nor shall it hereafter charter private corpora- | several States and Territories and the District tions to carry on business within the States. 1871, December 5—Mr. POTTER proposed a new article:

SEC. 3. That any State or Territory and the District of Columbia may assume, assess, collect, and pay into the Treasury of the United States the direct tax, or its quota thereof, imYEAS-Messrs. Acker, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, posed by Congress under this article, in its Banks, Beatty, Beveridge, J. Brooks, Buffinton, own way and manner, by and through its own Burchard, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, officers, assessors, and collectors; but if any Coghlan, Cox, Crebs, Crossland, De Large, Ely. Finkelnburg, Forker, C. Foster, H. D. Foster, W. D. Fos- State or Territory or the District of Columbia ter, Garfield, Garrett, Golladay, Griffith. Haldeman, shall fail to pay into the Treasury of the Hancock, Handley, Harmer. Havens, Hawley, J. W. United States its quota or proportion of such Hazleton, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, Houghton, Kerr, King, Lamport, Lewis, Lowe, Manson, McClelland, direct tax within months after the same McCrary, McIntyre. McNeely, Merriam, B. F. Meyers, shall have been laid and apportioned, such Monroe, Morgan, Negley, Orr, Packard, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Peck, E. Perry, Potter, Randall, tax, together with the cost of assessing and Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Sargent, collecting the same, shall be assessed and colShanks, H. B. Smith, Snapp, Sprague, Stevens, lected within such State or Territory or the Stevenson, Storm, Strong. Swann, Tyner, Upson, District of Columbia so failing to pay the Van Trump, Vaughan, Whitthorne, Willard, Williams of Indiana, Winchester, Wood-85. same in such manner as Congress may

Beck, Bell, Bird, J. G. Blair, Braxton, Bright, Burch- any part thereof, shall be adjudged constitu-
ard, Coghlan, Comingo, Conger, Conner, Cotton,
Cox, Crebs, Crossland, Dox, Du Bose, Duell, Duke, tional, such law, or part thereof, so adjudged
Dunnell, Eldredge, Farnsworth, Farwell, Finkeln- to be constitutional, shall be operative and
burg. C. Foster, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Goodrich, shall be enforced. If the law, or any part
Griffith, Haldeman, Hancock, Handley, Hanks, Har-
per, J. T. Harris, Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, thereof, shall be adjudged unconstitutional,
Kerr, King, Lamison, Leach, Manson, Marshall, Mc- then such law, or part thereof, so adjudged to
Clelland, McCormick, McCrary, McHenry, McIntyre, be unconstitutional, shall be inoperative, and
McNeely, B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Morphis, Niblack, shall not be enforced.
H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, E. Perry, Porter, Pot-
ter, Price, Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, J. Rogers,
Sherwood, Shober, Shoemaker, Slater, Sloss. T. J.
Speer, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Sutherland, Swann,
Terry, Vaughan, Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Wells,
Whiteley, Whitthorne, Wood, Young-91.

Second. The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction in all cases when the writ of habeas corpus will lie in the several Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court. NAYS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks, Barber. The right of appeal from such inferior tribuBarry, Beveridge, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, G. Mnal to the Supreme Court shall not be Brooks, Buffinton, Burdett, R. R. Butler, W. T. Clark, Cobb, Darrall, Dawes, Donnan, Eames, W. D. Foster, Garfield, Hale, Hawley, J. W. Hazelton, Hoar, Houghton, Kelley, Lowe, Maynard, McGrew, McJunkin, Mercur, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, L. Myers, Orr, Packard, Palmer, Peck, Pendleton, SECTION 1. No person shall be eligible to Perce, A. F. Perry, Platt, Poland, Rainey, Ritchie, the office of President or Vice President of E. H. Roberts, Sargent, Sawyer, Seeley, Sessions, the United States while such person is a memShanks, Shellabarger, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snapp, Snyder, Sprague. Stoughton, Stowell, Taffe, ber of the Senate or House of Representatives W. Townsend, Turner, Twichell, Upson, Wakeman, of the United States, nor for two years after Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Wheeler, Wil- such membership shall cease. lard, Williams of Indiana, J. T. Wilson-75.

tions of electors in the States or Territories | preamble to the Constitution, after the words shall hereafter be made on account of sex. We, the people of the United States," the following:

"Religious" Amendment.

Acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, and His revealed will as of supreme authority, in order to constitute a Christian

The National Association, whose object is to secure a recognition of Almighty God and the Christian religion in the Constitution of the United States, ask for the substance of the following amendment: to insert in the government.

VIII.

THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, AND FIFTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND VOTES ON THE VALIDITY THEREOF.

ARTICLE XIII.*

members of the Legislature thereof, is denied SEC. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary to any of the male inhabitants of such State, servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

ARTICLE XIV.†

SEC. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the juris: diction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the States wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Representative in Congress, or elector of SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United rebellion against the same, or given aid or States, shall have engaged in insurrection or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two thirds of each House remove such disability.

SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appor tioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors of the United States, authorized by law, includSEC. 4. The validity of the public debt for President and Vice President of the United ing debts incurred for payment of pensions States, Representatives in Congress, the exec- and bounties for services in suppressing insurutive and judicial officers of a State, or the rection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. *Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Seward, De-But neither the United States nor any State cember 18, 1865. For certificate, see McPherson's

History of Reconstruction, page 6.

28. 1868. For certificate, see McPherson's History +Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Seward, July

of Reconstruction, page 379.

Respecting the history of this section of the amendment, it is proper to say that the clause de

fining citizens was not reported from the joint Committee on Reconstruction, but was offered in the Senate by Mr. JACOB M. HOWARD, of Michigan, as an amendment to the section as passed by the House. But the residue of the section was reported from the joint Committee on Reconstruction, in which it was offered in the precise form in which it stands by Mr. JOHN A. BINGHAM, of Ohio, a member of the committee, as stated by him in a speech in the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871, (Congressional Globe, volume 86, page 83,) and as appears from the unpublished journal of said committee, now in the hands of the heirs of the late Senator FESSENDEN, of Mainé, its chairman.

shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion loss or emancipation of any slave; but all against the United States, or any claim for the such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XV.*

SEC. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged

*Declared ratified by Mr. Secretary Fish, March 30, 1870. For certificate. see McPherson's History of Reconstruction, page 545.

"Joint resolution of the Legislature of Indiana withdrawing its assent to the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendments to the Constitution.

relation to the ratification of the fifteenth arti cle of amendments to the Constitution by the States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas; and also the validity and binding force of the ratification of said article by either of said States, is called in question by the resolutions aforesaid: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c., That the Congress of the United States had the lawful power to impose upon the said States the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendments to the Constitution as a condition-precedent to representation in Congress, and that the ratification thereof, pursuant to such act of Congress, by either of said States is valid, to all intents and purposes, and binding upon the States so ratiState having so ratified has no lawful right to fying, and upon all the States, and that the rescind the same.

And be it further resolved, That the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth articles of "Resolved by the General Assembly of the amendments to the Constitution of the United State of Indiana, That the pretended ratifica States have been duly ratified by the Legistion of the fifteenth amendment proposed to latures of three fourths of the several States, the Constitution of the United States on the and that said amendments are valid to all inpart of the State of Indiana was and is null tents and purposes as a part of the Constituand void, and of no binding force or effect tion of the United States, and as such binding whatever, and the counting of the vote of the and obligatory upon the Executive, the ConState in favor of the same was done without gress, the several States and Territories, and any lawful warrant or authority, and that, pro-all the citizens of the United States. testing against the same, this General Assembly does now withdraw and rescind all action, perfect or imperfect, on the part of this State, purporting to assent to and ratify said proposed fifteenth amendment.

• Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That Congress has no lawful power derived from the Constitution of the United States, nor from any other source whatever, to require any State of the Union to ratify an amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States as a condition-precedent to representation in Congress; that all such acts of ratification are null and void; and the votes so obtained ought not to be counted to affect the rights of the people and the States of the whole Union; and that the State of Indiana protests and solemnly declares that the socalled fifteenth amendment is not this day, nor ever has been in law, a part of the Constitution of the United States.

