Those conditions are: _first_, that the Southern States shall adopt a constitution in conformity with the Constitution of the United States; _second_, that it shall be ratified by a majority of the people of the States, without distinction of race, color, or condition; _third_, that such constitution shall guarantee universal and impartial suffrage; _fourth_, that such constitution shall be approved by Congress; _fifth_, that the States shall adopt the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution; and _sixth_, that the amendment shall become a part of the Constitution of the United States.

All this is required to be done before representation is accorded to the States lately in rebellion, and then no representative presenting himself for admission, can be received unless he can take the test oath." -- Mr.Eldridge of Wisconsin denounced the whole measure as most wicked and abominable.

"It contains," said he, "all that is vicious, all that is mischievous in any of the propositions which have come either from the Committee on Reconstruction or from any gentleman upon the other side of the House." -- Mr.Elijah Hise of Kentucky declared that, "under such a system as this bill proposes, the writ of _habeas corpus_ cannot exist, because even if the civil tribunals are not entirely abolished, they will exist only at the will of the military tyrant in command." -- Mr.Davis of New York spoke of the danger of suddenly enfranchising the whole body of rebels.

"The State of Kentucky," he said, "has enfranchised every rebel who has been in the service of the Confederate States.

What to-day is the condition of affairs in that State?
Why, sir, her political power is wielded by rebel hands.