is self-respect, and his right to labor
into the hands of negroes, idle, ignorant, and misled by fanatic,
selfish speculators."

Mr. Stevens desired to amend the bill by striking out the limitation
to three years given the possessory titles conferred by General
Sherman, and rendering them perpetual. This amendment the House were
unwilling to accept. Mr. Stevens further proposed to strike out the
proviso "unless as punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted," giving as a reason for this amendment, "I know
that men are convicted of assault and battery, and sentenced to
slavery down there. I have authentic evidence of that fact in several
letters, and, therefore, I propose to strike out those words."

This amendment was adopted. Another important amendment proposed by
the committee was the limitation of the operation of the bill to
States in which the writ of _habeas corpus_ was suspended on the 1st
of February, 1866. Mr. Eliot closed the debate by answering some
objections to the bill, and presenting some official documents proving
the beneficent results of the bureau, especially in the State of
Kentucky.

On the 6th of February the question was taken, and the bill passed by
the following vote:

YEAS--Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Delos R.
Ashley, James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barker,
Baxter, Beaman, Benjamin, Bidwell, Bingham, Blaine, Blow,
Boutwell, Brandegee, Bromwell, Broomall, Bundy, Reader W.
Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Conkling, Cook, Cullom,
Darling, Davis, Dawes, Defrees, Delano, Deming, Dixon,
Donnelly, Driggs, Dumont, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot,
Farnsworth, Farquhar, Ferry, Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold,
Hale, Abner C. Harding, Hart, Hayes, Henderson, Higby, Hill,
Holmes, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, Chester D.
Hubbard, Demas Hubbard, John H. Hubbard, James R. Hubbell,
James Humphrey, Ingersoll, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelley,
Kelso, Ketcham, Kuykendall, Laflin, Latham, George V.
Lawrence, William Lawrence, Loan, Longyear, Lynch, Marston,
Marvin, McClurg, McIndoe, McKee, McRuer, Mercur, Miller,
Moorhead, Morrill, Morris, Moulton, Myers, Newell, O'Neill,
Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham, Phelps, Pike, Plants,
Pomeroy, Price, William H. Randall, Raymond, Alexander H.
Rice, John H. Rice, Rollins, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield,
Shellabarger, Smith, Spalding, St