJanuary 21, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report of the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11969#829185", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11969}, {"id": 829188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JNO. S. MILLSON, of Virginia,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nJanuary 21, 1861.\n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11969#829188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11969}, {"id": 834114, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. T. A. R. NELSON, Of Tennessee, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nJanuary 25, 1861. \n \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12621#834114", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12621}, {"id": 834466, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINSLOW. When I took service upon the committee of the States, to which position you had kindly assigned me, I confess I did so with but slight hope that its efforts would avail to the", "url": "/m2/session/12624#834466", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12624}, {"id": 834498, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN WYCK. This week completes the nineteenth anniversary of one of the most exciting scenes witnessed in the American Congress. On the 25th day of January, 1842, John Quincy Adams introduced the", "url": "/m2/session/12624#834498", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12624}, {"id": 835061, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. W. STEVENSON, OF KENTUCKY, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nJanuary 30, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835061", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, we have arrived at a period in the history of our country which was never even dreamed of by the gallant and far-seeing men who signed the Declaration of", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835081, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. JOY MORRIS, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 30, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835081", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835357, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. F. ADAMS, OF MASSACHUSETTS, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12626#835357", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12626}, {"id": 835370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. EDGERTON, OF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 31,1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12626#835370", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12626}, {"id": 835413, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HAMILTON. The gentleman will excuse me. Nor should we assume to determine what the character of her institutions shall be after we shall have acquired her territory. There is another reason, Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835413", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835422, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KILLINGER obtained the floor. \n\nThe SPEAKER stated that, the hour of four o\u2019clock having arrived, under the order of the House there would be a recess taken until seven o\u2019clock, p. m. \n\nEVENING", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835422", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835428, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. M. QUARLES, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835428", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAMES WILSON, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835470, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. G. W. HUGES, Of Maryland, \nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 5, 1861. \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835470", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835487, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TAPPAN, Mr. Speaker, as one of members of the committee of thirty-three, I joined with the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. WASH-BURN] in submitting a minority report, and in recommending the", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835487", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835502, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AN UNDIVIDED COUNTRY. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. L. T. MOORE, Of Kentucky, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 5, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835502", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835504, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. A. TRIMBLE, Of Ohio, \nIn the House of Representatives, \n \nFebruary 5, 1861. \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835504", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 836232, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SPEECH OF HON. H. MAYNARD, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 6, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of thirty-three\u2014 \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836232", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 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": 836300, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. WILLIAM ALLEN, OF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 7, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12630#836300", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12630}, {"id": 836322, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. R. HATTON, OF TENNESSEE, \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#836322", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836367, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. N. H. SMITH, OF NORTH CAROLINA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836367", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836381, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. CHARLES CASE, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836381", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836682, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. \nMr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it was officially announced yesterday in this Hall that Abraham Lincoln, a worthy, patriotic, and intelligent citizen of the State of Illinois,", "url": "/m2/session/12632#836682", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12632}, {"id": 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": 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": 837042, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WALDRON. Mr. Speaker, the topics of this discussion are novel and strange to an American Congress. They are such as were never dreamed of by the patriots and statesmen who framed our Government.", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837042", "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": 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": 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": 837269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FREEDOM TAKES \u201cNO STEP BACKWARDS.\u201d \n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. G. BLAKE, \n\nOF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837278, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE GREAT AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF 1861. \nSPEECH OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM, \nOf Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 20, 1861. \n \nThe special order\u2014namely, the report of the committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12637#837278", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12637}, {"id": 837313, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Any Compromise A Surrender. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. D. W. GOOCH, \n\nOf Massachusetts, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 23, 1861 \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837313", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837314, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FENTON. Mr. Speaker, I blush to see the record of our proceedings on this question which now agitates the country. They resemble the advertisements of patent medicines\u2014each man adjuring you to", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837314", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 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": 837891, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RUST. I prefer not to be interrupted. I have already spoken longer than I intended, and have said almost nothing that I intended to say. Now, sir, look at the rapid strides which that party has", "url": "/m2/session/12620#837891", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12620}, {"id": 839465, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WASHBURN. After the eloquent speech of the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. CLEMENS] who has just taken his seat, and the equally eloquent remarks of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BING-HAM] who", "url": "/m2/session/12618#839465", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 843126, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "H. Res. 64: Mr. Clemens'", "url": "/m2/session/12618#843126", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.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": 846879, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The question now recurs upon the resolutions offered by the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Clemens.) \n\n \n\nThe resolutions were read, as follows: \n\n \n\nJoint resolution. \n\n \n\nWhereas the", "url": "/m2/session/11970#846879", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11970}, {"id": 850063, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SICKLES: As the gentleman is disposed to discuss the question of war and peace, and as he discusses every question with signal ability, I desire to inquire of him, if blockade be an act of war,", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850063", "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": 861289, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOUGLAS. I will barely remark that I hope some Senator will change his vote. I am satisfied that any amendment kills this measure. I regard the proposition as defeated by the amendment. \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861289", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 861384, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. I understand the question to be upon the adoption of the amendment just read, which is the proposition of the Senator from Kentucky, as a substitute for the House resolution? \n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861384", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 861388, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOUGLAS. I rise to express the hope that we may be permitted to get a vote on these resolutions. We are now expending the whole night\u2014all the time we have left of this session\u2014in discussing these", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861388", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 861394, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RICE. Mr. President, I regret the shape this discussion has assumed. I do not like to hear Senators on either side talking about force. It is unbecoming us as Senators and as brothers. I wish to", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861394", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"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": 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": 861785, "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#861785", "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": 861826, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BAKER. In order to make the confession and concession on all sides more complete, I desire to suggest (and being a little of a popular-sovereignty man, it comes gracefully from me) that others of", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861826", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 862511, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "H. Res. 80: Mr. Johnson Committee of the Whole", "url": "/m2/session/13855#862511", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.