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Debates Over Reconstruction and Civil Liberties in Congress
The record outlines Senate and House deliberations on reconstruction policies, military authority in insurrectionary states, and civil liberty concerns. It notes legislation to prohibit corporal punishment, fund temporary clerks, and regulate militia. includes remarks by Stevens, Sumner, and others, with clashes over constitutional implications.
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Washlington
Senate
Trumbull
Judiciary Committee
Flouse
Vrumbull
Army and Navy
Freedmens Bureau
Congress
Brown
Committee On Commerce
Williams
Washington
Fessenden
Sumner
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
U.S
Stephens
Committee On Appropriations
Price
Reconstruction Committee
Ashley
Ohio
Cincinnati
General Butler
Lincoln
Washburne
Ilinois
Grant
Mr. Stevens
General Grant
Bingham
Scheck
Joint
Select Committee On
van Dyke
New York
House
Stevens
Tie
Brandege
Pike
Farns- Worth
Lebland
Sinek
Stainsworth
Ile
Farnsworth
Bingham Rising
Vorhees
United States
Troust
Secretary of War
Wentworth
Central Pacific R. R
Union Pacific R. R. Company
Raymond
Clark
Kansas Committee On Agriculture
Texas
Wilson
Harris
Florida
Louisiana
Missouri
Dixon
Ross
Globe
Chronicle
McDougal
Morhoon
Court of Claims
Wade
Daily Globe
Post-Office Department
Washington City
Alexandria
Orange
Tobacconists’ Convention
Committee On Ways and Means