A few weeks alter, on the 27th June (1864), the committee made a report covering substantially the ground of Mr.Sumner's resolution.

By a vote of twenty-seven to six the State declared that "the rebellion is not so far suppressed in Arkansas as to entitle that State to representation in Congress, and therefore Messrs.

Fishback and Baxter are not entitled to admission as senators." Similar action was taken in the House--the representatives not being allowed to take seats.
The conflict between the President and Congress on the subject of reconstruction was made still more apparent by the further action of each.

After the Arkansas case had been disposed of, Congress passed a bill embodying its own views of the proper process of reconstruction.
By this measure it was directed that the President should appoint a provisional governor for each of the States declared to be in rebellion; that said governor should, as soon as military resistance to the United States ceased, make an enrolment of the white male citizens, submitting to each an oath to support the Constitution.

If a majority of the citizens should take and subscribe the oath, the governor was to order an election of delegates to a constitutional convention.
It was made the duty of the convention as its initial proceeding to declare on behalf of the people of the State their submission to the Constitution of the United States, and to incorporate in their own organic law three fundamental provisions: First, No one who has held any office under the Confederate Government except civil offices merely ministerial, or military office below the rank of colonel, shall vote for or be a member of the Legislature, or shall vote for or be elected governor.