The Fortieth Congress
A bill appropriating $500,000 to enforce the Reconstruction Act in the
Southern States was passed by the House on March 12.The Supplementary Reconstruction bill was called up in the Senate
on March 14, and after considerable efforts at amending, it was finally passed on March
16. Amendments providing that at the first election held in each State the registered
voters should vote for or against a State Convention, and that it should be held or not
held as the majority decided; that no State Constitution should be valid unless it
provided for election by close ballot, and agreed that such mode of voting should not be
changed without the assent of Congress; prescribing an explicit affirmative oath to
voters, in place of the oath that they are not disqualified by the first bill; and
providing that the common or public schools shall be open to all without regard to color,
were rejected. Amendments providing that unless a majority of the registered voters vote
for a Convention no Convention shall be held; and that the Constitution shall be adopted
when voted for by a majority of not less than one half of the registered voters, were
agreed to: and as thus altered the act was passed by a vote of 38 yeas to 2 nays, Reverdy
Johnson with the Republicans. The House took it up on March 18, added several amendments,
and passed it. The Senate on the same day considered the amendments, and one them being
disagreed to, the bill returned to the House.
Articles Related to Military Reconstruction:
News Items
January 19, 1867, page 35
Impeachment
January 26, 1867, page 50
Congress and
Impeachment
February 16, 1867, page 98
The Probability of
Impeachment
February 23, 1867, page 114
The Louisiana Bill
March 2, 1867, page 130
Reconstruction
March 9, 1867, page 146
The Thirty-Ninth
Congress
March 9, 1867, page 146
The Veto of the Reconstruction Bill
March 16, 1867, page 162
The Fortieth Congress
March 30, 1867, page 195
The Fortieth Congress
April 6, 1867, page 211
Sprats and Vetoes
April 6, 1867, page 210
Adjournment of Congress
April 13, 1867, page 226
Prometheus Bound
March 2, 1867, page 137
The Result
March 30, 1867, page 194
The Southern Commanders
April 6, 1867, page 218
The Debate upon Impeachment
March 23, 1867, page 178
We Accept the Situation (cartoon)
April 13, 1867, page 240
The Big Thing (cartoon)
April 20, 1867, page 256
The End of Impeachment
June 22, 1867, page 386
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