of suffrage in any election district to which he may belong, if otherwise qualified, according to the laws of the Stato in which he shall offer to vote. And passed yeas 19, nays 13, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Davis, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Hendricks, Hicks, Johnson, Lane of Kansas, M Douguil, Pomeroy, Powell, Richardson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Trumbull, Wade, Willey-19. NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Foot, Foster, Harris, Howard, Morgan, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Wilson-13. Mr. HARLAN entered a motion to reconsider. June 28-The Senate refused to reconsider it-yeas 19, nays 23, as follows: SEC. 2. That any officer or person in the military or naval service of the United States who shall order or advise, or who shall directly or indirectly, by force, threat, menace, intimidation, or otherwise, prevent or attempt to prevent any qualified voter of any State of the United States of America from freely exercising the right of suffrage at any general or special election in any State of the United States, or who shall in like manner compel, or attempt to compel, any officer of an election in any such State to receive a vote from a person not legally qualified to vote, or who shall impose or attempt to impose any rules or regulations for conducting such election different from those prescribed by law, or interfere in any manner with any officer of said election in the discharge of his duties, shall for every such offense be liable to indictment as for a mis-ness, Doolittle, Foot, Foster, Howard, Lane of Indiana, Lane demeanor, in any court of the United States having juris- of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Wilkinson, Wilson-19. diction to hear, try, and determine cases of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall pay a fine not exceeding Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Hendricks, Hicks, NAYS-Messrs. Brown, Buckalew, Carlile, Cowan, Davis, $5,000, and suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, at the discretion of the court trying the McDougall, Nesmith, Pomeroy, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, same, and any person convicted as aforesaid shall, moreover, Sherman, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey-23. be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the Government of the United States. YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Con The bill was not acted upon in the House. RECONSTRUCTION OF STATES. Bill for Reconstruction. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress. IN HOUSE. Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Littlejohn, Loan, Longyear, NAYS-Messrs. Wm J. All n, Ancona, Arnold, Augustus C. Bldwin, Jacob B. Blair, Blow, Brooks, James S. Brown, William G. Brown, Chanler, Clay, Cox, Creswell, Dawson, Denison. Ede 1, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Fenton, Finck, Ganson, Grider, Hale, Hall, Harding, Benjamin G. Harris, Chas. M. Harris, Herrick, Holman, Huburd. Philip Johnson, Orlando Kellogg, Kernan, Knopp, Law, Lazear, Le ton, Morrill, Noble, Moses F. Od 1. John O'Neill. Pendleton, Blond, Long, Morey, Marvin. McAllister, Melndoe, Md le Perry, Pomeroy, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, Wil iam H Randall, Alexander H. Rice, James S. Rolins, Ross, ¿co 1863, December 15-Mr. HENRY WINTER DAVI moved that so much of the President's message as relates to the duty of the United States to guarantee a republican form of government to the States in which the governments recognized by the United States have been abrogated or overthrown, be referred to a select committee of nine to report the bills necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing guar-field, Soft, Smith, Smithers, John B. Steele Wm. G. Steele, antee; which was agreed to-yeas 89, nays 80. May 4-The House passed the bill reported from the committee-yeas 74, nays 66, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Arnold, Stiles, Strouse, Stuart, Thayer, Ward, Webster, Whaley, Wheeler, Chilton A. White, Joseph W. White, Wilson, Windom, Yeamun-75. The bill authorizes the President to appoint in each of the States declared in rebellion, a Provisional Governor, with the pay and emolu.. ments of a brigadier; to be charged with the civil administration until a State government therein shall be recognized. As soon as the military resistance to the United States shall have been suppressed, and the people sufficiently returned to their obedience to the Constitution and laws, the Governor shall direct the marshal of the United States to enroll all the white male citizens of the United States, resident in the State in their respective counties, and whenever a majority of them take the oath of allegiance, the loyal people of the State shall be entitled to elect delegates to a convention to act upon the re-establishment of a State government-the proclamation to contain details prescribed. Qualified voters in the army may vote in their camps. No person who has held or exercised any civil, military, State, or Confederate office, under the rebel occupation, and who has voluntarily borne arms against the United States, shall vote or be eligible as a delegate. The convention is required to insert in the constitution provisions Whereas the so-called Confederate States are a public enemy, waging an unjust war, whose injustice is so glaring that they have no right to claim the mitigation of the extreme rights of war which are accorded by modern usage to an enemy who has a right to consider the war a just one; 1st. No person who has held or