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in settling hostile demonstrations. The bill is reported upon the request of the commission || by special messenger, and also by telegrams to both Houses. I trust there will be no objec tion to the bill, as there was none in the Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. WARD. How much money does the bill appropriate?

Mr. BUTLER. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The bill was read. It appropriates $150,000 for the purpose of carrying out treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes and defray. ing expenses and disbursements made by the commission authorized by the act of July 20, 1867, entitled "An act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes during the year 1868;" the money to be expended under the direction of the commission.

Mr. BUTLER. I move the previous question on the bill.

The previous question was seconded and the main question ordered.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time; and being engrossed, it was accordingly read the third time, and passed.

Mr. BUTLER moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

AMERICAN PRISONERS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr. ROBINSON, by unanimous consent, submitted the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested by this Ilouse to take such measures as shall appear proper to secure the release from imprisonment of Messrs. Warren and Costello, convicted and sentenced in Great Britain for words and acts spoken and done in this country, by ignoring our naturalization laws, and to take such other measures as will secure their return to our flag with such ceremonies as are appropriate to the occasion.

MURDERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio. I move to suspend the rules to enable me to offer the following preamble and resolutions:

Whereas information, regarded as reliable, has been received that Solomon Dill, of Camden, South Carolina, late a member of the constitutional convention in said State, and a member-elect to the Legislature, together with two colored men, citizens of the United States, were brutally murdered on the night of the 6th instant, at the residence of said Dill, for no other reason than their devotion to the Union and the Government: and whereas in pursuance of the same system of organized assassination Mr. W. I. Mixon, school commissioner-elect for Barnwell county, North Carolina, was also recently assaulted by armed desperadoes and dangerously, if not mortally wounded: Therefore,

Resolved, (as the sense of this House,) That General R. K. Scott, the Governor-elect, shouid at once take the most active measures for the arrest of the said assassins and murderers, and to that end he is requested to offer a reward of $10,000 for their prompt apprehension.

Resolvedjurther, (as the sense of this House.) That it is the duty of the general commanding of said district to apprehend and place in close custody all well known desperadoes residing in the vicinity where said murders were committed as a measure necessary to aid in revealing the murderers and to check the recurrence of such acts in the future.

Mr. FARNSWORTH. I move that the House do now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; and thereupon (at five o'clock and five minutes p. m.) the House adjourned.

PETITIONS, ETC.

The following petitions, &c., were presented under the rule, and referred to the appropriate committees:

By Mr. CAKE: A memorial of Thomas B. Bancroft and others, citizens of Ashland, Schuykill county, Pennsylvania, complaining of the inadequacy of customs duties to protect the productive interests of the country, and praying for the reconsideration and passage of the general tariff bill which failed in the Thirty Ninth Congress.

By Mr. CARY: A petition from the merchants and grocers of the city of Memphis, Tennessee, protesting against any change in the existing tariff on imported sugar,

By Mr. HOOPER, of Massachusetts: The petition of James H. Beal and others, presidents and directors of national banks, in favor of creating the office of United States sealer, for the purpose of sealing scales and weights used in national banks, navy-yards, customhouses, &c.

By Mr. JULIAN: The petitions of numer ous citizens of lowa and Missouri, praying a grant of land to aid in constructing the lowa aul Missouri State line railroad.

By Mr. MORRELL: The petition of R. B. Myers and 39 others, citizens of Conneautville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, complaining of the depression of industry, and praying for such increase of protective duties as will revive manufactures and restore prosperity to the country.

Also, the petition of 44 farmers and citizens of Oneida township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, praying for increase of protective duties for the benefit of manufacturing industry.

Also, the petition of John Palmer and 205 others, workers in coal at Dudley, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, representing that their industry is greatly depressed and many of their trade out of e nployment, and praying for such additional protective duties as will relieve their distress and aid them in the unequal contest with the underpaid labor of Europe.

Also, the petition of 3 manufacturing firms of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, employing, when in full operation, 45 workmen, now employing 26 workmen, signed also by citizens of said county, complaining of the insufficiency of customs duties to protect the industry of this country against the cheaper capital and labor of foreign countries, and praying that Congress will resume consideration of the tariff bill as passed by the Senate, which failed in the House March, 1867, and enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

Also, the petition of iron manufacturers of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, employing, when in full operation, 400 workmen, now employing 137 workmen, signed also by 75 citizens of said county, setting forth that the industry of the country is paralyzed for want of efficient protection against the cheaper capital and labor of foreign countries, and praying that Corgress will resume consideration of the tariff bill, as passed by the Senate, which failed in the House March, 1867, and enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

Grandview, by way of Gentryville, Polk Patch, Pikeville, Pike County Springs, and Winslow, to Petersburg, in said State.

By Mr. PETERS: The petition of A. D. Manson and others, of Bangor, for improvement of Richmond Island harbor, on the coast of Maine.

By Mr. PHELPS: Resolutions of Baltimore Board of Trade, against proposed reduction of duties on foreign coals.

Also, a memorial of the representatives of 24 coal mines in Maryland, protesting against any reduction of the duty on bituminous coal imported from Canadian provinces.

By Mr. PRICE: The petition of citizens of the States of Missouri and lowa, asking for a grant of land to aid in the construction of the Iowa and Missouri State line railroad.

By Mr. RANDALL. The petition of Henry B. Ashmead, S. C. Collins, W. Harvey Miller, King & Baird, and 124 others, printers of Philadelphia, representing that the productive interests of the country are suffering and its industry paralyzed for want of efficient protection against the cheaper labor and capital of foreign countries; that much of the distress now prevalent and increasing daily would be relieved by the legislation suggested in Special Commissiouer Wells's report of last year, and perfected in the tariff bill as passed by the Senate, which failed in the House of Representatives March, 1867, for want of time; and praying that Congress will resume consideration of that measure und enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

Also, the petition of 76 employés of Sherman & Co., printers of Philadelphia, to the same effect.

Also, the petition of Moore & Simpson, D. Rodney King, Lewis S. Moore, and others, business men of Philadelphia, to the same effect.

Also, a memorial of Shields & Brother, G. W. Huntzinger, James A. Needles, Horace H. Soulé, Samuel Sems, W. E. S. Baker, and 91 others, manufacturers, coal-miners, and shippers, and business men of Philadelphia, complaining of the paralysis of productive industry; and praying that Congress will resume consideration of the tariff bill which failed in the House of Representatives March, 1867, and enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

braska.

