Passage of the bill
by the House.
This more conservative and deliberate body regarded the bill as too radical, and after considerable debate upon a proposed amendment,
The bill in
the Senate.
This substitute contained the gist of the Blaine amendment, and also changed the provision which proposed to deprive the President of his
The Sherman
substitute.
When it was returned to the House of Representatives for concurrence, the Radical Republicans developed a most hostile opposition to the
The substitute
in the House.
The Senate
substitute
rejected by
the House.
The bill as
finally
agreed upon.
It contained the following declarations and provisions. First, the preamble designated the ten communities reconstructed under the