If in the Blaine Amendment, as it is called, there are not sufficient guarantees, not enough conditions, then put in more and make it sufficient." -- Mr.Henderson of Missouri said, "If I understand the extent and scope of this bill, it will simply to give the sanction of Congress to military administration in the Southern States by the President.

If there is any thing else in it, I desire to have it understood now, before we proceed any further.

I am not exceedingly favorable to military government anywhere, and if I can get along without it in the Southern States I am anxious to do so.

I am not pleased with it anywhere." Mr.Henderson expressed the opinion that the President of the United States could command General Grant in making the assignments of officers to the respective districts.
-- Mr.Willard Saulsbury of Delaware declared that "there is not a single provision in the bill that is constitutional or will stand the test in any court of justice." -- Mr.Buckalew and Mr.Hendricks pointed out that the amendment, as Mr.
Johnson had submitted it, made suffrage universal, just as the amendment had been framed in the House.
-- Mr.Johnson explained that he had taken it as prepared by the senator from Oregon.
-- Mr.Howard of Michigan objected to the amendment because it would permit the increase of representatives in Congress, and of Presidential electors, from the Confederate States.
-- After a prolonged debate on the amendment offered by the senator from Maryland, it was agreed to lay it aside by common consent, that Senator Sherman might offer a substitute for the entire bill, the fifth section of which substantially embodied the amendment offered by the senator from Maryland and which had been known as the Blaine Amendment in the House.

Mr.Sherman's substitute gave to the President his rightful power to control the assignment of officers of the army to the command of the military districts in the South.