By Mr. TAFFE: The petition of O. P. Mason and 1,000 others, citizens of Nebraska, Also, the petition of Reynold & Moorhead, praying the passage of the bill pending in Conmanufacturers of iron at Clarion, Pennsylva-gress to grant aid in the construction of the nia, setting forth that they employ when in full Midland Pacific railway, in the State of Neoperation 280 workmen, and have now but 160, complaining of the suffering condition of the productive interests of the country, and the paralysis of its industry, resulting from the want of efficient protection against the cheaper capital and labor of foreign countries; and praying that Congress will resume consideration of the tariff bill, as passed by the Senate, which failed in the House March, 1867, for want of time, and enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

Also, the petition of 23 manufacturing companies and firms of Blair county, Pennsylvania, employing, when in full operation, 1,536 workmen, now employing 951 workmen, setting forth that customs duties, which were sufficient under a high gold premium, have become wholly inadequate to protect the indus try of this country against the cheaper capital and labor of foreign countries, and in prospect of a continued decline in gold must shortly prove ruinous; that much of the distress now prevalent, and daily increasing, would be relieved by the legislation suggested in Special Commissioner Wells's report of last year, as perfected in the tariff bill which failed in the House March, 1867, for want of time; and praying that Congress will resume consideration of that measure, and enact it into a law at the earliest practicable moment.

By Mr. NIBLACK: A memorial of A. J. Wells and sundry others, citizens of Indiana, praying the establishment of a post route from

IN SENATE.
TUESDAY, June 16, 1868.

Prayer by Rev. A. D. GUILLETte, D. D. On motion of Mr. SHERMAN, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of yesterday was dispensed with.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

Mr. CONKLING presented a petition of cigar manufacturers and journeymen cigarmakers, praying the adoption of the system of collecting the revenue on cigars by making the stamp a revenue stamp instead of an inspector's stamp, sold only to licensed_manufac turers; which was referred to the Committee on Finance.

He also presented a memorial of persons interested in the mining of coal in the United States, protesting against any action which would tend toward the reduction of the present duty on coal; which was referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. CAMERON presented the memorial of the National Board of Trade, praying the pas sage of an act to incorporate said board; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. HARLAN presented a report of the executive committee of the Regents of the

Smithsonian Institution, on the influences of the Washington city canal on the health of the population of the city; which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the bill (S. No. 465) for the erection of schoolhouses and the maintenance of schools in the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, instruct me to report the same back and ask to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. The Committee on Appropriations will take notice of the intention, if it is so desired, to move this on the miscellaneous appropriation bill.

The report was agreed to.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, from the Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred the joint resolution (S. R. No. 141) requiring the Special Commissioner of the Revenue to act as superintendent of the Bureau of Statistics in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury,

asked to be discharged from its further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on Finance; which was agreed to.

Mr. SUMNER, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to recent events in the empire of Japan, moved that it be printed; which was agreed to.

He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the petition of Stephen G. Montano, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. No. 553) to pay Stephen G. Montano, a citizen of Peru, an unpaid balance of money awarded to him by the mixed commission authorized by the convention of January 12, 1863, between the United States and Peru. The bill was read and passed to a second reading, and the report was ordered to be printed.

BILLS INTRODUCED.

Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a joint resolution (S. R. No. 146) authorizing the sale of certain bonds belonging to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, and the adjustment and payment of certain claims against them; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

Mr. FERRY asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a joint reso lution (S. R. No. 147) for the relief of Jonathan S. Turner; which was read twice by its title, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SHERMAN asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a bill (S. No. 554) to promote commerce among the States and to cheapen transportation of the mails and military and naval stores; which was read twice by its title.

Mr. SHERMAN. In regard to the reference of that bill, I have consulted some members of the Committee on Commerce, to whom some might suppose it should properly go, or to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. As the bill is a very important one, proposing to construct railroads from the city of Washington in different directions, and as there is a great deal of dispute about the right to do so, I will move that it be referred to a select committee; I do not expect any action upon it at this session, but with a view that the select committee may turn their attention to the subject and report early in the next session.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Of how many shall the committee be composed? Mr. SHERMAN. Seven, to be appointed by the Chair. The committees to whom the matter would naturally be referred have a great deal of business on hand.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It is moved

that the bill be referred to a select committee to consist of seven members. The motion was agreed to.

Mr. SHERMAN. I also move that the bill be printed.

The motion was agreed to.

Messrs. SHERMAN, SUMNER, CHANDLER, RAMSEY, STEWART, BUCKALEW, and VICKERS were appointed the committee.

ONEIDA INDIANS.

Mr. HOWE submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to inform the Senate whether he has issued any order or adopted any regulation prohibiting the individuals of the Oneida tribe of Indians from cutting and removing timber from the common lands of the tribe; and if so, under what laws such prohibition is sanctioned, and what penalties are imposed for a violation of such rule. Also, if he has authorized the agent of said tribe to sell such timber and take pay therefor; and what security he has taken of such agent for the proper disposition of the proceeds of such sales.

CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW INDIANS.

Mr. HARLAN submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be requested to furnish the Senate, as soon as practicable, any information in his possession relative to the present status of the claims of loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, under the forty-ninth article of the treaty with those tribes of April 28, 1866, and to inform the Senate what moneys or securities are held by the United States for said tribes.

REMOVAL OF POLITICAL DISABILITIES. Mr. STEWART. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of House bill No. 1059.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. No. 1059) to relieve certain citizens of North Carolina of disabilities.

Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, there are before the Senate several reports from the Judiciary Committee on this subject; one to

relieve citizens of North Carolina

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Would it not be well to have the bill read first?

Mr. STEWART. Allow me one word of explanation. There have been reported from the committee several propositions of this sort; a bill to remove disabilities from citizens of North Carolina, and also, a bill to remove disabilities from citizens of Alabama. The committee have considered a large number of other names in an informal way, and I desire to propose, in lieu of the bill that is before the Sen. ate, an amendment, in the nature of a substitute, containing a variety of names. It will be unnecessary, therefore, to read the original bill. The substitute that I offer contains all the names embraced in the bill, and also combines all the bills that have been reported, and those that have been sent to the Judiciary Committee on this subject.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The reading of the original bill will be dispensed with unless it is called for by some Senator, and the substitute only will be read.

The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the amendment, which was to strike out all after the enacting clause of the bill and to insert the following in lieu thereof:

(Two thirds of each House concurring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the United States upon the following-named citizens of North Carolina in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion be, and the same are hereby, removed, namely:

Franklin county: A. M. Timberlake, W. S. Harris, E. A. Crudup, and Green H. Grupton.

Wake county: William H. Harrison, Willey D. Jones, Albert Johnson, Jacob Sorrell, Hilliard J. Smith, C. L. Harris, and W. R. Richardson.

Pittcounty: Joseph Staten, Lewis Hilliard, Charles J. O'Hagan, Calvin Cox, James C. Langley, and Charles Roundtree.

Halifax county: Charles N. Webb, John O'Brien, John T. Gregory, George W. Owens, John A. Reed, and J. T. Evans.

Beaufort county: Samuel T. Carrow, Hiram E. Stilley, William B. Rodman, George L. Windley, Howard Wiswall, Edmund Hodges. Luther Ruff, Jesse G. Bryan, Edward J. Warren, Edward S. Hoyt, Samuel Windley, John B. Respass, Henry Hodges, Jesse Robason, and William A. Blount.

New Hanover county: David Bunting, Edward

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Kidder, Silas N. Martin, James H. Chadbourne, George Chadbourne, George Hooper, James Alderman, and L. H. Bowden.

