Certain State governments have for the present denied those people the right to vote, and yet one of them is eligible to the Presidency of the United States and another to the Vice-Presidency.

Is there such an anomaly in our Government?
Are we prepared to admit its existence unless the Constitution imperatively requires it ?" The speech of Mr.Boutwell was answered by Mr.Beck of Kentucky and Mr.
Eldridge of Wisconsin, their respective arguments resting mainly upon the propriety of leaving the regulation of suffrage within the power of the States, where it was originally left by the Constitution.

After several ineffectual attempts to amend the Constitutional Amendment as reported from the Judiciary Committee, the House, on the 30th of January (1869), passed it by _ayes_ 150, _noes_ 42, not voting 31.
When the House Amendment reached the Senate it was at once taken up for consideration, and the Amendment which that body had been considering was laid aside.

This was done for the purpose of expediting an agreement between the two branches.

Numerous modifications and additions were then proposed, including the one originally reported by the Judiciary Committee.