Nays—Messrs. Buckalew, Carlile, Davis, Doolittle, Harding, Harris, Hendricks, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, Sherman, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey—17.
The bill then passed the Senate.
June 19—The House refused to strike out the proviso last adopted in the Senate—yeas 60, nays 76.
And the bill passed the House and was approved by the President.
Second Session, Thirty-Seventh Congress.
Colored Persons as Witnesses.
In Senate—Pending the confiscation bill, June 28, 1862.
Mr. Sumner moved these words as an addition to the 14th section:
And in all the proceedings under this act there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color.
Which was rejected—yeas 14, nays 25, as follows: