Tariff and Taxation.

In House.

1870, December 12—Mr. Kelley moved a euspension of the rales that he might offer, and the House adopt this resolution:

Resolved, That the true principle of revenue reform points to the abolition of the internal revenue system which was created as a war measure to provide for extraordinary expenses, and a continuance of which involves the employment, at the cost of millions of dollars annually, of an army Of assessors, collectors, supervisors, detectives, and other officers previously unknown; and requires the repeal, at the earliest day consistent with the maintenance of the faith and credit of the Government, of all stamp and other internal taxes; and that properly adjusted rates shall be retained on distilled spirits, tobacco, and malt liquors so long as the legitimate expenses of the Government require the collection of any sum from internal taxes.

Which was agreed to—yeas 168, nays 6:

Yeas—Messrs. .Allison, Ambler, Armstrong, Arnell, Atwood, Axtell, Barry. Beainan, Beatty, Beck, Benton, Bingham, Bird, A. Blair, Boles, Booker, Bowen, Boyd, (x. M. Brooks, J. Brooks, Buckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, Burr, It. R. Butler, Calkin, Churchill, W. T. Clark, S, Clarke, A. Cobb, C. L. Cobb.Coburn, Cook, Conger, Cowles, Crebs, Cullom, Darrall, Dickinson, N. F. Dixon, Donley, Dox, Duke, Duval, JEldredge, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fisher, Fitch, Fox, Garfield, Getz, Gibson, Gillfillan, Griswold, JIamill, Hawkins, Hawley,Hay, Heflin, Holmes, Ingersoll, Jenpkes, Johnson, A. H. Jones, T. L, Jones, Julian, Kelley, Kellogg, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Knott, Luflin, Logan, Lynch, Manning, May ham, Maynard, McCormick, McCrary, McGrew, McKee, McKenzie, McNeely, Mercur, F. H. Moore, J. H. Moore, W. Moore, Morey, Morgan, Morphis, Morrell, Morrill, Morrissey, Mungen, L. Myers, Negley, Niblack, O'Neill, Orth, Packard, Packer, Paine, Palmer, Peck, Perce, Peters, Phelps, Piatt, Poland, Pomeroy, Porter, Prosser, Rainey, Reeves, J. M. Rice, Sanford, Sargent, Sawyer, Schenck, Schumaker, Scofield, Shanks, L. A. Sheldon, P. Sheldon, Sherrod, Shober, Slocum, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Starkweather, A. F. Stevens, Stevenson, Stiles, Stokes, Stone, Stoughton, Strader, Strickland, Strong, Swann, J>ypher, Taffe, Tanner, Taylor, Tillman, W. Townsend, Trimble, Tyner, Upson, Van Horn, Van Trump, Voorhees, Wallace, C. C. Washburn, Welker, Wells, Wilkinson, Willard, Williams, J. T. Wilson, Witcher, Wolf, Wood, Woodward—168.

Nays—Messrs. Asper, Ayer, Benjamin, Cox. Finkelnburg, W. J. Smith—6.

First Session Forty-First Congress.

The following resolution was inadvertently omitted from my Hand Book of Politics for 1870:

1869, March 29—Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution, namely:

Resolved, That as a means of relief to the people and in some degree to equalize taxation, the Committee of Ways and Means be, and said committee is hereby, instructed to report a bill, first, to exempt salt, tea, coffee, sugar, matches, and tobacco from every species of taxation for Federal purposes; second, to impose a tax of two and a half per cent, in gold on all bonds heretofore issued, or which may hereafter be issued, by the Government of the United States.

Mr. Hooper moved that it be laid on the table; which was agreed to—yeas 104, nays 40. The affirmative was exclusively Repub

lican; the negative exclusively Democratic, except Mr. Deweese.

The Arlington Estate.

In Senate.

