Congress
January 25:In the Senate, the bill to enlarge the Freedmens Bureau was
passed, 37 to 10. The bill provides: 1st. That the Freedmens Bureau shall
be maintained, giving the President power to divide the section of country included within
the provision of the bill into twelve districts; 2d. That the Commissioner may divide the
districts into sub-districts, and provide officers for the same, the salary of each not to
exceed $1500; 3d. That the Secretary of War may issue supplies, medical stores, etc., and
may provide for the shelter of freedmen and refugees; 4th. That the President
may set apart for the freedmen unoccupied public lands in Florida, Mississippi, and
Arkansas, not exceeding three millions of acres of good land, the occupants to pay a
certain rental with the privilege of purchase; 5th. That the occupants of the
land under General Shermans special order shall be permitted to remain for three
years; 6th. That schools and asylums shall be built for the freedmen at the
expense of Government; 7th. That in any district where any rights allowed to
white men are denied to freedmen, the freedmen thus discriminated against shall be
protected by the Bureau; and 8th. That any persons, where there is such
discrimination against the freedmen, who shall under cover of any local law subject
freedmen to the deprivation of any civil right or to any punishment other than would in
like case be inflicted on white men, shall be liable to imprisonment for one year or to a
fine not exceeding $1000, or both, and that the Bureau shall have power to try and
adjudicate cases of this nature.
Articles Relating to Johnson's First Vetoes:
A Long Step
Forward
January 27, 1866, page 50
Congress
February 10, 1866, page 83
Education of the
Freedmen
February 10, 1866, page 83
The Veto Message
March 3, 1866, page 130
The Freedmens
Bureau
March 10, 1866, page 146
The Presidents Speech
March 10, 1866, page 147
The Political
Situation
April 14, 1866, page 226
The Civil Rights
Bill
April 14, 1866, page 226
The Civil Rights
Bill
April 21, 1866, page 243
The Congressional
Plan of Reorganization
May 12, 1866, page 290
The Trial of the
Government
May 26, 1866, page 322
Making Treason
Odious
June 2, 1866, page 338
The Final Report of
the Reconstruction Committee
June 23, 1866, page 387
The Report of the
Congressional Committee
June 23, 1866, page 386
The Case Stated
August 4, 1866, page 482
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