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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
Recollections, p. 304. Sumner proposed at a meeting of the nominating committee appointed by the caucus of Republican senators that the committee on the District of Columbia should be constituted so as to secure suffrage in the District without distinction of color. Sherman at once said, Then you must go on it. Notwithstanding he was already fully occupied by the duties of the foreign relations committee, Sumner accepted this additional service, and remained on the committee until December, 1872. His motion in the committee for reporting a bill to prohibit exclusion from suffrage in the District on account of race or color was adopted. The bill underwent debate, but did not reach a vote at this session. Works, vol. x. p. 7. He spoke briefly for equal suffrage, December 21, on presenting a petition. Ibid., p. 98. The reading and writing qualification was moved as an amendment, but it was rejected by a vote of fifteen to nineteen. Sumner's vote is among the nays. Speech