Stanley county: Joseph Marshall, James E. Malden, Dumas Coggins, Daniel Richey, La Fayette Green, Allen Burris, Franklin A. Lafton, and John A. Morton.

Davidson county: Evander Davis. Emory Davis, Ephraim Hampton, Green H. Lee, David Loftin, Willis Cecil, and Henderson Adams.

Person county: John D. Wilkerson.

Caldwell county: Loyd T. Jones, William M. Barber, A. W. Austin, Samuel McCall, Washington Moore, James M. Barber, Robert B. Bogle, and Hosea Bradford.

Wilson county: George W. Blount, Newett D. Owens, William D. Farmer, John Wilkinson, and Francis W. Taylor.

Forsyth county: Joseph S. Phipps, John G. Sides, John M. Stolts, Israel Moses, William Clinard, E. A. Volgar, William B. Stipe, and Allen Spach.

Transylvania county: Jeremiah Osborne, J. C. Duckworth, Samuel Reed, Robert Hamil on, J. W. Clayton, William R. Galloway, Perry Orr, Isaac Harris, R. P. Kilpatrick, and G. C. Neil.

Henderson county: Benjamin Williams, James M. Justice, William D. Whitted, James Spann, R. J. Allen, M. Owenby, John C. Gulick, M. B. Lance, D. M. Justice, Leander Pace, William K. Leadbetter, Bedford Brown, S. R. Stancill, G. P. Edney, Thomas Osten, S. B. O. McCall, and David Stradley.

Guilford county: William M. Mebane, Joseph Haskins, Wyatt Ragsdale, Robert P. Dick, Frederick Fentress, Calvin Causey, George W. Bowman, Newton D. Woody, Barnabas Pane, John Hyatt, John W. Kirkman, Andrew C. Murrow, Abram Clapp, David Greeson, and Robert M. Stafford.

Alamance county: Joseph C. Thompson, Nathaniel Stout, William P. McDaniel, Simpson Vestle, James Albright, and Henry Boon.

Lincoln county: Rufus Clarke, W. B. Bynum, and Henry Wilkinson.

Bladen county: Dugald Blue and Calvin Jones. Wilkes county: R. M. Smith, John M. Brown, James F. Tugman, Andrew Porter, Samuel P. Smith, sen., John F. Parlier, Isaac S. Call, Harrold Hays, Ambrose Wiles, Toliver Shoumate, William E. Reynolds, Emanuel Harrold, James H. Hays, Calvin J. Cowles.

Cleveland county: James O. Bridges, Andrew Parker, David Hall, Henry Wortman, A. W. Gowins, John Cook, Lewis Donnss, and J. C. Ryers.

Cumberland county: Robert Orrell, A. G. Thornton, Duncan G. McCormick, and Robert Mitchell. Sampson county: Caeton Cessoms, Robert Cain, Clifton Ward, Amos N. Hall, William Cessoms, Robertson Ward, and Lorenzo D. Hall.

Cateret county: Malvin J. Davis, W. J. Doughty, and John C. Manson.

Duplin county: William E. Hill and Thomas K. Murphy.

Currituck county: M. V. B. Gilbert, M. D. Lindsay, and W. D. Chaddick.

Alexander county: Robert Carson, R, O. Bennet, W. W. Stafford, William S. Teague, Elisha Bebber, Gabriel Marshall, William M. Bogle, Thomas J. Dula, Daniel Moore, George W. Long, James J. Teague, Andrew C. Watts, F. D. Reece, F. A. Campbell, and J. N. Carson.

Mecklenburg county: H. W. Pritchard, William R. Myers, Robert McEwen, Jeremiah S. Reed, Rutus Barringer, Robert M. Martin, and Alex. McIver. Camden county: Isaac Morriset, John M. Forbes. A. P. Cherry, George W. Spencer, and James W. Chamberlain.

Edgecombe county: William S. Battle, Redden S. Petway. John J. Killebrew, William H. Knight, Jesse Mercer, Exum L. Moore, Thomas Norfleet, Llewellen Harrold, W. H. Johnson, Joseph Cobb, R. W. Proctor, William W. Parker, John Norfleet, Henry E. Odom, John W. Johnson, Micajah P. Edwards, Lawrence Bunting, Robert Norfleet, and Napoleon B. Bellamy,

Alleghany county: William A. Brooks, Morgan Bryan, A. Marion Smith, William Andrews, Nathan Weaver, Goldman Higgings, L. M. Blackburn, Reuben Sparks, Hugh Hanks, John Parsons, John A. Jones, Solomon Stamper. and Alexander Black. Ashe county: John Williams.

Hyde county: Sylvester McGowan, James G. Carrowan, George V. Credle, W. B. Tooley, and Joseph P. Flowers.

Iredell county: Thomas Holcomb, E. B. Stimpson, and Henry C. Cowles.

Wayne county: Curtis H. Brogden and John C. Rhodes.

Stokes county: John H. Shaffer, A. H. Joyce, Aquilla Moore, William V. Shelton, J. R. Jewett, Ambrose Jessup, Ira Gentry, James Harris, J. B. Young, J. J. Martin, Eaton B. Terrell, W. B. Vaughn, and William M. Gordon,

Perquinans county: Nathan B. Cox, Robert J. White, and Jonathan W. Albertson.

Yadkin county: Moses Gross, Meekins Castioens, Thomas Hanes, George Long, E. C. Brown, Aquilla Speer, Thomas F. Martin, Samuel C. Wech, Winston Fleming, James H. Myers, H. Thomason, J. N. Vestal, Jesse Reives, Sexton Jones, Moses Chappell, S. Speere, Jonathan Waggoner, George Nix, David Hutchins, J. S. Jones, William W. Patterson, George D. Williams, Barnett C. Myers, William H. Rodwell, T. L. Tuibert, John D. Holcomb, R. M. Pearson, and Jesse Lackey.

Harnett county: James S. Harrington, John F. Shaw, Neil McLeod, Robert A. Norden, James Hodge, John Harrington, James M. Turner, and A. J. Tudington.

Northampton county: William Barrow, John B. Odom, Noah R. Odom, David A. Barnes, Jesse W. Grant, Jesse Flythe, Samuel Calvert, sen., Samuel J. Calvert, and George Holloman.

Madison county: F. M. Lawson, O. S. Deaver, D. E. Freeman, James Ramsey, James Croder, and L. G. Brignum.

Warren county: William A. White, John W. Patille, John H. Bullock, John C. McGraw, James T. Russell, Nathaniel R. Jones, William W. White, and J. T. Allston.

Union county: William M. Austin Arthur Stigall, Robert Bivens, Benjamin F. Fincher, James McNeily, Milos A. Lemons, Jackson Greene, Thomas W. Griffin, Richard Tarlton, and Asa Brumblow. Nash county: George N. Lewis and Absalom Baines.

Rowan county: J. A. Hawkins, Matthias Boyden, George Bemhardt, Levi Trexler, William P. Atwell, and Peter Williamson.

Washington county: James A. Melson, Thomas Benbridge, Eli Spruill, and W. W. Ward.

Rockingham county: Thomas Settle and Thomas A. Kagland.