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": 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": 871105, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE STATE OF THE UNION \n \nThe House resumed the consideration of the special order, being to the report of the special committee of thirty-three, on which Mr. PRYOR was entitled to the floor. \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/14062#871105", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14062}, {"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": 871112, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I did not design offering any remarks upon this bill, being willing to (rust to the greater experience of my colleague to do justice to the cause of our State; but I", "url": "/m2/session/11964#871112", "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": 871148, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. President, I can assure the gentleman who introduced this bill that I will not embarrass the action of the Senate by a lengthy speech upon it. 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Mr. Chairman, I avail myself of the indulgence of the committee to make some suggestions upon subjects now attracting the attention of Congress and of the country\u2014the", "url": "/m2/session/12161#888949", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12161}, {"id": 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": 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. 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Waiving the question of its constitutionality, to my mind, at least, the eminent statesman of Kentucky", "url": "/m2/session/12189#889103", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12189}, {"id": 889143, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Joint Resolution Proposing Amendments to the Constitution: Crittenden", "url": "/m2/session/14174#889143", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14174}, {"id": 896977, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DIVEN. Mr. Speaker, my view in reference to the power of the General Government over slavery has always been that it was at best extremely limited; that it had but little to do with the question;", "url": "/m2/session/12281#896977", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12281}, {"id": 899271, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. 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I wish to say a word in reference to the resolution\u2014not to debate it\u2014 but to signify to the honorable gentleman from Missouri that I feel myself a little constrained in respect to", "url": "/m2/session/12544#899519", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12544}, {"id": 900035, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Message from the President: Peace Convention and Virginia", "url": "/m2/session/14305#900035", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14305}, {"id": 900043, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. MASON. Mr. President, I move that the message, together with the accompanying documents, be printed. 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It is in Committee of the Whole, and open to amendment. The reading of the formal part of the joint resolution is called for. \n\nThe Secretary read, as follows: \n\nWhereas", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900749", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900758, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HUNTER. Mr. President, I have offered this amendment, as the first of a series which I shall offer, for the purpose of carrying out the will of my State, as it has been expressed through its", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900758", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900764, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BRAGG. I have not the slightest doubt that a great many who voted for the proposition consider it as the Senator does. I have equally as little doubt that others intended to mean precisely what I", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900764", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900766, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. I understand him as saying that the whole of the twenty States which were assembled in this peace convention agreed to this proposition. \n\nMr. BAKER. My distinguished friend was", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900766", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900799, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CLINGMAN. I was about to say that I opposed the execution of it on a former occasion, because, in probably forty instances, the galleries had been allowed to applaud, and they have been cleared", "url": "/m2/session/13851#900799", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 900822, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON, of Tennessee. Mr. Presi-dent, I was going on to remark, in reference to a general allusion to treason, that if individuals were pointed out to me who were engaged in lightly", "url": "/m2/session/13851#900822", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 900835, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. KENNEDY. Before the question is put, I should like know if the motion I made a short time ago is not in order. 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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": 860382, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DELANO. Mr. Speaker, I was about to remark there are certain powers that may be exercised under this amendment of the Constitution vastly important to the emancipated race. I have anticipated", "url": "/m2/session/5587#860382", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5587}, {"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": 863282, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The subject is before the Senate, and the message will be read. \n\nThe Secretary read the message, as follows: \n\nTo the Senate of the United States: \nI regret that the bill", "url": "/m2/session/5512#863282", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5512}, {"id": 865904, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The joint resolution is in the hands of the committee of fifteen. The Senator from Nevada moves that the committee be discharged from the further consideration of that", "url": "/m2/session/5523#865904", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 5523}, {"id": 866652, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Motion to Concur in the Second House Amendment", "url": "/m2/session/5507#866652", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 5507}, {"id": 866685, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "S. 61: Fifth House Judiciary Committee Amendment: Mr. Davis' Amendment", "url": "/m2/session/5507#866685", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 5507}, {"id": 866703, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. [...] I now propose, I tell the honorable Senator from Illinois, to debate the proposition that Congress has no constitutional power to take cognizance of this bill or of the amendments", "url": "/m2/session/5507#866703", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5507}, {"id": 867160, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, I fully share with the President of the United States the regret expressed that he was unable to sign the bill \u201cto protect all persons in the United States in their civil", "url": "/m2/session/5523#867160", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5523}, {"id": 867164, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, in the discussion which I propose to give to the measure before the Senate, I need hardly say that I shall not be influenced by any party motive. The questions which are", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867164", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867170, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, if no arrangement can be arrived at, I propose to say a very few words upon the subject now under consideration by the Senate. I think that the question here is purely one", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867170", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867171, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, I voted for this bill, and have seen no good reason why I should change my opinion; I shall therefore vote for it again. Although I am a strong advocate for local", "url": "/m2/session/5528#867171", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5528}, {"id": 867190, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROWN. I do not desire to take any part in this debate, Mr. President, and should have probably said nothing but for an allusion which dropped from the Senator from Kansas to a bill which was", "url": "/m2/session/5536#867190", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5536}, {"id": 867211, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Clerk read the bill, as follows:\n\nBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and", "url": "/m2/session/5600#867211", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 5600}, {"id": 867215, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Clerk read the message of the President, as follows:\n\nTo the Senate of the United States:\n\nI regret that the bill which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled \"An act to protect all persons", "url": "/m2/session/5600#867215", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 5600}, {"id": 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": 868883, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "S. 61: Mr. Wilson's First Amendment: Mr. Wilson's Correction", "url": "/m2/session/8871#868883", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 8871}, {"id": 868885, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Editors' note: On March 1, 1866, Mr. Wilson offered an amendment (Mr. Wilson's First Amendment) to \"Insert after the word \"property,\" in line fifteen of the first section, the words \"as is enjoyed", "url": "/m2/session/8871#868885", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8871}, {"id": 868897, "title": "IMPORT_FROM", "description": "S. 61: Mr. Wilson's First Amendment: Mr. Wilson's", "url": "/m2/session/5500#868897", "type": "IMPORT_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend-import.svg", "session_id": 5500}, {"id": 868898, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Editors' note: On March 1, 1866, Mr. Wilson offered an amendment (Mr. Wilson's First Amendment) to \"Insert after the word \"property,\" in line fifteen of the first section, the words \"as is enjoyed", "url": "/m2/session/5500#868898", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 5500}, {"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": 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": 869291, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. I hope, Mr. President, the amendment proposed by the Senator from West Virginia will be voted down, and that we shall take the first section of the bill introduced originally by the", "url": "/m2/session/13109#869291", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13109}, {"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": 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": 869360, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, I have already voted against the proposition to strike the word \"male\" out of the bill, and I shall now vote against the pending proposition to fix an educational test. In", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869360", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869367, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "S. 1: Senate Committee on the District of Columbia Substitute: Mr. Wilson's Second Amendment", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869367", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869481, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's S. 1 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14108#869481", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14108}, {"id": 870134, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, sentiments having been announced on the motion to refer this bill which I cannot indorse, I am compelled by a sense of duty to make a few observations. I ask the", "url": "/m2/session/6882#870134", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6882}, {"id": 870357, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The morning hour having expired, it becomes the duty of the Chair to call up the unfinished business of Friday; but prior to that, with the permission of the Senate, the", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870357", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870381, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The message was read, as follows:\n\nTo the Senate of the United States.\n\nI have received and considered a bill entitled \u201cAn act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia,\u201d passed", "url": "/m2/session/8642#870381", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 889042, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, when this discussion commenced, it was not my purpose to take any part in it at all, and I do not now desire to be heard at length upon the main question now before the House;", "url": "/m2/session/5513#889042", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5513}, {"id": 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": 896869, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER obtained the floor.\n\nMr. FINCK. Will the gentleman allow me just one moment?\n\nMr. THAYER. I will yield to the gentleman for a moment.\n\nMr. FINCK. I desire to say to my colleague, for whom", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896869", "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": 896897, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MILLER. Mr. Speaker, I am glad that the committee on reconstruction, through their honorable chairman, [Mr. Stevens,] have reported to this House a proposition for certain amendments to the", "url": "/m2/session/5609#896897", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 896901, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I supposed it was a matter of very little consequence to any one but myself what my record might be. I do not wish here to enter into a detailed examination of that record.", "url": "/m2/session/5609#896901", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 896909, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ECKLEY. Mr. Speaker, any question affecting the fundamental law of the land demands careful and mature deliberation; and it is only when the necessity is great that such changes can be justified.", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896909", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 896910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONGYEAR. Mr. Speaker, the questions before the House are not so much whether the rebellious States are in or out of the Union; or whether the Government has or has not the right to impose", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 896911, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, to say that I am not entirely satisfied with the plan for the reconstruction of the rebel States reported by the committee is probably to utter the sentiment of nearly every", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896911", "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": 897073, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. The fourth section of this amendment declares that\u2014\n\nNeither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafter be", "url": "/m2/session/5692#897073", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5692}, {"id": 897075, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. I do not rise now for the purpose of arguing this question at any length; and it is with very great deference that I offer an amendment to the proposition reported by the committee who have", "url": "/m2/session/5692#897075", "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": 898370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I do not propose to debate at this time the subject of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States; but I will make a single remark in support of the", "url": "/m2/session/5696#898370", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5696}, {"id": 898407, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Mr. President, nothing but a sense of imperative duty induces me to address the Senate upon this occasion. The Constitution is to be changed; the foundations of the Government are to", "url": "/m2/session/5697#898407", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5697}, {"id": 898457, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. I am satisfied that my friend from Wisconsin is entirely in error in respect to the number of voters in the State of Vermont. He bases himself merely upon the election returns of the", "url": "/m2/session/5697#898457", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5697}, {"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": 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": 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": 898878, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "LAW OF TREASON.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. I would not consume the time of the House upon a subject to which our attention has been invited by the President in his message but for the fact that as yet", "url": "/m2/session/14240#898878", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14240}, {"id": 898882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. WELKER. Mr. Chairman, nearly ninety years, with their great events, their grand progressions in science, the arts, and in society and Governments, have passed away since our", "url": "/m2/session/14241#898882", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14241}, {"id": 898886, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. KELSO. In the consideration of this subject, our first duty is to ascertain the present status of the rebel States, to determine which seems to be a difficult matter even with", "url": "/m2/session/14241#898886", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14241}, {"id": 898916, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ECKLEY. I will yield the floor to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Ward.]\n\nRECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I should not thrust myself upon the attention of the House at this time, could", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898916", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 898923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DELANO. I tender my sincere thanks to the House for this extension of my time, and for its courtesy to me.\n\nWHAT HAS CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE DONE DURING THE PROGRESS OR THE REBELLION TOWARD", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 898929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, nearly two years ago, and while the war was flagrant, I felt it my duty as a member of this body to look into the question of the relations that had been produced by it,", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 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": 899069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STROUSE. 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": 899080, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. COOK. Every individual citizen of each State in the Union has rights in every other State\u2014the right to acquire, possess, and dispose of property: the right to fix his domicile in", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899080", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899086, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. The overthrow of the military power of the great rebellion devolved upon the President and Congress and the country duties of unparalleled magnitude.\n\nWith all lawful civil", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899086", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 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": 899161, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S. Res.", "url": "/m2/session/5465#899161", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 5465}, {"id": 899166, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, in the adoption of ordinances of secession, and in the formation of a pretended confederacy with pretensions to sovereignty\u2014steps preliminary to the war\u2014the seceding States", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899166", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, as there seems to be an opportunity at this time, I beg leave to submit a few remarks upon some of the matters which at present are pressing upon the attention of this", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899181, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. I am truly thankful to the House for this courtesy, and I will try and not trespass upon their patience long.\n\nAs I was saying, I would like to know what State government this is which", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899181", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899253, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KUYKENDALL. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure you that I approach the investigation of the many grave and important subjects treated in the message of the President of the United States, at the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899253", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899259, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, having some weeks since introduced into this House a bill which has for its purpose to prescribe the oath of office, so as to make it conform to the requirements of the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899259", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 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": 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": 899361, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, there is one further remark I desire to make here, and I trust it will not be deemed out of order. It has been announced by persons in high places unofficially that no", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899361", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5582}, {"id": 899365, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Well, Mr. Speaker, I have accomplished my purpose, notwithstanding the objection of gentlemen to let the country know that there are utterances of this sort afloat.\n\nAnd now, sir, having", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899365", "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": 899414, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Nevada. Mr. Speaker, I am ill fitted to-day to speak, having a sore throat which almost prevents my talking at all. And I am unprepared, not knowing until this morning that the sun", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899414", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899423, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMES. Mr. Speaker, the policy to be pursued by Congress with the States and people lately in rebellion is brought to our notice by the annual message of the President, now under consideration,", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899423", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899531, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DUMONT. Mr. Speaker, as many suppose that the powers of Congress to deal with the rebel States according to their demerits, and the deeds done in the body depend upon the question whether a State", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899531", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899549, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I have frequently of late asked myself the question, is reconstruction an insoluble problem? I have noticed so many different propositions for its", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899549", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899572, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I beg permission to say that this amendment embodies the views I presented to the committee, and I introduce it at this time so that it may be printed and examined before", "url": "/m2/session/14274#899572", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14274}, {"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": 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": 899632, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I was about to say that the proposition involved in the resolution of the Senator from Connecticut is so important that it may be considered as perhaps always in order to discuss it. I do", "url": "/m2/session/14274#899632", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14274}, {"id": 899701, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "PAYMENT FOR SLAVES.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the social and political changes effected as a consequence of the rebellion require some amendments to the great charter of our liberties, the", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899701", "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": 899787, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CIVIL RIGHTS.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the President in his annual message said to us\u2014\n\n\u201cThat good faith requires the security of the freedmen in their liberty, their light to labor, and", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899787", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899798, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARKE, of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, [approach the discussion of the question of reconstruction with anxious solicitude. Results momentous to the interests of civil liberty, and affecting the weal or", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899798", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 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": 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": 899830, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LATHAM obtained the floor. \n\nMr. WRIGHT. I ask now to have the question answered which I put to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Ashley,] namely, what does he mean by a loyal man? I doubt very much", "url": "/m2/session/8667#899830", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8667}, {"id": 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": 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": 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": 899896, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Loyal Men Must Rule\u2014 \u201cTraitors Must Take Back Seats.\u201d\n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. S. BUNDY,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, May 5, 1866,\n\nOn the President\u2019s annual message, as in Committee of the", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899896", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899900, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINDOM. Mr. Speaker, after the thorough discussion this question has received I can hardly expect to add anything new. But at a time like this silence is akin to cowardice; indifference is", "url": "/m2/session/5617#899900", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5617}, {"id": 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": 899940, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURLEIGH. Mr. Speaker, I ask the indulgence of the House for a short time, that I may have an opportunity to express my views upon the present management of our Indian relations, especially in", "url": "/m2/session/14301#899940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 899955, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURLEIGH. Why, sir, how can the country expect pure waters to flow from a corrupt fountain? How can you expect an honest administration of your public affairs by an officer of the Government who", "url": "/m2/session/14301#899955", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 899956, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BRANDEGEE. Mr. Speaker. I shall give my support to the bill now before the House, reported by the select Committee on Reconstruction, with all my heart.\n\nOf all the various plans which have been", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899956", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899965, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. It was not my purpose to have asked the attention of the House to any discussion of this bill; nor should I have done so if the motion to recommit had not been made, by which I was", "url": "/m2/session/8698#899965", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 899971, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker\u2014\u2014\n\nMr. GARFIELD. Will the gentleman allow me to make a motion that speeches be limited to twenty minutes for the remaining discussion of this bill?\n\nMr. THAYER. I must decline", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899971", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to discuss this general subject in any formal manner, but merely to make a few remarks, which I fear will prove rather desultory, upon the necessity which", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 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": 899995, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN HORN, of New York. Mr. Speaker, theories are all very well. We may have plans in relation to reconstruction as with reference to other matters of public interest, but if not put into", "url": "/m2/session/8743#899995", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 900003, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, I am aware that no measure can be more unpalatable to the American people than one which provides for a military government, and there is no position in which I can myself", "url": "/m2/session/8743#900003", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 900074, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. VAN AERNAM. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure this House that I approach the investigation of the subject under consideration with hesitation and embarrassment. With hesitation,", "url": "/m2/session/14301#900074", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 900084, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. JULIAN. Mr. Speaker, the conflict going on to-day between Conservatism and Radicalism is not a new one. It only presents new phases, and more decided characteristics in its", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900084", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900087, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "INDIANA POLICY.\n\nMr. NIBLACK. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution and laws of Indiana relating to negroes and mulattoes have been so often referred to in the debates during the present session of Congress,", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900087", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900103, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I am very anxious that this bill should be proceeded with until finally acted upon. I desire that as early as possible, without curtailing debate, this House shall come to", "url": "/m2/session/8640#900103", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8640}, {"id": 900107, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PIKE. Mr. Speaker, in the remarks which I propose to make at the present time I shall not speak particularly upon the substitute presented this morning by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/8640#900107", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8640}, {"id": 900115, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. I regret exceedingly that the Senator from Oregon has changed his mind with regard to this amendment, and has not offered it as he proposed to do yesterday. The military bill without", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900115", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900120, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. When I was cut off by the termination of the morning hour I was making some remarks with regard to the amendment offered by the Senator from Maryland, known as the Blaine amendment. I", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900120", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900124, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. It seems to me that my honorable friend from Nevada is a little premature in the haste he makes to declare an unqualified opposition to this measure; and I can hardly think that he has", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900124", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900135, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from Indiana to the amendment of the Senator from Maryland.