,,iv #aafth ,,congress #b;d ,session ,h4 ,,res4 #aadh ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of ,,representatives ,september #bd1 #bjbj ,mr4 ,gohmert 7for himself1 ,mr4 ,biggs1 ,mr4 ,hice of ,georgia1 ,mr4 ,weber of ,texas1 ,mr4 ,harris1 ,mr4 ,crawford1 and ,mr4 ,norman7 submitted the following resolution2 which was referred to the ,committee on ,house ,administration ,,resolution ,raising a question of the privileges of the ,house4 ,whereas1 on ,july #bb1 #bjbj1 ,h4,r4 #gegc was brought to the ,house floor for a vote1 with the purpose of eliminating four specific statues or busts from the ,united ,states ,capitol along with all others that include individuals who served as an officer or voluntarily with the ,confederate ,states of ,america or of the military forces or government of a ,state while the ,state was in rebellion against the ,united ,states yet failed to address the most ever-present historical stigma in the ,united ,states ,capitol2 that is the source that so fervently supported1 condoned and fought for slavery was left untouched1 without whom1 the evil of slavery could never have continued as it did1 to such extreme that it is necessary to address here in order for the ,u4,s4 ,house of ,representatives to avoid degradation of historical fact and blatant hypocrisy for generations to come2 ,whereas1 the ,democratic ,party ,platform of #ahdj1 #ahdd1 #ahdh1 #aheb1 and #ahef states ,that ,congress has no power under the ,constitution1 to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several ,states1 and that such ,states are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs1 not prohibited by the ,constitution2 that all efforts of the abolitionists1 or others1 made to induce ,congress to interfere with questions of slavery ''' are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences2 and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the ,union1 and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions42 ,whereas1 the ,democratic ,party ,platform of #ahef further declares that new states to the ,union should be admitted with or without domestic slavery1 as the state may elect42 ,whereas1 the ,democratic ,party ,platform of #ahef also resolves that we recognize the right of the people of all the ,territories ''' to form a ,constitution1 with or without domestic slavery42 ,whereas1 the ,fugitive ,slave ,law of #ahej penalized officials who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave and made them liable for a fine of #a1jjj 7about #bh1jjj in present-day value72 law-enforcement officials everywhere were required to arrest people suspected of being a runaway slave on as little as a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership2 the ,democratic ,party ,platform of #ahfj directly1 in seeking to uphold the ,fugitive ,slave ,act1 states that the enactments of the ,state ,legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the ,fugitive ,slave ,law are hostile in character1 subversive of the ,constitution1 and revolutionary in their effect42 ,whereas1 the #adth ,amendment1 giving full citizenship to freed slaves1 passed in #ahfh with #id percent ,republican support and #j percent ,democrat support in ,congress2 the #aeth ,amendment1 giving freed slaves the right to vote1 passed in #ahgj with #ajj percent ,republican support and #j percent ,democrat support in ,congress2 ,whereas1 ,democrats systematically suppressed ,african-,americans' right to vote1 and by specific example in the #aijb ,constitution of the ,state of ,virginia1 actually disenfranchised about #ij percent of the ,black men who still voted at the beginning of the twentieth century and nearly half of the ,white men1 thereby suppressing ,republican voters2 the number of eligible ,african-,american voters were thereby forcibly reduced from about #adg1jjj in #aija to about #aj1jjj by #aije2 that measure was supported almost exclusively by ,virginia ,democrats2 ,whereas1 ,virginia's #aijb ,constitution was engineered by ,carter ,glass1 future ,democratic ,party ,u4,s4 ,representative1 ,senator1 and even ,secretary of the ,treasury under ,democrat ,president ,woodrow ,wilson1 who proclaimed the goal of the constitutional convention as follows3 ,this ,democrat exclaimed1 ,discrimination6 ,why1 that is precisely what we propose4 ,that1 exactly1 is what this ,convention was elected for--to discriminate to the very extremity of permissible action under the limits of the federal ,constitution1 with a view to the elimination of every ,negro voter who can be gotten rid of legally4 2 ,whereas1 in #aiab1 ,democratic ,president ,woodrow ,wilson's administration began a racial segregation policy for ,u4,s4 government employees and1 by #aiad1 the ,wilson administration's ,civil ,service instituted the requirement that a photograph be submitted with each employment application2 ,whereas1 the #aibd ,democratic ,national ,convention convened in ,new ,york ,city at ,madison ,square ,garden2 the convention is commonly known as the ,klan-,bake due to the overwhelming influence of the ,ku ,klux ,klan in the ,democratic ,party2 ,whereas1 ,democrat ,president ,franklin ,delano ,roosevelt continued ,woodrow ,wilson's policy of segregating ,white ,house staff and maintained separate dining rooms for ,white and ,black staffers4 ,he also continued the ,white ,house ,correspondents ,association's ban on credentialing ,black journalists for ,white ,house duties until outside pressure from ,black publications finally forced a change in policy in #aidd1 the last year of his presidency4 ,according to the ,american ,journal of ,public ,health1 prior to his presidency1 ,roosevelt not only banned ,blacks from receiving treatment at his polio facility in ,warm ,springs1 ,georgia1 ,black staff were forced to live in the basement of the facility or in a segregated dormitory while ,white staff lived in the hotel or in surrounding cottages2 ,whereas1 ,democrat ,congressman ,howard ,smith1 former chairman of the ,house ,rules ,committee introduced the ,declaration of ,constitutional ,principles in a speech on the ,house floor where he attacked the ,supreme ,court's #aied decision on ,brown v4 ,board of ,education of ,topeka 7,,ks7 which determined that segregated public schools were unconstitutional4 ,smith's declaration urged people to utilize all lawful means to avoid the chaos and confusion which would occur if they desegregated schools4 ,history4,house4,gov states that ,under ,smith1 the ,rules ,committee became a graveyard for numerous civil rights initiatives in the #aiejs42 ,whereas1 in #aifd1 the ,democratic ,party led a #ge-;calendar-day filibuster against the #aifd ,civil ,rights ,act2 ,whereas1 leading the ,democrats in their opposition to civil rights for ,african-,americans was a fellow member of the ,democratic ,party1 ,senator ,robert ,byrd from ,west ,virginia--a known recruiter for the ,ku ,klux ,klan2 ,whereas1 ,democrats enacted and enforced ,jim ,crow laws and civil codes that forced segregation and restricted freedoms of ,black ,americans in the ,united ,states2 and ,whereas1 on ,june #ah1 #bjbj1 ,house ,speaker ,nancy ,pelosi ordered the removal from the ,capitol portraits of four previous ,speakers of the ,house who served in the ,confederacy saying that the portraits1 set back our nation's work to confront a combat bigotry2 the men depicted in the portraits were ,democrat ,robert ,m4,t4 ,hunter1 ,democrat ,howell ,cobb1 ,democrat ,james ,l4 ,orr and ,democrat ,charles ,f4 ,crisp3 ,now1 therefore1 be it ,that the ,speaker of the ,house of ,representatives shall remove any item that names1 symbolizes1 or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the ,confederacy1 from any area within the ,house wing of the ,capitol or any ,house office building1 and shall donate any such item or symbol to the ,library of ,congress4