Burke county: James H. Hall, Joseph Deaton, Asley Mall, Jeremiah Smith, William Bailey, and James Hildebran.

Gaston county: D. A. Jenkins.

Montgomery county: John K. Lofflin, James Batten, James W. Ressas, David Wright, John C. Nichols, and James B. Ballard.

Chowan county: Charles E. Robinson.

Pasquotank county: John Pool, George D. Pool, Frank Vaughn, F. M. Godfrey, C. W. Granly, jr., W. G. Pool, George W. Charles, and C. W. Hollowwell.

Buncombe county: James Reed, James P. Ellar, Levi Penland, P. J. Israel, Amasa Roberts, and James E. Reed.

Moore county: Thomas W. Ritter, William J. King, John S. Ritter, R. W. Barrett, M. J. Blue, Jordan Sluar, Samuel W. Seawell, D. W. McDonald, John P. Cole, Alexander H. McNeil, and Benjamin Spivey. Richmond county: Oliver H. Dockery, George McKinon, John A. Long, and Elisha T. Long.

Haywoood county: A. J. Murray, Isaac Clarke, D. B. Ford, Henry Franklin, Samuel Fitzgerald, J. W. Harbin, J. M. Patton, W. S. Evans, R. E. Medford, and R. S. Owens.

Jackson county: E. D. Brindle, L. C. Hooper, Mordecai Zackey, Wilson Ensby, J. J. Hooper, and A. Cope.

Davie county: Uriah H. Phelps, John R. Williams, and William B. March.

Greene county: John Harvey, Richard J. Williams, John J. Osman, William P. Grimsley, Joseph II. Dixon, William T. Dixon, and D. A. Spivey.

McDowell county: James H. Duncan, C. S. Copeland, John Elliott, James A. McCall, John O'Brien, Thomas Ludbetter, Elijah Morgan, John T. Gregory, and Charles H. Webb.

Cabarras county: Victor C. Barringer.

Cherokee county: William McGuyre, T. R. McCombs, Phelix T. Axley, Christopher Gentry, George W. Ferguson, B. K. Dickey, and George W. Hall. Bertie county: Jonathan Taylor, George N. Greene, Frederick Muller, and Louis C. Bond.

Granville county: Robert Garner, Eugene Gibson, Solomon G. Wilse, and E. B. Lyons.

Martin county: John Watts, William C. Eborn, F. P. Bazemore, John L. Knight, Samuel W. Watts, Josiah M. Catterson, and Joseph J. Martin,

Polk county: Martin Hambleton, Nesbid Dinsdale, James Jackson, R. S. Abrams, and J. W. Hampton. Rutherford county: G. W. Logan, Rufus Williams, Israel P. Sorrels, J. E. McFarland, B. W. Andrews, Moses Wilkeson, W. B. Feeeman, Edward Hawkins, R. J. McCraw, Eli Whisnant, Martin Walker, Willis Bradley, W. G. Mode, J. W. Mode, James H. Carpenter, James McFarland, John A. Carpenter, A. A, Seoggins, Sunith McCarrey, W. G. Wilson, R. F. Carpenter, C. J. Sparks. L. L. Deck, A. Hollowfield, H. H. Hopper, B. W. Barber, W. O. Wallace, A. C. Martin, J. W. Gibson, and Jerre Jackson.

Lenoir county: Walter A. Dunn, James L. Canaday, Anthony Davis, Joshua Rouse, and James M. Parrot.

Robeson county: James Sinclair, Benjamin A. Howell, and Edward K. Proctor.

Craven county: Edward R. Stanley, Charles R. Thomas, and Frederick J. Jones.

Johnston county: Thomas D. Snead, P. P. Massey. B. L. Hinnent, Willie Holt, John R. Coats, Samuel Woodey, Ray Phillips, J. P. Peck, Robert Messengale, William A. Smith, James H. Enniss, Franklin Phillips, W. D. Holt, Thomas Edgerton, and Bryan Williams.

Randolph county: John Pope, Henry Presnell, William McGee, James Lathan, Alson Jennings, B. A. Sellars, J. R. Bulla, Alfred Julian, James T. Fox, Elijah Whitney, Joel Ashworth, and E. T. Blair.

Brunswick county: Robert W. Woodside, L. D. Thurston, Lorenzo Frink, Lewis Galloway, D. K. Bennett, D. L. Russell, and P. Priolian,

Chatham county: R. M. Brown, W. C. Council, Benjamin I. Hodge, William Laney, R. C. Colton, Hezekiah Henderson, R. C. Council, William Griffin. Joseph Brazington, Elias Bryan, and H. H. Burk.

Surry county: Drury McGee, Thomas Martin, T. J. Williams, C. II. Kepp, Joel Hurtz, Martin Payne, George A. Jaris, J. S. Pedigre, James Nations. Isaac Armfield, Gideon Bryant, John Nichols, A. H. Knapp, John C. Thompson, C. C. McMickle, William Hodges, B. F. Scott, James Veneble, Martin Axum, John McCloud, and Jeremiah Gay.

Macon county: R. M. Henry, W. H. Higdon, C. T. Rodgers, A. L. Parton, and A. Vaughn. Orange county: H B. Guthrie. Granville county: R. W. Lassiter.

Person county: John Barnett, S. C. Barnett. George W. Norwood, Joseph Massey, Chesley Hamlin, James T. Sergeant, and C. S. Winstead.

Northampton county: Edmund Jacobs and James W. Newsom.

Edgecomb county: Robert Austin.

Chowan county: William R. Skinner, John H. Hall, Robert G. Mitchell, and James A. Woodard. Haywood county: A. L. Herren.

Carteret county: William B. Duncan, Isaac Ramsay, and Thomas Duncan.

Wake county: Bartholomew F. Moore, Joseph W.
Holden, R. W. Wynne, and William Jenks.
Cleaveland county: John W. Logan.
Chatham county: John A. McDonald.
Craven county: Richard T. Berry and Charles R.
Thomas.

Wake county: William W. Holden.
Burke county: Tod R. Cadwell.
Davidson county: Henderson Adams.

Rutherford county: George W. Logan and Cebern L. Harris.

Yadkin county: Richmond M. Pearson.
Guilford county: Robert P. Dick.
Rockingham county: Thomas Settle.
Person county: Edwin G. Reade.

Brunswick county: Daniel L. Russell, jr.
Rowan county: Nathaniel Boyden."
Richmond county: Alfred Dockery.
Iredell county: Anderson Mitchell.
Rockingham county: James Blythe and David S.
Ellington.

Johnston county: B. R. Hinnant. Henderson county: W. D. Justus. Rockingham county: John W. Foster and Turner W. Patterson.

Granville county: James I. Moore and R. P. Taylor.

Rutherford county: Eleazer McArthur.
Bertie county: John S. Shepperd.
Catawba: James Mott.

Pitt county: Richard Short.
Fayetteville: Ralph P. Buxton.
Cumberland county: Warren Carver.
McDowell county: W. W. Gilbert.
Anson county: William T. Tucker.
Halifax county: A. L. Pierce.
Duplin county: James K. Williams.
Cherokee county: M. B. Crisp.

