CHAPTER VII
THE CONGRESSIONAL PLAN (Completed)
[Negro Suffrage in the District of Columbia]—[The First Attempts at Impeachment]—[Stories of Outrages at the South]—[The Reconstruction Bill]—[Passage of the Bill by the House]—[The Bill as Finally Agreed upon]—[The Condition that the Fourteenth Amendment must be Ratified by a Sufficient Number of "States" to make it a Part of the Constitution]—[The Tenure-of-Office Bill]—[The Supplementary Reconstruction Bill]—[The Assignment of the Commanding Generals to the Military Districts Created by the Reconstruction Acts]—[The Re-establishment of Martial Law in the South]—[The President's Instructions to the Generals in Interpretation of the Reconstruction Acts]—[The Congressional Interpretation of the Reconstruction Acts]—[The President's Veto of the Bill Interpreting the Reconstruction Acts]—[The Veto Overridden]—[The Suspension of Stanton from Office].
The Congress had but just put itself in working order, when a bill was introduced and passed extending the suffrage to negroes in the District
Negro suffrage in the
District of Columbia.
The Message was a strong paper, and to an impartial mind at this day it is a convincing paper. There is no question that Congress had the
The President's veto of
the bill establishing
negro suffrage in the
District of Columbia.