exercised any civil or and whereas none of the States which, by a regularly re-military office, (except offices merely ministerial and milicorded majority of its citizens, have joined the so-called tary offices below a colonel,) State or Confederate, under Southern Confederacy, can be considered and treated as en- the usurping power, shall vote for, or be a member of the titled to be represented in Congress, or to take any part in legislature or governor. the political government of the Union: Therefore was rejected-yeas 57, nays 75, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Ashley, John D. Baldwin, Baxter, Beaman, Boutwell, Boyd, Broomall, Cole. Heury Winter Davis, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eliot, Frank. Garfield, Griunell, Higby, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asabel W. Hubbard, John II. IIubbard, Julian, Kasson, 24. Involuntary servitude is forever prohibited, and the freedom of all persons is guaranteed in said State. 34. No debt, State or Confederate, created by or under the sanction of the usurping power, shall be recognized or paid by the State. Upon the adoption of the constitution by the convention, and its ratification by the electors of the State, the Provisional Governor shall so certify to the President, who, after obtaining the assent of Congress, shall, by proclamation. recognize the government as established, and none other, as the constitutional government of the State; and from the date of such recognition, and not before, senators and representa tives and electors for President and Vice Pres ident may be elected in such State. Until reorganization the Provisional Governor shall enforce the laws of the Union and of the State before the rebellion The remaining sections are as follows: SEC. 12. That all persons held to involuntary servitude or labor in the States aforesaid are hereby emancipated and discharged therefrom, and they and their posterity shall be forever free. And if any such persons or their postority shall be restrained of liberty, under pretence of any claim to such service or labor, the courts of the United States shall, on habeas corpus, discharge them. SEC. 13. That if any person declared free by this act, or any law of the United States, or any proclamation of the President, be restrained of liberty, with intent to be held in or reduced to involuntary servitude or labor, the person convicted before a court of competent jurisdiction of such act shall be punished by fue of not less than $1.500, and be imprisoned not less than five, nor more than twenty years. SEC. 14. That every person who shall hereafter hold or exercise any office, civil, or military, except offices merely ministerial and military offices below the grade of colonel, in the rebel service, State or confederate, is hereby declared not to be a citizen of the United States. IN SENATE. May 27-Mr. WADE, from the Committee on Territories, reported the bill with two amendments; one fixing the compensation of the provisional Governor at $3,000 a year, and the other striking out the word "white" wherever it occurs. The Senate as in Committee of the Whole, tute for the bill: That when the inhabitants of any State have been declared in a state of insurrection against the United States by proclamation of the President, by force and virtue of the act entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861, they shall be, and are hereby declared to be, incapable of casting any vote for electors of President or Vice President of the United States, or of electing Senators said State is suppressed or abandoned and said inhabitants have returned to their obedience to the Government of the or Representatives in Congress, until said insurrection in Which was agreed to-yeas 17, nays 16, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Brown, Carlile, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Grimes, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, 3:Dougall, Powell, Richardson, Riddle, Saulsbury, Truinbull, Van Winkle-17. NAYS-Messrs. Chandler, Clark, Conness, Hale, Harlan, section: TO MAKE THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION A STATUTE. YEAS-Messrs. Brown, Carlile, Dar is. Doolittle, Grimes, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, Lane of NAYS-Messrs. Clark, Connes, Hale, Lane of Karsas, And the bill passed-yeas 26, nays 3, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Conness, Doolittle, Grimes, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Me Dougall, Morgan, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Riddle, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson-26. NAYS-Messrs. Davis, Powell, Saulsbury-3. July 2-The House non concurred in the amendment of the Senate, and asked a Committee of Conference; but the Senate, on motion, receded from its amendments-(thus passing the House bill)-yeas 18, nays 14, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Foot, Harlan, Harris, Howe, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilson-18. NAYS-Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Davis, Doolittle, Henderson, Hendricks, Lane of Indiana, McDougall, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle-14. THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION RESPECTING IT. The PRESIDENT failed to approve this bill; and, July 8, 1864, issued this proclamation respecting it: Whereas, at the late session, Congress passed a bill to guarantee to certain States, whose governments have been usurped or overthrown, a republican form of government," a copy of which is hereunto annexed; And whereas the said bill was presented to the President of the United States for