Warren county: Isham H. Bennett, Benjamin E.
Cook, T. A. Montgomery, John H. Bullock, Alexan-
der S. Steel, John W. Rogers, and John J. Rodwell.
Bertie county: William P. Gurley.
Cleaveland county; Eli H. Fulenwider.
Ashe county: Eli Graybeal, Jackson Litzeman,
John Calhoun, James Sapp, and John F. Greer.

North Carolina: G. B. Arledge, A. B. Blanton, B. H. Blount, Daniel Coleman, sen., Jackson Dalton, J. W. Fuller, William Golden, John Gibbs, W. P. Grimsley, N. B. Hampton, J. M. Hamilton, Helter Hildebrand, W. D. Justus, Jesse Jenkins, Absalom Kelly, Ed. B. Lyon, George W. McKinnon, George Nicks, Miles Padgett, William H. Puryear, Everett Phillips, R. J. Powell, Josephus Reed, Calvin J. Rodgers, James Rains, John Ritter, A. J. Scroggins, H. E. Stilley, Benjamin Thompson, J. A. Thorn, Jos. Taylor, and Charles Williams.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the United States upon the following named citizens of Alabama in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion be, and the same are hereby, removed, namely: Joshua F. Morse, Walter II, Grant, J. G. Harris, J. McCaleb Wiley, Benjamin F. Porter, W. H. Wood, J. F. Conoley, J. C. Meadors, C. C. Sheats, A. J. Scrimsher, F. W. Sykes, Joseph Comans, James M. Ligon, Thomas D. Fister, Ferdinand L. Hammond, Thomas W. Martin, S. C. Posey, W. B. Figures, Joseph C. Bradley, David C. Ilumphreys, David P. Lewis, William A. Austin, Lemuel Sanford, H. C. Sanford, William S. Mudd, Robert Blair, Robert S. Heflin, James 11. McDonald, James Longstreet, Milton J. Saffold, Hardy Wilkins, James R. Dillard, John Henderson, Jeff. Holley, P. O. Harper, W. B. Nichols, J. J. McLemore, Benjamin F. Saffold, Thomas O. Glascock, Adam C. Felder, N. B. Cloud, Charles Pelham, Moses Camak, James S. Clark, R. S. M. Hunter, William Wood, J. P. Timberlake, John B. Talley, W. J. Matthews, Larkin Willis, J. B. Ragsdale, John R. Caffey, William A. Caffey, Jonathan Latham, James Williams, William Lovelady, P. W. Cargile, Allen Lee, Charles Womble, Hiram Barton, Andrew J. Files, John Brown, James L. Boyd, J. H. Byers, Wiley H. Pope, B. F. Harris, Joseph W. Srygley, J. H. McDonald, Thomas Masterson, John T. Torry, John M. Proctor, Cliff Brandon, John D. Johnson, William Bishop, John D. Terrill, Burr W. Wilson, James M. Moore, Barnett Moses, Joseph Clifton, H. W. Matthews, E. S. Masterson, A. B. Masterson, William C. Kirby, John R. Nesmith, Thomas H. Nesmith, A. J. Kirby, J. T. Abirnathy, O. H. Bynum, A. J. Ingle, James Hogan, Joseph P. Conner, Jesse Lugram, W. P. Beason, Majors Self, W. H. Braseal, John Yielding. Caleb King, William O. Winston, G. N. Winston, William J. Haralson, George W. Malone, D. L. Nicholson, Theodore Watson, John Mimins, L. W. Davis, John T. Foster, George S. Huston, Robert McElvaine, John Elliott, Caleb Price, Cleveland F. Moulton, Averett Howard, J. D. Cunningham, J. W. Hughes, M. C. Stokes, A. Howard, J. H. Nettles, Walter L. Coleman, G. Goldthaite, David Campbell, William Trammel, W. J. Gilmore, William G. Delony, John Edwards, J. B. Hubbard, H. A. Manning, A. Strickland, T. W. Newsom, George W. Watson, David L. Nicholson, Joseph C. Boyd, Silas C. Dobbs, Nicholas Davis, Robert Alexander, Joseph C. Boyle, B. B. McCraw, W. L. Taylor, W. L. Dooman, B. L. Dyer, Thomas J. Jackson, John M. Ward, Henry Clifton, T. K. Brantley, J. P. Hall, Edward P. Tucke, James L. Caldwell, R. C. Parish, C. D. Hudson, John Appleby. Alexander Monox, W. P. Crook, James H. Houston, John W. A. Jackson, William C. Sherrod, W. B. Jones, David Day, George Charleton, James S. Clark, William McDonald, James W. Moore, C. C. Tompkins, Galen Terrel, John M. Modor, L. F. May, Moss Carrack, Thomas Stubblefield, John C. Moore,