\n\nMr. DOOLITTLE. I should like to know of the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900135", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900138, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I wish to state in as few words as is practicable my reasons for voting against this amendment. I do not intend to occupy unnecessarily the time of the Senate, but there", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900138", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"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": 900224, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKALEW. [...] By irresistible inference the section as it stands makes the decision of the officer in command of the district adequate for the purpose of the execution of the sentence. The", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900224", "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": 900387, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PAINE. The gentleman from Ohio has consented to yield for fifteen minutes to me.\n\nMr. BINGHAM. 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Mr. Speaker, I have not participated, as the House will bear me witness, in any of the discussions upon", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900524", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900534, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. I regret, Mr. Speaker, in time so limited we have to discuss a measure of so much importance as the one now pending. Instead of calm and dispassionate consideration we have to compress", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900534", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900571, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. I have not said a word in reference to this bill. I believe I have never opened my mouth in regard to it in the Senate. 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Mr. President, bearing upon this precise point which my honorable friend is discussing I have had placed in my hands some very important statements, and upon authority, which I wish to", "url": "/m2/session/8773#900573", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 900677, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's H. R. 1143 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14317#900677", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14317}, {"id": 900693, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, it is not my intention to enter in any discussion of the principles involved in the bill which the President of the United States in his wisdom has vetoed, nor to", "url": "/m2/session/8854#900693", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8854}, {"id": 900882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. McKEE. 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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": 900933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. I do not propose at present to call the previous question, but will leave the bill open for discussion to-day. I now yield to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Raymond.]\n\nMr. RAYMOND.", "url": "/m2/session/8677#900933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8677}, {"id": 900939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL. As the gentleman from New York evidently intended to reply to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Stevens,] I hope he will be allowed to go on uninterruptedly.\n\nMr. RAYMOND. 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[...] 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": 901355, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Resolution on the Policy of the", "url": "/m2/session/5467#901355", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 5467}, {"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": 901890, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. 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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": 902918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMES. Mr. Chairman, in a \"swinging around the circle\" the President is again brought face to face with the Thirty-Ninth Congress. Professing similar views upon the grave questions growing out", "url": "/m2/session/14428#902918", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14428}, {"id": 903507, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPALDING. When I suggested last evening the expediency of holding a session to-day, and intimated that I would like to speak, it was more for the purpose of affording an opportunity to those", "url": "/m2/session/14430#903507", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14430}, {"id": 904069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. The first clause of the addition to the fifth section is a proper one, I think. It simply applies the constitutional amendment in fixing the qualifications of delegates to a convention.", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"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": 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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Mr. Speaker, I had hoped that when the committee appointed by this House to report for its consideration whatever they might deem needful to the execution of the law of reconstruction,", "url": "/m2/session/8140#849692", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8140}, {"id": 850426, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "President Veto Message: H. R.", "url": "/m2/session/8226#850426", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8226}, {"id": 850436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. I suppose the message accompanies that resolution. I ask for the reading of the message.\n\nMr. RAMSEY. I suggest to the Senator from Maryland that we take a recess for two hours. [\u201cNo,", "url": "/m2/session/8228#850436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8228}, {"id": 851053, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. LOUGHRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, from the manner in which some of the gentlemen upon this side of the House speak of the acting President, I am led to think that they are upon the", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851053", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851059, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. This bill has been so long under discussion that I have hardly the amount of assurance necessary to enable me to address the House at this time. I have observed that many persons in the", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851059", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851062, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PETERS. I do not rise, Mr. Speaker, to make a speech at this time, or to deliver an argument upon this question, which has already been fully and thoroughly discussed. I intend merely to make", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851062", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851063, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill reported by the Committee on Reconstruction.\n\nMr. JENCKES. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Dawes] was kind enough last", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851063", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851066, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PRUYN. Mr. Speaker, as my time is limited, I will say that I do not wish to be interrupted during the course of my remarks.\n\nWhen it is proposed in this House to subvert the fundamental", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851066", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6468}, {"id": 851240, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. I now yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Butler] thirty minutes of the time to which I am entitled under the rules to close the debate.\n\nMr. BUTLER. Mr. Speaker, it is always", "url": "/m2/session/6468#851240", "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": 851257, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NYE obtained the floor.\n\nMr. NORTON. Before the Senator from Wisconsin takes his seat I should like, with his permission, to ask him the question that I asked him while he was speaking. The", "url": "/m2/session/8492#851257", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8492}, {"id": 851258, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. Mr. President, if I had not been referred to by my honorable friend from Wisconsin [Mr. DOOLITTLE] in the debate yesterday I should not desire to speak on this question, especially at", "url": "/m2/session/8323#851258", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8323}, {"id": 851261, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELlNGHUYSEN obtained the floor.\n\nMr. JOHNSON. If my honorable friend from New Jersey will permit me to address the Senate in advance of himself he will oblige me. My professional engagements", "url": "/m2/session/8493#851261", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8493}, {"id": 851266, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question, that I may understand his position?\n\nMr. BUCKALEW. Certainly.\n\nMr. MORRILL, of Maine. I wish to ask the Senator whether he", "url": "/m2/session/8496#851266", "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": 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": 851283, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON, of Tennessee. Will the Senator from Iowa allow me to interrupt him for a moment?\n\nMr. HARLAN. Certainly.\n\nMr. PATTERSON, of Tennessee. The Senator is mistaken in stating that that", "url": "/m2/session/8504#851283", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8504}, {"id": 851285, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, when the honorable Senator from Wisconsin, in the morning hour of Thursday last, submitted his motion to instruct the Committee on the Judiciary to report the", "url": "/m2/session/8493#851285", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8493}, {"id": 851286, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART obtained the floor.\n\nMr. BUCKALEW. Will the Senator permit me to say one word in explanation?\n\nMr. STEWART. Certainly.\n\nMr. BUCKALEW. I did not wish to interrupt the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8499#851286", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8499}, {"id": 851289, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS proceeded to address the Senate on the general subject of reconstruction, but, without concluding, gave way to Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, who moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration", "url": "/m2/session/8505#851289", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8505}, {"id": 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": 865699, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONNESS. Is not that the same question we have just voted upon?\n\nMr. EDMUNDS. No, sir.\n\nMr. CONNESS. The same in substance.