his approval less than one hour before the sine die adjournment of said session, and was not signed by him; And whereas the said bill contains, among other things, a plan for restoring the States in rebellion to their proper practical relation in the Union, which plan expresses the sense of Congress upon that subject, and which plan it is now thought fit to lay before the people for their consideration: Now, therefore, I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known, that, while I am (as I was in December last, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration) unprepared, by a formal approval of this bill, to be inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration; and, while I am also unprepared to declare that the free State constitutions and governments already adopted and installed in Arkansas and Louisiana shall be set aside and held for nought, thereby repelling and discouraging the loyal citizens who have set up the same as to Which was rejected-yeas 11, nays 21, as further effort, or to declare a constitutional follows: competency in Congress to abolish slavery in YEAS-Messrs. Chandler, Conness, Lane of Kansas, Mor-States, but am at the same time sincerely hop That the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President of the United States on the first day of January, 1863, so far as the same declares that the slaves in certain designated States and parts of States thenceforward should be free, is hereby adopted and enacted as a statute of the United States, and as a rule and article for the government of the military and naval forces thereof. ing and expecting that a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery throughout the nation may be adopted, nevertheless I am fully satisfied with the system for restoration contained in the bill as one very proper plan for the loyal people of any State choosing to adopt it, and that I am, and at all times shall be, prepared to give the Executive aid and assistance to any such people, so soon as the military resistance to the United States shall have been suppressed in any such State, and the people thereof shall have sufficiently returned to their obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States, in which cases Military Governors will be appointed, with directions to proceed according to the bill. ELECTORAL VOTE OF REBEL STATES. June 13-Mr. GARFIELD introduced a joint resolution resolving that no State declared to be in rebellion by proclamation of the President is entitled to appoint electors of President and Vice President, and that no electoral vote from any such tate shall be received or counted until both Houses of Congress, by concurrent action, shall have recognized a State government in such State. It was read a first and second time; was ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time, under the operation of the previous question, when the following proceedings took place: Mr. MCKINNEY. Is it in order to inquire whether Mr. Jolinson could be a candidate for the Vice Presidency under that rule? The SPEAKER. It is not in order to make the inquiry. Mr. BLAINE. Is it too late now to raise a point of order? The SPEAKER. It is entirely too late. The joint resolution has received its third reading, and the main question has been ordered on its passage. Mr. BLAINE. Has the morning hour expired? The SPEAKER. It has; but the House has ordered the main question to be now put. Mr. BLAINE. I move to lay the joint resolution on the table. Which was agreed to-yeas 104, nays 33, as follows: declared to be incapable of casting any vote for elcetors of President or Vice President of the United States, or of electing Senators or Representatives in Congress, until said insurrection in said State is suppressed or abandoned, and said inhabitants have returned to their obedience to the Constitution and Government of the United States, nor until such return to obedience shall be declared by procla mation of the President, issued by virtue of an act of Congress authorizing the same. PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. June 22-Mr. DAWES, from the Committee on Elections, in the application of certain persons to be received as Representatives from Arkansas, made a report, which closes with this joint resolution: Resolved, dc., That there be appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, a commission consisting of three persons, residents of States not involved in the present rebellion, whose duty it shall be during the recess of the present Congress to visit those States declared by the proclamation of the President to have been in rebellion, and which have already taken or may before the next session of the present Congress take measures to establish or reorganize State governments, and after careful examination and hearing testimony report to the President for the information of Congress at as early day in the next session as possible all such evidence as they may be able to obtain upon the question, whether the loyal people in any such States have succeeded in re-establishing a State gov ernment, to what extent s State government represents and has the support of the loyal people in such State, and what is the ability of such people therein to maintain the same against domestic violence. Resolved further, That until Congress shall be satisfied upon evidence submitted to them that the rebellion has so far been suppressed in any such State that there has been established therein a State government, republican in form, and prohibiting the existence of slavery in the same, and so firmly established as to be able to maintain itself against domestic violence, representation