Thomas M. Peters, L. D. Lusk, Moses Maples, J. R. Eastlan, J. T. Ledyard, James Gavity, John Brepingham, Harry D. Houston, Ezra P. Chappel, Harry I. Thornton, late of Alabama; and also all officerselect at the election commenced the 4th day of February, 1868, in said State of Alabama, and who have not publicly declined to accept the offices to which they were elected.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the United States upon the following named citizens of Georgia in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion be, and the same are hereby removed, namely: James Martin, of Bibb county; McWhorter Hungerford and Jesse Wimberly, of Burke county; Thomas Paulk, of Berrien county; N. N. Gober, of Cobb county; W. W. Merrill and George W. Merrill, of Carroll county; W. O. Edmonson, of Chattooga County; John C. Johnson, Asa M. Jackson, Joun W.Johnson, Josiah A. Browning, John C. Nunnally, and Robert Flournoy, of Clark county: John C. Richardson, Daniel Fowler, William H. Richardson, John Foutz, Robert M. Barrett, and Samuel M. Fowler, of Dawson county: Benjamin F. Bruton, B. F. Powell, Richard H. Whitely, and John Higdon, of Decatur county; L. II. Roberts, of Echols county; James A. Harrison, of Franklin county; S. F. W. Minot, of Fayette county; Nathan Yarbrough and Thomas J. Perry, of Floyd county; Bluford D. Smith, Joseph E. Brown, and George S. Thomas, of Fulton county; R. L. McWhorter, James R. Bynum, D. A. Newsom, C. J. Caldwell, R, C. Hales, John Mitchell, G. H. Thompson, W. H. McWhorter, jr., R. Hulbert, and J. C. Broom, of Greene county; W. II. Rainey, John B. Miller, Whitson Frohock, Henry F. Beach, and John Brooks, of Glynn county; James H. Maxwell, George M. Wyatt, W. J. Allums, J. C. Griffin, John Fryer, and Willis Goodwin, of Henry county; Joel R. Griffin, William A. Matthews, John H. Hose, Augustus Alden, A. C. Thompson, Kinchen Taylor, Elbert Fagan, James W. Love, Jesse Cooper, and Robert Braswell, of Houston county; George F. Page, of Lee county; Joshua Griffin and A. J. Liles, of Lowndes county; M. A. Potts and M. B. Potts, of Monroe county: Francis M. D. Hopkins, of Miller county: J. M. Kusty, (or Burtz,) of Mitchell county; W. Woods, of Morgan county; S. F. Strick-. land and C. D. Forsyth, of Paulding county; Ephraim Tweedy, James N. Ells, William Doyle, and Joseph P. Carr, of Richmond county; Duncan Jordan and William B. Dixson, of Randolph county; W. D. Hamilton, of Scriven county; J. H. Caldwell J. T. McCormick, Thomas C. Miller, and E. H. Worrell, of Troup county; John R. Evans, M. C. Smith, Henry H. Tooke, C. H. Latimer, Thomas S. Hopkins, Theophilus P. Perry, and Thomas S. Paine, of Thomas county; Marion Bethune, J. T. Costin, Albert Costin, J. L. Gunn, and B. Carley, of Taibot County: William F. Holden,, Taliaferro county; Augustus H. Lee, of Newton county; James II. McWhorter, W. H. Ward, F. L. Upson, and F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe county; Edward R. Harden, of Randolph county; David B. Harrell, of Stewart county: L. H. Greenleaf, of Ware county; William Griffin, of Wilkinson county; S. C. Prudden and A. C. Mason, of Putnam county; W. U. Gibson and Samuel F. Gove, of Twiggs county; W. K. DeGraffenreid, Marshall DeGraffenreid, and W. J. Lawton, of Bibb county; J. H. Harrison, of Franklin_county; William Gibson, of Richmond county; John R. Strother, of Baldwin county; J. G. M. Warnock, John McKinnon, William G. Bagwell, Abraham Strickland, Murdock McCloud, and Robert Humphries, of Brooks county; J. R. Corker, of Burke county; William P. Edwards, of Taylor county; John C. Johnson, Asa M. Jackson, John W. Johnson, Robert Flournoy, G. W. Nunnally, Flournoy W. Adams, and Peter W. Hutcheson, of Clark county; James M. Clark, of Sumpter county; David Whelebel, of Hall county; James Huffaker, of Whitfield county; John M. Mathews, A. L. Byrd, G. H. Byrd, H. T. Sanders, John N. Montgomery, Joel Hunt, M. A. Daniel, Gabriel Nash, and V. H. Deadwyler, of Madison county.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the United States upon the following-named citizens of Arkansas and South Carolina, in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same are hereby, removed, namely: W. M. Harrison, of Drew county, and James R. Berry, of Pulaski county, of Arkansas: and C. C. Bowen, F. J. Moses, R. M. Wallace, John D. Ashmond, of South Carolina.

Before the reading of the amendment was concluded,

Mr. WILLIAMS. I wish to inquire whether there is any particular necessity for reading all those names. There is a long list of names there, and the Senate know nothing about the particular individuals, but must depend of course upon the Committee on the Judiciary. For the sake of saving time I suggest that the reading of the names be dispensed with.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The reading of the names may be dispensed with by unanimous consent. Is there any objection? No objection being made, the reading of the names will be dispensed with.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I should like to inquire of the Senator having charge of the bill if the name of Joseph Keener, of Jackson county, North Carolina, for whose relief I presented a petition, is included.

Mr. STEWART. I do not recollect.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I would also inquire in regard to James W. Terrell, of Jackson county, North Carolina, whose petition I presented the other day. I move that those names be inserted.

Mr. CONNESS. I should like to know who those persons are, and whether due inquiry has been made in regard to them, what their position and opinions are. I do not mean now what are called mere political opinions, but how far they are prepared to forget their former offenses. I should like to hear something about them.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The ques tion is on the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin.

Mr. CONNESS. If we can get no information as to these names, I for one shall vote against the bill if they are inserted, because I will not vote to remove the disabilities from any man unless his case has been examined sufficiently to give us a guarantee for his obeying the law and keeping the peace in the future. I shall oppose the bill in all its stages unless we have that guarantee.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I presented the petition of Mr. Keener, and it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The facts set out in the petition are no doubt correct. I have received a letter from him, in which he makes a statement in relation to himself. He says in his letter to me:

"In addition to the facts stated in the petition, you may say truly that I have not at any time thrown any obstacle in the way of reconstruction under the law. As a member of the Legislature of North Carolina since the rebellion, in 1865, I gave my support to the most liberal legislation for the freedmen of this State. It is due to truth and candor to state that I was opposed to the present constitution of North Carolina. Should you feel any delicacy in asking pardon for a so-called rebel, you will be kind enough to hand this petition to some other person who has not.

The petition is in the hands of the Judiciary Committee, and I supposed the committee would act upon it. He does not state in his letter to me what part he took in the rebellion. If the Senator from Nevada will send for the petition he can ascertain the facts.

Mr. POMEROY. I ask the Senator if he knows anything personally about this case.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I do not, except from the letters I have received; and how are we to act on these cases? Here come before the Senate two or three hundred names.

Mr. POMEROY. Does the Senator know the parties who wrote the letters?

Mr. DOOLITTLE. This is the letter I received from the gentleman himself.

Mr. POMEROY. Do you know him? Mr. DOOLITTLE. I do not personally know him, but I felt called upon to present the petition.

Mr. CONNESS. I hope the Senator will send up the letter to be read at the desk. I have not heard a word of it.

Mr. SHERMAN. I hope the amendment will be withdrawn.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I do not propose to withdraw it unless there is some good reason for withdrawing it. This gentleman I suppose is like the other gentlemen who are named in this bill, men who have at some time given their support directly or indirectly to the rebellion while the thing was progressing; but now that it is over, and that there is a proposition that disabilities be removed, these gentlemen ask that their disabilities may be removed.

Mr. Terrell says that he was opposed to the constitution framed for North Carolina by the convention of 1868, "but should it be finally adopted I expect to make a quiet and peaceable citizen under it. In the late election in this State my name was placed on the ticket for county commissioner without my knowl edge, and I was elected. It is true this is a very small office, but I think it of some local importance that I be permitted to hold it. Besides, whether I ever seek office or not, I would of course prefer freedom from disabili ties." This is signed by James W. Terrell, who has been elected county commissioner. Mr. STEWART. I have sent for the peti

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tions in these cases, and I find that they are signed by the petitioners alone, and I came across no one who could give me any information in regard to them. I could get no further information than was in the petitions of the parties themselves. The cases may be all right, but I should not like to act affirmatively on their own mere statement.

Mr. HENDRICKS. I would suggest to the Senator from Nevada that, so far as I have observed, the Committee on the Judiciary have desired to restore the men elected to office as far as possible. The last person named seems to have been elected to the office of county commissioner.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. With the leave of the Senate I will read what the petitioner states, and I think it will be satisfactory to the Senate: WEBSTER, JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, May 25, 1868. To the Honorable the Senate and

House of Representatives in Congress assembled: The petition of James W. Terrell respectfully showeth that he was appointed postmaster at the small county office of Qualla Town, in the county of Haywood, in the fall of 1852, and held that position until the breaking out of hostilities in 1861; that by participation in the rebellion as a captain in the confederate army he falls within the restrictions of the proposed fourteenth article to the Constitution of the United States: and your petitioner further showeth that at the late election in this State he was elected county commissioner for the county of Jackson. He therefore respectfully asks that your honorable body remove the disability in his case so as to allow him to take the position to which he has been elected; and, as in duty bound, your petitioner will ever pray. JAMES W. TERRELL.