\n\nMr. EDMUNDS. I will explain that this amendment is a mere coincident", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865699", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865704, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I desire to make one remark. I said nothing when the question was up before; but I cannot allow the vote to be taken now without expressing in one word the ground on which I shall place", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865704", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865729, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DRAKE. What is the question now before the Senate?\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the amendment moved by the Senator from Massachusetts, [Mr. Sumner,] which is an amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/8390#865729", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8390}, {"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": 865740, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. I did not intend to offer, and probably shall not offer, any amendment to this bill; but let me state to the Senator from Michigan one or two objections to his amendment, which seem to", "url": "/m2/session/8390#865740", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8390}, {"id": 865758, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. I now see what the design of the Senator is. The amendments in the first section, as he proposes them, do not alter its meaning, as I think, at all, but are mere matters of phraseology,", "url": "/m2/session/8388#865758", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8388}, {"id": 865771, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I would respectfully suggest to the Senator from Missouri that he can attain all that he desires by his amendment and yet leave off the last and the objectionable clause, which is that", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865771", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"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": 865773, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DRAKE. [...] Mr. President, I have offered this amendment because of my knowledge from actual observation during a large portion of my life of the power which the minority of the people have", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865773", "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": 865779, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DRAKE. [...] It will be seen, Mr. President, by reference to the third section of the substitute presented by the Judiciary Committee, in lines fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen, that it", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865779", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"id": 865793, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I have no objection to the gentleman offering that amendment.\n\nMr. BINGHAM. Then I offer that amendment, because it is perfectly apparent that as the bill now stands if at the", "url": "/m2/session/6438#865793", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6438}, {"id": 866108, "title": "CREATE", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8239#866108", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 8239}, {"id": 866112, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. I ask to hear the bill read for information.\n\nThe Chief Clerk read it, as follows:\n\nA bill (S. No. 137) for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia.\n\nBe it", "url": "/m2/session/6546#866112", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 6546}, {"id": 866113, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (S. No. 137) for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia.\n\n(Vol. 38,", "url": "/m2/session/6546#866113", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 6546}, {"id": 866115, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. I ask to hear the bill read for information.\n\nThe Chief Clerk read it, as follows:\n\nA bill (S. No. 137) for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia.\n\nBe it", "url": "/m2/session/8247#866115", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8247}, {"id": 866116, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (S. No. 137) for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia.\n\n(Vol. 38,", "url": "/m2/session/8247#866116", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8247}, {"id": 866117, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8247#866117", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8247}, {"id": 866218, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8248#866218", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8248}, {"id": 866219, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EQUAL RIGHTS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.\n\nSenate bill No. 137, entitled \u201cAn act for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia,\u201d was read a first and second time.\n\nMr. INGERSOLL. I", "url": "/m2/session/8248#866219", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8248}, {"id": 866239, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8269#866239", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8269}, {"id": 866253, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8228#866253", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8228}, {"id": 866254, "title": "IMPORT_FROM", "description": "S. 137: Committee", "url": "/m2/session/8228#866254", "type": "IMPORT_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend-import.svg", "session_id": 8228}, {"id": 866264, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "S.", "url": "/m2/session/8226#866264", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8226}, {"id": 866265, "title": "IMPORT_FROM", "description": "S. 137: Committee", "url": "/m2/session/8226#866265", "type": "IMPORT_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend-import.svg", "session_id": 8226}, {"id": 866270, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Message to the Senate on the Concurrence of the House in the Senate Amendment to S.", "url": "/m2/session/8228#866270", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8228}, {"id": 866272, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Message to the House on the Enrollment of S.", "url": "/m2/session/14000#866272", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14000}, {"id": 866274, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Message to the House on the Enrollment of S.", "url": "/m2/session/8271#866274", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8271}, {"id": 866275, "title": "NO_OBJECTION", "description": "ENROLLED BILL AND JOINT-RESOLUTION.\n\nMr. WELKER, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled a bill and joint resolution of the following", "url": "/m2/session/8271#866275", "type": "NO_OBJECTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-implied-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8271}, {"id": 866301, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Message to the Senate on the Concurrence of the House in S.", "url": "/m2/session/8238#866301", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8238}, {"id": 866304, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Message to the House on the Enrollment of S.", "url": "/m2/session/14002#866304", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14002}, {"id": 866307, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Message to the House on the Enrollment of S.", "url": "/m2/session/6461#866307", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 6461}, {"id": 866308, "title": "NO_OBJECTION", "description": "ENROLLED BILL SIGNED.\n\nMr. WILSON, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined and found truly enrolled the bill (S. 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No. 141) for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia; and it", "url": "/m2/session/8238#866312", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8238}, {"id": 866315, "title": "CREATE", "description": "Message from the President of the United States on the Condition of S.", "url": "/m2/session/14003#866315", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14003}, {"id": 866319, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "Message from the President of the United States on the Condition of S.", "url": "/m2/session/8323#866319", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 8323}, {"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": 866788, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BOUTWELL.] I was saying, Mr. Speaker, when my time expired, that under the Constitution the privileges of members of this House are for us all or they are for none of us. When you have", "url": "/m2/session/7967#866788", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 7967}, {"id": 866797, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. Will the gentleman yield to me at this point for a moment?\n\nMr. BOUTWELL. Certainly.\n\nMr. BINGHAM. If I have heard the gentleman aright, in the progress of his remarks he has said", "url": "/m2/session/7967#866797", "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": 866825, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BINGHAM.] I desire to give in passing one reason that controls me in presenting this amendment in this form, as to the term of residence required\u2014 one year next preceding the election in the", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866825", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866826, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. I yield ten minutes to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Ward.]\n\nMr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, the course of the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. Boutwell,] who has the charge of this", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866826", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6513}, {"id": 866827, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. I now yield for five minutes to my colleague.\n\nMr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I suppose, sir, I need not say that I am in favor of the principle of the amendment as reported by the", "url": "/m2/session/6513#866827", "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. 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Mr. Speaker, I desired and intended to speak on this bill, but am now satisfied that I will", "url": "/m2/session/10634#858858", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10634}, {"id": 858859, "title": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "description": "H. R. 796: Mr. Luttrell's", "url": "/m2/session/10635#858859", "type": "PROPOSE_DOCUMENT_AMENDMENT", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend.svg", "session_id": 10635}, {"id": 858861, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "LEAVE TO PRINT.\n\nMr. KNAPP asked and obtained unanimous consent to have printed in the Congressional Record, as part of the debates, some remarks on the civil-rights bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil", "url": "/m2/session/10635#858861", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10635}, {"id": 858867, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I yield a short time to the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. Atkins.]