THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND CIVIL RIGHTS BILLS
Trumbull introduces two bills to protect the freedmen in the
states--Provisions of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill--Trumbull
contends that the Thirteenth Amendment authorized Congress to
abolish the incidents and disabilities of slavery--The
Freedmen's Bureau Bill passed by Congress and vetoed by the
President--The Senate fails to pass it over the veto--Struggle
in the Senate to obtain a two-thirds majority--Senator Stockton
(Democrat), of New Jersey, unseated--Trumbull's Civil Rights
Bill taken up--It does not deal with the right of
suffrage--Debate in the Senate on the constitutional
question--Bill passes Senate--Is opposed in the House by
Bingham, of Ohio--Is vetoed by the President--Exciting scene in
Senate when the bill is passed over the veto--Trumbull takes
the lead in the campaign of 1866 and is reelected to the
Senate--The Civil Rights Act in the courts--An echo from the
State of Georgia 257