Provided, That there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color. Which was rejected—yeas 14, nays 23.
First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress.
1864, June 25—Pending the civil appropriation bill, in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Sumner offered this proviso:
Provided, That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color.
Mr. Buckalew moved to add:
Nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried.
Which was agreed to; and the amendment as amended was agreed to—yeas 22, nays 16.
The Senate subsequently concurred in this amendment—yeas 29, nays 10.
IN HOUSE.
June 29—The question being on agreeing to the amendment,