Three days later, that is on the 25th, Congress provided in a single act for the admission of the Senators and Representatives from the other six reconstructed "States" to the national legislature in the following language: "_Be it enacted, &c._, That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State of the Union when the legislature of such State shall have duly ratified the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as Article XIV., upon the following fundamental {199} conditions: That the constitution of neither of said States shall ever be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen, or class of citizens, of the United States of the right to vote in said State who are entitled to vote by the constitution thereof, herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said State: _Provided_, that any alteration of said constitutions may be made with regard to the time and place of residence of voters." It was also further provided that the legislature of Georgia should, by solemn public act, declare its assent to the fundamental condition that the article of the new constitution of Georgia prohibiting the courts within the "State" from entertaining any suit against any resident of the "State" for any debt existing prior to June 1st, 1865, and prohibiting the judicial and ministerial officers of the "State" from executing any process in reference to such debts, should be considered and treated as null and void. [Sidenote: The veto of these bills by the President.] The President had placed his veto on both of these bills. The veto of the Arkansas bill bears the date of June 20th, and that of the other bill bears the date of June 25th. There are parts of the President's argument which are entirely convincing to any candid mind at the present day. He pointed out that the fundamental condition imposed by Congress, in all these cases, upon the admission of Senators and Representatives to Congress, viz., that no change should ever be made in the suffrage qualifications provided in these "State" constitutions whereby any citizen or class of citizens of the United States having the right to vote under these constitutions should be deprived of such right, was an assumption of power by Congress to regulate a subject, within the "States," which by the {200} existing Constitution of the United States belonged exclusively to the "States," to each "State" for itself.