1870, December 13—Mr. Mccreery, agreeably to notice, asked leave to bring in this resolution:

Resolved, &c, That a joint committee of five, two from the Senate and three from the House, be appointed, whose duty it shall be to inquire and report what real estate, if any, belonged to the late General Robert E. Lee at the time, he entered the confederate service; by what right or title he held the farm and lands known as Arlington Heights, and whether he . had any right, title, or claim thereto which rendered Arlington liable to confiscation or forfeiture by reason of his participation in the rebellion. That the committee ascertain and report whether that estate was or was not the property of Mrs. Lee, formerly Miss Custis, and inherited by her from her ancestors, and whether the title was or was not vested by law in herself and her children; and if so, had General Lee any rights subject to forfeiture. If the property was sold for taxes the committee shall report the amount of taxes assessed upon it, the value of the property sold, who paid and who received the money; whether a less quantity than the whole was not sufficient to meet the demands of Government, and whether the sale as made was legal and constitutional. That the committee report what expenditure it would require to put the house and farm in good repair, in order that it may be restored to the owner or owners in as good condition as it was when the United States Government took possession; also, what would be a reasonable and fair compensation in the way of rent since the occupation by the Government, as well as for the waste that has been computed on the premises by felling the trees, destroying the orchards, or otherwise impairing the value of the property. And if grave-yards have been established on the land, then the committee shall ascertain and report the number of interments, ou what terms a suitable spot for a cemetery can be purchased in the neighborhood, and the probable cost of removing the bodies to the new place of sepulture. And if improvements have been made' upon the land since its occupation by the Government or its agents, the committee shall report upon their character and value, and whether they were necessary and proper, and if of no real value to the owner and only an incumbrance upon her estate, then they shall report the estimated or probable cost of their removal. If the Government hold and occupy any real estate, the title whereof was vested by law in General Robert E. Lee at the time he entered the confederate service, the committee shall report the same. The committee shall also ascertain and report the amount and value of the personal property taken by the Government or its agents from General Lee, or from his family,

and whether ornot'tfee same can without detriment be restored in kind, and if hot, what would be a just and reasonable compensation. If there are in any of the Departments any relics or mementos left by George Washington to the Custis family, and the same were taken from the house or the possession of Mrs.1 Lee, the committee will reporVwho is the present custodian of such articles, and whether any of them have been lost or damagied while going to or remaining in said Departments. The committee shall take the statements of Mrs. Lee iii order to identify her property with greater certainty, to discover the extent of her losses 5 and. they shall report all fact's necessary to a settlement upon the principles of substantial justice.

Objection beingmade by Mr. Efrkinms, the: question arose, shall the leave asked be granted?

Mr. Davis moved that the question lie on the table; which was disagreed to—yeas 9, nays 4$:

Yeas—Messrs* Bayard, Casserly, Davis, Fowler, Hamilton of Maryland, Johnston, Lewis, kaulsbury, Viekers^-9.

Na-ys—Messrs. Abbott, Ames, Anthony, Boreman, Brownlow, Buckingham,, Cameron, Carpenter, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Drake, Edmunds, Fenton, Flanagan, Gilbert, Hamilton; of Texas, . Hamlin, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Howe, Howell, McCreery, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson, Pool, Pratt. Ramsey, Revels, Rice, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer, - Scott. Sherman, Spiencer, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Windom—49.

Leave to bring in the resolution was then refused^—yeas 4, nays 54:

Yeas—'•Messrs, Fowler * Hamilton of Maryland, MeCreery,, Vickers—4. *

Na^s^—Messrs. Abbott, Amiss, Ahthony, Bayard, Boreihan, Brownlow; Buckingham, Camerony Car

i).eii(tier,= :Oasserlyt, Chandler* Cole, Conklingr,Corbett, )rake, Edmunds, Fenton, FJanagan, Gilbert, Hamilton- of Texas, Hamlih, Harlan; Harris, Howard,, Howev Howell, Kellogg, Lewis, Morrill of Vermont, •Morton, Nye,, Patterson, Pomeroy4; Pool, Pratt, Ramsey, Revels, Jlice, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer, SchuVz, Scott; Sherman, Spencer, SpragOe; Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Tipton, Willey, Williams^ Wi&otr, Windom^-54i . ,.

