MR. SUMNER. That I will answer. My proviso affords precisely the same remedy that it afforded on the Railroad Bills. It is in nearly the same terms. I followed those terms, because I know my friend likes good precedents, and we have enough of those on the question of the street cars. The Senate adopted that proviso at least half a dozen times. There it is, without penalty, and yet it has been most efficacious, not only in these streets, but as an example throughout the country. Adopt this proviso now, and I am sure it will be most efficacious with our generals even without any penalty. Should they exclude fellow-citizens on account of color, it will be a violation of law and a failure of duty; there can be no votes of thanks for them,--“no hope of golden spurs to-day.” Mr. Conkling replied: “I do not wish, for one, to vote for an amendment which I think carries nothing with it, but which simply incumbers the bill with unnecessary, and I might say verbose provisos.” The amendment was rejected by a tie-vote,--Yeas 18, Nays 18. At the next stage of the bill, Mr. Sumner renewed his amendment. In reply to Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, Mr. Sumner said:-- I will not spend time. There has been an abuse which has come to our knowledge. We know that in whole States colored persons are excluded from the boards, and this justifies our intervention. On this second trial the amendment was adopted,--Yeas 21, Nays 8. Mr. Sumner offered the following:-- “_And be it further enacted_, That there shall be no elections of State or National officers under any new constitution until after the same has been approved by Congress.” This was objected to by Mr. Trumbull, as out of order under the rule, and so decided by the Senate. Mr. Sumner then moved the following amendment:-- “_And be it further enacted_, That in each of these States all judgments and decrees of court which have not been voluntarily executed, and which have been rendered subsequently to the date of the Ordinance of Secession in each State respectively, shall be subject to appeal to the highest court in the State, organized after the State shall be admitted again by Congress into the Union; but no such appeal shall be allowed, unless the motion for the same shall have been lodged in the court, or clerk’s office of the court, in which the decree was rendered, within sixty days after the governor appointed under this Act shall have entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office, and for all judgments rendered subsequently to such date, within sixty days after the same have been rendered.” Mr. Trumbull objected to it as out of order under the rule. Mr. Sumner said:--