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Mr. President, the formation of one Confederacy or Federal Union did not prevent the manifestation of a disposition on the part of the northern people which was predicted by Mr. Jay in", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900214", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900513, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. I shall support the bill as it came from the Senate; and in the five minutes allotted to me I desire to state very briefly my reasons. It is quite evident that we must pass this bill", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900513", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900677, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's H. R. 1143 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14317#900677", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14317}, {"id": 900918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LE BLOND. 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At the same time Ihave to say that Mr Gardiner did a very good job.\n\nI was involved in the peace movement and was known as a peace activist", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836871", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836872, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hugh Smyth: Mr Chairman, I am delighted that you are back with us.\n\nI believe that Mo Mowlam is right to go into the Maze. All those who want us to achieve peace may have to go the extra mile if", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836872", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 836877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr Ian Paisley Jr:] The Forum meets today under the shadow of a deepening security crisis. Since we adjourned for Christmas the pious and the so-called moderate peacemakers have all failed \u2014 as was", "url": "/m2/session/12893#836877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12893}, {"id": 837982, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Dodds: The timing of the Committee's investigation and report and of this debate is extremely good. As has been said, we are at the point of the mid-term evaluation of this programme, and several", "url": "/m2/session/12926#837982", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12926}, {"id": 837984, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms Bell: Like other Members, I welcome the report as a balanced and objective view of this initiative from the European Commission. There has been much confusion and rumour. 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Mr Smyth tells us that he and his Colleagues have prevented a number of", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840422", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840434, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Poots: The security situation did not start to deteriorate last Friday; it started to deteriorate two months ago with a murder in the Maze. Since then there have been two Loyalist murders in the", "url": "/m2/session/13034#840434", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13034}, {"id": 840435, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Calvert: I too support the motion.\n\nAll right-thinking and responsible residents of Northern Ireland are concerned about the deteriorating security situation in the province. 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What happened to community", "url": "/m2/session/13037#840576", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13037}, {"id": 841148, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "2.30 pm\n\nMr Shannon: I endorse Mr Campbell's comments.\n\nTwo or three years ago, if you had asked a member of the public what organophosphates were and how they affected people, he would have looked", "url": "/m2/session/13078#841148", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13078}, {"id": 841226, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "When treachery takes the stage, secrecy is always its garment. The so-called negotiations at Stormont were not a transparent discussion of the future of our beloved province but, rather, an ultimatum", "url": "/m2/session/13086#841226", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13086}, {"id": 984370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Carrick: Speaking in support of the motion, I realize that the subject has been very well ventilated, and the critical issues correctly identified. However, I want to draw attention to a couple of", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984370", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984381, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Tom Robinson: How do you follow that? The only words Mr Eric Smyth left out are \"No surrender\".\n\nWe are coming towards the conclusion of this debate, and all the major points have been covered. I", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984381", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984390, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Hussey: I wish to speak briefly in support of the motion.\n\nI am tempted to take \"BSE\" as meaning \"bloody stupid Eurocrats\". Actually, I withdraw that immediately, because it would be totally", "url": "/m2/session/11229#984390", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11229}, {"id": 984754, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ms McWilliams: Everything has been said about the Housing Executive's role, but I would like to add my voice to those already heard in acknowledgment of its success since 1971. 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The lives of the", "url": "/m2/session/11759#861868", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11759}, {"id": 861881, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MAYNARD addressed the House. His speech will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. HORACE MAYNARD,\n\nOF TENNESSEE,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861881", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861889, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MONROE. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose in the few words which I have to offer to enter upon an examination of the condition of affairs in our southern States. Enough, I suppose, will be admitted", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861889", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861893, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. MOORE,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the hill (H. R. No. 320) to", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861893", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861912, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. P. C. SHANKS,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 3, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320; to", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861912", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861914, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUCKLEY addressed the House. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. W. BUCKLEY,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of REPRESENTATIVES,", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861914", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. Three facts combine to show the necessity for a bill substantially like that now under consideration. First, the violence and lawlessness, for which it is proposed to provide a", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COBB. Mr. Speaker, before I proceed to discuss the question before the House, I desire to express my regret at the absence of my colleague, Mr. Shober; for it has been my intention to confine my", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861930, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YOUNG addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment,\n\nSPEECH OF HON P. M. B. YOUNG,\n\nOF GEORGIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861930", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES.\n\nMr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. At the surrender of the rebel armies, in the spring of 1865, the officers and soldiers \u201cwere allowed to return to their homes\u201d upon their", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLATER asked and obtained unanimous consent to print in the Globe some remarks on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLATER,\n\nOF", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Ku Klux Organization.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLOSS,\n\nOF ALABAMA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871,\n\nOn the bill (H. R. 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Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this bill as, in my opinion, one of the most unjust, iniquitous, and", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861938", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861940, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER pro tempore. The House will now resume the consideration of House bill No. 320, for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes; upon which the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861942, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENSON addressed the House. [His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nKu Klux Klan.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOB E. 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The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes, upon which the", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861960", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861962, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I trust, however, that the bad example sometimes set of printing personal remarks not delivered will not be followed by the gentleman from Maryland, [Mr. Ritchie.] I", "url": "/m2/session/11766#861962", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11766}, {"id": 861967, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SNYDER addressed the House in remarks which will be found in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. O. P. 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Mr. Speaker, I desire, in closing this debate, to say to the House a few things touching the state of the Republic that I did not allude to in opening because I had not time; but it", "url": "/m2/session/11767#862018", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11767}, {"id": 862265, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. AMES. Mr. President, at this epoch full of events of the deepest interest and greatest importance, while the nation is struggling to throw off the incubus which slavery and rebellion have put", "url": "/m2/session/11776#862265", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11776}, {"id": 862266, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSTON addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. W. 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Mr. President, the investigation of the committee appointed by the Senate has been confined almost exclusively thus far to the State of North Carolina; but I am persuaded that when it shall", "url": "/m2/session/11777#862295", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11777}, {"id": 862315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOREMAN addressed the Senate in favor of the bill. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. I. BOREMAN, OF WEST VIRGINIA,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11778#862315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11778}, {"id": 862331, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. BLAIR rose.\n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Massachusetts yield to the Senator from Missouri?\n\nMr. BLAIR. For a moment.\n\nMr. WILSON. 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Mr. President, I believe I shall have to give up the idea of ever trying to please my friend from Illinois again in legislative affairs. Here was a subject about the liability of people", "url": "/m2/session/11775#864255", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11775}, {"id": 864334, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SCOFIELD. I will now yield for five minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Kelley.]\n\nMr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to say, in corroboration of the statement of the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/11771#864334", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11771}, {"id": 864370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. It is right that I should explain the effect of this report. There were four points of disagreement open between the two Houses on the previous conference. 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Mr. Chairman, after three years of relentless war, engrossing the attention and commanding the energies of thirty million people, we approach, at least in", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859875", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859909, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION. \n\nMr. HERRICK. Mr. Chairman, in the remarks I design to make upon the President\u2019s message, I do not propose to dwell upon the manifold crimes of the present", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859909", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859917, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "VIOLATED PLEDGES. \n\nMr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Chairman, I address the committee to-day with feelings far from buoyant for the future of the country. 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