The petition of Mrs* Mary Aivn Leo, widow! of General Robert E. Lee, as >»dwi pending in i the Senate, reciting; the cireunast&nees attend* ing the sale; of the Arlington? esta/tey and ask* ing that Celaigress^appropriate r$6OOyO0O t© pu?r* chase the* estate from her, and proposing;in thateYeat to;give.the Government a cleac< title*

First Session Forty-Second Congress.

In HarjsE.

1871, MarchilS-^-Mr. Braxton ofced a bill to quiet the title of the Arlington.,estate*

[The bill provides that upon a full release and conveyance of all right, title, and interest at law and iniquity by the devisees under the lastwill and testament of George W. P. Custis, deceased? in the tract of land called u Arlington,^containing eleven hundred acres, and: situate in the county of Alekandria and State of;Virginia,' the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any-money in the Treasury riot otherwise appropriated, to the said devisees, the suin of $36oyOO'6, which payment, when made, shall he in, full consideration for tjie said ^property. The second section provides; that tMs bill shall be in force from and after its passage.]/

On motion of Mr. B. F. Butleri, the bill was laid on the table—^yeas 115,-naysi 7&:

Yeas—-Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Barber, Beatty, Bigby, Bingh&my A. Blair; Or) Mi B*rottks< Btfckley, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, B. F\ Butler, R;R, Butler,, F. Glarke4 C. L. Gobfe, Coburn, Conger, Cook, Cotton; Creelyy Dawess Be Largfc, Dickey, Don nan,- D unwell, Eames,- ElHott, F&rnsworth, Farwell, Fink-elnfeurg, C. Foster, Frye, Grarfield, Goodrich, Griffith, Hale-, Harmed, G. E. Harrrs,<Havens, Hawtey, H&y, G.W. Hazel'ton, J. W. Hazelton>, Hoar, Holmah, Hooper, Kelleyi Kefccham, Lain port, Lansing, Lowe, Lyhfch, Mde'/i«o*i,-Maynard, McCrary, McGrew; McJunkin, Merriam,' Mbiir6e, Moore, Morey, Morphis; L. Myers, Orr, Packard, Backer, Palmer, Parker, Peck, Pendleton, JPerce, Peters,; Piatt, Porter, Priudlev Raineyj Randall, E. H. Roberts,: Rusk, Sawyer, Scofi'eldv Sessions, Shanks, Sheldon, Shellabarger,Shoemaker,' Shewn, II. B.Sinith, J. A;StMth,W;C;Smiih> R^MSpeer,T. J, Speer, Sprague, Stevenson, Stoughton, St, John, Syphier, Thorn as.W.Td-WnSen'd/rwichell, Tyner, Upson, Voorhees* Wakeman* Waldeh, Waldron, Wallace/Walls, Wheeler, Whiteley; Willard, Williams of Indian^ J. M. Wilsony J. T. Wilson—IIS;

Nays—Messrs, Acker, Adams, Archer; Arthur, Beefa- Bird, J. (}. Blair-, Bratftdn, Bright, J. Brooks, Oaldwell, CaMpbell* Carroll,- Comings, Oox, Orebs, Gritchers Crosslundi l)a.visf Bono, BuRose, Dtilm, Eldredge, Ely,, Porker, (xarrettj Getz, GolladayyHAld'eman, Handley, Hamws, Htifrptir, */. T, Harris, Hereford, &end&tt, Kino, Kiiisella-, iLamisbn: Beaiih, Imwis, McOlelland^ McGorfHiek, Mdffemry, Melntyte% JtfeKinneyi Merrick, B. F< M'eykrs, Morgan, MbMck, Perry, Price, E. Y. Pice, &'M< fiieei RiUhie, W.R. Roberts, Roosevelt, Shober, Slater, Sloss, Stevens, Storm* Sutherland, Swann, TerrynTuthill: Van Trump, Vaughtin, Waddell, Warren, Wells, Wkiithbrne, WilMawsof N:ew Yorkv Wood^Young^Jii

OF

The following, constitutional amendments were proposed, during the Forty-First arid Forty-Second Congresses.

