Mr. Ross, of Kansas, hoped “that either the proposition of the Senator from Massachusetts or something similar to it would carry.” Mr. Tipton, of Nebraska, was “embarrassed in regard to voting for the original resolution.” After further debate, the vote was taken on Mr. Sumner’s substitute, and it was rejected,--Yeas 6, Nays 26. Mr. Ross then moved a substitute limiting business “to removing the obstructions which have been or are likely to be placed in the way of the fair execution of the Acts of Reconstruction,” and “such as may be rendered necessary for the preservation of the peace on the Western frontier.” Debate ensued, in which Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, said: “I did not suppose any gentleman would insist that I was bound by the decision of that body, or by the conclusion arrived at in that consultation.… I do not know what penalties I subject myself to by disagreeing here and now with the conclusions then arrived at.” Mr. Wade, of Ohio, spoke vigorously against the original resolution. In his judgment, “there are some questions about which a Senator has no right to conform his view to that of the majority,” and he took the original resolution to be of that class. “It sets a precedent of the greatest danger in high party times.” He hoped “that no such detriment to a minority will ever be successfully urged here.” He judged Mr. Sumner’s “measure, which is to give universal suffrage by Act of Congress, to be upon the subject of Reconstruction, and one of the most efficient measures to that end; and yet gentlemen seem to suppose that that is within the scope of the excluding clause of this resolution.” Mr. Fessenden was equally positive the other way. He referred to the caucus of Republican Senators where the original resolution was prepared, which he deemed “eminently proper.” “When gentlemen go into consultation with their friends, and make no protest whatever against having the result of that consultation acted upon, they agree impliedly and expressly, in my judgment, that they will be bound on that subject by the decision which their friends come to, unless they give notice to the contrary,--that is to say, in case they continue to act on the subject to the end.” Mr. Sumner followed.