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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
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  4. Session: 1867-07-03 12:00:00
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United States Fifteenth Amendment

The House of Representatives

The House of Representatives of the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 6444: 1867-07-03 12:00:00

Thomas A. Jenckes and Nathan F. Dixon from Rhode Island enter the House; The contested-election cases of Smith vs. Brown and Trimble vs. Symes are submitted to the House

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Resolution on the Credentials of the Members-Elect of Kentucky

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Whereas there is good reason to believe that in the election recently held in the State of Kentucky for Representatives to the Fortieth Congress the legal and loyal voters in the several districts in said State have been overawed and prevented from a true expression of their will and choice at the polls by those who have sympathized with, or actually participated in the late rebellion, and that such elections were carried by the votes of such disloyal and returned rebels; and whereas it is alleged that several of the Representatives–elect from that State are disloyal. [+e712002]

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Be it resolved, That the credentials of Lawrence S. Trimble, John Young Brown, J. Proctor Knott, A. P. Grover, Thomas L. Jones, James B. Beck, and John D. Young, members-elect from the State of Kentucky shall be referred to the Committee of Elections, to report at as early a day as practicable, and pending the report of said committee none of said members shall be allowed to take the oath of office and admitted to seats as such. [+e712002]Resolved, That John D. Young, claiming to be one of the members-elect to this House from the State of Kentucky, be not permitted to be sworn in as such member, but that the credentials of said John D. Young, together with the protest of Samuel McKee and other citizens of said State accompanying the affidavits, be referred to the Committee of Elections; and that the said committee be instructed to investigate and report on the charges and facts of the case, and whether said Young is entitled as a loyal citizen to a seat in this House; and that the committee have power to take testimony, and for that purpose to send for persons and papers. [-e712002]

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And whereas it is charged by a member of this House that J. Proctor Knott, who claims a seat as a member from the fourth district of Kentucky, was disloyal to the Government of the United States during the rebellion: Therefore, [+e711628 -e712002]

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Be it further resolved, That the credentials of Mr. Knott be also referred to the Committee of Elections with instructions to inquire into such disloyalty, with power to send for persons and papers. [+e711628 -e712002] [+e711636 -e712002]

Resolved, That Lawrence S. Trimble, and John Young Brown, claiming to be members-elect of this House from the State of Kentucky, be not permitted to be sworn in in as such members; but that the credentials of said Lawrence S. Trimble and John Yong Brown, together with the protests of G. G. Symes and Samuel E. Smith, and of other citizens of said State, and the accompanying affidavits, be referred to the Committee of Elections; and that the said committee be instructed to investigate and report on the charges and facts of the case, and whether said Trimble and Brown are entitled as loyal citizens to seats in this House; and that the committee have power to take testimony, and for that purpose to send for persons and papers. [+e711636 -e712002]

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