In Senate^—Forty-First Congress.

186^, Match 18—Mr. R6rBEitTSON proposed a new'article:

The Congress shall have power to establish aHtibtmal 'fox the parposer of coiisfdering''and

determining alt questions which tnay arise aa to th;e validity of the elec'tbr'al vbte of !any State for Presidetit and Vice President of the United States; which said tribunal'shall exercise its 1 jiirisdiction under'such reg\ilatiohs as Congress shall make.

1870, January £l—Mr. PbsrERoY proposed a new article:

Th'eJ basis of suffrage in thse Uhited States shall be that of citizenship, and all native or naturalized citizens shall enjoy the same Tights and-privileges of the elective franchise? but eaehi State shall determine by law the1 age of the citizer^and the timemf>residence required for the exercise of the right of suffrage, which shall apply equally to all citizens, and ateo shall make all laws concerning the: time, places, arid manner of hoWiug elections; for all State and- municipal, officers.

1870^ April 18—Mr; Dr^ke proposed a new article:

Section!. The United States shall protect each State against domestic violence whenever it shall be shown to the President, in such' manner as the Congress may by law prescribe, that such violence exists in such State.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legisla* lion;'

1871, January 1=7-**-Mr. Yates proposed a riew article*:

Every person, whether a native-born or a foreign-born citizen of the United States who shall have attained to the age of thirty'-five years, asidbeen fourteen years a* resident within the United States, shall be eligible to the office of President.

1^ Senate^forty-second CONGRESS.

1871vMarch 16---Mr* Davis, of Kentucky, i),toposed a new article:

Thereishereby established the Con-stitutional Tribunal, with power to decide all questions of conflict of jurisdiction or power'bet ween the United States and the States,or any of them; tAk questions of the constitutionality.! of bills passed by Congress, or of acts of e^ery kind done and performed toy; any departmejnt or officer, or other person, under the authority of? the Government of the United States; and to open <tod count the votes of the electors of (President and Vice President, of the United States. Proceedings maybe had before the Constitutional Tribunal by original petition* or by appeal or writ of errorfrom thejudgments or decrees of all the courts of the United States and the Staters, by and in the name ofianv, State^pr person, natural or artificial, 4ireetly interested in1 the questions involved m the proceedings, fj be. concurrence of a majority of thef whole dumber of the Tribuna^ counti ng one jfor every &a|tier.shall be necessary,to enable it to render any judgment or decree; and■» they, shall he executed- and enforced by t^he United States aecordingjto law* Each State shall he entitled1 to and shall choose one member of the Gon^ stitutional Tribunal, who at the time of feeing; chosen shall be not less than thirty, years of age, and who shall have been for ten years a citizen of the United States, and .five years a resident of the State. The members of the Tribunal, shall hold their offices during good behavior; shall receive compensation from tH§ir; respective States; may bC'removed by them for treason, bribery, corruption in office, or Mother •' high crimes and misdemeanors) or1 me&tal imbecility; The Tri'bwilal may regu

late the times and continuance of its terms for the transaction of business. : 1871, December 10—Mr. Stewart proposed a new article:

Section 1.: There shall be maintained in each State and Territory a system of free common schools; but neither the United States, nor any State, Territory, county, or municipal corporation shall aid in the support of any school wherein the peculiar tenets of any religious denomination are taught.

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

1871, December 21—Mrl Sumner proposed a new'article, (preamble omitted:,)

Section 1. No person who has once held the office of President of the United States shall be'thereafter eligible to that office.

Seov 2. This amendment shall not take effect until after the 4th day of March, 1873.

1872, May 30^-Mr; Sumner submitted the foliowing,• (preamble omitted:).