I have no doubt that is the state of the fact. Mr. CONNESS. Now, if the Senator will permit me

Mr. DOOLITTLE.

Allow me to read also the petition of the other party, and then the whole facts will be presented to the Senate: WEBSTER, JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, May 25, 1868. To the Honorable the Senate and

House of Representatives in Congress assembled: The petition of Joseph Keener respectfully showeth that he was from the year 1838 to 1844 a member of the Legislature of North Carolina, and that during the war of the rebellion, although above the age of bearing arms, he sympathized with the confederate army, and was also during the war a member of the North Carolina Legislature, which bring him under the restrictions of the Howard amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Your petitioner further showeth that he was, at the late election in North Carolina, elected to the lower House of the Legislature. He therefore prays your honorable body to remove his disability, so as to allow him to take his seat in that body to which he has been elected; and, as in duty bound, your petitioner will J. KEENER.

ever pray.

Those are the papers which I received and had referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. CONNESS. Now, Mr. President, I have simply to say in regard to these cases that I am prepared to vote at any time to remove the disability from any of those citizens who have been engaged in the rebellion when it shall appear, outside of their own testimony, and in addition to it, that they were not guilty of cruelties and violations of the laws of war and of civilization pending the war, and when it shall be shown in addition that they are now prepared in good faith to "accept the situation," not to accept it and fight it, but to accept it and become peaceable residents and citizens of the United States. We are dealing with persons who voluntarily disfranchised themselves, made themselves alien to our country and its institutions. I am prepared, notwithstanding, to deal liberally and generously with that portion of them who did not commit unnatural crimes, who did not violate the laws of war and humanity, and who are now prepared to act in good faith toward the nation and its people; but I desire other than their own testimony as to that point. Since I have been here, and since the termination of the war, I have had many such letters from persons known to me, some of whom left the State of which I am a resident and went to participate in the war, and did take part in it; but their letters were of such a character, while they were seeking pardon and exemption from disabilities, that I could not present them, nor ask for such relief for them. In no instance have I had a

letter that did not give evidence of the pride of opinion and of section and of faction that led to the war.

Mr. President, the business upon which we are entering this morning, if we pass this bill as proposed by the member of the Judiciary Committee, carries with it a great many risks at best. We are sure to readmit to the rights and privilges of citizenship many who are not fit for them. We are bound, it appears to me, to exercise peculiar care. I am not prepared to relieve the disabilities of any person upon his own petition. Let those petitions be referred to the Judiciary Committee. Let them investigate through the best means in their power, and ascertain who the parties are, what their antecedents are. I will not now be understood, again I say, as referring to political opinions, because if a man has not the right to disagree to propositions submitted to him I do not know any other right that he can be said to have; but I wish that his patriotism, his disposition to behave well in future, shall be tried and established. Therefore Í hope that we shall not agree to the amendment of the honorable Senator from Wisconsin, but that those names will be referred to the committee and acted upon in the future, if found to be worthy of such action.

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Mr. FERRY. Mr. President, I shall vote for the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin, and as my vote is governed by the general view which I entertain with regard to the duty of Congress in cases of this kind I desire to state it now very briefly, so as to avoid the necessity of stating it again. I think it is safer for society, I think it is safer for the peace of the country, North and South, that all political disabilities which have grown out of this rebellion should cease. would prefer a general law to that effect. But while no such general law is upon the statutebook, if any citizen now laboring under those disabilities makes respectful application to Congress for their removal, I will vote to grant the prayer of his petition, because I believe it is better for those communities that persons laboring under these disabilities should be able by their votes, and as members of the Legislatures of those States, to make known their wants and feelings, than that they should be kept a discontented, sullen class in society, and their disabilities thus remain simply a source of evil. I think a true policy requires the same principle to be adopted with regard to them that I would apply to other adult citizens who may have what, some would consider disqualifications for the exercise of the elective franchise, but to whom the extension of that franchise is safer than its denial. The general principle applies, in my judgment, to all alike.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from Wisconsin to the amendment of the Senator from Nevada.

Mr. CONNESS. On that question I ask for the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

Mr. DOOLITTLE. I will simply state the fact which is stated in their petitions; one of these persons is elected a county commissioner, and one is elected a member of the Legislature. They both set out this fact in their petition, and ask to have the disabilities removed. There are hundreds of names contained in the bill, as reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, but I presume the Committee on the Judiciary have had no opportunity to inquire into the particulars in relation to these per sons, except the fact that they have been elected, perhaps, to office in the State of North Carolina, and it is desirable that this disability should be removed, so that they can accept the offices to which they are elected.

Mr. STEWART. I will inform the Senator that, in regard to all of them, I have seen somebody who knew them, or received letters from persons whom I knew, and who were known to Senators, with regard to the facts. The name of no man is inserted without beng vouched for by somebody who knows him.

men were men whose characters afforded sufficient guarantee that they would be good and

Mr. TRUMBULL. I will state further, for the information of the Senator from Wisconsin, that the Senator from Nevada has had partic-peaceable citizens I should be very much disularly in charge this matter of inquiring into the character and conduct of the men who have been recommended to have their disabilities removed; and that he has spent a great deal of time on the subject. During the last two months he has made inquiries of everybody from whom he could obtain information. I will state further, that most of the persons whose disabilities are recommended to be removed by the Committee on the Judiciary are persons whom the constitutional conventions have recommended should be released from their political disabilities. I believe we have included every name thus recommended by the constitutional conventions.

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name they recommended has been inserted, and there are some names added to that list, on the representation of reliable persons in those States, with whom the Senator from Nevada has had intercourse, and from whom he has obtained information. I admit that it|| is very difficult to obtain satisfactory information in regard to perhaps a thousand names, but the committee have taken the recommendations of the constitutional conventions as far as they went, and have added a few names upon what they regarded reliable authority. This was the best disposition we found it in our power to make. It may not be entirely satisfactory; and I wish to say to the Senator from California that it is possible the committee have made mistakes, and it would be wonderful if they had not made some in this long list of names from several States; but we have had to act upon such information as we could obtain, adopting, as a principle, to relieve everybody who gave evidence of his intention to acquiesce fairly in the condition of the country brought about by the results of the war, and to sustain honestly and fairly the laws which have been enacted by Congress for the reorganization of the rebel States.

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Mr. CONNESS. I have not complained of the investigations made by the committee. have only suggested that we should not add names upon their individual application. We have the name now of one of the two persons here before us who says he is a member-elect of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina. There is no recommendation from any other source in favor of remitting the political disabilities in his case. Why, sir, his vote in the Legislature may send a man here that we cannot admit. While we are endeavoring to admit these States to equal representation in Congress, is it possible that such a man could not have found loyal citizens in North Carolina to recommend him to Congress? Certainly not. He has either not taken the trouble to do it, or fearing that he could not he has not undertaken it. I only complain that the committee seem prepared to admit amendments of this character. When a committee have made the best investigation and the most careful inquiry they can they have exhausted their power in the premises; and I am so willing to relieve this class of disabilities that I am ready to take any report that a standing committee of this body shall make, unless I know of special facts to the contrary.

