prepared and reported by Joint Committee on Reconstruction, [282], [283];

provisions of, [283];

passes both houses, [283];

history of framing of, [284] n.;

Southern States refuse to ratify, and why, [287];

and the power of Congress to enforce ordinary civil law in the states, [356], [357], [358].

Amendment XV, construed by Supreme Court in U.S. v. Harris, [276], [358];

history of, [338]-[340];

passed by Congress, [339];

text of, [340];