Resolved* &C., (two thirds;of each House concurring;therein,) That the following be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, iwhich, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, shall be valid *, to all intents and purposes, as part thereof, to wit:

The* executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America; he shall hold his-office during.the term of four years, and be elected as follows:

The qualified voters shall-meet at the usual places of holding elections in their respective States and Territories on the first Monday in April; in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy siiX,; and on the first Monday in April evertv lour;years thereafter;, under suen rules and regulations as the Congress may by law prescribe,4, .and vote by ballot for: a ;ci tizeo qualified* lander the Constitution to be President, rand the result of such election in each State and Territory shall be. certified) sealed,, and forwarded to the seat of Government in suoh mauler as the Congress may by law

The Congress shall be in session on the third Monday in May after sue)* election, and on the Tuesdays nextisju^peeding ,the third Monday in May, if a quorum of each House shall be present and if not, immediately on the presence of such quorum the Senators and Representatives shall meet in the Representative Chamber in joint convention, and the President of the Senate, in presence of the Senators and Representatives thus assembled,.shall open all returns of the election aud declare the result. The person having the greatest number of votes cast for President shall be President, if such number be a majority; if no person have such a majority, or if the person having such majority decline the office or die before the counting of the vote, then the President of the Senate shall so proclaim; whereupon the joint'convention shall order the proceedings to be officially published, stating particularly the'number of voteB for each person as Presiden t. >

Another election shall thereupon take place on the second Tuesday of October next succeeding, at which election the duly qualified voters shall again meet at the usual places of holding elections in their respective States and Territories, and vote for one of the three,persons having the highest number of votes, at the preceding election in April, and the result of such election in each State and Territory shall be certified, sealed, and forwarded to the seat of Government as provided by law.

On the third Tuesday in December after such second election, or as soon thereafter as a quorum of each House shall be present, the Senators and Representatives shall again meet in joint convention, and the President of the Senate, in presence of the Senators and Representatives thus assembled, shall open all the returns of the election, and declare the per son having the highest number of votes duly elected President for the ensuing term.

No person elected to the office of President shall thereafter be eligible for reelection.

In case of the removal of the President from office by impeachment, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the office, the same shall devolve temporarily on the head of an Executive Department senior in years. If there be no head of an Executive Department, then the Senator senior in years shall act as President until a successor is chosen and qualified.

If Congress be in session at the time of the death, resignation, disability, or removal.of the President, the Senators and Representatives shall meet in joint convention, under such rules and regulations as the Congress may by law prescribe, and proceed to elect by viva voce vote a President to fill such vacancy, each Senator and Representative having one vote. A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a majority in each House of the Senators and Representatives duly elected and qualified, and a majority of all the votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a President. The person thus elected as President shall discharge all the powers and duties of the office until the inauguration of the President elected at the next regular election.

If Congress be not in session at the time a vacancy occurs, then the acting President shall forthwith issue a proclamation convening Congress within thirty days after the occurrence of such vacancy.

On the presence of a quorum in each House, the Senators and Representatives shall meet in joint convention and elect a President, as before provided.

The office of Vice President is abolished/

The Senate shall choose their own Presiding Officer.

In House—Forty-First Congress.

1869, December 22—Mr. Lawrence proposed a new article:

The electors of President and Vice President shall be chosen as follows: two electors of President and Vice President shall be chosen at large from each State by the quali

fied voters therein. A number of electors in each Srate equal to the whole number of Representatives to which such Siaie may be entitled in Congress shall be chosen in single districts of contiguous and compact territory, each containing, as nearly as practicable, au equal amount of population. The times, places, and manner of choosing such electors shall be prescribed iu $ach State by the Legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Congress shall by law provide for the ease of absence^ death, resignation, or inability of any elector, prescribe the rn^ode of determining the validity of the choice of ejectors, and of contesting the right to the office of President and Vice President.

1870, February 14—Mr. Ingersoll proposed a new article:

Section 1. The Congress shall have power to issue United States notes and may make -them a legal tender in payment of debts.