Mr. WILLIAMS. I am disposed to be very liberal in the exercise of this power; but there will be numerous applications of this kind to Congress, and what we do now may be regarded as a precedent hereafter. If now we relieve persons from these disabilities upon their own petitions, without any evidence whatever as to their former conduct or present character or opinions, we shall establish a precedent, as it seems to me, that renders this constitutional disability a perfect nullity-a mere piece of mockery. The President of the United States will not pardon any man upon his own individual application; that application must be supported by some other evidence, showing that the man has some merit of some kind or description. If this petition was accompanied by any affidavit of any person stating that these

posed to include them within this bill; but we do not know but that they may be leaders in the Ku-Klux-Klan; they may be men engaged in deeds of violence, or who countenance violence and crime in southern States, and are otherwise objectionable. If they are not included in this bill that does not necessarily preclude them from obtaining the benefits of a law like this. I have no doubt that we shall be constantly passing laws of this description. | If these men will bring forward some affidavit or some evidence of some nature or description that they are suitable men to whom this favor of Congress should be extended, I am prepared to go for it. I am in favor of a liberal policy on this subject; but I do not think we ought at once to dispense with the constitutional disability and treat it as a perfect nullity and allow any man simply to come in here with a mere petition and have Congress remove his disability.

Mr. TRUMBULL. I wish to say one word in reply to a remark made by the Senator from California, that the committee seem disposed to admit these amendments. The committee has not expressed any opinion that this amendment be adopted. It is offered here in the Senate; the committee has not considered it at all. So far as I am concerned, I beg leave to say to the Senate that these petitions do not present a case that calls upon the Senate, in my judgment, to relieve these parties. What do they say? They state in their petitions that they have been elected to office; they do not even profess themselves that they are prepared to abide by the legislation of Congress. They make no pretense of the kind; they simply say that they were engaged in the rebellion, and have been elected to office, and ask to be relieved. Who elected them? For aught I know they may have been elected by the enemies of the country, by the worst rebels there are there. If there was any statement in the petition itself it would present a different case. We not only have no evidence from anybody that these parties are of that class who ought to be relieved from disabilities, but we have not a statement of the parties themselves; and unless Congress is prepared at once to pass a general law relieving everybody, there certainly is no case presented by these two parties.

The question being taken by yeas and nays, resulted-yeas 12, nays 23; as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Cole, Davis, Doolittle, Ferry, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson, McCreery, Patterson of Tennessee, Sprague, Van Winkle, and Vickers-12. NAYS-Messrs. Cameron, Chandler, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Drake, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Pomeroy, Sherman, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Wade, Willey, Williams, and Wilson-23.

ABSENT-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Buckalew, Cattell, Cragin, Dixon, Edmunds, Fessenden, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Morton, Norton, Patterson of New Hampshire, Ramsey, Ross, Saulsbury, Stewart, and Yates-19.

So the amendment to the amendment was rejected.

Mr. HENDRICKS. At the close of the fourth section I move to add the words "and George W. Jones, of Tennessee."

Mr. POMEROY. I should like to hear some statement about Mr. Jones.

Mr. HENDRICKS. I did not think it necessary to make a statement about him, he is so well known to most of the Senators-particularly known to the Senator from Ohio, [Mr. SHERMAN,] who served in the House of Repre sentatives with him-as one of those southern men who always opposed secession. I believe at one time he was a member of the Richmond congress, and that is all the connection he had with the southern cause, so far as I know. It was known to the Senator from Ohio, I believe, as it was known to myself when I served in the House of Representatives with him, that he was opposed at all times to the policy of the extreme men of the South. He was as conservative in his views as anybody in the House, and devoted to the Union.

Mr. CONNESS. I desire to inquire of the

honorable Senator whether there is an application from Mr. Jones.

Mr. HENDRICKS. No, sir; I do it as his friend, so far as I know.

Mr. CONNESS. You propose to grant him relief for which he does not apply?

Mr. JOHNSON. He has applied.

Mr. CONNESS. I hope the committee to whom his application has been referred will state to us why that application has not been granted, or what action has been taken upon it. I will go very far toward taking any statement the honorable Senator from Indiana may make, and my purpose is not to doubt any statement that he does make; but if Mr. Jones has made an application I should like to know before I vote what it is; I should like to hear it read, and to know why the committee have refused it. Mr. HENDRICKS. I understand that the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. PATTERSON] has a letter from Mr. Jones on this subject. He did not refer it to the committee, and I did not know of any such letter, and I did not base my motion upon the letter. In that letter I underderstand he expresses his earnest desire to be relieved from political disabilities. I made my proposition upon my own knowledge of him. I know that, as a member of the House of Representatives, he was one of the most useful members, a vigilant, careful, attentive man, esteemed by men of all sections. He was not a sectional man, and was as much opposed, in my judgment, to the secession movement as any man in the North. He was extremely bitter against it. I saw him as late as the summer of 1860, and had conversations with him. deed, I think I had conversations with him in the spring of 1861. Just how late it was I will not say, but it was in the summer of 1860 or the spring of 1861. I knew even up to that time how very bitterly he was opposed to all such movements. During the whole course of his service, during the four years I was in the other House with him, there was no man more opposed to the extreme views of the South than he was. He was a useful man, a man of intellect, a man of high integrity, and will be useful whenever he comes to assist in the great work of the restoration of this country.

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Mr. COLE. The Senator from Indiana is a member of the Judiciary Committee, and can inform us whether this name was before the committee and whether it has been acted on by the committee, whether it has been rejected by the committee or not.

Mr. HENDRICKS. My impression is, but I will not speak with confidence about that, that I suggested to the Senator from Nevada to add Mr. Jones's name; and I think the objection was that this bill was confined to two States, Alabama and North Carolina. That was the only objection that was made in the committee, so far as I understood.

Mr. STEWART. The name was not considered in committee.

Mr. HENDRICKS. Except just that far. Allow me to add that I would rather, from my own knowledge of a man, his fitness to be a citizen, represent the case without his application than with it. I know George W. Jones as well as I do almost any public man, and I am willing to vouch for his honor anywhere and everywhere.

Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, we ought not to make this matter of removing political disabilities a mere farce. I do not concur, therefore, in the declaration made by the Senator from Connecticut. Toward the people of the rebel States our first duty was and is to do justice. We have in a measure done justice to the loyal men of those States. Our next duty to the people of those States is to be merciful to the disloyal, to those who have offended against the laws of the country. There are probably about fifty thousand of these persons under disabilities. I am willing to remove the disabilities of the great body of these persons at once. There are a few hundreds of the men who engaged in the rebellion I would allow to wait a little while until they manifest a disposition to support their country and its

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