from any such State ought not to be admitted into either branch of Congress. Mr. JAMES S. Brown, from the Minority Committee, presented these resolutions: Whereas by article six of the Constitution of the United States it and the laws made in pursuance thereof are de clared to be the supreme law of the land, and every act of secession by any State is in direct violation of such supreme laws: Therefore, YEAS-Messrs. James C. Allen, William J. Allen, Allison, NAYS-Messrs. Alley, Ashley, Baxter, Beaman, Blow, Brandegee, Cole, Creswell, Henry Winter Davis, Thomas T. Davis, Donnelly, Eckley, Garfield, Higby, Hooper, John H. Hubbard, Julian, Kelley, Lazear, Longyear, McClurg, Morrill, Daniel Morris, Norton, Shannon, Smithers, Spalding, Starr, Stevens, Upson, Van Valkenburgh, Williams, Woodbridge-33. June 20-Mr. ASHLEY asked leave to offer this joint resolution, but it was objected to: Resolved, dc., That when the inhabitants of any State have been declared in a state of insurrection against the United States by proclamation of the President, by force and virtue of the act entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861, they shall be and are hereby Resolved, That the acts of secession by the Legislatures of the several States whose people are now in rebellion are mere nullities, having no force or effect to change the rela tion either of States themselves or of the people thereof toward the General Government; and that by such acts the people neither freed themselves from the penalties attaching by law to treason nor lost any rights as citizens of the conviction of crime; that the duty of the people of such States to send true and loyal men to Congress, and the right so to do as consequent upon the duty, still remain by force of the Constitution, requiring no act of the President or Congress to confirm them; that no State can under the Constitution assent to the presence of armed rebels from other States within its borders, and that any act of the anthorities of a State giving such assent is a nullity; that the entrance of such armed rebels of one State upon Territories of another is an invasion from which by article four of the Constitution the United States are bound to protect the invaded State; that this obligation of protection on the part of the United States is due to each citizen individually as a consequence of his duty of allegiance, and continues so long as there is a single loyal citizen in a State oppressed by such invasion; that so long as the Constitution and laws of the United States cannot be enforced in any congressional district on account of the presence of armed rebels there can be no free election, and a person claiming a seat through an election under such circumstances should be rejected. Be it further resolved, That the Constitution, in article two, determines the qualifications of electors for Representatives, and that any order of the President or act of Congress changing such qualifications would be a usurpation and a nullity. Be it further resolved, That whenever by pestilence, foreign invasion, or domestic conspiracy, the officers of a State required by its laws to conduct an election have been destroyed or carried off, the State does not thereby cease to exist, nor do its people forfeit their rights as citizens of the States or of the United States, but, from the very necessity of the case, and by virtue of the power impliedly reserved to the people, they may, in a practicable and reasonable manner, supply the deficiency, and hold an election, conducting it, however, as far as possible, in conformity with the existing laws and Constitution of the State; and the duty of Congress in passing upon such an election claimed to be held under such circumstances is limited to ascertaining whether it was a fair expression of a majority of the people, and in the mode of conducting it departed from the general laws of the State only so far as was necessary to Supply the deficiency of officers required to conduct the election. Be it further resolved, That the right of the claimants from Arkansas should be determined by the principles here enunciated; and if they shall satisfy the House that the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State held peaceful sway over their respective districts, that in their elections they departed in nothing from the Constitution and existing laws of that State, save in supplying requisite officers, and that they received a vote of a majority in their respective districts, then they are entitled to seats, but not otherwise. A motion to table the whole subject was lost -yeas 43, nays 63. A motion to postpone until next session, was lost-yeas 50, nays 78. June 29-The report was further debated, when, on motion of Mr. DAVIS, the whole subject was leid on the table-yeas 80, nays 47, as follows: and after the acceptance of its provisions by the people c the said State and proclamation of the same by the Presi dent of the United States. He also offered this resolution, which was adopted: That the President of the United States be requested to furnish to the Senate copies of all correspondence, orders, and documents on file in the Departments in relation to the organization by the loyal people of Arkansas of the free State government of that State. June 13-The Senate considered the joint resolution; refused--yeas 5, (Messrs. Chandler, Howard, Richardson, Sumner, Wade,) nays 32, to lay the subject on the table, and then referred it to the Committee on the Judiciary, and with it the resolution of Mr. SUMNER, offered May 27, as follows: That a State pretending to secede from the Union and battling against the national Government to maintain