1870, April 4—Mr. Julian proposed a new article:

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

1870, April 18—Mr. Burdett proposed a new article:

Section 1. No State or municipal corporation within any State of the United States shall levy or collect any tax for the support or aid of any sectarian, denominational^ or religious school, or educational establishment; nor shall the Legislature of auy State, or the corporate authorities of any municipality within any State, appropriate any money or make any donation from the public funds or property of such State or municipality for the support or aid of any sectarian,: religious, or denominational school, or educational establishment.

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

1871, January 4—Mr. Coburn proposed a new article:

Congress may by law vest the election of all officers of the United States whose duties require them to reside in the several States, except judgesand officers of the courts of the United States, in the people of the several States, districts, and localities therein in which they are by law required to perform their duties, subject to the directions and regulations of the President of the United States and the heads of Departments, arid to arrest, suspension, or removal by the President of the United States.

[This was re-presented by Mr. Coburn in first session of Forty-Second Congress, on 13th of March, 1871.] ___

In House—Forty-second Congress.

1871),, March 4—-Mr. Potter proposed a new article:

Section 1. That the Congress shall make no law impairing the obligations of contracts, nor shall it hereafter charter private corporations to carry on business within the States.

1871, December 5—Mr. Potter proposed a new article:

Section 1. The President and Vice President hereafter elected shall hold office during the term of six years; but no person shall be reeligible to be President who has been once elected to that office.

1871, December 11—Mr. Coghlan proposed a new article:

Section 1. The public land of the United States, except mineral lands, shall not be disposed of except to actual settlers thereon, for homestead purposes only, and in quantities limited by general laws.

Which was—March 8, 1872—-disagreed to— yeas 85, nays 87:

Yeas—Messrs. Acker, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, Banks, Beatty, Beveridge, J. Brooks, Buffinton, Burchard, Burdett, B. F. Butler, R. R. Butler, Coghlan, Cox, Grebs, Crossland, De Large, Ely. Finkelnburg, Forker, C. Foster, H. D. foster, W. D. Foster, Garfield, Garrett, Golladay, Griffi>thkHaldeman, Hancock, Handley, Harmer* Havens, Hawley, J. W. Hazleton, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, Houghton, 'Kerr, King, Lamport, Lewis, Lowe, Manson, McClelland, MeCrary, Mclntyre, McNeely, Merriam, B.F. Meyers, Monroe, Morgan, Negley, Orr, Packard, H. W. Parker,!. C. Parker, Peck, E. Perry, Potter, Randall, Mead, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, Ritchie, Sargent, Shanks, H, B. Smith, Snapp, Sprague, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Strong, Sivann, Tyner, Upson, Van Trump, Vaughan, Whitthorne, Willard, Williams of Indiana, Winchester, Wood—85.

Nays—Messrs. A dams, Ames, Averill, Barber, Barry, Bell, Bigby, Bingham, Bird, Braxton, G. M. Brooks, Buckley, Caldwell, Cobb, Coburn, Comingo, Conger, Conner, Darrall, Davis, Dawes, Donnah, Box, Du Bose, Duke, Bunnell, Eldredge, Frye, Hanks, Harper, G. E. Harris, J. T. Harris, Hays, G. W. ;H'azelton, Herndon, Hoar, Hooper, Kelley, Kendall^ Lamison, Lansing, Leach, McCormick, McGrew, McHenry, McJunkin, Mercur, Merrick, Mitchell, Morey, Morphis, Packer, Palmer, Pendleton, Poland, Porter, Rainey, E. H. Roberts, J. Rogers, Rusk, Sawyer, Sessions, Sheldon, Sherwood, Shober, Shoemaker, Slater, J. A. Smith, W. C. Smith, Snyder, T» J. Speer, Starkweather, Stoughton. Stow ell, Sutherland, Taffe, ■Terry, Thomas, Turner, Tuthill, Wakeman, Walderi, Waidron,Wallace, Warren,Wheeler, Young—87.

1871, December 11—Mr. King proposed a new article, (preamble, omitted *:)

Sec. 1. It shall not be lawful for the white inhabitants of the United States/either male or female, to contract bonds of matrimony, or enter into the marriage relation, with the African or other colored inhabitants of the United States; :and all such marriages are hereby forever prohibited.