\n\nMr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, in contemplating this subject I am not unmindful that it is particularly", "url": "/m2/session/10635#858867", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10635}, {"id": 858871, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WOOD. Now, I think it due to frankness to say that after he has exhausted three or four days in fruitless debate, a proposition to recommit the bill in the same form in which he reported it is,", "url": "/m2/session/10635#858871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10635}, {"id": 859803, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CIVIL-RIGHTS BILL.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 796) to protect all persons in their civil and legal rights.\n\nMr. LYNCH. Mr. Speaker, I hope that nothing in my remarks", "url": "/m2/session/10637#859803", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10637}, {"id": 859805, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of opposing the passage of this measure. A bill of this character, sir, is not to be disposed of by mere appeals to passion, if the Constitution of our", "url": "/m2/session/10637#859805", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10637}, {"id": 859811, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Civil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. AMBLER SMITH,\n\nOF VIRGINIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nFebruary 3, 1875,\n\nOn the bill (H. R. No. 796) to protect all citizens in their civil and legal", "url": "/m2/session/10637#859811", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10637}, {"id": 860031, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. WHITE addressed the House. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. WHITE,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nFebruary 4, 1875.\n\nThe House having", "url": "/m2/session/10638#860031", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10638}, {"id": 860040, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDREDGE. I yield for five minutes to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Southard.]\n\nMr. SOUTHARD. Mr. Speaker, I intended yesterday to reply in a few words to the position of the gentleman from New", "url": "/m2/session/11751#860040", "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": 860136, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. BAYARD addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. T. F. BAYARD,\n\nOF DELAWARE,\n\nIn the United States", "url": "/m2/session/10684#860136", "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": 860156, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I understood my friend to say that I took the position yesterday that under the fourteenth amendment every man was entitled to sit upon a jury, or, if not, he was denied the equal", "url": "/m2/session/10685#860156", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10685}, {"id": 860158, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. HAMILTON, of Maryland, 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, February 27,", "url": "/m2/session/10685#860158", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10685}, {"id": 860217, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. We shall have the yeas and nays of course.\n\nI avail myself, Mr. President, of this opportunity to say a few words\u2014of course I cannot go into the argument is extenso\u2014in support of this", "url": "/m2/session/10686#860217", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10686}, {"id": 860239, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAINEY. Mr. Speaker, it was my original intention to have submitted some remarks to-night upon this bill. But upon further reflection I had made up my mind to wait until to-morrow morning, when I", "url": "/m2/session/10637#860239", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10637}, {"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": 860532, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. I ask the Senator who moves this amendment if he will allow me one minute of his five to state why it ought not to be adopted.\n\nMr. PRATT. Certainly; I have no objection.\n\nMr. TRUMBULL.", "url": "/m2/session/10657#860532", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10657}, {"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": 860691, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President\u2014\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Carpenter in the chair.) Does the Senator from Ohio yield to the Senator from Vermont?\n\nMr. THURMAN. He looks so inviting that I cannot help", "url": "/m2/session/10646#860691", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10646}, {"id": 860709, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, addressed the Senate in remarks which will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nPolitical Disabilities.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. LOT M. MORRILL,\n\nOF MAINE,\n\nIn the Senate of the United", "url": "/m2/session/10662#860709", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10662}, {"id": 861101, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. Mr. President, the Senator from Massachusetts, while assuming to reply to a speech which I had the honor to address to the Senate the other day upon the constitutional power of", "url": "/m2/session/10665#861101", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10665}, {"id": 861105, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARPENTER. Mr. President, I do not intend to detain the Senate with any general discussion of the merits of the amnesty bill. I must say, however, in justice to my own convictions, and I think I", "url": "/m2/session/10666#861105", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10666}, {"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": 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": 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": 861143, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HAMLIN. I stated a few moments ago in the Senate that I had already voted for the original proposition offered by the Senator from Massachusetts, and should do so again. That statement needed a", "url": "/m2/session/10668#861143", "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": 861176, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CAMERON. I shall not make a motion for an executive session if we can have a vote.\n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin to the amendment of the", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861176", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"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": 861624, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Will the Senate concur in the amendment made as in Committee of the Whole?\n\nMr. NORWOOD. I desire to submit some remarks on this bill, but I am not able to do so to-day in", "url": "/m2/session/11224#861624", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11224}, {"id": 861631, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. FENTON. Mr. President, I inquire of the honorable Senator from Georgia if he is desirous of going on at this time to conclude his remarks this morning? If so, I will", "url": "/m2/session/10675#861631", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10675}, {"id": 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": 861643, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. Will the Senator allow me to ask him a question before he passes from the fourteenth amendment?\n\nMr. THURMAN. If it is not a speech. I wish to be very brief this evening. If the Senator", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861643", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 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": 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": 861868, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STOUGHTON. Mr. Speaker, the moderation and forbearance of the American people upon the final subjugation of the rebellion are without a parallel in the history of the world. The lives of the", "url": "/m2/session/11759#861868", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11759}, {"id": 861870, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORGAN. Mr. Speaker, in a government of delegated powers, clearly defined by a written constitution, it matters little what may be the name of the party in power, provided it administers the", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861870", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861871, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOAR. Mr. Speaker, the House listened yesterday to two able, clear, lawyer-like, statesmanlike discussions on different sides of the grave questions now before us, from the gentleman from Ohio", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861873, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States,", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861873", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861874, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I approach the discussion of the pending question with no hostility to the people of the South or any part of them, but with an interest in their welfare and prosperity that", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861874", "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": 861879, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Alleged Ku Klux Outrages.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. FERNANDO WOOD, OF NEW YORK,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 30, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861879", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861881, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MAYNARD addressed the House. His speech will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. HORACE MAYNARD,\n\nOF TENNESSEE,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861881", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 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": 861887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861888, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHELDON. Mr. Speaker, in considering the bill which has been reported by the special committee of which the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Shellabarger] is chairman, the question which meets us at the", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861888", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 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": 861892, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ARCHER. I yield now to the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr. McCormick.]