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Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That the State of Indiana does now pro: pose and ask that the Congress of the United States may and will, as soon as practicable, call a convention of the States and the people, according to the provisions of the fifth article of the Constitution of the United States, for the purpose of proposing amendments to said Constitution for the ratification by the States. •Resolved, further, by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor of Indiana be, and is hereby, directed to transmit an authenticated copy of these resolutions, and the preamble thereto, to each of the Governors of the several States of the Union, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.'

And whereas the validity of the act of Congress approved the 10th day of April, 1869, in

Which (two thirds not having voted in the affirmative) was not agreed to-yeas 109, nays 76, not voting 38:

YEAS-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Barber, "Beatty, Bigby, Bingham, A. Blair, J. G. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, R. R. ButCreely. Dawes, De Large, Dickey, Donnan, Dunler, F. Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Conger, Cook, Cotton, nell, Eames, Elliott, Farnsworth. Finkelnburg, C. Foster, Frye, Garfield, Goodrich. Hale, Harmer, G. Hazelton, Hoar, Hooper, Kelley, Kendall, Ketcham, E. Harris, Havens, Hawley, G. W. Hazelton, J. W. Killinger, Kinsella, Lamport, Lansing, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, McGrew, McJunkin. Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Morphis, L. Myers, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer, Pendleton, Perce, Peters. Platt, Poland, Porter, Prindle, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sawyer, Scofield. Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Shoemaker. H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, T. J. Speer, Sprague, Stevenson, Stoughton, Stowell, St. John, Sutherland, Sypher, Taffe, Thomas, W. Townsend, Twichell, Tyner. Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Wheeler, Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. 'Wilson, J. T. Wilson-109.

NAYS-Messrs. Acker, Adams, Archer, Arthur, Beck, Biggs, Bird, Braxton, Bright, J. Brooks, ColdCrossland, Davis, Dox, Du Bose, Duke, Eldredge, well, Campbell, Carroll, Comingo, Cox, Critcher, Forker, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Griffith, Haldeman, Handley, Hanks, Harper, J., T. Harris, Hereford, Clelland, McCormick, McHenry, McIntyre, McKinHolman, King, Lamison, Leach, Lewis, Manson, Mcney,, Merrick. B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Niblack, Parker, E. Perry, Potter, Price, Randall, Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Robinson, Shober, Slater, Sloss, R. M. Speer, Storm, Swann, Terry, Tuthill, Van Trump, Vaughan, Voorhees, Waddell, Warren, Wells, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, Wood, Young-76.

NOT VOTING-Messrs. Ames, Banks, Barry, B. F. Butler, Crebs, Darrall, Duell, Ely, Farwell, H. D. Fuster, Halsey, Hambleton, Hay, Hays, Hill, Kerr, Negley, Peck, A. F. Perry, W. R. Roberts, J. Lowe, Marshall, McKee. McNeely. Mercur, Mitchell, Rogers, Roosevelt, Sherwood, Slocum, W. C. Smith, Snyder. Stevens, D. Townsend, Turner, Walls, Washburn, Winchester-38.

1872, February 5-Mr. PETERS offered the

Junkin, McKee, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey. Morphis, L. Myers, Negley, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Peck, Pendleton, Perce, Peters, Platt, Poland, Porter, Prindle, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sargent, Sawyer, SeeResolved, That we recognize as valid and ley, Sessons, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger, Sherwood, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snapp, T. J. Speer, binding all existing laws passed by Congress Sprague, Starkweather, Stevenson, Stoughton, for the enforcement of the thirteenth, fourStowell, Strong, Sutherland, Sypher, Taffe, Thomas, teenth, and fifteenth amendments to the ConW. Townsend, Turner, Tyner, Upson, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Walls, Wells, Wheeler, stitution of the United States, and for the Whiteley, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J. M. Wil-protection of citizens in their rights under the son, John T. Wilson-124. Constitution as amended.