Sec. 2. And said < fourteenth amendment shall not be understood or construed as prohibiting the States from making and enforcing such laws as may 'be necessary to provide for the education of the children of the colored inhabitants of the United States in schools and colleges separate and apart from the schools and colleges for the education of the children of the white inhabitants.

1871, December 11—Mr. Mcneely proposed a new article:

Sec. 1. Congress shall have no power to lay and collect duties on imports or excises.

Sec. 2. That Congress shall raise such revenue, as may be required under the Constitution by a direct tax laid annually upon the United States^ which shall be apportioned among the

several States and Territories and the District of Columbia according to the valuation of property within the same, respectively, so that every person and corporation shall J>ay a tax in proportion to his, her, or its property, such valuation to be ascertained in such manner as Congress may prescribe: Provided, Thatv the property of the United States, of the several States, Territories, the District of Columbia, counties, and other municipal corporations, and such other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, for school, religious; cemetery, and charitable purposes, shall bei exempt from such taxation.

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, imposed by Congress under this article, in its own way and manner, by and through its own officers, assessors, and collectors; but if any State or Territory or the District of Columbia shall fail to pay into the Treasury of the United States its quota or proportion of such direct tax within ———months after the same, shall have been laid and apportioned, such tax, together with the cost pf assessing and collecting the same, shall be assessed and collected within such State or Territory or the District of Columbia so failing to pay the same in such manner as Congress may direct.

1871, December 11—Mr. Morgan proposed a new article:

Sec. 1. Naturalized citizens of the United States shall be eligible to the offices of President and Vice President. Any provision in the Constitution inconsistent herewith is hereby declared void and of no effect.

1872, January 8—Mr. Morgan moved to suspend the rules and pass the resolution j which was disagreed to—yeas 81, nays 65:

Yeas — Messrs. Acker, Adams, Archer, Arthur, Beatty, Beck, Bird, J. G. Blair, Braxton, Bright, Buckley, Burchard, B. F. Butler, Caldwell, Coghlan, Conger, Cotton, Coxf Crossland, Box, DuBose, Duke, Dunnell, Eldredge, Ely, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, Frye, Garrett, Getz, Goodrich, Hancock, Handley, Harper, J, T* Harris, Hay, Hereford, Herndon, Hibbard, Holman, Kerr, King, Leach, Lynch, Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McHenry, B. F. Meyers, Morgan, Niblack, H. W. Parker, I. C. Parker, Porter, Potter, Randall, Read, E. Y. Rice, J. M. Rice, W. R. Roberts, J. Rogers, Roosevelt, Sheldon, Sherwood, Slater, Sloss, T. J. Speer, Starkweather, Stevens, Stevenson ,Swann, Terry, Van Trump, Waadell, Walden, Wells, Whiteley, Whitthorne, Williams of New York, Winchester, Wood-—81.

Nays—Messrs. Ambler, Averill, Banks. Barber^ Barry, Beveridge,; A. Blair, G. M. Brooks, Buffinton, Burdett, R. It. Butler, Coburn, Dawes, Donnan, W. D. Foster,Garfield,Hale,G.E. Harris, G.W. Hazelton, J. W. Hazelton, HoarrHooper, Houghton, Kelley, Lewis, Lowe, Maynard,McCrary,McKee,Mercur, Merriam, Monroe. Moore, L. Myers, Negley. Orr, 'Packard, Packer, Palmer, Peek,Peters, Platt,Poland. Ritchie, E. H. Roberts, Rusk, Sessions; Shanks, SheUabarger, H. B. Smith, J. A. Smith, Snapp, Sprague, Turner, Twicheil, Tyner, Upson, Wakeman, Waidron, Walls, Wheeler, Willard, Williams of Indiana, J.M. Wilson, J. T. Wilson—65.

1872, January 22—Mr. Morgan moved to

suspend the rules and pass the resolution;

which was disagreed to—yeas 91, nays 75,

(not voting 74:)

Yeas—Messrs. Acker, Archer, Arthur, Beatty,