Mr. Garfield hoped that it would be voted down, that he might have an opportunity to offer a substitute for the third section, forever excluding the persons therein specified "from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States."
Nevertheless, the previous question was sustained, and a vote was taken on the joint resolution proposing the constitutional amendment as it came from the committee. The following are the yeas and nays:
YEAS—Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Delos R.
Ashley, James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barker,
Baxter, Beaman, Benjamin, Bidwell, Bingham, Blaine, Blow,
Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Bundy, Reader W.
Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Conkling, Cook, Cullom,
Darling, Davis, Dawes, Defrees, Delano, Deming, Dixon,
Dodge, Donnelly, Driggs, Dumont, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot,
Farnsworth, Perry, Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold, Abner C.
Harding, Hart, Hayes, Henderson, Higby, Holmes, Hooper,
Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, Demas
Hubbard, James R. Hubbell, Hulburd, James Humphrey,
Ingersoll, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelley, Kelso, Ketcham,
Kuykendall, Laflin, George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence,
Loan, Longyear, Lynch, Marston, McClurg, McIndoe, McKee,
McRuer, Mercur, Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Morris, Moulton,
Myers, Newell, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham,
Pike, Plants, Price, William H. Randall, Raymond, Alexander
H. Rice, John H. Rice, Rollins, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield,
Shellabarger, Spalding, Stevens, Stilwell, Thayer, Francis
Thomas, John L. Thomas, Trowbridge, Upson, Van Aernam, Burt
Van Horn, Robert T. Van Horn, Ward, Warner, Elihu B.
Washburne, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker,
Williams, James F. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson, Windom,
Woodbridge, and the Speaker—128.
NAYS—Messrs. Ancona, Bergen, Boyer, Chanler, Coffroth,
Dawson, Eldridge, Finck, Glossbrenner, Goodyear, Grider,
Aaron Harding, Harris, Kerr, Latham, Le Blond, Marshall,
McCullough, Niblack, Phelps, Radford, Samuel J. Randall,
Ritter, Rogers, Ross, Rosseau, Shanklin, Sitgreaves, Smith,
Strouse, Taber, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble, Whaley, Winfield,
and Wright—37.
Applause on the floor and in the galleries greeted the announcement that two-thirds of the House having voted in the affirmative the joint resolution was passed.
The heavy majority by which this measure passed the House indicated an effect of the President's steady opposition, the opposite of what was anticipated. The amendment secured two votes which were cast against the Civil Rights Bill, while it lost no vote which that measure received.
It is remarkable that the joint resolution should have been carried with such unanimity when so many Republicans had expressed dissatisfaction with the third section. This is accounted for, however, by the pressure of the previous question, in which fifteen Democrats joined forces with the radical Republicans to force the undivided issue upon the House. A large minority of the Republican members were thus prevented from voting against the clause disfranchising the late rebels until 1870.
In the Senate, as will be seen, the amendment assumed a shape more in accordance with their wishes.