ABSENT,--Messrs. Alcorn, Bayard, Buckingham, Caldwell, Casserly, Cooper, Davis of Kentucky, Edmunds, Flanagan, Hamilton of Maryland, Howe, Kellogg, Lewis, Nye, Pratt, Sprague, and Stewart,--17. The announcement of the adoption of the amendment was received with great applause in the galleries. The provisions relating to Amnesty were then taken up, and after some modification of them Mr. Sumner declared his purpose to vote for the Bill as amended,--that it was now elevated and consecrated, and that whoever voted against it must take the responsibility of opposing a great measure for the assurance of Equal Rights. The question was then taken on the passage of the bill as amended, when it was rejected,--Yeas 33, Nays 19,--two-thirds not voting in the affirmative. Democrats opposed to the Civil Rights Bill voted against Amnesty with this association. The attention of the Senate was at once occupied by other business, so that Amnesty and Civil Rights were for the time superseded. * * * * * May 8th, another Amnesty Bill, which had passed the House, being under consideration, Mr. Sumner moved to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the Civil Rights Bill. Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, promptly objected that the amendment was not in order; but Vice-President Colfax overruled the point, and was sustained by the Senate. The next day Mr. Ferry moved to strike out of Mr. Sumner’s bill the words applicable to “common schools and other public institutions of learning,” which was rejected,--Yeas 25, Nays 26. Mr. Blair, of Missouri, then moved that “the people of every city, county, or State” should “decide for themselves the question of mixed or separate schools,” and this was rejected,--Yeas 23, Nays 30. Mr. Carpenter moved to strike out the section relating to “juries,” and this was rejected,--Yeas 16, Nays 33. On a motion by Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, to strike out the first five sections of Mr. Sumner’s bill, the votes being Yeas 29, Nays 29, the casting vote of Vice-President Colfax was given in the negative, amidst manifestations of applause in the galleries. The question was then taken on the motion to substitute the Civil Rights Bill for the Amnesty Bill, and it was lost,--Yeas 27, Nays 28. Mr. Sumner at once moved the Civil Rights Bill as an addition, with the result,--Yeas 28, Nays 28, and the adoption of the amendment by the casting vote of the Vice-President. This amendment as in Committee of the Whole was then concurred in by the Senate,--Yeas 27, Nays 25. On the passage of the bill thus amended, the vote stood, Yeas 32, Nays 22; so that, two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the bill was rejected. Again there was a lull in the two measures. * * * * *