\n\nMr. McCORMlCK, of Missouri, and Mr. MOORE addressed the House in speeches which will appear in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861892", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861893, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. MOORE,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the hill (H. R. No. 320) to", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861893", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861894, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LOWE. Mr. Speaker, the questions presented for consideration upon the bill before the House are of the very first importance. We are confronted with the two inquiries whether the proposed", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861894", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861903, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Speaker, the argument upon the pending bill has proceeded thus far upon a question of constitutional law and a question of fact. The opponents of the bill deny that its provisions", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861903", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861906, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAINEY. Mr. Speaker, in approaching the subject now under consideration I do so with a deep sense of its magnitude and importance, and in full recognition of the fact that a remedy is needed to", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861906", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KINSELLA. Mr. Speaker, the discussion on the bill now before the House has been so long continued, has been presented for your consideration under so many points of view, by men representing not", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861913, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 320) for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes.\n\nMr. VAN TRUMP. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861913", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861914, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKLEY addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. W. BUCKLEY,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of REPRESENTATIVES,", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861914", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. Three facts combine to show the necessity for a bill substantially like that now under consideration. First, the violence and lawlessness, for which it is proposed to provide a", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861916, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BIGGS, having obtained the floor, said: Mr. Speaker, I would be glad to know how much time I am to be allowed.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The gentleman has the floor for thirty minutes.\n\nMr. BIGGS. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861916", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITCHER was granted unanimous consent to have printed in the Globe some remarks he had prepared on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSpeech of Hon. John", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861921, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861921", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861922, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINCHESTER. Mr. Speaker, on the 7th of December last the President, in pursuance of his constitutional duty, sent to Congress his annual statement of our affairs, domestic and foreign. The sole", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861922", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861924, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, since the time of George III our people have not been partial to either kings or emperors; in fact the Democracy of Ohio have been especially hostile to them. Just as our", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861924", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861925, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, when I left my home for this Capitol I did not contemplate that we would engage in any general legislation, and nothing was more remote from my expectations than that I", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861925", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COBB. Mr. Speaker, before I proceed to discuss the question before the House, I desire to express my regret at the absence of my colleague, Mr. Shober; for it has been my intention to confine my", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 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": 861934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLATER asked and obtained unanimous consent to print in the Globe some remarks on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLATER,\n\nOF", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, we have just been listening to an extraordinary speech. It consisted of a philippic against the South, and a good deal of exaggeration about southern outrages. There was also a", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ku Klux Organization.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLOSS,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871,\n\nOn the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861936", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861937, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Coburn] will now proceed.\n\nMr. COBURN. Mr. Speaker, the difficulties now existing in the management of public affairs in the States lately in rebellion", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861937", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMAN addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. S. HOLMAN,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861939", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861940, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER pro tempore. The House will now resume the consideration of House bill No. 320, for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes; upon which the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861942, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENSON addressed the House. [His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nKu Klux Klan.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOB E. STEVENSON,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871.\n\nThe House", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861942", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861943, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The Price of Loyalty.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. M. H. DUNNELL,\n\nOF MINNESOTA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871,\n\nOn the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861943", "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": 861952, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, having yesterday presented the amendment offered this morning by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Shellabarger] as a substitute for the second and third sections of the bill of the", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861952", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 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": 861969, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDWARDS. I fully approve the amendments that have been offered to the bill. On their adoption I will vote for it. From the well-known character of the gentlemen who are the projectors of the", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861969", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 861973, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLARD and Mr. VOORHEES next addressed the House in remarks which will appear in the Appendix.\n\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. W. WILLARD,\n\nOF VERMONT,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 6. 1871.\n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861973", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 861974, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. D. W. VOORHEES.\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 6, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320) to", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861974", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 861975, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PERCE. I desire to say a few words in regard to my own State, and in answer to the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. Voorhees.] I desire to say that, despite the assertions of that gentleman, there", "url": "/m2/session/11767#861975", "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": 862264, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. Let the bill be read.\n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator desire the amendments reported by the committee to be acted upon as they are reached in the reading of the bill?\n\nMr. EDMUNDS.", "url": "/m2/session/11776#862264", "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": 862294, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/11777#862294", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11777}, {"id": 862295, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POOL. Mr. President, the investigation of the committee appointed by the Senate has been confined almost exclusively thus far to the State of North Carolina; but I am persuaded that when it shall", "url": "/m2/session/11777#862295", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11777}, {"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": 862314, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN 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. A. G. THURMAN, of Ohio,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862314", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"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": 862320, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will state to the Senate that he is advised of two Senators on the right of the Chair and two on the left of the Chair who desire to be heard, at what length he does not", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862320", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862328, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAWYER. Mr. President, the Senator from Missouri on my left the other day did me the honor to refer to and quote some remarks previously submitted by me on the general subject which has been", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862328", "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": 862332, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VICKERS. Mr. President, it was my purpose merely to record my vote against the passage of this bill. The subject has been so thoroughly discussed that I am sure I can add nothing to its interest", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862332", "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": 862337, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCHURZ. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. POOL. I should like to say a few words if the Senator will allow me to do so.\n\nMr. SCHURZ. I was going to observe that there seemed to be an understanding some time", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862337", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862339, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPENCER. Mr. President, it became my duty about a year ago, in the discussions which arose in the Senate upon the admission of Georgia and the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, to give", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862339", "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": 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": 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": 864372, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CASSERLY. 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