this pretension must be regarded as a rebel State, subject to military occupation, and without title to representation on this floor until it has been readmitted by a vote of both Houses of Congress; and the Senate will decline to enter. such vote of both Houses of Congress. tain any application from any such rebel State until after ADMISSION OF SENATORS FROM ARKANSAS. IN SENATE. First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress. 1864, June 27--Mr. TRUMBULL made this report: YEAS-Messrs. William J. Allen, Allison, Ancona, Augustus C. Baldwin, Beaman, Blair, Bliss, Blow, Boyd, Brooks, Broomall, James S. Brown, Cole, Cox, Henry Winter Davis, Thomas T. Davis, Dawson, Deming, Denison, Dixon, Driggs, Eden, Edgerton, English, Finck, Griswold, Hale, Herrick, Higby, Holman, Asahel W. Hubbard, John II. Hubbard, Hulburd, Jenckes, William Johnson, Kalbfleisch, Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Kernan, Knapp, Law, Lazear, Loan, Longyear, Me Allister, Mc Dowell, McIndoe, McKinney, Samuel F. Miller, Moorhead, James R. Morris, Morrison, Amos Myers, Leonard Myers, Norton, Charles O'Neill, Orth, Pendleton, Perham, Perry, Radford, Samuel J. Randall, Robinson, Ross, Schenck, Shannon, Sloan, Smith, Smithers, William G. Steele, Stevens, Stiles, Strouse, Stuart. Thayer, Web-titled to be sworn as members of this body. It is, howster, Chilton A. While, Joseph W. White, Williams, Windom -80. NAYS-Messrs. Alley, Ames, Anderson, Ashley, Baily, John D. Baldwin, Blaine, Boutwell, William G. Brown, Chanler, Cobb, Dawes, Donnelly, Eckley, Eliot, Farnsworth, Gansom, Gooch, Harding, Benjamin G. Harris, Charles M. Harris, Hooper, Hutchins, Julian, Knox, Littlejohn, Long, Mallory, Marcy, McClurg, Morrill, Odell, John O'Neill, Pike, Pomeroy, Jolm H. Rice, Edward H. Rollins, James S. Rollius, Scofield, Thomas, Upson, Van Valkenburgh, Ellihu B. Washburne, William B. Washburn, Whaley, Winfield-47 FREE STATE GOVERNMENT IN ARKANSAS. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the credentials of William M. Fishback and Elisha Baxter, claiming seats from the State of Arkansas, report: That the credentials are presented in due form, purporting to be under the seal of the State of Arkansas, and to be signed by Isaac Murphy, Governor thereof; and if the right to seats were to be determined by an inspection of the credentials, Messrs. Fishback and Baxter would be enever, admitted by the persons claiming seats, and known kansas, through its constituted authorities, undertook to to the country, that in the spring of 1861, the State of Arsecede from the Union, set up a government in hostility to the United States, and maintain the same by force of arms. Congress, in view of the condition of affairs in Arkansas and some other States similarly situated passed an act, July 13, 1861, authorizing the President, in case of an inStates, and when the insurgents claimed to act under au. surrection in any State against the laws of the United thority of the State, and such claim was not repudiated, nor the insurrection suppressed by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State, to declare the June 10-Mr. LANE of Kansas, introduced inhabitants of such State or part thereof where such insurthis joint resolution: For the recognition of the free State government of the State of Arkansas. Whereas the President of the United States, by proclamation of the 1st of January, A. D. 1863, did, among other things, proclaim and declare that the "people" of Arkansas "are this day in rebellion" against the United States; and whereas the loyal people of the State of Arkansas have, since that time, by a free and untrammelled vote, organized and have in operation a State government upon a free basis and republican in form; and whereas, pending the organ ization of said government, the President of the United States did, by proclamation of the 8th day of December, A. D. 1863, invite, among others, the people of Arkansas to organize a loyal State government upon a free basis; and whereas the President of the United States approved said organization in the State of Arkansas and officially recognized the same: Therefore, rection existed, to be in a state of insurrection against the United States; and that, thereupon, all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens of the tions, should cease and be unlawful so long as such condiUnited States, except under license and upon certain condition of hostil ty should continue. issued his proclamation declaring the inhabitants of the In pursuance of this act, the President, August 16, 1861, State of Arkansas, except the inhabitants of such parts thereof as should maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or might be from time to time occu pied and controlled by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents, to be in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commer At cial intercourse between them and citizens of other States Be it resolved, de., That so much of the proclamation or proclamations of the President of the United States, and so much of all laws of Congress, as declares the people or State of Arkansas in rebellion, be, and is hereby, declared inop-lamation, a state of hostility or civil war existed between erative and void. SEC. 2. That the present organized government in the State of Arkansas be, and it is hereby, recognized, upon the condition that slavery and involuntary servitude shall never exist in said State, except as a punishment for crime. June 11-Mr. LANE of Kansas, offered this additional resolution: SEC. 3. That this joint resolution shall be in force from It is the inhabitants of the State of Arkansas and the United |