The vote in the Senate was, yeas 24, nays 11, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Howard, Howe, King, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman, Simmons, Sumner, Wade, Wilkinson, and Wilson of Massachusetts—24.
Nays—Messrs. Davis, Henderson, Kennedy, Lane of Indiana, Latham, Nesmith, Powell, Stark, Willey, Wilson of Missouri, Wright—11.[[25]]
In House, May 21—It was considered in the House and laid on the table—yeas 83, nays 43.
First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
1864, February 26—The Senate considered the bill—the question being on agreeing to a new section proposed by the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads—as follows:
Sec. 2. That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color.
Mr. Powell moved to amend by inserting after the word “States” the words: “in all cases for robbing or violating the mails of the United States.”
No further progress was made on the bill.