Not a single Republican vote was cast against it.

Mr.Raymond voted in the affirmative, and his ringing response elicited loud applause both on the floor and in the galleries.
When the Senate proceeded to consider the Constitutional amendment it soon became evident that it could not be adopted in the form in which it came from the House.

The first important change was suggested by Mr.Howard of Michigan on behalf of the Senate members of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.

He proposed to prefix these words to the first clause of the amendment: "All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside." Mr.Doolittle moved to insert "excluding Indians not taxed," but Mr.Howard made a pertinent reply that "Indians born within the limits of the United States, who maintain their tribal affiliations, are not in the sense of this amendment _born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States._" Mr.Doolittle's amendment was supported by only ten senators on a call of the _ayes_ and _noes_, and the amendment proposed by Mr.
Howard was then agreed to without division.

Mr.Howard next proposed to amend the second section of the constitutional amendment by striking out the word "citizens" and inserting "inhabitants, being citizens of the United States." This was done, as Mr.Fessenden explained, "to prevent a State from saying that though a person is a citizen of the United States he is not a citizen of the State, and to make it conform to the first clause as just amended." Mr.Howard offered next to change the third clause as it came from the House by inserting a substitute, which is precisely that which became formally incorporated in the amendment as it passed.