Nebraska Bill Passed Finally.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Morning Herald [Whig](25 May 1854)
The struggle on the Nebraska-Kansas bill has
finally terminated by its passage by both Houses.
The principal question in the Senate on the return
of the bill from the House of Representatives, was
on the motion of Mr. Pearce, of Md., to replace
the amendment previously offered by Mr. Clayton,
and adopted originally in the bill, by the Senate,
but which had been stricken out by the House --
and which is as follows:
Provided, That the right of suffrage and of
holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of
the United States.
Late on Thursday night the Senate refused to
replace this, after which the bill was ordered to
be engrossed by a vote of thirty-five yeas to fourteen
nays, and passed finally at a quarter past one
o'clock. The bill now only needs the signature of the
President, which of course it will readily get, to become
a law. It confers the right of suffrage and eligibility
to office at the first election, and the formation
of government, upon every free white male inhabitant
above the age of twenty-one years, who shall
be an actual resident of said territory. But the
qualifications of voters and of holding office at all
subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed
by the legislative assembly.
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