le. This motion was
rejected--yeas, 32; nays, 118.

The House then rejected Mr. Bingham's proposed amendment, and
recommitted the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary.

On the 13th of March the bill was reported back from the committee
with some amendments, one of which was to strike out in section one
the following words:

"Without distinction of color, and there shall be no
discrimination in civil rights, or immunities among citizens
of the United States in any State or Territory of the United
States on account of race, color, or previous condition of
slavery."

The words were omitted to satisfy some who feared that it might be
held by the courts that the right of suffrage was conferred thereby.

Another amendment proposed was the addition of a section to the bill,
to-wit:

"_And be it further enacted_, That upon all questions of law
arising in any case under the provisions of this act, a
final appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United
States."

Other amendments proposed and adopted were chiefly of a verbal
character.

The main question was finally taken, and the bill passed by the
following vote:

YEAS--Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, James M.
Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Baxter, Beaman, Bidwell,
Blaine, Blow, Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Bundy,
Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Conkling, Cook, Cullom, Darling, Davis,
Dawes, Delano, Deming, Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, Dumont,
Eliot, Farnsworth, Farquhar, Ferry, Garfield, Grinnell,
Abner C. Harding, Hart, Hayes, Higby, Hill, Holmes, Hooper,
Asahel W. Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, Demas Hubbard, John
H. Hubbard, Hulburd, James Humphrey, Ingersoll, Jenckes,
Julian, Kelley, Kelso, Ketcham, Kuykendall, Laflin, George
V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, Loan, Longyear, Lynch,
Marston, Marvin, McClurg, McRuer, Mercur, Miller, Moorhead,
Morrill, Morris, Moulton, Myers, Newell, O'Neill, Orth,
Paine, Perham, Pike, Plants, Price, Alexander H. Rice,
Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Shellabarger, Sloan, Spalding,
Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Francis Thomas, John L. Thomas,
Trowbridge, Upson, Van Aernam, Burt Van Horn, Ward, Warner,
Elihu B. Washburne, William B. Washburn, Welker, Wentworth,
Whaley, Williams, James F. Wilson, Stephen F. Wilson,
Windom, and Woodbridge--111.

NAYS--Messrs. Ancona, Bergen, Bingham, B