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Show AMENDMENTS ARE NULLAND VOID Washington. March S. That the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution are null and void, was declared by a resolution Introduced Intro-duced by Representative Slsson, (Mississippi! which directs the Attorney Attor-ney General to submit the question tu the supreme court of tho United States. Mr. Sisson's resolution decided that the journals of the senate and house of the thirty- ninth, fortieth and forty, first congresses show that the two amendments relating to the enfranchisement enfran-chisement of the negro were not adopted In the two houses by a two-thirds two-thirds vote, and further that three-fourths three-fourths 'f the several stales did not ratify them as required by the con-ttitutlon. con-ttitutlon. The attorney general is "ordered ami directed" to submit the question of their validity to the supreme court and to file at the same time with tho court cople of the Journals of both houses of congress and of tho legislatures legisla-tures of the states which acted on the matter. |