- Event type: CREATE
United States Fifteenth Amendment
Joint Committee of Conference on H. R. 33
A special committee of conference is called, with three members from each House of Congress, to work out the disagreements between the House and the Senate on House bill No. 33
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Session 8417: 1867-03-19 00:00:00
Member of the joint committee are appointed by the House and the Senate; the Committee makes a report on H. R. 33 to the House and Senate
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Committee of Conference Report: H. R. 33
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 33) supplementary to an act entitled “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend, and do recommend, to their respective Houses, as follows:
That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the second amendment of the House, and agree to the same.
That the House of Representatives recede from its third amendment to the amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same, with the following amendment: on page 5, line eleven, after the word “assembling” insert “and if it shall moreover appear to Congress that the election was one at which all the registered and qualified voters in the State had an opportunity to vote freely and without restraint, fear, or the influence of fraud, and if the Congress shall be satisfied that such constitution meets the approval of a majority of all the qualified electors in the State,” and that the Senate agree to the same.
LYMAN TRUMBULL,
CHARLES R. BUCKALEW,
HENRY WILSON,
Managers on the part of the Senate.
JAMES F. WILSON,
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL,
SAMUEL S. MARSHALL,
Managers on the part of the House.
Decisions yet to be taken
Document Timeline
- Committee of Conference Report: H. R. 33 (introduced on 1867-03-19 00:00:00 - CREATE - e898284) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1867-03-19 00:00:00 - REPORT_PROPOSAL - e898294) [view current proposal at this moment]