Mr. STEVENS. I report, from the JtComReconstruction, for consideration at the present time a bill to provide for restoring to the States ately in insurrection their full politicafrights. The bill was read a 1st and 2nd time; and the question was on ordering it to be engrossed and read a 3rd time. The bill was read at length, as follows: Whereas it is expedientthat the States lately in insurrection should. at the earliest day consistent with the future peace and safety of the Union, be restoredto full participation in all political rights; and whereasthe Congressdid, byJtResolution, proposefor ratification to the Legislatures of the severalStates.as an amendmentto the Constitution of the U.S., an article in the following words.to Wit: “ARTICLE XIV. “SECTION1. All personsborn or naturalized in the U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the U.S and of the State wherein theyreside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the U.S.; nor shall any State deprive any person of lite, liberty, or property, without due processof law, nor deny to any person {Within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the own. "Sac. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States accordingto their respective numbers. OOllDIlB3 i.h whole number of persons in each State, excluing Indians not taxed. But when the right to voteat any election for the choice of electors or President and VEEP, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial oificersof ii State, or the membersof the Legislature thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being 21 yearsof c and citizens of the U.S., or in any way a ridged, except for participation in rebnllion or othercrinie, the basis of represciitation therein shall be reducedin the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 yciirs of agein su“chState. Sec.3.No person shall bea Senator or Representative in concan, or elector of President and VEEP, or old any officc, civil or military under the U.S., or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a momber of Congress or asan officer of the U.S or asii.member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State.to support the Constitution of the U.S., shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellionagainstthe same, or given aid or comfortto the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by disaiib.viqlittye. of 2/3rds of each House, removesuch “Sec. 4. The validi ty of the public debt of the U.S., authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for servicesin suppressin insurrection orrebellion shall not be questioned. but neither the U.S. ngoantiaonny State shall assumeor pay any debtor obli incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the U.S., or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and vaid. “Sec. 5. That Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the pronsions of thNisoawr, titchlee.r’efore, tw Beeait fethnea U.S.A. oimn e Congress assembled, but whenever the above recited amendment shall have become a part of the Constitution of the U.S., and any State lately in insurrection shall have ratified the snm9.and shall have modified its constitution and laws in conformity therewith the Sens&Reps from such Stated found duly elected and qualified. may, after having taken the required oathsof office, he admitted into Congress as such. SEC.2. Abife: That when any State lately in insurrection shall have ratified the foregoingamendment to the Constitution, any art of the direct tax underthe actof August5, 1861, wich may remain due and an aid in such State, may be assumed and paid by one State: and the payment thereof, upon proper assurancesfrom such State to be given to the SecyTreasnr of the U.S. a.mrsu obmepaonsdtpaoftneer dtfohreapapsesriaogen of thiirs ceneodt.